Summit Quotes

• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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• If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Dream, Wish, Endurance

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• You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

  Jim Whittaker

  Nature, Pain, Mountain

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• Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Clouds, Mountain

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• When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tiny, Stills

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• Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Struggle, Glimpse, Sides

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• The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Adversity, Joy, Mountain

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• The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

  Tristan Tzara

  Depth

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• Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Climbing, Valleys, Firsts

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• The summit is just a halfway point.

  Ed Viesturs

  Climbing, Halfway

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• Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Climbing, Growth

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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Feet, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  Earl Hamner, Jr.

  Sky, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Waltons" ("The Hunt", 1972), www.imdb.com. (1971–1981).

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• Truth is the summit of being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

  Gustav Mahler

  Pathways, Steps, Conquer

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• Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Ascent, Consciousness

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• Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination.  It is a continuing upward spiral of progress.  It is perpetual growth.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Success, Journey

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• Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Mountain

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• A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Men, Flags

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

  Barbara Mertz

  Determination, May, Littles

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• Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Inspirational, Heaven, Earth

  "You Can Save the Earth: 7 Reasons Why and 7 Simple Ways, a Philosophy for the Future" by Hatherleigh, Sean K. Smith, and Andrew Flach, (p. 92), 2008.

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• If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.

  Edmund Hillary

  Sight, Hands, Mind

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• It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doe, Soar, Aim

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.139

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• The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Giving, Pleasure

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