Mountain Quotes · Page 40

“If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The mountain goddess if she is still there Will marvel at a world so changed.”

— Mao Zedong

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

— Muhammad Ali

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this…

— Bill Bradley

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

— Joseph Campbell

We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to…

— Charlie Munger

“I had never climbed a mountain, but standing at the bottom, looking at the summit, thinking, “How the fuck am I going…

— Grace G. Payge

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest…

— Richard M. Nixon

I mean that's one of the reasons why I partnered with Mountain Dew because they don't focus on us as athletes, but…

— A'ja Wilson

There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got…

— Rachelle Lefevre

I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I…

— Lauryn Hill

Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity…

— Miles Franklin

“Morally, however, we had had absolutely no choice but to abort our summit try to help Thor and Chantal get down the…

— Ed Viesturs

Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons…

— Mao Zedong

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest…

— Raha Moharrak

In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called…

— Tamae Watanabe

When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one…

— Yasunari Kawabata

FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave'…

— Adela Popescu

Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.

— Bilal Philips

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

— Ingrid Bergman

“Mountains are Savage but what is the best part about them ? They bring people Closer ...”

— Tanveer Mazhar

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

— Anonymous

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

— William Wordsworth

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

— Robert Macfarlane

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said,

— Junko Tabei

When I have time, I try to do also some mountain biking, some soccer with my friends.

— Roberto Bautista Agut

“Everyone here is so at one with the mountains, you know?”

— Jessica Strawser

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

— Peter Falk

“Some mountains hold the key to your fulfilment; the more you climb them, the more fulfilment you get.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give.

— Doug Coombs

“Until we begin to live for people and stop living for self, we have not started living, we just exist.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

— Gao Xingjian

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

— Oprah Winfrey