If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The thing about the summit region of Mount Washington, it can have areas that are flat and rolling. In those conditions, it's… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there! — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!' — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I knew that there would be climbers around me who would reach the summit faster. I was warned not to be hasty. — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. — Yuichiro Miura Copy Share Image
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose:… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south.… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image