Summit Quotes

“stage at a Women’s Wear Daily CEO Summit.”

— Sophia Amoruso

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

— Yvon Chouinard

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

— John McPhee

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

— Pierre Corneille

What you think is the summit is only a step up

— Seneca the Younger

“…blissfulness is the summit of contentment…”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Epicurus

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

— Barry Goldwater

“If I am not crushed by cliff slide I will become the summit”

— Karla Linn Merrifield

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

— Alexander Kotov

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

— John Keats

To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide…

— Thomas Carlyle

When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some…

— Ueli Steck

I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point…

— Joanna Baillie

At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of…

— Jay Leno

“I was never aware of any professional astronomy summit worker that had received formal industry recognized training in the safe handling of…

— Steven Magee

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in…

— Catherynne M. Valente

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the…

— Ruth Pitter

The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self,…

— Bill Cosby

In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending.…

— Peter Schiff

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in…

— Charles Dickens

Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh,…

— Charles Spurgeon

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:…

— Rene Daumal

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We…

— May Sarton

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international…

— John R. Allen

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of…

— Francois Hollande

In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their…

— Steve House

…life isn’t a puzzle to be solved. It’s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion…

— Ram Dass

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or…

— Samuel Richardson

“But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was…

— Jon Krakauer

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and…

— Ayn Rand

Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the…

— Andy Andrews

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no…

— Helen Keller