Edmund Hillary

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.

— Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

— Edmund Hillary

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

— Edmund Hillary

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

— Edmund Hillary

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

— Edmund Hillary

I was definitely very much a country boy.

— Edmund Hillary

You climb for the hell of it.

— Edmund Hillary

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

— Edmund Hillary

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

— Edmund Hillary

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

— Edmund Hillary

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

— Edmund Hillary

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

— Edmund Hillary

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

— Edmund Hillary

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

— Edmund Hillary

I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.

— Edmund Hillary

Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.

— Edmund Hillary

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times,…

— Edmund Hillary

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the…

— Edmund Hillary

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit…

— Edmund Hillary

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to…

— Edmund Hillary

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and…

— Edmund Hillary

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what…

— Edmund Hillary

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

— Edmund Hillary

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya…

— Edmund Hillary

George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment…

— Edmund Hillary

I would like to be remembered for the schools and hospitals and bridges and all the other activities that we did with…

— Edmund Hillary

I still think have this deep desire for our Himalayan Trust - that we raise the necessary funds, that we do all…

— Edmund Hillary

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something…

— Edmund Hillary

I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains.…

— Edmund Hillary

Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary…

— Edmund Hillary

“With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless…

— Edmund Hillary

I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused…

— Edmund Hillary

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

— Edmund Hillary

Boredom has always been a problem.

— Edmund Hillary

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

— Edmund Hillary

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

— Edmund Hillary

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

— Edmund Hillary

Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top

— Edmund Hillary

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.

— Edmund Hillary

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

— Edmund Hillary