Everest Quotes
113 quotes by 70 authors
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but…
— Edmund Hillary
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Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people…
— Rajneesh
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If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?
— George Carlin
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We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll…
— Lewis Thomas
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Meditation is the technique of inner conquest - and that is the real challenge. Those who have any guts should accept the inner challenge. It…
— Rajneesh
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
— Abdul Kalam
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The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.…
— John F. Kennedy
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I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
— Junko Tabei
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Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
— Junko Tabei
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last…
— Kim Stanley
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I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet…
— Brian Blessed
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Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a…
— Roger Bannister
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
— Bear Grylls
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Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the…
— Amy Johnson
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I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start…
— George R. R. Martin
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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
— George Leigh Mallory
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I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
— Sara Paretsky
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