Mountain Quotes

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Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like… — George Saunders
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like… — Billy Graham
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from… — Jon Krakauer
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat. — Ed Viesturs
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous. — Reinhold Messner
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for… — Reinhold Messner
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom… — Maurice Herzog
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train… — Mary Higgins Clark
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure… — Brock Yates
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. — George C. Wallace
As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional? — Kellie Pickler
I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've… — Arsenio Hall
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points… — Unknown Author
Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the… — Robin Sharma
To succeed, you must have tremendous perserverance... tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the perservering soul; at my will mountains will crumble. Have… — Swami Vivekananda
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as… — Blaise Pascal
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. — Martin Luther
I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in… — Steve Daines
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which… — Penelope Lively

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