Mountain Quotes
2288 quotes by 1426 authors
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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no…
— Robert C. Solomon
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When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they…
— Unknown Author
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All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.
— Robin Sharma
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop…
— Confucius
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"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference…
— Jimmy Carter
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The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.
— Dave McClure
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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.
— Mark Twain
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See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so…
— Wayne Dyer
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Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive…
— William O. Douglas
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Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought…
— Arthur Helps
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
— Warren G. Bennis
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within…
— Maya Angelou
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The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody…
— Joseph Campbell
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The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of…
— Unknown Author
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When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or…
— Robert H. Schuller
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In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my…
— Edward John Trelawny
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The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road…
— Adriana Trigiani
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