Steep Quotes

137 quotes by 117 authors

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky,… — Jim Rohn
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. — Christopher Eccleston
My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as… — Hunter S. Thompson
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man… — William Hazlitt
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isnâ€™t particularly effective either. No,… — Seth Godin
We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person. — C.S. Lewis
The road back to God is not nearly so steep nor is it so difficult as some would have us believe. — Thomas S. Monson
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long -… — Laurence Sterne
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and… — James Wolfe
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on… — Charlotte Laws
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action. — Pindar
Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put… — Hesiod
We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions. — Veerappa Moily
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. — Marcel Proust
Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal. — Karl Meltzer
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. — John Jay Chapman

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