Summit Quotes

217 quotes by 182 authors

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff… — Alain de Botton
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so… — B. C. Forbes
You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit. — Jim Whittaker
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously,… — B. C. Forbes
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what… — Mark Twain
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is… — Miguel de Cervantes
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I… — Lisa Kristine
Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and… — Sharon Lawrence
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the… — Therese of Lisieux
The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early… — Shakira
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought… — Edmund Hillary
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier. — Yuichiro Miura
Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the… — Aaron Schock
My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good… — Ban Ki-moon
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face… — Charles Duhigg
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home… — David Blunkett
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. — John Ortberg
Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about… — Bill Owens

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