Summit Quotes

217 quotes by 182 authors

I have reached the summit of my ambition. — Andrew Johnson
There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly… — B. C. Forbes
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power,… — Haile Selassie
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. — Alexander Kotov
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit.… — Erik Weihenmayer
No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit… — Angela of Foligno
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child
I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take… — John H. Johnson
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source… — James Salter
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely… — Alfred Wainwright
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains… — Alfred Wainwright
A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer… — Earl Hamner, Jr.
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are… — Mao Zedong
They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit. — Niccolo Machiavelli
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit… — Paula Giddings
Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the… — Lloyd C. Douglas
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda

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