Summit Quotes
217 quotes by 182 authors
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Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be…
— John Cassian
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Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
— Guy Finley
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Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived…
— May Sarton
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But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
— Jon Krakauer
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I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat…
— Reinhold Messner
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All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful…
— Winston Churchill
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Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear…
— Greg Mortenson
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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it…
— Rafael Correa
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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
— C.S. Lewis
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When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your…
— Ueli Steck
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
— Edmund Hillary
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest,…
— Edmund Hillary
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple…
— Edmund Hillary
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I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also…
— Hermann Maier
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With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot…
— J.R. Miller
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We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Who Wrote These Summit Quotes
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