Summit Quotes

217 quotes by 182 authors

Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a… — Andy Andrews
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which… — Jack London
The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This… — Jack London
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is… — Charles Dickens
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that… — Mother Teresa
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived… — John McPhee
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing… — Jeffrey Archer
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and… — Sylvia Plath
There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases — Barbara Taylor Bradford
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of… — Karl Marx
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from… — John Muir
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need… — Thomas Friedman
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater… — Tom Robbins
I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.â€ - Takumi — John Green
â€¦life isnâ€™t a puzzle to be solved. Itâ€™s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but… — Reza Aslan
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they… — Catherynne M. Valente
Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great… — Shannon Hale
You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?â€ â€œSure,â€ I said. After a second, I added, â€œProbably.â€ â€œProbably?â€ â€œMaybe,â€ I said. â€œWeâ€™re… — Jim Butcher

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