Ambition Quote by Joanna Baillie

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top…

— Roz Savage

“The appearance of the mountain changes, according to when in the day you beheld it and which side you approached it from. Our intellect…

— Rehan Khan

“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as…

— Joseph O'Neill

“The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and…

— Lama Govinda

It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.

— Richard C. Miller

“until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Everest itself was the only mountain which we could see without turning our gaze downwards…”

— Peter Gillman

“Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at…

— Katie Kacvinsky

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

— Ryokan Taigu

In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base…

— Rene Daumal

“The weeks up there were almost the most beautiful in my life. I breathed the pure, clear air, drank the icy water from streams…

— Hermann Hesse