Climbs Quote by Margaret Thatcher Download Open image “A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.” — Margaret Thatcher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climbs Country Everest Flags Iron lady May Men Plant Summit
Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you… — David McCullough Jr Copy Share Image
I would never bring a flag on the summit. If somebody is climbing for a country he is not normal, he is sick. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that… — Omar Samra Copy Share Image
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. — Junko Tabei Copy Share Image
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for… — George Mallory Copy Share
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every adventure needs… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image