Climbing Summit Quotes

#1. It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.

Mark Obmascik

#2. If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Miguel De Cervantes

#3. The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

Richelle Mead

#4. I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.

LeBron James

#5. I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

Petrarch

#6. No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

James Rozoff

#7. Stars really are like anyone else. At the end of the day, Brad Pitt poops - as handsome as he may be - and so does Angelina Jolie.

Blake Lively

#8. Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.

Donna J. Haraway

#10. We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death - the fear of not reaching the top.

Mike Mullane

#11. Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

Werner Erhard

#12. There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat.

Jonny Steinberg

#13. The summit is just a halfway point.

Ed Viesturs

#14. For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long; there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

Vincente Minnelli

#17. Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

Yvon Chouinard

#18. I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

Mark Twight

#19. Today majesty is the length from where I stand to the summit of the mountain we are climbing. This mountain has majesty and hold its own authority above all others.

Terry Tempest Williams

#20. Niima: center of the galaxy, repository of manifold cultures, offering to its myriad inhabitants a never-ending succession of entertainment, education, and enjoyable distractions. Her

Alan Dean Foster

#21. Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

Kathy Lette

#22. Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Greg Child

#23. The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#24. My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Todd Gitlin

#25. How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life ... it is the only part.

Neale Donald Walsch

#26. There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.

Khalil Gibran

#28. So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#29. God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves

Mike Erre

#30. He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

Peter Ackroyd