Quotes About Mountaintop Experiences

#1. A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard M. Nixon

#2. I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

Franz Beckenbauer

#3. A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

Willie Dixon

#4. There are literally billions of people on earth. There are some that won't admit it, but all of those people want friends.

Daniel Willey

#5. I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.

Jack Hyles

#6. This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies - Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.

Skye Jethani

#7. I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

Bruce Barton

#8. Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.

Neil Hayes

#9. People miss a great deal by being sensible.

Martha Gellhorn

#10. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike.

Mary Shelley

#11. What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

Ed O'Brien

#12. Put your mind where your body is. One day at a time forces you to reckon with the instant you actually occupy, rather than living in fantasy la-la that never comes.

Mary Karr