Quotes About Reaching The Top

#1. A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

Max F. Perutz

#2. You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

Gary Lineker

#3. Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain ... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

Siddharth Katragadda

#4. Reaching the top 100 was always my goal since I started to play as a pro. In '05 I came quite close, reaching a ranking of No. 129, but then was stopped by a major shoulder injury.

Marco Chiudinelli

#5. Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

John C. Maxwell

#6. How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

Yvon Chouinard

#7. 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

#8. There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder
and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

#9. Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

Francesca Zappia

#10. When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet ... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.

Bill Buford

#11. [My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Alexander Gardner

#12. Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

Stefan Edberg

#13. If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

Michael Moorcock

#14. One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

Allen Lacy

#15. Women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.

Sally Helgesen

#16. The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.

Jeremy Rifkin

#17. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.

Jane Austen

#18. Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Winston Graham

#19. To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.

Tupac Shakur

#20. I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.

China Forbes

#21. Music is what feelings sound like.

Unknown

#22. Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know that I'm on my way. It doesn't matter to me if I'm chasing the clouds away. North or South, East or West I live my life to the fullest.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#23. I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

Maajid Nawaz

#24. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren't even doing little things. We were vegetables.

Charles Bukowski

#25. From time to time, i think of him watching me
from over the top of his glasses, or eating candy
from a jar. i remember thanking him each time
the session was done. but mostly what i see
is a human hand reaching down to lift
a pebble from my tongue

Tracy K. Smith

#26. These days, everyone left a digital mark. All day, every day at Colton, people were snapping photos, recording every mundane moment as if it deserved to be preserved, remembered.

Victoria Schwab

#27. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#28. Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#29. A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

Isaac Newton