“ Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
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“ Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit. ”
- Bill Owens- Copy
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“ Getting to the top is optional, but getting down is mandatory. A lot of people get focused on the summit and forget that. ”
- Ed Viesturs- Copy
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“ You don't really conquer such a mountain. You conquer yourself. You overcome the sickness and everything else — your pain, aches, fears — to reach the summit. ”
- James Whittaker- Copy
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“ President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards. ”
- Conor Cruise O’Brien- Copy
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“ We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. ”
- Althea Gibson- Copy
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“ King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The Playboy calendar this year has some tip-top models. Any more top and they'd tip. ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
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“ Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
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“ You never conquer a mountain.You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. ”
- Arlene Blum- Copy
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“ For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ”
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson- Copy
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“ I've believed ever since that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death. ”
- John H. Johnson- Copy
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“ Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit. ”
- Diane Westlake- Copy
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“ To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. ”
- Harold V Melchert- Copy
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