Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Hillary

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Is there any peace/ In ever climbing up the climbing wave?

Cleve Touchberry

We've got a lot of work to do. We're starting much farther down the ladder than we have in the past and we're not climbing as quick as we have. They are working harder than I've seen to try to get over that hill.

Doug Scott

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Doug Scott

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

Doug Scott

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Anatoli Boukreev

Climbing is what I do.

Robert Frost

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Audie Murphy

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

Brian Perkins

All truth is very ordinary.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Seth Godin

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Rajneesh

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly.

Mariel Hemingway

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Michael Bergin

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Marilynne Robinson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me