Summit Quotes
Summit Quote of the day
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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.
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
I believe 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.
Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your way down that first mountain. Trying to jump from the summit would get you hurt or killed.
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.
When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.
If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
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.
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
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.
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.