Top 158 Ascent Quotes & Sayings

Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the style of ascent. It is creative.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.

'Scandal,' I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit.

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any.

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Professor Tite has played a big role in the Selecao's ascent. He's a brilliant coach, with a unique way of working, but he's also a marvellous person. He makes everyone feel at ease.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a unifying and inspiring event, signifying the drive to reach our greatest potential.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.

There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

I plot my ascent daily.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.