Top 1200 Climbing Mount Everest Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Mount Abu is a beautiful place.

I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.

Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

Chris Jericho is on the Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

In many people's minds, Everest has lost her crown. She has become a mountain synonymous with death, exploitation and pollution.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

Mount and begone. The world awaits you.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.

At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.

No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.

I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it.

Mount Calvary is the academy of love.

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

These losses, when they mount up it's hard to keep your cool.

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.

Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.

The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.