Top 1200 Mountain Top Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother's-novels way, "Ah. Wemeet again." I turned my head, just slightly, and right there, practically on top of me, was theguy from the car dealership. He was wearing a red Mountain Fresh Detergent T-shirt - not just fresh: mountain fresh! - it proclaimed, and was smiling at me. "Oh,God," I said. "No, it's Dexter.

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody, 'Look at me!' Now I'm more of a Taoist.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

When I started at Boca, as well as when I got to the national team, I felt it was the top of the mountain, but they turned me around and I had to start from scratch.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

I have been a wrestler now for 12 years, and now I am reaching this peak at the top of the mountain - WrestleMania.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

I'm one of those people who always needs a mountain to climb. When I get up a mountain as far as I think I'm going to get, I try to find another mountain.

I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Yucca Mountain isn't pretty. And it also isn't large. From far away, the mountain's just a squat bulge in the middle of the desert, essentially just debris from a bigger, stronger mountain that erupted millions of years ago and hurled its broken pieces into piles across the earth.

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

For me, it was the right decision to go to United, because going to the top of the mountain was my dream, especially when you come from Eastern Europe, from a small town, and no one's done it before you.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

Getting into the Hall is such an honor. It's like the dessert of your career. The Hall is the top of the mountain.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.