Saturday 23 March 2013

Mountains - Quotes

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. - David McCullough Jr

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. - Barry Finlay

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir

If you cannot get through the mountain, go around it. If you cannot go around it, go over it. If you cannot go over it, sit down and ask yourself if getting to the other side is all that important. If it is, set about digging a tunnel. - Unknown

It is not difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill. Just add a little dirt. - Unknown

It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - William Faulkner

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. - Eiji Yoshikawa

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. - Unknown

Those who move mountains begin by carrying away small stones. - Confucius

When there is a hill to climb, don’t think waiting will make it smaller. - H. Jackson Brown

While most of us will not have the chance to climb the tallest mountain in the world, everyone of us has the power to reach the ‘Mount Everest’ of our life. The task is arduous, but is totally within our power to achieve. - Unknown

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