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Mountaineer Inspirational Quotes (1400)

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If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away, Alex cheerfully retorted. I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
Jon Krakauer
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It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by, he said. Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Edmund Hillary
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...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
John Muir
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable it is merely difficult.
Yvon Chouinard
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.
John Muir
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People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.
Erik Weihenmayer
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
David R. Brower
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
Bear Grylls
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In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.
Mark Udall
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So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.
Yvon Chouinard
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Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.
Yvon Chouinard
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
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My best vacation is your worst nightmare.
Jim Bridwell
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
John Muir
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Edmund Hillary
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You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.
Yvon Chouinard
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30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
Aleister Crowley
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The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.
Freya Stark
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All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.
John Muir
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
John Muir
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You learn the most when you’re out on the edge.
Jim Whittaker
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
Petrarch
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