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Mountaineer Inspirational Quotes (1400)

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Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
Aleister Crowley
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Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
Leslie Stephen
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It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
James Ramsey Ullman
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I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
Steve Fossett
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
Bear Grylls
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Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in.
Edmund Hillary
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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.
Wilfrid Noyce
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Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
Royal Robbins
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The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Jon Krakauer
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
Edmund Hillary
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
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On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.
Lionel Terray
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Some of the most memorable moments I've had is to have my family along - who are our greatest ambassadors for peace. Politics will never bring peace, but people will.
Greg Mortenson
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People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
David R. Brower
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All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.
Aleister Crowley
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Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.
Pope Pius XI
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
Bear Grylls
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
John Muir
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Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.
Greg Mortenson
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams
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When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
Mark Udall
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weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
Jon Krakauer
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I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
Ansel Adams
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