
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. —
Joichi Ito

Looking around, from near the top of Foley Mountain, it was easy to imagine why the early settlers decided to make their home in Westport. —
Arlene Stafford-Wilson

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

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

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. —
Dana Hill

Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top? —
Charles Wheelan

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer. —
Harlan Coben

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time. —
Alain Gerbault

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain. —
John Lennon

The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain. —
G.K. Chesterton

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

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. —
Julian Lennon

You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb. —
Lisa Kleypas

Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain ... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning. —
Siddharth Katragadda

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. —
Neil Peart

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to
the top of a mountain. —
Steve Fossett

You don't have to wait until you get to
the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view. —
Eleanor Brownn

Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at
the top of a mountain! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on
the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart. —
Debasish Mridha

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain. —
Jim Rohn

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity. —
Burnett Hillman Streeter

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. —
Robert M. Pirsig

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation —
Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

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

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top. —
Al McGuire

I like being near
the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. —
Wislawa Szymborska

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. —
Anya Seton

One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
- Poppy (quoting Win) —
Lisa Kleypas

There's something about standing on
the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice. —
Catherine Ryan Hyde

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain. —
Andrew Garfield

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb. —
Confucius

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

Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain. —
Joe Greene

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top. —
Greg Mortenson

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. —
Khalil Gibran

Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is through the valley that one reaches the mountain top. I need but take one step at a time until I reach the pinnacle. —
Lynne Jordan

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

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are "in the soup" of actual circumstances. —
Oswald Chambers

Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me. —
Stacey Lee

You can't jump to the top of the mountain, you have to climb. It's the tiny steps that will get you to the top. —
Dee Dee M. Scott

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. —
Frederick Lenz

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. —
Vince Lombardi

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain —
Miyamoto Musashi

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. —
Yvon Chouinard