The Top Of A Mountain Quotes

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there. — Orrin Woodward

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. — Herbert A. Simon

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley. — Robin S. Sharma

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

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

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

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. — Andy Richter

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

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. — Robert M. Pirsig

Dread not to climb the mountain, for the higher you rise, your load will lighten; for once on top, easy be the stroll to the meadow down below — Nancy B. Brewer

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die. — Frank Lowy

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. — Hunter S. Thompson

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