Quotes with climbing

  • Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

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  • Stephen R. Covey Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
    Long way to freedom
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Jonathan Swift Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Abdul Kalam Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Albert Einstein Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment.
    The evolution of physics (1938)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ivern Ball He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bill Walton Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Edna Ferber Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • John H. Aughey Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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