Edmund Hillary Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  "Death on Everest divides climbers" by Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, www.theage.com.au. May 25, 2006.

• I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

  Edmund Hillary

  Believe, Climbing, Building Up

  "Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2008.

• When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

  Edmund Hillary

  Climbing, Giving, Challenges

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

• I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily.

  Edmund Hillary

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Thinking

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

• I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused to admit it and so often I would - well, tell lies, perhaps. I would either do that or change the story. Particularly if I felt that my father was being unjust, then I was very strongly motivated to not accept his ruling.

  Edmund Hillary

  Father, Lying, Giving

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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