Reaching The Top Quotes

• Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Achievement, May

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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  How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

  Yvon Chouinard

  Positivity, Important, Mountain

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.211, Penguin

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• Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.

  Rob Parker

  Motivational, Home, Mean

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• There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wall, Ladders, Discovering

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

  Max Perutz

  Falling In Love, Nature, Science

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• There is always room at the top.

  Daniel Webster

  Motivational, Success, Life Changing

  When advised not to become a lawyer as the profession was overcrowded

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

  Oliver Herford

  Swimming, Motivational Sales, Rooms

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Grant, Addison Mizner (2017). “The Complete Cynic”, p.17, Litres

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

  Gary Lineker

  Chance, Reaching, Ifs

  "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Success, Mean, Views

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from May 22, 2013

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Fighting, Mountain, Care

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

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Art, Passion, Mountain

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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