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Life is like ascending a mountain

• For life–which is in any way worthy, is like ascending a mountain. When you have climbed to the first shoulder of the hill, you find another rise above you, and yet another peak, and the height to be achieved seems infinity: but you find as you ascend that the air becomes purer and more bracing, that the clouds gather more frequently below than above, that the sun is warmer than before and that you not only get a clearer view of Heaven, but that you gain a wider view of earth, and that your horizon is perpetually growing larger. Endicott Peabody 
• Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. Harold V Melchert 
• Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way. Seuss 
• Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. Marcus Aurelius
• Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Ruth Westheimer
• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey 
• Life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. Jeanne Moreau 
• The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object–the joy of living–is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.  Eiji Yoshikawa
• Life is a journey, Perseverance,  Appreciate life is difficult but worthwhile,  Life is a process,  Challenge

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The climb may be steep but the view makes it worthwhile   

• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. Denis Waitley 
• Life’s a climb. But the view is great. Miley Cyrus 
• Life is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
• It’s the climb that makes the view from the peak so worthwhile
• Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below. John Muir 
• If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain. Chinese Proverbs 
• There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. Chinese Proverbs 
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. Arnold Bennett

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The way up to the top is usually longer and harder than it looks…   

• Be prepared to climb one kilometer more: the way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far. But since you were prepared to go beyond, this is not really a problem. Paulo Coelh 
• It’s always further than it looks. It’s always taller than it looks. And it’s always harder than it looks. The 3 rules of mountaineering. 

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… but each day you can take heart from the progress you are making   

• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever- lengthening, ever- ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. Winston Churchill 
• Progress

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The real growth and happiness is in the climb, not reaching the top   

• An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. Paulo Coelho
• It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb. Oprah Winfrey 
• Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. Tal Ben- Shahar
• I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney
• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. Tal Ben- Shahar
• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow. But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides. Robert M. Pirsig 
• Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. Winston Graham 
• Happiness,  Growth

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Growth in life is a climb with many plateaus along the way   

• Most learning consists of extended plateau periods in which we solidify progress through repetitive activity, followed by little spurts of improvement. Ronald S. Miller 
• Our life’s journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey’s characteristics are common to all of us. Stuart Wilde
• Oh boy. Another plateau. Good. I can just stay on it and keep practicing. Sooner or later, there’ll be another spurt. George Leonard
• What most people don’t realize is that progress isn’t a linear curve going up and up and up. Most of your time will be spent on a plateau. Henri Junttila 

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Follow your own path up the mountain…   

• To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. Karen Horney 
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. Wheeler Wilcox 
• Follow your own path

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… focusing just on one step at a time   

• Get started today by looking three feet in front of you, not three miles. A long gaze at the mountain crest will overwhelm you, so stop looking at it. The key to achieving enormous tasks is to break them down into their smallest parts. MJ DeMarco
• When climbing a mountain, define each step in the right direction as success. We learn the alphabet before we write words; it works the same in sport and life. Many small successes add up. Dan Millman
• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
• The power of small steps

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There are no short cuts to the top   

• Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters! Judi Adier 
• Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
• The man on top of the mountain did not fall there.

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Pace yourself on your climb   

• Excessive effort can also result from impatience or exaltation, two states that lead nowhere. If you begin climbing a high mountain at a run, your lungs will soon force you to stop. In the same way, if you draw a bow too far, it will break, or if you try to cook on too high a flame, you will end up burning your food. Matthieu Ricard 

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Let your desire fuel you on your way   

• We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. John Elderidge
• Desire

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Believe you can do it   

• If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.  Emile Coue 
• Self-belief

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Climb with people who lift your spirit   

• Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than you found it. Wilferd Peterson 
• Surround yourself with positive people

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Help each other along the way   

• Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today. Bernard Kelvin 
• Helpfulness

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Know the top is reachable if you just keep climbing   

• Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. Barry Finlay 
• When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God’s help. Robert Half 
• It does not matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. Confucius
• Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
• Perseverance

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Reaching the top requires passing through dark valleys …   

• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela 
• Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between. Gaelic Proverb
• When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. Denis Waitley 
• Adversity,  Challenge

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… but the valleys serve to add meaning and significance to the peaks when you get there   

• One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys. Dr. Al Lorin
• Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Richard Nixon 
• As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure. William Arthur Ward 
• Meaning

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Turn your dream of reaching the top into a map that shows the way   

• Then there’s a dream that’s more than a dream. It’s like… a map. A map that you live by and follow for the rest of your days knowing that someday you’re going to stand on top of that mountain holding everything you thought of right there in your hand! Robert Cooper 
• Dreams

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Don’t be intimidated by the mountain but inspired and challenged by it   

• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain–he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem–he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. William Arthur Ward 
• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there’s an ocean, we cross it; if there’s a disease, we cure it; if there’s a wrong, we right it; if there’s a record, we break it; and finally, if there’s a mountain, we climb it. James Ramesy Ullman 
• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain — he is inspired by it. William Artur Ward 
• Inspiration,  Challenge

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In any climb, it is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves   

• You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself–your hopes, your fears. Jim Whitaker 
• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary 

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Faith diminishes mountains while doubt creates them   

• Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action. Henry Chester 
• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn
• Faith will move mountains. Proverb 
• If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove. Bible 
• Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move. Proverb 
• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley
• Faith,  Trust,  Doubt

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Life is a mountain of solvable problems …   

• Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. James Dyson
• Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. Theodore Roethke 
• Problem solving

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… but often, in our minds, we make that mountain far bigger than it needs to be   

• Stress is the state of mind that uses daily tasks to create a mountain impossible to conquer. Margret S.
• The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills. Maxwell Maltz
• Is it something that will matter in 5 years? Or even in 5 weeks? Life becomes so less stressful when you stop making mountain out of molehills. Henrik Edberg 
• Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill. Proverb 
• Worry

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The spiritual way is also like a mountain climb …   

• For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. Bhagavad Gita
• One does not climb to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because he is enlightened. Zen Master Futomaki 
• 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 honoured 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 
• The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig
• Spirituality

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… a climb that is  never in vain   

• On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.  Friedrich Nietzsche 

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Climb over the obstacles of life   

• Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordon
• Life must be a challenge. Only then is it exciting. In an obstacle race, you are forced to surmount all the obstacles: to jump over the hurdles, go through the barrels, crawl under the rugs, climb over walls. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Obstacles

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Climb above the cares of the world   

• He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Peace,  Calmness

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Never worry about climbing the same mountain twice   

• There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. Richard Nelson  
• You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves. Lito Tejada-Flores 

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Success is also a climb; one that requires effort   

• The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs. Zig Ziglar 
• Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. American Proverb 
• Climbing is not a spectator sport. Mark Wellman 
• All rising to great places is by a winding stair. Francis Bacon 
• Success,  Effort,  Hard work

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Climb the ladder of success using opportunity as the rungs …   

• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand 

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… but make sure the ladder you are climbing is against the right wall   

• If you don’t set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you’re on the wrong building. Stephen Covey 
• It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall. Stephen Covey
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey
• Begin with the end in mind

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Sometimes success is not how high you climb, but how high you bounce   

• Don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. George S. Patton
• Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. Vivian Komori 

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The higher you climb, the greater the perspective you’ll get   

• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. Rene Daumal 
• You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second! Mehmet Murat Ildan 
• … you find as you ascend that… you not only get a clearer view of Heaven, but that you gain a wider view of earth, and that your horizon is perpetually growing larger. Endicott Peabody 
• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the ploughing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks. Arthur Gordon 
• Perspective

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Sometimes you need to get some distance from the mountain to see it clearly   

• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe- inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Kahlil Gibran 
• You cannot see the mountain near. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. Frank Herbert 

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To get great perspective on life, get into the mountains for real   

• I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news. John Muir 
• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir 
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity. John Muir 
• My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. Aldous Huxley
• Nature,  Mountains

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Hillary´s 10 steps to the summit of the World

• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Challenge, uncertainity, excitement
• Fear makes you focus
• Passion gives you confidence
• Fun makes for a great team
• Make sure you have more than one thing to live for
• Resist the flock factor
• You are all you have
• Great challenges result in powerfull experiences
• A view from the summit – to new horizons

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• Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm. Louise Caiola 
• You don’t “assault” Everest. You sneak up on it and then get the hell outta there! Ed Viesturs
• By the time a man finds greener pastures he’s too old to climb the fence.
• Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein
• If I wanted to kill myself I’d climb your ego and jump to your IQ.
• Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
• There are two ways to climb an oak tree. You can climb it, or you can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow.
• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.   Erma Bombeck
• You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat. Dietvorst’s Law
• She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. Mae West 

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