The best Quotes by Edmund Hillary

The best Quotes by Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Self-Confidence Motivation Mountains

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

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Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

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Character Self-Confidence

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

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Self-Confidence

What other people think of you is none of your business.

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?

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Dreaming Self-Confidence

Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

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Ambition Self-Confidence

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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Ambition Character Self-Confidence

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside, while still alive. Never surrender!

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Death Self-Confidence

If you can dream it, you can do it!

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Dreaming Self-Confidence

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

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Character Self-Confidence

It's better to be hated for the person you are, than to be loved for the person you're not.

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Character Self-Confidence

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

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Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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Courage Risk Motivation

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

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The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

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Teachers Failures & Mistakes Motivation

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

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No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.

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Strength Wind Mountains

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Titanic Ships Mountains

The mountains are calling and I must go.

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I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

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A mountain's like a person. It's a long and ever-changing story made of countless small parts. Earth and ore, air and water.

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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

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Mountains Stones & Rocks

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He who is born on a mountain isn't scared by it.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

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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.

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To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

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It's always the way with great men, they can't see the knives of those who live in their shadow.

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Great Works Treason

Some of the greatest works of art were produced by intense grief.

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Great Works Art

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

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Great Works Small Things

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself.

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Great Works Fighting

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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Great Works Small Things

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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Great Works Art

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

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Dreaming Great Works Motivation Positive Quotes

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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Great Works Death

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

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Great Works Self-Confidence

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

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