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Quotes
Wise
words
for
hard
moments...
Sometimes
you
have
no
clue
how
to
continue,
whether
on
a
steep
mountain,
in
your
armchair
or
behind
your
desk.
But
the
7summits.com
quotes
come
to
the
rescue!
We
have
collected
a
bunch
of
motivating,
humorous
and
serious
qoutes
from
famous
and
not
so
famous
people.
Most
of
them
relate
to
mountaineering
in
one
way
or
another
although
even
we
don't
always
see
the
connection
:-)
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Motivational climbing quote 1:
"Gravity is a contributing factor in 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects." -- Dave Barry, Humorist, 1998.
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Motivational climbing quote 2:
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
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Motivational climbing quote 3:
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -- Henry David Thoreau.
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Motivational climbing quote 4:
"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life."" -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Motivational climbing quote 5:
"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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