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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 :-)




Motivational climbing quote 1:

"Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet


Motivational climbing quote 2:

"For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread." -- Maurice Herzog, mountaineer and writer.


Motivational climbing quote 3:

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt


Motivational climbing quote 4:

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." -- David McCullough (1933 - )


Motivational climbing quote 5:

"What are you that fly me thus ? some villain mountaineers ? I have heard of such. What slave art thou ?" -- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II.



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