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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:

"One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau." -- Josephine Preston Peabody


Motivational climbing quote 2:

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers


Motivational climbing quote 3:

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Motivational climbing quote 4:

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun." -- Ruth Westheimer


Motivational climbing quote 5:

"I'd feel better if we had some crampons. Oh, what the hell, let's go for it..." -- Common climbing last words.



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