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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:
"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping." -- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
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Motivational climbing quote 2:
"The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers." -- Yvon Chouinard.
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Motivational climbing quote 3:
"Well could I curse away a winter's night, Thought standing naked on a mountain top, Where biting cold would never let grass grow, And think it but a minute spent in sport." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VI, Act III, Scene II.
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Motivational climbing quote 4:
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified." -- Samuel Johnson
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Motivational climbing quote 5:
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -- Alexander Hamilton
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