Mountain Quotes - Page 9

Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways.

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.

Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.