(809 quotes found)
“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Saint Augustine
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
Og Mandino
“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there”
Robert M. Pirsig
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
Jean Paul Richter
“Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.”
Haitian Proverb
“Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.”
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Rodan of Alexandria
