Quotes About Ascent

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

down had started to climb the walls.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.

Le?my, szcz??ciem zosta?y pióra do powrotu, Le?my i nigdy odt?d nie zni?ajmy lotu.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Forgiveness means ascent.

It's hard to start from the bottom.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each ascent. So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it's not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.

She followed slowly and she needed time, as though some long ascent were not yet by; and yet: as though, when she had ceased to climb, she would no longer merely walk, but fly.

You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each ascent. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Du Siehst, ich will viel," Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God , trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)

Spring - und lass dir auf dem Weg nach unten Flügel wachsen

What a barbaric way to rise into the air, hauling your own carcass up inches at a time.

A leader's role is not to maintain. It is to gain altitude!

For success there is no ladder or elevator, if you want to reach the top, you have to climb."

And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Un bon livre, au contraire, ne cherche pas à vous captiver, il vous fait regarder vers le haut (le ciel sans nuage d'été) tout en plongeant au fond de vous-même.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a unifying and inspiring event, signifying the drive to reach our greatest potential.

Anyone wanting to reach the summit must lift his spirits to its heights