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Quotes About Ascent

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
~ Edmund Hillary
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
~ Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king.
~ Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies— The Heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the Cubits warp For fear to be a King—
~ Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are, until we are called to rise. And then if we are true to plan, our statures tough the skies.
~ Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are until we are called to rise, and then if we are true to plan, out statures touch the skies.
~ Emily Dickinson
Toplum yasalari yercekimi yasalarina benzemez, insan genellikle asagi dogru degil, yukari dogru duser. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta
~ Amin Maalouf
one always goes "up" to Jerusalem; one could be on the moon and still go "up" to Jerusalem
~ Amy-Jill Levine
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
~ Vinoba Bhave
It's a massive step up, from working in an office to playing in the Premier League.
~ Mile Jedinak
Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver, One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.
~ Robert Browning
a rising than a setting sun."' This potent combination of
~ Robert Harris
The yellow sun rose, a giant balloon filled with prayers and hopes and promise.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
~ Robert Ardrey
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane's ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us." P. 38-39
~ Alain de Botton
Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.
~ Kiran Bedi
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
~ Paul D. Boyer
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?
~ Rumi
We go all the way to the top and take in the view.
~ Jenny Han
I understood it immediately. With each step up the ladder, the step beneath it disappeared, so that the higher she rose in life, the more vertiginous her position.
~ Jenny Offill
Up up up and into nowhere
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
~ Andy Rooney
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
~ Andy Rooney