“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.” IfsShouldBigsHappensSpiritualProcessGoalGrowthPayFeetDangerousMountainLaysPersonal GrowthGuidesCompromiseFixedClimbsPushingClimbingLoadPullingSoloOxygenRopeLaddersEverestSherpas Author:Yvon Chouinard
“There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.” IfsWantMomentsGoalMountainGloryRevelationsClimbsClimbingFatigueClimbing Mountain Author:Karyn Kusama
“You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.” IfsWayWantPassionGoalLossHealthMountainOceanCommitmentRiversWeightReachingWeight LossReaching Your Goals Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!” TryingSpiritGoalPrayerPathSkyExerciseMountainHorseRewardsCodeCreedsLoadPacksWagons Author:Edmund Vance Cooke
“I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and down four flights of stairs at 5 am to practice my turns in front of the candle light when others are asleep. I felt like that I had climbed many tall mountains and made so many impossible dreams come true through sheer determination, perseverance, passion, self conviction and belief.” MadeSelfDreamLightTurnsPassionBeliefFeltGoalPracticeFourImpossibleAchieveFrontsMountainDeterminationPerseveranceConvictionHeavyExtremesLegsFlightTallCandleSheerDreams Come TrueUp And DownStairsAnklesDetermination PerseveranceImpossible DreamHoppingCandle Lights Author:Li Cunxin
“I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.” IfsBelieveEnoughI BelieveGoalWalksMountainClimbsExpeditions Author:Jerzy Kukuczka