Edmund Hillary famous quotes

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Inspirational #Motivational #Graduation

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Inspirational #Leadership #People

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Important #Mountain #Life Is

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Motivation #Hard Work #Thinking

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Men #Thinking #Enthusiasm

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Feelings #Satisfaction #Firsts

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Looks #Mountaineering

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Travel #Adventure #Achieve

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Attitude #Science #Climbing

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Determination #Challenges #Succeed

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Practice #Focus

You climb for the hell of it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing #Hell #Climbs

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Laughing #Important #Ease

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
-- Edmund Hillary

#Motivational #Mountain #Conquer

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Real #Adventure #Pay

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Interesting #Challenges #Valleys

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing #People #Disaster

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking #Dying #Too Much

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Morning #May #Firsts

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Civilization #Yeti #Littles

Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Hero #Men #Names

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking #World #Want

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Taken #Holiday #Years

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking #Climbing #Names

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing #Safe #Danger

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Believe #Climbing #Giving

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking #Challenges #Mountain

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!
-- Edmund Hillary

#Motivational #Next #Firsts

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Famous Motivational #Conquer

Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Snow #Mountain #Thrill

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
-- Edmund Hillary

#Love #Family #Happiness

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Honor #Firsts #Becoming

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Lonely #Book #Reading

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Play #Important #Roles

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Motivation #Important

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Remember #Everest #Mount Everest

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing #Bullshit #These Days

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Dream #Men #Lucky

I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Attitude #Lying #Thinking

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Years #Effort #Done

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Hate #Icons #I Hate

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Mother #School #Cities

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Thinking #Sensible

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Blood #Long #Feelings

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Everest #Climbs

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Dream #Adventure #Men

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Quality #Ordinary #Adventuring

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Trying #Fruition

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Couple #Guides #Mountaineering

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Beautiful #School #Important

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing #Giving #Challenges

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing #Miserable

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.
-- Edmund Hillary

#Successful #Thinking #Mature