Tenzing Norgay famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.
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If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
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We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.
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To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.
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I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.
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If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
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I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.
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I hope my twin brother will look exactly like me but more sporty.
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Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.
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...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
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