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Edmund Hillary Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“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, High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
Tagged: accomplishments, Achievements, Goals, Challenge
“I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”
— Edmund Hillary
Tagged: Discovery, mediocrity, Adventures, Fear, Achievements
“With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.”
— Edmund Hillary, The wisdom of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Everest
Tagged: practice, Focus, Determination
“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, View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest
Tagged: Dreamer, Youth, Books, Reading, Adventure
“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, Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88
Tagged: Lucky, Dream Come True, Dreaming
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
— Edmund Hillary
Tagged: Extraordinary, Change, decision
“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
Tagged: Adventure, Dreaming, Searching, Pleasure
“Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.”
— Edmund Hillary, The wisdom of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Everest
Tagged: Courage, motivation, Luck
“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on.”
— Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary: King Of The World
Tagged: explorers, Spirit, Past
“My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure.”
— Edmund Hillary, High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
Tagged: Adventure, Hiking, Fear
“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, Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men
Tagged: Climbing, Mountaineering, Science, Scientific Perspectivism
“On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened.”
— Edmund Hillary
Tagged: Expedition, Teamwork, Unity, Comradeship, Adventure
“Life's a bit like mountaineering – never look down.”
— Edmund Hillary, The wisdom of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Everest
Tagged: Life, Mountaineering, Advice, Dont Give Up, Dont look down
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