Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.
Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
I have reached the summit of my ambition.
The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.
Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your way down that first mountain. Trying to jump from the summit would get you hurt or killed.
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
Nations touch at their summits.
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!
When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.
