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Quotes

Wise words for hard moments...

Sometimes you have no clue how to continue, whether on a steep mountain, in your armchair or behind your desk. 


But the 7summits.com quotes come to the rescue! We have collected a bunch of motivating, humorous and serious qoutes from famous and not so famous people.

Most of them relate to mountaineering in one way or another although even we don't always see the connection :-)




Motivational climbing quote 1:

"No one is completely useless-- They can always serve as a bad example." -- Anonymous.


Motivational climbing quote 2:

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." -- John Muir (1838 - 1914)


Motivational climbing quote 3:

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -- Goethe


Motivational climbing quote 4:

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)


Motivational climbing quote 5:

"What are you that fly me thus ? some villain mountaineers ? I have heard of such. What slave art thou ?" -- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II.



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