“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
Yvon Chouinard (1938) American mountain climber
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
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The Other Wife (2003)
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
Yvon Chouinard (1938) American mountain climber
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
"1925-1930" http://books.google.com/books?id=Zvi195aKdvMC&q=%22Never+measure+the+height+of+a+mountain+until+you+have+reached+the+top+then+you+will+see+how+low+it+was%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage <br class="br">Markings (1964)
“At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.”
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“We're ne'er like angels till our passion dies.”
John Denham (1615–1669) English poet and courtier
Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2.
Misattributed
“We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.”
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.
“4702. The Passions are like Fire and Water; good Servants, but bad Masters.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.”
Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987) Lithuanian violinist
Heifetz official web site http://www.jaschaheifetz.com/about/quotes.html