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“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

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

This quote is widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher on various websites, and also appears in a number of books, including The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press (1989), ed. Robert Andrews, p. 320 : ISBN 0231069901. 9780231069908 , but without any further source information such as date, location or any other context. <br class="br">One valid Thatcher quote which may be the basis for the version above appears in the Second Carlton Lecture http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105799 (‘Why Democracy Will Last’), delivered at the Carlton Club, London (November 26, 1984) : Mr. Chairman, each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can’t take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. You know that marvellous quotation from Goethe : ‘That which thy fathers bequeathed thee / Earn it anew if thou would possess it.’ <br class="br">Thatcher also expressed this thought in a Speech to Atlantic Bridge (May 14, 2003) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/111266, delivered at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City : My friends, every generation has to fight anew the battle for liberty. <br class="br">Disputed

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: Stigmata: Escaping Texts

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”

Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) French writer

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

A Month of Sundays (1975)
Source: A Month Of Sundays

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.