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Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can"

I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.




Edmund Hillary Quotes: "With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible."

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!




Edmund Hillary Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain."

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down."

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.




Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it."

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success."

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve."

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti."

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges."

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.




Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck."

Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit."

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time."

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves."

It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur."

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims"

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top"

Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

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 Quotes: "As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds."

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 Quotes: "Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it."

Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself."

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday."

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Boredom has always been a problem."

Boredom has always been a problem.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too."

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it."

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things."

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you."

Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes."

I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe."

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them."

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all."

I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Some day I'm going to climb Everest."

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it."

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job."

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides."

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "It's all bullshit on Everest these days."

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School."

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable."

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer."

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along."

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander."

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition."

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really."

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things."

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much ."

My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there."

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.



Edmund Hillary Quotes: "I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it."

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.