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Jai Ganesh

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Climb Quotes - II

Climb Quotes - II

1. If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.- Sylvester Stallone

2. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Walter Scott

3. Sometimes, there's a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity. - Andrew Flintoff

4. Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it. - Edmund Hillary

5. Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. - George Bernard Shaw

6. With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights. - Nikola Tesla

7. For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. - Nicolaus Copernicus

8. There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. - George Eliot.

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