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Jai Ganesh

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Climbing Quotes - I

Climbing Quotes - I

1. Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

2. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela

3. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. - J. K. Rowling

4. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. - Winston Churchill

5. In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. - Joe Biden

6. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey

7. I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really. - Edmund Hillary

8. 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.

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