Edmund Hillary > Quotes

“I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”
― Edmund Hillary

“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, High Adventure: The True Story Of The First Ascent Of Everest

“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
― Edmund Hillary

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves”
― Sir Edmund Hillary

“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, View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest

“I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.”
― Edmund Hillary, View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest

“If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.”
― Sir Edmund Hillary

“will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can”-”
― Sir Edmund Hillary

“With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.”
― Edmund Hillary, Schoolhouse in the Clouds

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”
― Sir Edmund Hillary

“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

“Polypro wicks away the sweat. Cotton absorbs it. Ergo, cotton is for suckers”
― Sir Edmund Hillary

“If it were discovered that Mallory had, in actual fact, set foot on the top of Everest, obviously it would make some difference to Tenzing and myself. For 33 years, we have been regarded as the heroic figures who first reached the summit of Everest. Well, now I guess we'd be just downgraded a little bit, to being the first two men who reached the summit and actually got safely down again. Which brings up a point, of course. If you climb a mountain for the first time and die on the descent, is it really a complete first ascent of the mountain? I'm rather inclined to think, personally, that maybe it's quite important, the getting down. And the complete climb of a mountain is reaching the summit and getting safely to the bottom again.”
― Edmund Hillary

“ It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”
― sir edmund hillary

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
― Edmund Hillary