Indira Gandhi Quotes

What you think is the summit is only a step up

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate

Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

True success is not a project but a journey.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.