Edmund Hillary Quotes

I kind of have to pinch myself. A lot of my dreams are coming true.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.

You just have to make sure you keep living your life, challenging yourself, putting yourself in unusual experiences, thinking about what you're interested in doing, and going there.

We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it's scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched.

Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.

I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

We work to become, not to acquire.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I have achieved everything that I ever wanted to accomplish in this game and more so, for me, I have been fulfilled.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.