Edmund Hillary Quotes

I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

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

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I just want to do something challenging.

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.