Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."
Mountain Peaks quotes
Mountain Peaks
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves."
Petrarch
Poet, Scholar
"From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways."
John Burroughs
Naturalist, Writer
"We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!"
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"The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights."
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"I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace."
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