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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
I climbed up this business.
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
My parents climbed their way to the middle class.
I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
I've climbed in a lot of places, but only once in the U.K., at Stanage Edge in the Peak District.
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.
We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.
When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.
I am thankful that I played the game at a time when the West Indies climbed to heights that have never been repeated.
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed.
When I first climbed into a go-kart, aged 13, I thought to myself: 'This is what I want to do with my life, and I want to drive F1.'
I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I'd make stories, make films.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
In 1972, I climbed out of my bedroom window and ran away from home with my older sister and her friends to go to the infamous Sunbury rock festival.
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.
To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too far out on a limb with no way to return.
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
If anyone understands the enormous mountain that cruiserweights like myself have to climb, it's WWE champion Daniel Bryan - who not only climbed that mountain but now stands atop it.
