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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
Sep 17, 2025
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.
Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
There is always room at the top.
There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.
EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the peak of Mount Fuji, but the goal is the same. There are many methods of reaching the top, and they all bring us to new heights. There is no need to battle with each other-we are all brothers and sisters who should walk the Path together, hand in hand. Keep to your Path, and nothing else will matter. When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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