Edmund Hillary

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Edmund Hillary

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

Edmund Hillary

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Edmund Hillary

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Edmund Hillary

Even when you’re 50 you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Edmund Hillary

Everest you won’t change, but I will get better… I will conquer you.

Edmund Hillary

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Edmund Hillary

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you’ve done something that you’d been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.

Edmund Hillary

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Edmund Hillary