You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things—to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
—Edmund Hillary
Topics: Goals, Heroes/Heroism, Achievement
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 will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can.
—Edmund Hillary
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
—Edmund Hillary
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