Quotes by : Edmund Hillary

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap,....

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

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken....

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However,....

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on....

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto....

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for....

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by....