(Anonymous)
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
(Victor Hugo)
Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
(Anonymous)
I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stone set up to show travelers where other minds have been, or at least signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well to seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographer's plates. No earthy chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul. All that is required is exposure, and purity of material.
(John Muir)
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, always take note of difficulties along the way; for as you go up, you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
(Ren? Daumal)