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

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Motivational

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Success Good Planning

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

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Work Hard Motivation Want

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Money Mountains Climb

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Great Step First

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Strong People Economic

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Everest Second

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Yourself Long Blood

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Change Money Remember

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Great Building Climb

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Friends Beautiful Building

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

~ Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary Mountains Holiday Group
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