Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Interpretation
It's never too late to strive for higher standards in life.
This quote by Edmund Hillary emphasizes the idea that personal growth and improvement are lifelong endeavors. Regardless of age, individuals have the power and ability to raise their standards and strive for betterment, encouraging a mindset of continuous self-improvement and resilience.
In practice
During a motivational talk about personal development.
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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.
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.
First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.
It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
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