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.
Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.
God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.
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