On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Interpretation
Achieving a significant goal brings immense satisfaction.
Edmund Hillary's quote reflects the profound sense of achievement that comes from reaching one's goals, especially when those goals are challenging and require immense effort, like scaling Mount Everest. His feelings of satisfaction highlight the personal fulfillment that accompanies such monumental accomplishments and the pride in being the first to achieve something significant.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles and achieving goals.
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.
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
The success [of Mary Kay Inc.] is much, much deeper than just dollars and cents and buildings and assets. The real success of our Company is measured to me in the lives that have been touched and given hope.
Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
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