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.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.
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