International Mountain Day is observed on December 11 every year. Here are some inspirational mountain quotes that are going to inspire you not to stop until the mountain is climbed.
am sure most of you have been in love with the Mountains. Mountains are a great source of inspiration, they give you a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of achievement.
Every person has a mountain in their life, it may take on several shapes and sizes but it is a mountain; it's your mountain which you need to climb on your own.
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." - Nelson Mandela
Today is International Mountain Day, it is observed on December 11 every year since 2003. Due to the increasing attention towards the importance of mountains, the United Nations declared 2002 as the UN International Year of Mountains.
The theme of International Mountain Day 2019 is 'Mountains matter for Youth.' The youth are the future leaders of tomorrow. They can take the lead and save natural resources, which are being threatened by climate change.
As per the United Nations, mountains are home to 15 percent of the world's population and a quarter of the world's animals and plants. Mountains are unavoidably linked to your everyday life; you can't avoid seeing them or dealing with them.
So, here are some inspirational mountain quotes which are going to inspire you not to stop until the mountain is climbed.
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INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY 2019: SOME INSPIRATIONAL MOUNTAIN QUOTES
"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary
"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing." - Barry Finlay
"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory." - Ed Viesturs
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." - Dag Hammarskjold
"Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb." - Greg Child
"I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries." - Brian Andreas
"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." - Richard M Nixon
"Keep close to Nature's heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." - John Muir
"You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves." - Lito Tejada-Flores
