My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a … - Royal Robbins

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Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Royal Robbins

My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

Ambition, Climbing, Emphasis, Rounded, Things, Thinking

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Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

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Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

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Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

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With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

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Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

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