If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.