Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of commitment and perseverance in achieving one's goals.
Edmund Hillary's quote reflects the mindset of determination and follow-through. It suggests that once a person has made a decision to pursue a goal, they should wholeheartedly commit to see it come to completion. This attitude of persistence is crucial in overcoming the challenges and difficulties that may arise along the way, highlighting the value of seeing tasks through to their end.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage a team after a setback.
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.
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.
I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to β until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
I like to solve problems. I know it is a skill set, but it's also an obligation. I grew up with parents who believe that you don't simply complain: you try to find solutions and fix what's in front of you.
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