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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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Challenge
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"If you cannot understand that there is something in a man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy." |
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George Leigh Mallory (1886 - 1924), English Mountain Climber |
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Mallory’s response to a questioner who asked him why he wanted to climb Mount Everest: "Because it is there", epitomizes the spirit of challenge and adventure. On his final attempt in 1924 he may, or may not, have succeeded in being the first to reach the top of the world’s tallest mountain. Without question he died trying: His frozen and almost perfectly preserved body was discovered by another expedition in 1999, 2000 feet below the 29,000 high summit. When they examined the body they found letters from his family, but the camera he had with him has not yet been found. Even now, the pictures could still probably be developed: If Mallory and his partner had made it to the top they would certainly have taken pictures to record the feat. The great question is whether he and his climbing partner, 22 year-old engineering student Andrew Irvine, were on their way down, after summiting, or on the way up, when they met tragedy. If they made it to the top they would have reached the summit 29 years before the expedition of New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
Mallory was educated at Cambridge and served in World War One. A schoolteacher by profession, he had considerable climbing experience, including expeditions to Everest in 1921 and 1922. He was also a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Salon, and knew many of the day’s leading literary and artistic figures. He was generally considered to be a charming, handsome man who had close relationships with his family, especially his very supportive wife, Ruth. When he attempted Everest in 1924 he was 38 years old and in apparently excellent physical condition. While not considered the best technical climber of his time, he has always been admired for his bravery and ability, especially given the primitive climbing tools of his time. Among mountain climbers, he was renowned for his intelligence, resolution, and leadership. His grandson George reached the summit in 1995.
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