Quotes about climbing

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

Israelmore Ayivor - Become a Better You

Keep climbing your fruits are on the top!

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!

Michael Bassey Johnson -

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

Barry Finlay - Kilimanjaro and Beyond

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

Neil Strauss -

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there?STRAUSS: No, I don't.RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

Jonathan Tesch -

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Anthony T. Hincks -

Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height.

Tove Jansson - Comet in Moominland

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.

Nitesh Nishad -

Choosing the wrong way makes us feel different and ensured you to take right decision

Bernadette McDonald -

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

George Mallory - Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction

Michael Bassey Johnson -

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.

Bree Loewen - Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier

During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the mountains, and about what being a woman climber means. Now I know in all certainty when to bring my toothbrush and when to leave it at home, and, all things considered, that kind of confidence is hard to come by. The greatest skill I ever had, though, was the one I started with: being able to suffer for long periods of time and not die. In exchange, I got to see som

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

A.D. Posey -

Feel yourself climbing the mountain.

Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Robert Macfarlane - Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit

Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch o

Munia Khan -

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I’m a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I’ve been

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Static people don’t fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Don’t stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!

Ed Viesturs - No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

James A. Murphy - The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you've become. Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never forget life's experiences, both good and bad which have shaped you as a person. You've had help climbing the rungs of life's ladder. And, those rungs can break at anytime, sending you back down to a place of humility, to remind you of where you came from and how you rose to the top….

Tommy Caldwell -

This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.

Irene Hunt - Up a Road Slowly

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!

M.F. Moonzajer -

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.

Victoria Schwab - Warm Up

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

Chirag Tulsiani -

One can’t be on the topmost rung of a ladder from before, it takes time to reach it, to climb it, one at a time. We struggle so that in this process of climbing we can learn, so that we can limit our impatience and grow stronger than we ever imagined to be.We struggle so that once we learn, we can preach about it to others who consider this act of struggling, spiteful.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girlsIt is joyful, jolly like the flying. Swimming in the rivers, tearing the clothes and burning the shoes Angel of the nature; counting the grasses, touching the flower, teasing the birds

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Jodi Lynn Anderson - Tiger Lily

You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. "I didn't do it to look nice," she said."But you do care."Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. "I don't," she said."All girls do," he added, pushing the point."You must not know many girls.""I know a million," Peter said, dark and serious. There was a long awkward silence, but if Pet

Conrad Anker - The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

Mitch Albom - For One More Day

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Margaret Young -

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

Larry Niven - Ringworld

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

Ed Viesturs - No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Kevin Jorgeson -

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

Steven Magee - Health Forensics

A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.