Climbing Quotes

Social climbing is my forté.

— Teejay Hughes

The summit is just a halfway point.

— Ed Viesturs

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

— Doug Scott

You climb for the hell of it.

— Edmund Hillary

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

— Proverb

“Because it's there.”

— George Mallory

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

— Anne Clark

We are apes - we should be climbing.

— Alex Honnold

“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.”

— Mark Obmascik

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

— John Dean

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

— Jonathan Tesch

If you are under control you're going too slow.

— Parnelli Jones

I'm going to be climbing for my whole life.

— Chris Sharma

I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

“In addiction, just like climbing, you can’t fall off if you don’t let go.”

— Brendan Leonard

“The curse of climbing is discovering how great the distance yet to climb.”

— Steven Erikson

It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.

— Richard C. Miller

“Don't stop climbing once you've made it your highest peak. You still have the heavens to reach.”

— Salyna G

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing…

— Fawn M. Brodie

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

— Anonymous

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of…

— Gaston Rebuffat

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like…

— Yvon Chouinard

Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.

— Jim Bridwell

“If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Failure is an option, but don't let it be yours, no matter how hard you fall, get back up and keep climbing…

— Rashida Rowe

Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this…

— Royal Robbins

The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to…

— Dean Potter

So I put one foot in front of the other. No no no nothing's gonna break my stride. I keep climbing, gonna…

— David Archuleta

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there -…

— Joaquin Miller

be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just…

— Nick Cave

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit…

— David Ginola

Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you…

— Justin Bieber

Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees…

— Frans de Waal

We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and…

— Rick Riordan

I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a…

— Charles Yu

There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared…

— Edward Whymper

Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's…

— Martin Amis

Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist…

— Steve House

Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the…

— N.D. Wilson