Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing…

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber…

— Anonymous

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber…

— William Croswell Doane

My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is…

— Royal Robbins

“His name feels like a secret, and now he's wearing it on his wrist. I want to know all about this girl who put…

— Robin York

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

— Elbert Hubbard

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting…

— Rachel Weisz

Rubina hasn't fully explored her adventurous side yet. The main reason I fell in love with her was because she is super healthy and…

— Abhinav Shukla

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.

— Stacy Allison

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor…

— Pope Pius XI

The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun.

— Alex Lowe

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

— Stephen Rodrick

“In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives—the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.”

— Mark Lawrence

I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that I had…

— Jeff Lowe

For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was…

— Reinhold Messner

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

— Anatoli Boukreev