You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there…

— Michael Cadnum

The bumps are what you climb on.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I…

— Miley Cyrus

I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong,…

— Edmund Hillary

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said…

— Peter Lerangis

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

— Edmund Hillary

Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every adventure needs…

— India.Arie

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

— Gaston Rebuffat

I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives…

— Mary Kay Ash

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used…

— Napoleon Hill

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

— Elizabeth Wein

Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's gotta climb it

— Nicki Minaj