Climbing Quotes · Page 2

Social climbing is my forté.

— Teejay Hughes

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

— Lucas Till

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

— Mark Twight

Climbing is what I do.

— Anatoli Boukreev

Doubt is the enemy of success.

— Jim Bridwell

I was born into a climbing family.

— Adam Ondra

Climbing had captured my soul.

— Lincoln Hall

I was quaking in my boots.

— Lynn Hill

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

— Fawn M. Brodie

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

— Earl Wilson

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac...

— Yvon Chouinard

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

— Charles Bukowski

I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

— Warren G. Harding

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

— Frances Perkins

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

— John Keats

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

— Ransom Riggs

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

— Leo Houlding

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

— Edmund Hillary

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

— Warren G. Harding

In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that…

— Jimmy Webb

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.

— Adam Ondra

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

— Jon Krakauer

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

— Michael Kennedy

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby…

— Alex Honnold

“you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don’t allow for crawling and wriggling,…

— Nevada Barr

I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak:…

— Steve Daines

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the…

— Andrea Bocelli

I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling…

— Jim Bridwell

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am,…

— Holly Black

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your…

— Miguel de Cervantes

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But…

— Criss Jami

“Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and…

— Lloyd C. Douglas

I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie…

— Dave Cook

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,…

— Al Alvarez

Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand…

— Anonymous

What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm…

— Jeremy Jones

Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast…a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic…So get out there and hunt and fish and mess…

— Edward Abbey

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a…

— Hermann Hesse

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any…

— James Berardinelli