Climbing Quotes · Page 21

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

— Warren G. Harding

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

— Ransom Riggs

Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Leo Houlding

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

— Saku Koivu

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

— Albert Einstein

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

— Adam Ondra

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the…

— Hermann Buhl

We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter…

— Tamae Watanabe

I think, when you're great, not everyone's going to give you your props, and you can't really worry about that. In my…

— Lil' Kim

Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never…

— Max Lucado

The movements we do are complex but natural, they're picking stuff up off the ground, running, jumping, climbing - stuff that we…

— Rich Froning Jr

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys,…

— Warren G. Harding

I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was…

— Chris Sharma

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of…

— Sarah MacLean

I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But…

— Nelson Mandela

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to…

— Richard Bach

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great…

— Omar Samra

The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths,…

— Judith M Bardwick

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how…

— Yvon Chouinard

Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She…

— Nora Roberts

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

— Kim Stanley

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

— Jon Krakauer

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Climbing up, killing time, gonna give you some, take my hand and let it come, let it come.

— Deadmau5

The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.

— Todd Skinner

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in…

— Anonymous

For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.

— Peter Croft

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

— D.T. Suzuki

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

— Bear Grylls

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in…

— Bear Grylls

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

— Edmund Hillary

I would love to keep climbing at the top of my career and really max out my body and see how far…

— Jeremy Stephens

I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

— Rose McGowan