“Never stop climbing mountains! They are like any other challenge in life; once you go across them, pleasure is all yours.” — Karma Gurung Copy Share Image
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world. — Ron Kauk Copy Share Image
There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them. — Babu Antony Copy Share Image
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would… — Stirling Moss Copy Share Image
The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
“You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon. — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us. — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
None climbed the highest peak in first attempt, we need to learn climbing small hills first. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy. — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to… — Samina Baig Copy Share Image
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir Copy Share Image