Climbing Quotes · Page 7

I just like climbing things and exploring.

— Noah Centineo

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

— Edmund Hillary

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

— Jeff Lowe

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

— Maxine Cheshire

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.

— Patrick Bamford

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

— Aristophanes

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 problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

— John Ortberg

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of…

— Chris Sharma

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

— Adam Ondra

“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.' 'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….”

— Grace Hitchcock

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.

— Walter Bonatti

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a…

— Nelson Mandela

Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals…

— Chris Sharma

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more…

— Claude Bernard

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,…

— Edna Ferber

Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava…

— Rick Riordan

The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a…

— Lupe Fiasco

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here…

— Norton Juster

To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing.…

— Alex Honnold

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone…

— Yoko Ogawa

For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway…

— Alistair Cooke

I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes…

— Ptolemy

“Jo riktig, jeg forlot min venn i to fingre på luselisten. Men han hang ikke sånn i sin simple almindelighet, nei det…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“over with mortar. It was impossible to climb. “Clever,” Nikulo said, prodding the wall with a stick. “Anyone have any bright Ideas?”…

— John Forrester

If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding,…

— Milton Friedman

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,…

— William Arthur Ward

“But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was…

— Jon Krakauer

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

— Seneca the Younger

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

— Buzz Osborne

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

— Unai Emery

Placing my buttocks on a cold toilet seat is my climbing Mount Everest.

— Anonymous

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

— Seneca the Younger

“That's like climbing a tree to find a fish.”

— Mencius

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

— Casey Stengel

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

— Nhat Hanh