Climbing Quotes

597 quotes by 424 authors

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever… — Roger Bannister
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of… — Joe Biden
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from… — Andrea Bocelli
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl… — Winston Churchill
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.… — Yvon Chouinard
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in… — Yvon Chouinard
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer… — Edwin Way Teale
I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo. — Bradford Washburn
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for. — Todd Skinner
Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage,… — Alain Robert
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all… — Margaret Thatcher
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll
For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr… — Alistair Cooke
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side? — George Carlin
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the… — Albert Claude
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Abdul Kalam

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