Climbing Quotes

597 Climbing quotes by 400 unique authors

Climbing had captured my soul. — Lincoln Hall
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… — John Muir
The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power… — Stephen Covey
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows… — Joseph Jaworski
Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base… — Georges St-Pierre
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one… — Omar Samra
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each… — Criss Jami
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and… — Bear Grylls
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things. — Bear Grylls
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and… — Bear Grylls
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. — Stephen Covey
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a… — Ice Cube
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. — Mitch Daniels
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it… — Jesse Eisenberg
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. — Edmund Hillary
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer… — Christopher Hitchens
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman… — Jeffrey Kluger
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't… — Heidi Klum
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. — Heath Ledger
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. — Nelson Mandela
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't… — George R. R. Martin

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