Best Climbing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.”

“For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!”

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Author:Lynn Hill

“I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.”

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Author:Warren G. Harding

“If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.”

“Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.”

Firsts Might Chance Increase Climbing

Author:Mitch Daniels

“Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop”

Promise Climbing Heartbeat Momma My Momma

Author:J. Cole

“To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.”

“I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.”

Mountain Climbing Static Climbing Mountain

Author:Michael Ovitz

“Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.”

Ifs May Has Beens Self Success Joy Path Sorrow Faults Satisfaction Genuine Chosen Hills Indifference Lasting Yield Climbing Sweat Laziness Honorable Toes Family And Friends Summit Ignominy

Author:B. C. Forbes

“It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.”

Ifs Inspirational Long Has Beens Made Said Mistake Students Faults Sat Climbing Princess Couches Phantom Tollbooth

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down”

Light Joy Pleasure Greater Higher Reflection Climbing Climbing Up

Author:Bruce Feiler

“Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?”

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Author:Boris Vian

“What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world”

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Author:Galen

“I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.”

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Author:Edmund Hillary

“The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.”

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Author:Catherine Destivelle

“For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”

“The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.”

Ifs Men Soul Safe Mountain Weapons Conquer Your Soul Climbs Sincere Climbing Harsh Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Climbing Mountain Rock Climbing Inspirational Mountain Climbing Mountain Man

Author:Walter Bonatti

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

Law Battle Elements Oneself Climbing Gravity Climbers

Author:Walter Bonatti

“Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.”

Jobs Challenges Risk Wings Scared Determined Shy Climbing Airplane Jumping Jumping Off

Book:She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

“You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.”

Feels Firsts Literature Boys Laughing Risk First Time Bravery Brave Starting Chinese Meat Meals Climbing Hiking Rotten Lanes Pubs Columbus Tibetan

Author:Ella Maillart

“The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.”

Children Light Achieve Divine Infinite Bliss Aspiration Hopeful Climbing

Book:The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

“If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.”

Ifs Way Years Character Sports Decision One Thing Danger Habit Very Good Climbing I Have Learned Day To Day Triviality Quick Decisions

Author:Nevil Shute

“The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.”

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Author:Tamae Watanabe

“If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone”

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Author:Jim Whittaker

“Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just about climbing and business. It is about two people in love who switch leads in life’s hard climb. A great read—inside or outside a tent!”

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Author:Jim Whittaker

“Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.”

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Author:Victor Cruz

“And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.”

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Author:Spalding Gray

“The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.”

“Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate the long view afforded by those treetops. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.”

Thinking Long Values Views Behinds Tree Appreciate Excited Woods Focused Senses Lasting Climbing Idle Ritalin Treetops

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.”

Ifs Whole Spiritual Purpose Process Effects Gains Compromise Get Back Climbing Everest

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.”

Thinking Games Technology Classic Climbs Climbing Expanding Pioneers Climbers Rules Of The Game Overkill

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”

Source: The Dynamics of Architectural Form

“Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'”

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Book:The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”

“On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.”

“If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.”

“When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.”

“In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

“In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.”

“Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.”

“To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.”

“The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.”

“I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.”

Source: The Playground of Europe

“Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.”

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”

“By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.”

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Author:Michael N. Castle

“The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.”

Heart Secret Climbing Climbing Up

Book:Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness : how to Make Sales Forever

Source: Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness : how to Make Sales Forever

“The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.”

Causes Mountain Climbing Mountain Climbing Ulcers

Book:PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS

Source: PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS

“Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!”

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