Climbing Quotes

Climbing Quote of the day

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

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

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

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

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

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

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

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

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

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

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

The summit is just a halfway point.

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient.

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.