Top Climbing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Climbing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Abraham Verghese
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
- Abraham Verghese
Collection: Climbing
Image of Joseph Roth
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.
- Joseph Roth
Collection: Climbing
Image of Stirling Moss
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.
- Stirling Moss
Collection: Climbing
Image of Elena Ferrante
Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
- Elena Ferrante
Collection: Climbing
Image of Galen Rowell
When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.
- Galen Rowell
Collection: Climbing
Image of Nancy Garden
The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.
- Nancy Garden
Collection: Climbing
Image of Arnold Schwarzenegger
The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Collection: Climbing
Image of Giovanni Boccaccio
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Collection: Climbing
Image of Carrie Underwood
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
- Carrie Underwood
Collection: Climbing
Image of Kelly Preston
I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.
- Kelly Preston
Collection: Climbing
Image of Ingrid Bergman
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!
- Ingrid Bergman
Collection: Climbing
Image of Arthur Guiterman
God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!
- Arthur Guiterman
Collection: Climbing
Image of Arthur Guiterman
God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
- Arthur Guiterman
Collection: Climbing
Image of John Marsden
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.
- John Marsden
Collection: Climbing
Image of John Bachar
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.
- John Bachar
Collection: Climbing
Image of John Bachar
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.
- John Bachar
Collection: Climbing
Image of John Bachar
Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.
- John Bachar
Collection: Climbing
Image of Walter Bonatti
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
- Walter Bonatti
Collection: Climbing
Image of Walter Bonatti
If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
- Walter Bonatti
Collection: Climbing
Image of Catherine Destivelle
The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.
- Catherine Destivelle
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jeff Lowe
If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.
- Jeff Lowe
Collection: Climbing
Image of Bradford Washburn
I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
- Bradford Washburn
Collection: Climbing
Image of Nils Kjaer
It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.
- Nils Kjaer
Collection: Climbing
Image of Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.
- Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
Collection: Climbing
Image of Royal Robbins
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.
- Royal Robbins
Collection: Climbing
Image of Royal Robbins
When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.
- Royal Robbins
Collection: Climbing
Image of Royal Robbins
Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face.
- Royal Robbins
Collection: Climbing
Image of Todd Skinner
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.
- Todd Skinner
Collection: Climbing
Image of Todd Skinner
We'll climb with you and steal your women.
- Todd Skinner
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jim Whittaker
If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone
- Jim Whittaker
Collection: Climbing
Image of 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!
- Jim Whittaker
Collection: Climbing
Image of Hermann Buhl
Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.
- Hermann Buhl
Collection: Climbing
Image of Hermann Buhl
After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.
- Hermann Buhl
Collection: Climbing
Image of Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I piss on you all from a considerable height.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Collection: Climbing
Image of Ed Viesturs
The summit is just a halfway point.
- Ed Viesturs
Collection: Climbing
Image of David Lange
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.
- David Lange
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jimmy Chin
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.
- Jimmy Chin
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jimmy Webb
In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.
- Jimmy Webb
Collection: Climbing
Image of Hari Kunzru
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
- Hari Kunzru
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jason Clarke
I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it's bred. And it's built to last. It breathes and it feels good. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool, because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. So your body temperature stays at a good warmth rather than freezing your ass off.
- Jason Clarke
Collection: Climbing
Image of Reinhold Messner
Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
- Reinhold Messner
Collection: Climbing
Image of Reinhold Messner
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
- Reinhold Messner
Collection: Climbing
Image of Reinhold Messner
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.
- Reinhold Messner
Collection: Climbing
Image of Lucas Till
Life's a climb, but the view's great.
- Lucas Till
Collection: Climbing
Image of Ransom Riggs
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
- Ransom Riggs
Collection: Climbing
Image of Yoko Ogawa
Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.
- Yoko Ogawa
Collection: Climbing
Image of Parnelli Jones
If you are under control you're going too slow.
- Parnelli Jones
Collection: Climbing
Image of Gilberto Simoni
...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.
- Gilberto Simoni
Collection: Climbing
Image of David Kenyon Webster
Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
- David Kenyon Webster
Collection: Climbing
Image of John Salathe
Vy can't ve chust climb !
- John Salathe
Collection: Climbing