Top Climbing Quotes Collection - Page 3
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Beauty is the door to another world.Collection: Climbing
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.Collection: Climbing
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.Collection: Climbing
Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.Collection: Climbing
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.Collection: Climbing
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.Collection: Climbing
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.Collection: Climbing
While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.Collection: Climbing
Routes rate me, not the other way around.Collection: Climbing
Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?Collection: Climbing
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?Collection: Climbing
One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.Collection: Climbing
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.Collection: Climbing
We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.Collection: Climbing
I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.Collection: Climbing
Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.Collection: Climbing
Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.Collection: Climbing
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.Collection: Climbing
[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.Collection: Climbing
If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.Collection: Climbing
Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.Collection: Climbing
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.Collection: Climbing
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.Collection: Climbing
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.Collection: Climbing
So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.Collection: Climbing
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.Collection: Climbing
Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me !Collection: Climbing
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.Collection: Climbing
I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.Collection: Climbing
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.Collection: Climbing
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.Collection: Climbing
As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.Collection: Climbing
I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.Collection: Climbing
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.Collection: Climbing
The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to keep from limping. Limping showed weakness, and I didn’t need any enterprising, career-motivated shapeshifters trying to challenge me for dominance right about now. I had once mentioned my desire for an elevator, and His Majesty asked me if I would like a flock of doves to carry me up to my quarters so my feet wouldn’t have to touch the ground. We were sparring at the time and I kicked him in the kidney in retaliation.Collection: Climbing
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.Collection: Climbing
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.Collection: Climbing
Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.Collection: Climbing
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.Collection: Climbing
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.Collection: Climbing
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.Collection: Climbing
His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.Collection: Climbing
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.Collection: Climbing
The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.Collection: Climbing
One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.Collection: Climbing
Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.Collection: Climbing
Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.Collection: Climbing
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.Collection: Climbing
There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.Collection: Climbing