Top Climbing Quotes Collection - Page 4

Discover a curated collection of Climbing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 4 provides more Climbing quotes.

Image of William Arthur Ward
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.
- William Arthur Ward
Collection: Climbing
Image of Erma Bombeck
Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Climbing
Image of Karen Marie Moning
My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.
- Karen Marie Moning
Collection: Climbing
Image of Laurence J. Peter
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
- Laurence J. Peter
Collection: Climbing
Image of Philip Roth
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
- Philip Roth
Collection: Climbing
Image of Lord Byron
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Climbing
Image of Sogyal Rinpoche
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
Collection: Climbing
Image of Yvon Chouinard
Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
- Yvon Chouinard
Collection: Climbing
Image of Yvon Chouinard
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
- Yvon Chouinard
Collection: Climbing
Image of Yvon Chouinard
The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
- Yvon Chouinard
Collection: Climbing
Image of George Carlin
It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.
- George Carlin
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jeremy Piven
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
- Jeremy Piven
Collection: Climbing
Image of Stephen Covey
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
- Stephen Covey
Collection: Climbing
Image of Louis C. K.
Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.
- Louis C. K.
Collection: Climbing
Image of Michael Crichton
The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not a person who likes to do that activity, eat that food, listen to that music," I would automatically go out and do what I imagined I didn't like. Generally I found I was wrong about myself - I liked what I thought I wouldn't like. And even if I didn't like the particular experience, I learned I liked having new experiences.
- Michael Crichton
Collection: Climbing
Image of Albert Einstein
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Climbing
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Climbing
Image of Eminem
My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.
- Eminem
Collection: Climbing
Image of T. S. Eliot
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.
- T. S. Eliot
Collection: Climbing
Image of Albert Einstein
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Climbing
Image of Richard Paul Evans
We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.
- Richard Paul Evans
Collection: Climbing
Image of Chris Sharma
I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like that's worked up until now.
- Chris Sharma
Collection: Climbing
Image of Chris Sharma
Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body.
- Chris Sharma
Collection: Climbing
Image of Chris Sharma
I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing that in climbing, it manifests itself in other ways. There's the athletic side of it, but it is very much an artistic thing.
- Chris Sharma
Collection: Climbing
Image of Chris Sharma
I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing.
- Chris Sharma
Collection: Climbing
Image of Chris Sharma
I'm going to be climbing for my whole life.
- Chris Sharma
Collection: Climbing
Image of Anatole France
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
- Anatole France
Collection: Climbing
Image of Robert Frost
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
- Robert Frost
Collection: Climbing
Image of Nikki Giovanni
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
- Nikki Giovanni
Collection: Climbing
Image of Aristotle
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
- Aristotle
Collection: Climbing
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Climbing
Image of Warren G. Harding
Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.
- Warren G. Harding
Collection: Climbing
Image of Warren G. Harding
My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.
- Warren G. Harding
Collection: Climbing
Image of Warren G. Harding
I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.
- Warren G. Harding
Collection: Climbing
Image of Warren G. Harding
I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
- Warren G. Harding
Collection: Climbing
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Climbing
Image of Nhat Hanh
In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Climbing
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Climbing
Image of Edmund Hillary
It's all bullshit on Everest these days.
- Edmund Hillary
Collection: Climbing
Image of Marcus Aurelius
Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Climbing
Image of James Joyce
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
- James Joyce
Collection: Climbing
Image of Jon Krakauer
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
- Jon Krakauer
Collection: Climbing
Image of Herman Melville
There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Climbing
Image of Maxwell Maltz
The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.
- Maxwell Maltz
Collection: Climbing
Image of Carson McCullers
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
- Carson McCullers
Collection: Climbing