Climbers Quotes - Page 3

• Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dumb, Answers, Stairs

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

  Lincoln Hall

  Wisdom, Heart, Adventure

  Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.239, Penguin

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• I see myself as a climber and an activist.

  Alain Robert

  Activist

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• Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Enthusiasm, Dignity, Hills

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Climbing

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• First of all, who's your A&R?
  A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
  But he don't know the meaning of dope,
  When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
  That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
  And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
  Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

  GZA

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

  Steve House

  Climbing, Feelings, Important

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• In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

  Jon Krakauer

  Team, Climbing, Action

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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• There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

  Phil McGraw

  Family, Climbing, Support

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Mountain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.

  Dan Jenkins

  Song, Writing, Talking

  Dan Jenkins (2010). “Baja Oklahoma”, p.26, Texas A&M University Press

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• Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Beautiful, Beach, Rocks

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• For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

  Edith Grossman

  Disappointment, Athlete, Adventure

  Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

  Jim Wickwire

  Mountain, Trouble, Danger

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• There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Two, People, Shadow

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness of mental and believing that you are worth as much as the public image.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Believe, Climbing, Risk

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• For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

  Roland Smith

  Stopping, Mountain Climbing, Everest

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• But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Clouds, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 21

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• I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

  Fred Nicole

  Thinking, Climbing, Doubt

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• Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.

  Alison Levine

  Opportunity, Views, Years

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• This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

  Jon Krakauer

  Order, Succeed, Driven

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Goal, Effort, Matter

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• I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

  Edmund Hillary

  Successful, Thinking, Mature

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• 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

  Climbing, Class, Two

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