Climbing Quotes

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Descending

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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  Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Courage, Fear

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.48, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Walter Bonatti

  Law, Battle, Elements

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• You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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  Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mountain, Sometimes, Sand

  Song: So Small, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007

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• When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

  Edmund Hillary

  Giving, Challenges, Trying

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Learning

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Hiking, Laughing

  "Hammer of the Gods: Selected Writings".

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• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

  Warren G. Harding

  Holes, Drilling, Enjoyable

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• It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

  John Sherman

  Fun, Years, Two

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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  John Ruskin

  Hiking, Mountain, Literature

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

  Lewis Thomas

  Hiking, Glimpse, Benches

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

  River Phoenix

  Hands, Hiking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

  Jeanne Moreau

  Hiking, Steps, Looks

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• Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Team, Hiking, Leader

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• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  Sam Mendes

  Wall, Years, Hiking

  "TIME Asia story 'A Private, Interior Film'". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2000.

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

  Earl Wilson

  Blood, Hiking, Mountain

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• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

  Galen

  Philosophy, Mean, Artist

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• Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

  Annie Smith Peck

  Real, Men, Hiking

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• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

  Ella Maillart

  Boys, Hiking, Laughing

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