Climbing Quotes - Page 18

• The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Achievement

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... 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. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Forever, Doe

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.106, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• (I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

  Marsden Hartley

  Clouds, Mountain, Height

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 8, 1988.

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• As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Mother, Book, Jumping

  Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

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• Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

  Ron Kauk

  Skills, Synthesis, Needed

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• I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

  Reinhold Messner

  Mountain, Want, Problem

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• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Oxygen

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• My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

  Steve Harvey

  Inspirational, Hurt, Father

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• Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Fall, Intelligent, Garden

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• Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.

  Jim Bridwell

  Sports, Kings, Fun

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• I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Hunting, Fishing, Nuts

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, do512.com. May, 2014.

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• I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

  Clive Standen

  Hiking, Shapes, Enjoy

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

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Passion, Mean, Mountain

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Solitude, Mountain

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• Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

  Christa B. Allen

  Beach, Rocks, Everyday

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

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• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
  And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
  And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
  Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Moon, Fire

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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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, Risk, Way

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• Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Struggle, Voice, Rise Above

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• To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

  Alain Robert

  Drinking, Eating

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• Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Heart, Blood, Sweat

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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• Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

  David Rudisha

  Climbing Up, Race, Training

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• One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Independent, Winning

  Source: espn.go.com

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