Climbing Quotes - Page 3

• Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thinking, Peaceful, Too Much

  Epistulae ad Lucilium IV

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• One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Mountain, Stones

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• We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

  Octavia Butler

  Confidence, Permit, Higher

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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• I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

  Elbert Hubbard

  Growing Up, Habit, Given

  Elbert Hubbard, Fred Bann (1928). “Eminent orators”

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• Vy can't ve chust climb !

  John Salathe

  Climbs

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• When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

  Pat Ament

  Beautiful, Play, Hiking

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• At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

  Todd Skinner

  Real, Focus, Orbit

  Todd Skinner (1993). “Modern Rock Climbing: Sport Climbing and Top Roping Beyond the Basics”, Ics Books

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• We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

  Marie of Romania

  Crowds, Breaths, Superiority

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• The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Past, Ladders

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.44, Zondervan

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• Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

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• John Wayne never wore Lycra.

  Ron Kauk

  Wayne, Mountaineering, Climbs

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• They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Work, Sometimes

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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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• Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

  Ingrid Bergman

  Views, Mountain, Littles

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• 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

  Cities, Feelings, Mountain

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Shoes

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• The mountains are calling and I must go.

  John Muir

  Nature, Hiking, Mountain

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

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• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  Frances Perkins

  Hiking, Tree, Being A Woman

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• Climbing is what I do.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Hiking

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• If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

  Franz Kafka

  Hiking, Tower Of Babel, Towers

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka”, p.354, Archipelago

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• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Mountain

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

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• I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• I am climbing a difficult road;
  but the glory gives me strength.

  Propertius

  Strength, Hiking, Giving

  "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,

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