Climbing Quotes - Page 4

• A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Views, New Horizons

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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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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• Climbing is what I do.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Hiking

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• Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

  Winston Graham

  Zest, Hiking, Giving

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• But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Teaching, Mountain, Breeze

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Hiking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Valleys, Come Up, Brag

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• Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

  Reinhold Messner

  Impossible, Murder, Climbs

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Memories, Sky

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• Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet... I am in love with the mountains.

  Wilfrid Noyce

  Boys, Light, Rocks

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• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

  Petrarch

  Mountain, Earth, Height

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• Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Mountain, Desert, Cottages

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy (1822). “The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:”, p.148

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• The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.

  Chris Sharma

  Motivation, Rocks, World

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• A la Verte on devient montagnard.

  Gaston Rebuffat

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• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Mountain, Care

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• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  "Death on Everest divides climbers" by Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, www.theage.com.au. May 25, 2006.

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• There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

  Herman Melville

  Mountain, Towers, Egotistical

  "Moby Dick".

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• Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Crush, Heart, Confusion

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• Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Feet, Mountain

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

  James Joyce

  Forgiving, Cold, Forget

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• We'll climb with you and steal your women.

  Todd Skinner

  Stealing, Climbs

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• I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

  Warren G. Harding

  Girl, That Girl, Mines

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• The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mountain, Summit

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