Climbing Quotes - Page 8

• I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

  Warren G. Harding

  Stupidity, Balls, Stuff

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• Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

  David McCullough Jr.

  Inspirational, Air, Views

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• Any struggle or pain that you experience just gets you to the top, and you can't get there without making the climb. A few years later, you won't remember exactly the way the pain felt or how long it took, you'll just remember the view from the top. In fact, you might smile at the fact you had to work to get there.

  Hayley Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

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• You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

  Alex Zanardi

  Confidence, Knowing, Mountain

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• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  Victor Cruz

  School, College, Nfl

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

  Thomas Merton

  Wall, People, Ladders

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• Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Engineering, Training

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

  Earl Wilson

  Blood, Hiking, Mountain

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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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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• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

  Warren G. Harding

  Holes, Drilling, Enjoyable

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• The summit is just a halfway point.

  Ed Viesturs

  Summit, Halfway

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• I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ladders, Way, Building

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