Climbs Quotes

• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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• When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

  Michael Caine

  Hiking, Acting

  "Michael Caine And Wife, Shakira Caine, Look Oh So In Love In Vintage Photos". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

  Denis Waitley

  Positive, Views, Goal

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Deep Love, Climbing

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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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, Climbing

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

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• There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

  George Eliot

  Hiking, Hatred, Ladders

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Climbing, Hiking

  Lines after Sir Walter Ralegh, written on a window-pane: Thomas Fuller 'Worthies of England' vol. 1, p. 419.

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• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Wire, Rhyming, Poet

  "At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn't Done Yet". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 11, 2015.

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• Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

  Chris Darwin

  Wall, Climbing, Bricks

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• Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

  Seamus Heaney

  Hands, Years, Listening

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.416, Macmillan

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• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Stars, Men, Poetry

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• For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Opposites, Rotation, Traveler

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Dream, Fall

  Lord Jim ch. 20 (1900)

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

  Helen Hayes

  Stay Strong, Self, Hiking

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

  William Arthur Ward

  Climbing, Risk, Suffering

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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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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• Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Important, Toes

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• I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

  Christy Turlington

  Dream, Hiking, Mountain

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• Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Journey, Hiking, Rocks

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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

  Climbing, Cities, Feelings

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

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

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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

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• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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