Climbs Quotes - Page 2

• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

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• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  Walter Scott

  Tree, Fruit, Suits

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott”, p.380

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• Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Hiking, Important

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.166, Random House

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• One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Freedom, Giving

  "All about ECK".

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• When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

  Rick Wakeman

  Play, Hiking, Funeral

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• How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Hiking, Guy, Tree

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

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• Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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• You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. 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. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Learning

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• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

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• So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Struggle, Mean, Adventure

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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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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• 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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• And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

  "The Empire of Business".

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• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

  Walter Raleigh

  Fall, Hiking, Anxiety

  Line written on a window-pane, in Thomas Fuller 'The History of the Worthies of England' (1662) 'Devonshire' p. 261.

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• The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Sarcastic, Writing, Monkeys

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• What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  Kate Hudson

  Rocks, Height, Sides

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• I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while

  Kate Hudson

  Running, Fun, Hiking

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 9, 2005.

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• The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

  Peter Falk

  Hiking, Mountain, Break

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• O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Time, Morning

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.90

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