Climbs Quotes - Page 5

• There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

  Miley Cyrus

  Moving, Waiting, Battle

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• For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ivy, Crumbling, Decay

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.277

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• I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'

  Andy Cairns

  Dog, Two, Hiking

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• Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

  Edmund Hillary

  Everest, Mt Everest

  "Edmund Hillary: King of the World" by Paul Stanley Ward, www.nzedge.com. June 02, 2000.

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• Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Responsibility, Privilege, Underestimate

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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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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• We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Success, Failure, Heaven

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• No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Faith, Mountain, Matter

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• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

  William Blake

  Sports, Nature, Determination

  Note-Book (1807 - 1809)

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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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• Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Hiking

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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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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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dream, Climbing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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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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• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Inspirational, Success, Climbing

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• I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dream, Climbing, Appreciate

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 22, 2012

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• I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

  John Marsden

  Climbing, Sky, Long

  John Marsden (1999). “A Killing Frost”, Laurel Leaf

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Humor, Monkeys, Well Said

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

  Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

  Adventure, Men, Climbing

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• In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Military, Land, Sun

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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• For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

  John J. Sweeney

  Children, Opportunity, Class

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• Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It’s the dance that counts.

  John Bachar

  Goal, Dancer, Pieces

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