Climbing Quotes

• I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Mountain
  • Empower

• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • High
  • Pretty

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Doing
  • Climbing
  • Hillwalking

• Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Important
  • Party
  • Popular

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Asshole

• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Really
  • Physics
  • Gravity

• In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them.

  

  Wolfgang Gullich
  • Problem
  • Movement
  • Figures

• The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Climbing
  • Enjoyable
  • Esthetic

• We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Confidence
  • Climbing
  • Permit

• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Sleep
  • Class
  • Climbing

• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Climbing
  • Bricks
  • Spice Girls

• When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Spiritual
  • Air
  • Exercise

• Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Guilt
  • Climbing
  • Great Deal

• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Teaching
  • Buddy
  • Everest

• Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Past
  • Passion
  • Sport

• We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Society
  • Value
  • Pride

• The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Goal

• We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.

  

  Van Jones
  • World
  • Reality
  • Wall

• You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Remember
  • Sex
  • Dangerous

• I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

  

  Chris Bonington
  • Beyond
  • To Go
  • Horizons

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