Climbing Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Weakness
  • Alcohol
  • Addiction

• 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

• Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Life
  • Horizon
  • Halfway

• I'll tell you what it's like to be No. 1. I compare it to climbing Mount Everest. It's very difficult. Lives are lost along the way. You struggle and struggle and finally you get up there. And guess what there is once you get up there? Snow and ice.

  

  David Merrick
  • Best
  • To Be
  • Compare

• Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Delight
  • Ladder

• Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • Numbers
  • Piano

• I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Change
  • Back
  • Breath

• I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

  

  Walter Bonatti
  • Fate
  • Accepting
  • Incapable

• If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.

  

  Chris Bonington
  • Young
  • Partner
  • Seeing

• It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Easy
  • Harder
  • Caught

• There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

  

  David Schuller
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Differences

• I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Alone
  • Spending
  • Observing

• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  

  Warren Harding
  • inspirational
  • Mountain
  • Conqueror

• The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Real
  • Efforts
  • Climbing

• About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

  

  Deke Slayton
  • Running
  • Same
  • Disappeared

• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Picture
  • Write
  • Heroes

• New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mountain
  • View
  • Encompasses

• I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

  

  Nolan Gould
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Reading

• I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Dream
  • Mountain
  • Breaths

• I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

  

  Wanda Rutkiewicz
  • Film
  • Mountain
  • Mountaineering

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