Climbing Quotes

• Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

  

  Wilferd Peterson
  • Start
  • Point
  • Heights

• 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
  • Mountain
  • Magnificent

• One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Life
  • Sport
  • Climbing

• When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Guidance

• Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Yourself
  • Climbing

• What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you

  

  Wanda Rutkiewicz
  • Remember
  • Danger
  • Forgotten

• Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

  

  Gaston Rebuffat
  • Matter
  • Integrity
  • Climbing

• The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Feelings
  • Significant
  • Dimensions

• If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Spiritual
  • Mountain
  • Accepting

• I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Friends
  • Littles
  • Groups

• Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • People
  • Different
  • Mountains

• It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Mistake
  • inspirational
  • Princess

• Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

  

  Michael Kennedy
  • Skiing
  • Climbing
  • Pleasurable

• Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Tired
  • Climbing
  • Hill

• What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Earth
  • Simple
  • Humanity

• 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

• Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Social
  • Climbing
  • Hello

• Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Magic
  • Wonderful
  • Climbing

• If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Goal
  • Building
  • Realizing

• Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Hardest
  • Climbing

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