Top 141 Climbs Quotes & Sayings

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

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

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

I grow tomatoes, spinach and melons, a pepper vine climbs my coconut tree. I have a home and kitchen of my own.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

As a Nepali, I hope my climbs put a spotlight on the talented climbers here.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

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

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

For me the Everest solo was the icing on the cake of my climbs: the highest mountain in the world, during a monsoon, and as far as possible even on a new route, of course without oxygen.

I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon.

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.

And death climbs up the steps one by one.

Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

To me, it's just not that important whether someone climbs the Eigerwand in ten hours or in three.

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.

Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.

I joined 'Meru' midstream after my co-director Jimmy Chin had already filmed the 2008 and 2011 climbs.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Many of my hardest climbs were done with one or both feet barefoot.

Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

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

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

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over matter.