Top 1200 Inspirational Mountain Climbing Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
You might be a redneck if you think the Mountain Men in Deliverance were just misunderstood.
My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.
Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
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.
There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.
Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!
Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?
I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.
The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.
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.
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.
You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.
Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.
Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.
Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.
Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.
He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car. "Find the Disir." Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion. "Is that wise?" he asked. "It is neccessary.
Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
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.
The best date I've had would probably have to be one where I went hiking to a big mountain here in New York.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.
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.
Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.
I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.
What is the fate of my people in Kurdistan and Sinjar Mountain? What must be done so Yazidis can have their rights?
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.
We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.
Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others, I can increase my chances of survival. But if I hadn't been lucky a few times, I wouldn't be here.
...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.
The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.
