Top 1200 Mountain Climbing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.
My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.
My favorite off-mountain workout is the long run. It's great for building endurance and strength.
Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?
I'm from a really nice town. Full of nature, mountains, clean air, rock climbing. But I'd prefer New York City. I love the diversity here, the religions, the food - especially the food.
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
Once upon a time if you go back to the early 2000s all the way to 2014 all I cared about in life was being a wrestler, going on the road, performing in front of crowds, getting big, climbing the ladder.
World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.
Cold Mountain Son
Forever not change
I live alone
Beyond life death
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.
You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.
If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.
In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.
The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.
I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!
I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
I spend a lot of time with my family and I ride my mountain bike almost every day.
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
Climbing Everest is so big now, with so much money involved, and the Sherpas are not stupid. They see this, and they want to take over the business and kick out the westerners. This is a big fight.
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.
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.
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.
Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.
Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.
Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.
There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.
Glenda Bailey is a woman after my own heart who believes that climbing the career ladder can be overrated, to say the least. After all, why not just go for what you want now?
I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.
I love all music, but when I am on the mountain, I listen to a lot of Nas, Drake, 2 Pac, etc.
Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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.
