Climbing Quotes

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Courage, Fear

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.48, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.

  Walter Bonatti

  Law, Battle, Elements

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• We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Descending

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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  Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mountain, Sometimes, Sand

  Song: So Small, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007

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• You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.

  Dan Osman

  Pain, Causes, Mountaineering

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• 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.

  Xunzi

  Distance, Toes, Standing Alone

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• Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Integrity, Mountain, Matter

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• Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Interesting, Mountain

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Dancing, Slaughterhouse Five

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.

  Nils Kjaer

  Way, Lost, New Ways

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• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  Abdul Kalam

  Strength, Young Generation, Careers

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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• I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Hiking, Laughing

  "Hammer of the Gods: Selected Writings".

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Learning

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• The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

  Al Neuharth

  Funny, Attitude, Differences

  Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

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• I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Long, May

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Views

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• 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

  Yosemite, Lasts, Caps

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