Climbing Quotes - Page 27

• In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Movement, Problem, Figures

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• Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Book, Men

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Boxing, Cassius

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• With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.

  Hortense Odlum

  Integrity, Patterns, Way

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• The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

  Mas Oyama

  Achievement, One Day, Technique

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• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

  Royal Robbins

  Rocks, Battle, Weakness

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• Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mountain, Littles, Thee

  "Meditations".

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• Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Mountain, Needs, Growing

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• If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

  Walter Bonatti

  Skills, Normal, Spirit

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Hatred, May

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Rivers

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• The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Play, Risk, Encounters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.276, Penguin UK

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• Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Ribs, Hot

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin

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• Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Priorities In Life, Helping, Corny

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• I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cutting, Views, People

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.286, Penguin

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• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of what seemed like mutual appraisal. For me, it was like being at a regatta, sizing up the competition on the dock before climbing into the shells. Could I take him? ... He could inflict serious damage. I sensed that. But he would be unfamiliar with rowers - men used to toiling backwards, blindly, trained, most of all, to endure.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

  Richard Benyo

  Running, Order, Long

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• It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Discipline, People, Stories

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• Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Half, Pleasure

  "Saving Nature's Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity" by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, (p. 338), 1994.

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• Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Tired, Views, Age

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• How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Rocks, Fog

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Hills, Hungry

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• Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

  Mark Twight

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• 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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hate, Rocks, Mountain

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.197, Penguin

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