Climbing Quotes - Page 4

• Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Hiking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Teaching, Mountain, Breeze

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

  Tim Kaine

  Climbing Up, Hiking

  "Gov. Tim Kaine on Recovery Summer, Midterm Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 05, 2010.

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• Climbing is what I do.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Hiking

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Mountain

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

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• It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Looks, Steps, Staircases

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• This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Valleys, Come Up, Brag

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• Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

  Reinhold Messner

  Impossible, Murder, Climbs

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  "Death on Everest divides climbers" by Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, www.theage.com.au. May 25, 2006.

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• I was quaking in my boots.

  Lynn Hill

  Boots

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• I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

  Warren G. Harding

  Girl, That Girl, Mines

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• If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

  Jeff Lowe

  Views, Wife, Perspective

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• I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

  Michael Ovitz

  Mountain, Static, Climbing Mountain

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• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Mountain, Care

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• We'll climb with you and steal your women.

  Todd Skinner

  Stealing, Climbs

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• There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

  Herman Melville

  Mountain, Towers, Egotistical

  "Moby Dick".

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• Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Feet, Mountain

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.

  Dave Cook

  Block, Men, Two

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• Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Mountain, Desert, Cottages

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy (1822). “The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:”, p.148

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• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

  Petrarch

  Mountain, Earth, Height

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• Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet... I am in love with the mountains.

  Wilfrid Noyce

  Boys, Light, Rocks

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• I piss on you all from a considerable height.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Height

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• The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.

  Chris Sharma

  Motivation, Rocks, World

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