Climbs Quotes - Page 22

• Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Spring

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• Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Journey

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• The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

  Markus Zusak

  True Power, Power Of Words, Shakers

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• I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

  Jung Chang

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

  Jack White

  Fall, Mean, Artist

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• Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Thinking, Mountain, Matter

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• In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

  Bonaventure

  Beautiful, Ladders, Saws

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• I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.

  Denise Van Outen

  Years, Challenges, Next

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• Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Writing, Long, Hills

  Daphne Du Maurier (1972). “Vanishing Cornwall”

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• Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
  climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Blessed, Sea, Pieces

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• The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

  Big Sean

  Goal, Mind, Bigger

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

  Ed Viesturs

  Art, Knowing, Mountain

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

  John Owen

  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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• A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

  Robert Musil

  Degrees, Body, Politician

  Robert Musil (1965). “the Man Without Qualities”

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• I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Mountain, Existential Angst

  "Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools" by Dan Fost, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 28, 2009.

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• When you got a dream,
  you don't just climb half way up the ladder,
  you climb all the way to the top

  Cher Lloyd

  Dream, Ladders, Half

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• In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.

  Maurice Wilkins

  War, Europe, Imagination

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• The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

  Joseph Roth

  Climbing, Mind, Might

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• Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

  Jose Marti

  Confused, Reading, Order

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

  Royal Robbins

  Winning, Rocks, Self

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• Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

  Royal Robbins

  Inspirational, Dream, Climbing

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• Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

  Royal Robbins

  Skills, Raises

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• In Beverly Hills, the higher you climb, the farther you fall.

  Brandi Glanville

  Fall, Beverly Hills, Higher

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