Climbs Quotes - Page 34

• O world! O life! O time!
  On whose last steps I climb

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  World, Lasts, Steps

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nora Crook, Timothy Webb, Bodleian Library (1997). “The Faust Draft Notebook: A Facsimile of Bodleian MS. Shelley Adds. E. 18 : Including Drafts of Scenes from the Faust of Goethe, Ginevra, Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso of Calderon, Fragments of an Unfinished Drama, Lines--When the Lamp is Shattered, From the Arabic, A Lament (O World! O Life! O Time), With a Guitar, to Jane, and Miscellaneous Fragments of Verse and Prose”, p.310, Taylor & Francis

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• Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision,
  only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,
  only in the dream we become with our bones for spears,
  we are real at last
  and wake.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Real, Mirrors

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.169, Knopf

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• If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

  Evan Esar

  Trying, Ladders, Faces

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• The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.

  Georges Hebert

  Running, Strong, Moving

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• My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Ladders, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
  To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
  On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think not that your work is over, That you are now a foot-free rover, A rambler upon idle ways, Whittling away the golden days. For in the road climb to the goal There's no long furlough for a soul. There's no long pause: on every height Another summit swims in sight. The long road rises, scene by scene, With little restings in between.

  Edwin Markham

  Thinking, Sight, Golden Days

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• I've got hope, I've got dreams and I have aspirations. I don't need to climb mountains; I don't need to build nations. What I do need is the courage to look deep inside, Cos I'm me and from me I know I can't hide. I don't wish to fly, I'm quite happy to glide. I am who I am and I'll be me with pride.

  Patrick Kelly

  Motivational, Dream, Pride

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• We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Scratches, Dignity

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• To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Singing, Painful

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• The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, People, House

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.

  Bruce Barcott

  Drama, Home, Silence

  Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Climb the ladder to success escalator style

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Style, Ladders, Escalators

  Song: Just a Memory, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter

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• America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Hard Work, America

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• They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Stupid, Climbing

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• Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Father, Heritage

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• Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, Mind, Mountain

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• As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Events, Height, Fallen

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• All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Sports, Horse

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• In the deep shadow of the porch
  A slender bind-weed springs,
  And climbs, like airy acrobat,
  The trellises, and swings
  And dances in the golden sun
  In fairy loops and rings.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Weed, Spring, Swings

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• As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Tree, Monkeys

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• Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Waiting, Dreamer

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• Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.

  Tony Robbins

  Way, Conquer, Achieve

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blessing

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• You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Mistake, Believe, Everyday

  Song: Get It Right Next Time

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