Climbing To The Top Quotes:

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

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

topic: Art, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

- Ranulph Fiennes

topic: Adventure, Weather, Inappropriate, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

- George Leigh Mallory

topic: Struggle, Mean, Adventure, Mountain Top, Climbing Mountain

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

- John Muir

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

topic: Travel, Home, Tired, Wildness, National Parks

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

- Doug Larson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Achievement

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

topic: Nature, Journey, Clouds, Lonesome, Leading Causes

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

topic: Life, Hiking, Mountain, Highness, Climbing Mountain

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Freedom, Inspirational Mountain Climbing

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Nature, Father, Hiking, Journeys And Paths, Climbing Mountain

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

- Robert W. Service

source: "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

topic: Anger, Shoes, Hiking, Grains Of Sand, Climbing Mountain

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

- Greg Child

topic: Answers, Mystery, Summit, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

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

- Andy Rooney

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Business, Happier Life, Just Be Happy

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that ***** mountain

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Office, Climbers, Mountain Top

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Rock Climbing, Mountain Top

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

- Ed Viesturs

source: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2011). “The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak”, p.87, Crown

topic: Sports, Nature, Travel, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

- George Leigh Mallory

source: "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

topic: Adventure, Joy, Making Money, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Mountain Top

Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

- Chris Darwin

topic: Wall, Climbing, Healthy, Rock Climbing, Mountaineering

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

- John Muir

topic: Men, Mountain, He Man, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

- Al Alvarez

source: "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

topic: Mistake, Climbing, Routine, Rock Climbing, Routine Life

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

- George Leigh Mallory

topic: Climbing, Trying, Answers, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.

- Rob Parker

topic: Mean, Home, Climbing, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

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

- Abdul Kalam

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

topic: Climbing, Careers, New Job, Successful Career, Mt Everest

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

- William Blake

topic: Sports, Determination, Men, Inspiring Nature, Climbing Mountain

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Motivational, Running, Not Giving Up, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: "Hammer of the Gods: Selected Writings".

topic: Real, Climbing, Hiking, Climbing Mountains Inspirational, Climbing To The Top

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

- Theodore Roethke

topic: Failure, Adversity, Wrestling, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Climbing To The Top

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

- Paul D. Boyer

topic: Hiking, Long, Mountain, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Climbing To The Top

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

- Dan Osman

topic: Pain, Climbing, Causes, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Mountaineering

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Nature, Flower, Adventure, Journeys And Paths, Inspirational Earth

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

- G. M. Trevelyan

source: G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Climbing To The Top

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

- Allen Steck

topic: Climbing, Tourists, Next, Climbing To The Top, Wheelchairs

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

- Neil Strauss

topic: Book, Writing, Climbing, Climbing To The Top

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

- George Leigh Mallory

topic: Happiness, Mean, Enjoy Life, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Mountain Top

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

- Mark Twain

topic: Doe, Judgment, Good Judgment, Bad Experiences, Rock Climbing

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

- Traci Lords

source: Song: Fly, Album: 1000 Fires

topic: Dream, Lying, Climbing, Climbing To The Top