Climbing Up Quotes:

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

- Jesse Eisenberg

topic: Night, Play, Climbing Up

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

- John Ortberg

topic: Jesus, Past, Climbing Up, Demotion, Climbing Up The Ladder

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

- Michael Jordan

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

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

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

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

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth, Climbing Mountain, Climbing Up

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

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

topic: Climbing, Movement, Problem, Rock Climbing, Climbing Up

You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!

- Don Whillans

topic: Thinking, Climbing, Guy, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

- Duncan Ferguson

topic: Hurt, Men, Climbing, Rock Climbing, Lazy Man

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Inspirational, Home, Blow, Climbing Mountains Inspirational, Climbing Up

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

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

- Bruce Feiler

topic: Reflection, Climbing, Light, Climbing Up

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

- Josh Billings

source: Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.173

topic: Climbing, Life Is Like, Mountain, Climbing Up

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

topic: Heart, Climbing, Secret, Climbing Up

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

- Chris Hardwick

source: Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

topic: Climbing, Shooting, Wrists, Climbing Up

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.235

topic: Knights, Climbing, Hands, Inaccessible, Climbing Up

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Swimming, Climbing, Mountain, Climbing Up

He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: Children, Animal, Climbing, Climbing Up, Cracked

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice

- Peter Gabriel

topic: Time, Night, Light, City Lights, Climbing Up

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

- Leif Enger

source: Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Pain, Real, Order, Climbing Up, Lazarus

She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.

- Francesca Lia Block

topic: Sleep, Climbing, Boots, Climbing Up

I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?

- Maurice Sendak

source: "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

topic: Christian, Kids, Climbing, Climbing Up

Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.

- Chael Sonnen

source: "Anderson Silva: Chael Sonnen not that evolved". Interview with Carlos Eduardo Ozório, www.mixedmartialarts.com. July 11, 2011.

topic: Brother, Home, Cutting, Passwords, Climbing Up

As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

- Jose Mujica

topic: Kings, Powerful, Past, Like Something, Climbing Up

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Climbing Up, Climbing Up The Ladder

The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

- Judith M Bardwick

topic: Successful, Climbing, Careers, Career Path, Climbing Up

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

source: "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

topic: Kids, Thinking, Impact, Climbing Up, Climbing Up The Ladder

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hero, Writing, Men, Climbing Up, Vapour

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Climbing, Flying, Feelings, Climbing Up

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

- Martin Luther

topic: Prayer, Heart, Climbing, Climbing Up

So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.

- Vienna Teng

topic: Climbing, Piano, House, Climbing Up, Piano Lesson

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.

- Pietra Brettkelly

topic: Photography, Running, Crazy, Climbing Up

be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down

- Nick Cave

topic: Prayer, Moving, Men, Climbing Up

The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

- Ludwig Buchner

source: Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

topic: Climbing, Goal, Finals, Climbing Up, Recurring

I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.

- Forest Whitaker

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Character, Mirrors, Climbing, Excuse You, Climbing Up

Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Sports, Football, Children, Climbing Up

Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Piano, Numbers, Fridges, Climbing Up

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

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

topic: Cutting, Climbing, Views, Climbing Up

I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

- Jemima Kirke

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Weekend, Climbing, Climbing Up

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

- Tim Kaine

topic: Climbing, Hiking, Climbing Up

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

- Bill Walton

topic: Getting Back Up, Climbing, Way, Life Is Easy, Climbing Up

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

- John Ortberg

topic: Jesus, Past, Climbing, Climbing Up, Climbing Up The Ladder

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Climbing, Ambitious, Greedy, Climbing Up

Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.

- Laura Benanti

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Wall, Eye, Thinking, Climbing Up, Eye On The Prize

I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

- Jeremy Taylor

topic: Morning, Memories, Night, Climbing Up

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

- Creed Bratton

topic: Mom, Fall, Kids, Climbing Up

The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

- Michael Arndt

topic: Writing, Thinking, Rocks, Climbing Up, Blindfolded

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

- David Rudisha

topic: Race, Climbing, Training, Climbing Up