Mountain Quotes

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Confucius)
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. View quote
Thomas Campbell
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. View quote
John Muir
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. View quote
David Trimble
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen. View quote
M. C. Escher
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. (Robert Jordan)
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. View quote
Aleister Crowley
He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. View quote
Joseph Addison
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. View quote
Cicely Tyson
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. View quote
Og Mandino
You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. (Charles Lamb)
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. View quote
Edward Young
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain. View quote
Frida Kahlo
All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other- Only the mountain and I. View quote
Li Bai
Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever. View quote
Walter Scott