Climbing Quotes

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. (Propertius)
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. View quote
Nelson Mandela
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? View quote
Maurice Sendak
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. View quote
Abdul Kalam
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
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. View quote
Stephen Covey
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. View quote
Franz Kafka
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. View quote
Michael N. Castle
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. View quote
River Phoenix
Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from– harder than climbing from nothing to something, even. (Louis C.K.)
I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness. View quote
William Shockley
Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust. View quote
Joaquin Miller
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand. View quote
Carrie Underwood
I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up. View quote
Edie Falco
The window-lights, myriads and myriads, Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. View quote
Sara Teasdale
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die. View quote
Edmund Hillary
I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation. View quote
Edmund Hillary
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange. View quote
David Lange
Celebrate we will Because life is short But sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue. (Dave Matthews)
Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
There are the breezes of early morning; for the sun on emerging from beneath the earth strikes humid air as he returns, and as he goes climbing up the sky he spreads it out before him, extracting breezes from the vapor that was there before the dawn. View quote
Vitruvius
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor. View quote
Hugh Laurie
[I was] happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. View quote
Marsden Hartley