One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience. — Chris Sharma
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti
Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug. — Hermann Buhl
Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures. — Wolfgang Gullich
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
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. — Doug Scott
The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible. — Dean Potter
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Abdul Kalam
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity. — Gaston Rebuffat
I've climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That's another reason why I climb. — Jim Wickwire
Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition. — Jon Krakauer
Life's a climb. But the view is great. — Miley Cyrus
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard
Short Rock Climbing Quotes
The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile. — Matthew Henson
But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people. — Taylor Swift
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. — Ed Viesturs
Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide. — Josh Groban
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. — John Muir
Climb mountains to see lowlands. — Chinese Proverbs
Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain. — Nirmal Purja
You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it. — Alex Zanardi
Rock Climbing Image Quotes
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but get you nowhere.
Mountain Climbing Quotes
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. — John Muir
No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. — Helen Steiner Rice
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain — Jack Kerouac
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir
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
Don't climb mountains so that people can see you. Climb mountains that you can see the world.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. — Andy Rooney
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news — John Muir
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help! — Robert H. Schuller
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev
You know how some people are passionate about bodybuilding or fashion or rock climbing or poetry? Productivity geeks are passionate about crossing items off their to-do list so it’s sort of the same except infinitely sadder. — Oliver Burkeman
The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul. — Walter Bonatti
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child
There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips. — Hermann Buhl
Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline — French Montana
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread. — Maurice Herzog
I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long. — Jimmy Jewel
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler
There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing. — David Schuller
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous. — Reinhold Messner
The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all. — Chris Sharma
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. — Norman Vincent Peale
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes. — Wanda Rutkiewicz
I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! — Jennifer Lawrence
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. — Mark Twain
I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base. — Erik Weihenmayer
The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over. — Dan Osman
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live. — William Arthur Ward
Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down. — Stewart Francis
Bolts are the murder of the impossible. — Reinhold Messner
I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players — John Salathe
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. — Jon Krakauer
It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out. — Erik Weihenmayer
With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb. — Chris Sharma
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. — Muhammad Ali
Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has to do with being a little more sensitive to it rather than relying on strenght. It's also a reflection of a passive attitude - balancing your way up the rock, rather than attacking it. — Lynn Hill
There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go. — Chris Sharma
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey
Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike or write a few short stories. Also, find good people and surround yourself with them. Most importantly, always believe you will, unequivocally. — Sarah Silverman
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas. — Edward Abbey
The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING. — William Arthur Ward
When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear. — Erik Weihenmayer
Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity — Gaston Rebuffat
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think! — Don Whillans
Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet... I am in love with the mountains. — Wilfrid Noyce
Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection. — Scott Grimes
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