Climbing Quotes - Page 11

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

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

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.

Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

The mountains were there and so was I.

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

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.

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

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

Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.