Mountain Quotes - Page 3

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

Over hill and under hill

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.