This collection holds 792 climbing quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Anatoli Boukreev, Jason Momoa and John Salathe.

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Climbing is what I do.

I grew up rock climbing.

Vy can't ve chust climb !

I was quaking in my boots.

John Wayne never wore Lycra.

Doubt is the enemy of success.

Climbing had captured my soul.

I do rock climbing and tennis.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

The summit is just a halfway point.

Beauty is the door to another world.

We are apes - we should be climbing.

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

Life's a climb. But the view is great.

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me !

There's no such thing as too much power!

The mountains are calling and I must go.

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Routes rate me, not the other way around.

I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

We'll climb with you and steal your women.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

I'm going to be climbing for my whole life.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

If you are under control you're going too slow.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

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

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

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