Climbing a mountain is both an analogy made about life but is actually a literal adventure undertaken by professional mountaineers. Taking life to a whole new level, here are some great quotes about climbing mountains that will inspire you in both life and your future success.
“A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.”
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
“Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it’s basically what they’ve understood throughout their lives.”
“Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.”
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
“Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.”
“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”
“Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.”
“Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”
“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
“I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.”
“I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.”
“If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.”
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
“It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.”
“I’ve realised that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.”
“Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
“Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.”
“My dad taught me never to be afraid of what’s on the other side of the mountain.”
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
“Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.”
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.”
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
“Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.”
“Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.”
“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.”
“The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.”
“The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.”
“The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.”
“There’s a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.”
“To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.”
“We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.”
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
“You don’t climb mountains without a team, you don’t climb mountains without being fit, you don’t climb mountains without being prepared and you don’t climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards.”
There are many extraordinary stories of what it is like to confront the many challenges associated with climbing the tallest mountains.
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