"The mountains are calling and I must go."
- John Muir
Nature
"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Self-improvement
""Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.""
- John Muir
Inspiration
"Because it's there."
- George Mallory
Motivation
"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."
- John Muir
Self-awareness
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
- Wilma Rudolph
Motivation
"Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find strength to rise up."
- Tyler Knott
Resilience
"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."
- Sylvester Stallone
Motivation
"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there."
- Marcus Washling
Perseverance
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it."
- Andy Rooney
Growth
"The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters."
- Conrad Anker
Motivation
"There are a dozen reasons for climbing, some bad, and I’ve used most of them myself. The worst are fame and money. Commonly people cite exploration or discovery, but that’s rarely relevant in today’s world. The only good reason to climb is to improve yourself."
- Yvon Chouinard
Self-improvement
"There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself—in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue—that has to be the goal."
- Karyn Kusama
Motivation
"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, “What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?” and my answer must at once be, “It is no use.” There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It’s no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.”"
- George Leigh Mallory
Philosophy
"Today, climbing has shown me a courageous, strong side of myself, a beautiful bravery. Other days I’ve seen pitiful weakness. I’ve watched myself crawl, belly-flat, across a mountainous landscape of fear. Climbing has shown me that I am all of these things: strong and weak, brave and cowardly, both immune to and at the mercy of the fear of death, all at the same time. Risk is the fee to learn these lessons. The cost is not negotiable. It is a price that, for now, I pay gladly."
- Steve House
Bravery
"It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it."
- Bhuwan Thapaliya
Motivation
"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."
- John Muir
Healing
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was."
- Dag Hammerskjold
Reflection
"I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one."
- Cheryl Strayed
Strength
"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
Self-awareness
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
- John Muir
Growth
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
- John Muir
Nature
"Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself."
- Joan Bauer
Self-awareness
"Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them."
- Anonymous
Faith
"How can I claim to a greater importance than these alpine flowers, than anything that lives here, or even than the very rocks which eventually become the nourishing soil from which it all has to start? The existence of souls in men? And who can tell me the souls do not take up residence in plants and animals, and even these waters and rocky peaks? A higher evolution for the souls in men? So does that make us more important? Everything has its place, everything supports everything else, everything is important to itself- to its own development- and to that which it supports. That a humanoid god willed all this into existence simply to glorify himself -a bit too egotistically human- and or for us, his greatest creation, and our pleasure, use or misuse, seems not either to fit with the way I perceive the world while living close to it here at Little Five Lakes. I wish only to be alive and to experience this living to the fullest, to feel deeply about my days, to feel the goodness of life and the beauty of my world … this is my preference. I am human, and experience the emotions of humanity: elation, frustration, loneliness, love. And the greatest of these is love. Love for the world and its creatures. Love for life. It comes easily here. I have loved a thousand alpine meadows and mountain peaks. To be thoroughly aware each day that I am alive, to be deeply sensitive to the world I inhabit and the world that I am , not to roam rough shot of the surface of this planet for achievement but to know where I step and to tread lightly. I would rather my footsteps never be seen and the sound of my voice only be heard by those near and never echo, than leave in my wake the fame of those whom we commonly call great."
- Randy Morgenson
Awareness
"Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us."
- Robert MacFarlane
Philosophy
"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."
- Barry Finlay
Perseverance
"On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail."
- Jacob Clifford Moomaw
Perseverance
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
- John Muir
Inspiration
"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us."
- John Muir
Inspiration
"When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time."
- Catherine Pulsifer
Perseverance
"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man."
- Wilfrid Noyce
Nature
"The greatest joy in climbing is to be in charge of one’s own destiny."
- Sir Chris Bonnington
Empowerment
"There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal."
- Karyn Kusama
Presence
"There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest."
- Alex Lowe
Belief in Self
"If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve."
- Emily Dickinson
Bravery
"We should be less afraid to be afraid."
- Emily Harrington
Facing Fears
"I’ve done a lot of thinking about fear. For me the crucial question is not how to climb without fear―that’s impossible―but how to deal with it when it creeps into your nerve endings."
- Alex Honnold
Facing Fears
"The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat."
- Ed Viesturs
Wisdom
"I’ve lost my wild heart once. Twice. Too many times to count. I’ve lost her most often when I’ve forgotten myself, when I’ve denied my own truths, when I’ve pushed down the need to create for so long that my heart…she finds better things to do. The funny thing is, that the losing and the finding are interwoven. We must lose our wild hearts from time to time, I believe. We must so that we know why we need them. We must, so that we remember that in order to be found we must go into the wilderness. Sometimes, it is only in the getting lost that we can find our way back home."
- Jeanette LeBlanc
Personal Growth
"The timid folk beseech me, the wise ones warn me, They say that I shall never grow to stand so high; But I climb among the hills of cloud and follow vanished lightning, I shall stand knee-deep in thunder with my head against the sky."
- Winifred Welles
Determination
"Dare to live the dreams you have dreamed for yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition
"Live a life more strongly driven by curiosity than by fear"
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Motivation
"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
- William Shakespeare
Peace
"Each fresh peak ascended teaches something."
- Sir Martin Convay
Learning
"Life's a bit like mountaineering—never look down."
- Edmund Hillary
Philosophy
"Hope is valuable. The smallest fraction of hope can grow into the abundant mountain you need to keep going."
- Kaylee Stepkoski
Hope
"Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end."
- Jon Krakauer
Achievement
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
- Jack Kerouac
Motivation
"Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as ‘that one's more beautiful’ or ‘this one's easier.’ You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing."
- Paulo Coelho
Choice
"I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it."
- Cheryl Strayed
Self-confidence
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
- Robert M. Pirsig
Mindfulness
"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
- John Muir
Awareness
"Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you."
- David McCullough Jr.
Motivation
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
- Jane Austen
Philosophy
"Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work."
- Samina Baig
Empowerment
"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory."
- Ed Viesturs
Perseverance
"Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb."
- Greg Child
Philosophy
"We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves."
- Todd Skinner
Self-improvement
"You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves."
- Lito Tejada-Flores
Reflection
"While mountains provide us with challenge and nourish our spirits, they are also powerful and potentially destructive places that must be respected."
- Mike Hamill
Respect
"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."
- Herbert A. Simon
Reflection
"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."
- Anatoli Boukreev
Spirituality
"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Strength
"Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
- Theodore Roethke
Hope
"Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Philosophy
"It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way."
- Cheryl Strayed
Awareness
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
- Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'"
- Sylvia Plath
Happiness
"Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet."
- Brooke Hampton
Joy
"Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more."
- Victoria Erickson
Inspiration
"I’m a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that’s me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I’d die; I don’t know what of, I just knew I’d die."
- John Marsden
Connection to Earth
"It is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes. We have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again."
- Robin Kimmerer
Healing
"I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; Yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge."
- Randy Morgenson
Balance
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books."
- John Lubbock
Learning
"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. And you never climb a mountain on accident—it has to be intentional."
- Mark Udall
Responsibility
"I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view."
- Sebastian Thrun
Reflection
"I've realized that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain."
- Andrew Garfield
Philosophy
"Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God."
- Jeremy Lin
Reflection
"May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits."
- Harley King
Motivation
"The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble—to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills."
- Phillip Connors
Reflection
"I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die."
- John Marsden
Self-awareness
"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
- Haruki Murakami
Awareness
"Always be thankful for the little things…even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views."
- Nyki Mack
Gratitude
"Mountain top: the place where life finds the purest meaning of freedom."
- Vinicius Montgomery
Liberation
"The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows."
- Sam Cummings
Adversity
"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence."
- Hermann Buhl
Self-awareness
"If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home."
- Vera Nazarian
Choice
"Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes."
- Andrea Gibson
Growth
"Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth; of all the mighty world of eye, and ear, both what they half create and what perceive."
- William Wordsworth
Connection to Earth
"Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest."
- John Muir
Inspiration
"From my tears of happiness I have become a mountain of strength surrounded by a sea of Joy."
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Strength
"Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful."
- William Stafford
Transformation
"Dreams are not made to put us to sleep, but to awaken us."
- Ed Viesturs
Inspiration
"The last word always belongs to the mountain."
- Anatoli Boukreev
Respect
"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
- Theodore Roethke
Hope
"Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that."
- James Dyson
Optimism
"In the mountains there are only two grades: you can either do it, or you can’t."
- Rusty Baillie
Determination
"When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart."
- Dan May
Mindfulness
"I learn something every time I go into the mountains."
- Michael Kennedy
Learning
"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
"The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far."
- Paulo Coelho
Perseverance
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books."
- John Lubbock
Learning
"Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."
- Anatoli Boukreev
Spirituality
"There is a world out there, and you have got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."
- Bill Janklow
Awareness
"No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun."
- Chinese Proverb
Hope
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
- Native American Proverb
Responsibility
"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man."
- Wilfrid Noyce
Aspirations
""In the mountains, there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can't.""
- Rusty Baillie
Determination
"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt."
- Neil Gaiman
Philosophy
"Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence."
- Sabrina Elkins
Spirituality
""When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.""
- Roz Savage
Reflection
""The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.""
- Robert M. Pirsig
Mindfulness
""My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.""
- Aldous Huxley
Spirituality
""When you have reached the top of the mountain, keep climbing.""
- Tibetan Proverb
Perseverance
""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 man. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.""
- Walter Bonatti
Self-awareness
""The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay and when to retreat.""
- Ed Viesturs
Wisdom
""Those who travel to mountaintops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion.""
- Robert MacFarlane
Philosophy
""The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.""
- Thomas Wolfe
Philosophy
""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.""
- Sylvester Stallone
Motivation
""Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.""
- David McCullough Jr.
Motivation
""There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself—in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak and fatigue—that has to be the goal.""
- Karyn Kusama
Reflection
""Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through, the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.""
- Andy Andrews
Personal Growth
""I've realized that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.""
- Andrew Garfield
Philosophy
""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.""
- Herbert A. Simon
Reflection
""May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.""
- Edward Abbey
Inspiration
""We cannot lower the mountain; therefore, we must elevate ourselves.""
- Todd Skinner
Self-improvement
""The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you.""
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Motivation
""While mountains provide us with challenge and nourish our spirits, they are also powerful and potentially destructive places that must be respected.""
- Mike Hamill
Respect
""To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.""
- Nan Shepherd
Philosophy
""You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.""
- Lito Tejada-Flores
Reflection
""Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.""
- Marcus Washling
Achievement
""On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.""
- Jacob Clifford Moomaw
Courage
""Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.""
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Philosophy
""Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.""
- Victoria Erikson
Inspiration
""Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.""
- Idowu Koyenikan
Self-improvement
""Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself.""
- Joan Bauer
Self-awareness
"Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."
- Douglas Hyde
Reflection
"May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to climb their summits."
- Harley King
Aspirations
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen."
- Rene Daumal
Philosophy
"Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak."
- Andy Andrews
Growth
"You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!"
- Dr. Seuss
Aspirations
"Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face."
- Idowu Koyenikan
Self-improvement
"Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty."
- Victoria Erikson
Connection to Earth
""Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.""
- Tyler Knott
Strength
""Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then, you will see how low it was.""
- Dag Hammarskjöld
Achievement
""It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.""
- Muhammad Ali
Adversity
""Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery of why we climb.""
- Greg Child
Philosophy
""The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself; the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.""
- Paulo Coelho
Perseverance
""Your faith can move mountains, and your doubt can create them.""
- Swami Vivekananda
Belief
""He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.""
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bravery
""Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.""
- Barry Finlay
Perseverance
""Every mountain has a peak. The beauty of this life is that there are many mountains to climb and new limits to reach.""
- Nate Hamon
Ambition
""Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.""
- Jack Kerouac
Motivation
""Don't pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.""
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Focus
""Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.""
- Andy Rooney
Personal Growth
""It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it.""
- Bhuwan Thapaliya
Self-confidence
""Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books.""
- John Lubbock
Learning
""There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.""
- Alex Lowe
Motivation
""Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.""
- Samina Baig
Empowerment
""May your dreams be larger than mountains, and may you have the courage to scale their summits.""
- Harley King
Ambition
""The mountain affords perspective.""
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Insight
""You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.""
- Tom Hiddleston
Perseverance
""The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.""
- Lori Lansens
Reflection
""Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.""
- Richard M. Nixon
Awareness
""No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.""
- Emily Kay McCallister
Optimism
""The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.""
- Marianne Williamson
Philosophy
""Beyond the mountains, more mountains!""
- Haitian Proverb
Philosophy
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
- John Ruskin
Nature
"Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain."
- Edmund Hillary
Belief
""Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.""
- Sir Martin Conway
Learning
""In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated and sometimes told to go home.""
- Fred Beckey
Philosophy
""Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.""
- Brooke Hampton
Well-being
""Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.""
- George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy
""Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.""
- Richard Paul Evans
Perseverance
""Always be thankful for the little things...even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!""
- Nyki Mack
Gratitude
""Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.""
- Aleksander Lwow
Awareness
""The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.""
- Jeanne Moreau
Philosophy
""Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.""
- Werner Herzog
Taking Risks
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books."
- John Lubbock
Learning
""Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.""
- Jeffrey Rasley
Inspiration
"The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Perseverance
"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
- George W. Bush
Peace
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
- Aldous Huxley
Nature
"In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home."
- Fred Beckey
Respect
"The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change."
- Thomas Wolfe
Philosophy
"Those who travel to mountaintops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion."
- Robert MacFarlane
Philosophy
"To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain."
- Nan Shepherd
Philosophy
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street."
- William Blake
Achievement
"Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains."
- Jeffrey Rasley
Inspiration
"Beyond the mountains, more mountains."
- Haitian proverb
Philosophy
"It goes, boys."
- Lynn Hill
Bravery
"You don’t have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it."
- Annie Dillard
Awareness
"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!"
- Dr. Seuss
Motivation
"I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain."
- Andrew Garfield
Philosophy
"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."
- John C. Maxwell
Success
"There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind."
- C.S. Lewis
Optimism
"The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe."
- Casey Neistat
Taking Risks
""What are men to rocks and mountains?""
- Jane Austen
Philosophy
"The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another."
- Marianne Williamson
Philosophy
"Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace."
- Janice Anderson
Connection to Earth
"Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life."
- Werner Herzog
Determination
"The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down."
- Jeanne Moreau
Philosophy
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot
Taking Risks
"I go to seek a great perhaphs"
- John Green
Aspirations
"All good things are wild and free."
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature
"The best view comes after the hardest climb."
Motivation
"You can’t move mountains by whispering at them."
- Unknown
Motivation
"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."
Motivation
"Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead, yes, it’s a harder process but it will lead you to a better view."
Motivation
"If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain."
Motivation
"Even a bad day of climbing is better than a good day at work."
Motivation
""Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead. Yes, it's a harder process, but it will lead you to a better view.""
Motivation
""Even a bad day of climbing is better than a good day at work.""
Motivation