50 Inspirational Quotes About Mountains to Elevate Your Spirit

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

- John Muir

"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

""Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.""

- John Muir

"Because it's there."

- George Müller

"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."

- John Muir

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph

"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

"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

"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there."

- Marcus Washling

"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it."

- Andy Rooney

"The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters."

- Conrad Anker

"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

"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

"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

"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

"It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it."

- Bhuwan Thapaliya

"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

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was."

- Dag Hammarskjold

"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

"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

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

- John Muir

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

- John Muir

"Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself."

- Joan Bauer

"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

"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

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."

- Barry Finlay

"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

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."

- John Muir

"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

"When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"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

"The greatest joy in climbing is to be in charge of one’s own destiny."

- Sir Chris Bonnington

"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

"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

"If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve."

- Emily Dickinson

"We should be less afraid to be afraid."

- Emily Harrington

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Dare to live the dreams you have dreamed for yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live a life more strongly driven by curiosity than by fear"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

- William Shakespeare

"Each fresh peak ascended teaches something."

- Sir Martin Conway

"Life's a bit like mountaineering—never look down."

- Edmund Hillary

"Hope is valuable. The smallest fraction of hope can grow into the abundant mountain you need to keep going."

- Kaylee Stepkoski

"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

"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

"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

"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

"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

- John Muir

"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.

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

- Jane Austen

"Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work."

- Samina Baig

"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory."

- Ed Viesturs

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

- Greg Child

"We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves."

- Todd Skinner

"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

"While mountains provide us with challenge and nourish our spirits, they are also powerful and potentially destructive places that must be respected."

- Mike Hamill

"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

"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."

- Anatoli Boukreev

"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."

- Theodore Roethke

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet."

- Brooke Hampton

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view."

- Sebastian Thrun

"I've realized that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain."

- Andrew Garfield

"Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God."

- Jeremy Lin

"May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits."

- Harley King

"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

"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

"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

"Always be thankful for the little things…even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views."

- Nyki Mack

"Mountain top: the place where life finds the purest meaning of freedom."

- Vinicius Montgomery

"The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows."

- Sam Cummings

"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence."

- Hermann Buhl

"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

"Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes."

- Andrea Gibson

"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

"Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest."

- John Muir

"From my tears of happiness I have become a mountain of strength surrounded by a sea of Joy."

- Stanley Victor Paskavich

"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

"Dreams are not made to put us to sleep, but to awaken us."

- Ed Viesturs

"The last word always belongs to the mountain."

- Anatoli Boukreev

"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."

- Theodore Roethke

"Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that."

- James Dyson

"In the mountains there are only two grades: you can either do it, or you can’t."

- Rusty Baillie

"When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart."

- Dan May

"I learn something every time I go into the mountains."

- Michael Kennedy

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"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

"Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."

- Anatoli Boukreev

"There is a world out there, and you have got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."

- Bill Janklow

"No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun."

- Chinese Proverb

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

- Native American Proverb

"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

""In the mountains, there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can't.""

- Rusty Baillie

"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt."

- Neil Gaiman

"Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence."

- Sabrina Elkins

""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

""The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.""

- Robert M. Pirsig

""My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.""

- Aldous Huxley

""When you have reached the top of the mountain, keep climbing.""

- Tibetan Proverb

""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

""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

""Those who travel to mountaintops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion.""

- Robert MacFarlane

""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

""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

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

- David McCullough Jr.

""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

""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

""I've realized that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.""

- Andrew Garfield

""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

""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

""We cannot lower the mountain; therefore, we must elevate ourselves.""

- Todd Skinner

""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

""While mountains provide us with challenge and nourish our spirits, they are also powerful and potentially destructive places that must be respected.""

- Mike Hamill

""To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.""

- Nan Shepherd

""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

""Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.""

- Marcus Washling

""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

""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

""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 Erickson

""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

""Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself.""

- Joan Bauer

"Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."

- Douglas Hyde

"May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to climb their summits."

- Harley King

"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

"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

"You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"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 Erickson

""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

""Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then, you will see how low it was.""

- Dag Hammarskjold

""It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.""

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Greg Child

""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

""Your faith can move mountains, and your doubt can create them.""

- Swami Vivekananda

""He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche

""Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.""

- Barry Finlay

""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

""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

""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

""Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.""

- Andy Rooney

""It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it.""

- Bhuwan Thapaliya

""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

""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

""Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.""

- Samina Baig

""May your dreams be larger than mountains, and may you have the courage to scale their summits.""

- Harley King

""The mountain affords perspective.""

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

""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

""The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.""

- Lori Lansens

""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

""No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.""

- Emily Kay McCallister

""The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.""

- Marianne Williamson

""Beyond the mountains, more mountains!""

- Haitian proverb

"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."

- John Ruskin

"Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain."

- Edmund Hillary

""Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.""

- Sir Martin Conway

""In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated and sometimes told to go home.""

- Fred Beckey

""Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.""

- Brooke Hampton

""Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.""

- George Bernard Shaw

""Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.""

- Richard Paul Evans

""Always be thankful for the little things...even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!""

- Nyki Mack

""Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.""

- Aleksander Lwow

""The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.""

- Jeanne Moreau

""Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.""

- Werner Herzog

"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

""Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.""

- Jeffrey Rasley

"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

"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."

- George W. Bush

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."

- Aldous Huxley

"In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home."

- Fred Beckey

"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

"Those who travel to mountaintops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion."

- Robert MacFarlane

"To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain."

- Nan Shepherd

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street."

- William Blake

"Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains."

- Jeffrey Rasley

"Beyond the mountains, more mountains."

- Haitian proverb

"It goes, boys."

- Lynn Hill

"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

"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain."

- Andrew Garfield

"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

"There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe."

- Casey Neistat

""What are men to rocks and mountains?""

- Jane Austen

"The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another."

- Marianne Williamson

"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

"Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life."

- Werner Herzog

"The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down."

- Jeanne Moreau

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"I go to seek a great perhaphs"

- John Green

"All good things are wild and free."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them."

- Anonymous

"The best view comes after the hardest climb."

"You can’t move mountains by whispering at them."

- Unknown

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

"Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead, yes, it’s a harder process but it will lead you to a better view."

"If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain."

"Even a bad day of climbing is better than a good day at work."

""Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead. Yes, it's a harder process, but it will lead you to a better view.""

""Even a bad day of climbing is better than a good day at work.""