Motivational Quotes

Quote	Name	Country of Origin
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment.	Bear Grylls	UK
Alpinism is the art of suffering.	Voytek Kurtyka	Poland
Always pack your sense of humor.	unknown	USA
Anyone who climbs all the Colorado fourteeners deserves the title Dr. Colorado	Gerry Roach	USA
Anyone who climbs every route [of 14ers] has graduated Summit Cum Laude!	Gerry Roach	USA
Avalanches are the greatest external hazard to winter mountaineering in Colorado; gravity never sleeps.	Gerry Roach	USA
Because it's there.	George Mallory	UK
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.	John Muir	USA
Colorado is famous for apocalyptic lightning storms that threaten not just your life, but your soul as well.	Gerry Roach	USA
Don't look back. You're not going that way.	unknown	USA
Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.	Bear Grylls	UK
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.	William Blake	UK
I learn something every time I go into the mountains.	Michael Kennedy	USA
I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what's important in life.	Mark Obmascik	USA
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.	Edmund Hillary	UK
If you get the taste of the mountains once, you will always find the cities horribly tasteless!	Mehmet Urat Ildan	Turkey
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.	Edmund Hillary	UK
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.	Muhammad Ali	USA
Kid, you'll move mountains.	Dr. Suess	USA
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.	Edmund Hillary	UK
May your search through nature lead you to yourself.	unknown	USA
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.	Marilyn French	USA
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.	Nathanial Hawthorne	USA
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.	John Ruskin	UK
Mountains are the only stars we can reach by walking!	Mehmet Urat Ildan	Turkey
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.	Jose Marti	Cuba
Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.	Nemann Buhl	Austria
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.	Aldous Huxley	UK
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.	Dag Hammarskjold	Sweden
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reason. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.	Edmund Hillary	UK
Not all those who wanter are lost.	J.R.R. Tolkien	UK
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.	unknown	USA
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.	William Shakespeare	UK
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.	William Penn	UK
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.	John Muir	USA
Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.	unknown	USA
The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun.	Alex Lowe	USA
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.	John Muir	USA
The earth is what we all have in common.	Wendell Berry	USA
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.	J.R.R. Tolkien	UK
The mountains are calling and I must go.	John Muir	USA
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.	Robert Pirsig	USA
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	USA
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!	Dr. Suess	USA
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer	John Muir	USA
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy.	George Mallory	UK
When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart.	Dan May	USA
When the air is thinner, it makes your heart bigger.	unknown	USA
You can't move mountains by whispering at them.	Pink	USA
Some see mountains, I see steps.	Eric C. Caren	USA
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature	Henry David Thoreau	USA
You're not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.	unknown
Going to the mountains is going home.	John Muir	USA
This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!	John Muir	USA
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.	Robert Macfarlane	UK
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.	Barry Finlay	Canada
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!	John Muir	USA
Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.	Jeffrey Rasley	USA
You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.	Paulo Coelho	Brazil
Nothing lasts forever…not even the mountains.	Brett Dennen	USA
Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.	Anatoli Boukreev	Russia
When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.	Robert M. Pirsig	USA
Think outside. No box needed.	Spencer Madden	Canada
It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.	Sir Edmund Hillary	New Zealand
I've realized that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.	Andrew Garfield	UK
The best view comes after the hardest climb.	unknown
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.	Greg Child	Australia
Over every mountain, there is a path. Although it may not be seen from the valley	Theodore Roethke	USA
Mountains are not fair or unfair; they are just dangerous.	Reinhold Messner	Italy
Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.	Sir Martin Conway	UK