Climbing To The Top Quotes

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

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. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

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

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

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

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

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

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

In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

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

Experience comes from bad judgment.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

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.

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.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

Going to the mountains is going home.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.