76 Best Climbing Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure

Keep Climbing Quotes

Let these climbing quotes inspire you to keep going on what you fight for. Keep climbing until you reach your destination!

• “All good things are wild and free.” – Unknown

• “Hike more. Worry Less.”– Unknown

• “How wild it was to let it be.” – Cheryl Strayed

• “Going to the mountains is like going home” – John Muir

• “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir

• “Go where you feel most alive.” – Unknown

• “When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart.” – Dan May

• "The best view comes after the hardest climb.”– Unknown

• “Coffee, Mountains, Adventure” – Unknown

• “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Unknown

• "Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains.” – Dee Brown

• “If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain.” – Unknown

• “Go wild, for a while” – Unknown

• “Life is better in hiking boots.” – Unknown

• “A little more altitude, a little less attitude” – Unknown

Quotes About Mountain Climbing

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There's nothing like an adventure in the mountains, surrounded by the giants of nature. The reach to the top, the epic views along the way, the feeling of weightlessness as you ski, the awe as you sink through the wilderness. Mountains have the ability to bring out our most basic emotions and feelings. These climbing quotes are here to inspire your upcoming adventure.

• “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir

• “Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.” – Aleksander Lwow

• “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir    

• “I like geography best because your mountains & rivers know the secret; Pay no attention to borders.” – Brian Andreas

• “Go where you feel most alive.” — Unknown

• “‘I like the mountains because they make me feel small,’ Jeff says. ‘They help me sort out what’s important in life.’” – Mark Obmascik

• "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss

• “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

• "Over every mountain, there is a pass, although it may not be seen from the valley” — Unknown

• “Going to the mountains is going home.”  — Unknown

• “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” – Jeffrey Rasley

• “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” – Anatoli Boukreev

• “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir

• “You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” – John Muir

• “Hike more. Worry Less.” — Unknown

Rock Climbing Quotes

Do you like rock climbing? If so, you will like these climbing quotes.

• "I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most. Look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of player." — John Salathe

• “What are men to rocks and mountains?” — Jane Austen

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

• “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” — Hermann Buhl

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

• “Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter who anyone is or what they do.” — Jimmy Chin

• "The best view comes after the hardest climb.” — Unknown

• “All good things are wild and free.” — Unknown

• “What are men to rocks and mountains?” — Jane Austen

• “You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.” — Pink

• “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.” — Wu Ming-Yi

• “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” — Andy Rooney

• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddam mountain.” — Jack Kerouac

•  “The hardest mountain to climb is the one within.” — J. Lynn

• “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.” — George Mallory

Climbing Mountain Quotes

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Some of our favorite moments come when we are in the mountains. There's something about mountains that we find inspiring. Complete your journey with the following climbing quotes.

• “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” ― Friedrich Neitszche

• “I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.” – Sebastian Thrun

• “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.

• “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

• “The hardest mountain to climb is the one within.” – J. Lynn

• “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

• “One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books” – John Muir

• “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” – Khalil Gibran

• “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir

• “No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.” – Chinese Proverb

• “Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.” – Dale T. Mortensen

• “Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.” – George Bernard Shaw

• “The hardest mountain to climb is the one within.”- J. Lynn

• “You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.” – Paula Coelho

• “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

• “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis