Climbers Quotes

“Men crawl in slime and wallow in the mud;
The Realist groans: "All life is mud ans slime!"
Men lie and steal and shed each other's blood;
And Realism sees but blood and crime.
Yet Right is just as real as Wrong,
The mountain peak is real as the ooze,
A curse is no more real than a song;
Among realities we need but choose.
The cynic sees the failure of To-day,
The Prophet cries the triumph of To-morrow,
Knowing the spirit in our clogging clay
That masters doubt, disaster, loss and sorrow.
Failure is but a passing weariness,
There is no final answer but Success.”
― Berton Braley

“The steeper the trail, the nearer we’re to the top.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The big difference that I see between mountain climbers and observatory workers is that mountain climbers may venture from sea level to very high altitude several times a year, whereas some observatory workers do it approximately two hundred times per year.”
― Steven Magee

“That ‘hasty climbers have sudden falls’ does not deter climbers from reaching the top hastily.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“A mountain is a mother of alpinism.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov