37+ Mountain Quotes On Strength And Resilience (2023)

37+ Mountain Quotes On Strength And Resilience (2023)

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Mountain gives us a wonderful feeling. We seem small in front of it, but it also motivates us to awaken the mountain inside us.

Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings about climbing to the top that you can share on world mountain day 2023.


Quotes About Climbing Mountains

1. “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.

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

3. “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

4. “It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it” – Herbert A. Simon

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

6. “The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows” – Sam Cummings

7. “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

8. “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


Quotes About Beauty Of Mountains

9. “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

10. “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

11. “Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley” – Theodore Roethke

12. “Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow’s gentle caress on their peaks” – Munia Khan

13. “The greatness of a mountain comes neither from its height nor from its massive mass; but his greatness comes from the calm of his stance against the harsh conditions of life” – Mehmet Murat ildan

14. “The mountain is calm when there is a storm; the mountain is calm when there is fog; the mountain is calm when there is sun! Calmness is the wisdom of the mountains! Those who have lived everything are always calm” – Mehmet Murat ildan

15. “A night on the mountain is better than a thousand nights in the city because you meet the universe on the mountain” – Mehmet Murat ildan


Short Quotes About Mountain

16. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings” – John Muir

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

18. “The mountains themselves call us into greater stories” – Donald Miller

19. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing” – Barry Finlay

20. “Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery” – John Ruskin

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

22. “Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

23. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves” – Sir Edmund Hillary

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

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Quotes On Mountains And Peace

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

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

27. “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

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

29. “In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t” – Rusty Baille

30. “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

31. “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

32. “The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain – he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem – he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved” – William Arthur Ward


Quotes About Love For Mountain

33. “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

34. “The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist” – Rabindranath Tagore

35. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence” – Hermann Buhl

36. “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

37. “We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves” – Todd Skinner

38. “Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was” – Dag Hammarskjöld

39. “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion” – Robert Macfarlane

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