Mountain Quotes

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every adventure needs someone to live it

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.

I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.

Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

The man of humanity delights in mountains

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

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

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.