Mountains Quotes

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

Ahead, Shoe, Wear

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

Good, Climb, Tidings

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

Work, Simple, End

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller

God, Before, Wonderful

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare

Peace, Stand, Shall

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

Men, Long, Stars

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Today, Tomorrow

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Wish

The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats

Dance, Wind, Ride

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

Father, Walk, Among

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

Amazing, May, Dangerous

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

Sun, Greeting, Glorious

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

Travel, Human, Stars

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

Men, Human, Sea

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

Teacher, Wise, Everything

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams

Broken, Rocks, Violets

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

Great, Men, Done

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

Patriotism, Loyalty, Country

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier

Happiness, May, Perfect

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams

Heart, Human, Through

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

End, Beginning, Natural

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft

Dreams, Time, Ocean

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley

Faith, Keep, While

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Faith, Good, Courage

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn

Faith, Patience, Diligence

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Horace

Born, Silly, Labour

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Clouds, Presence, Eternity

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Earth, Monuments

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz

Honor, Nation, Soldiers

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