Definition of Climbing

Climbing Quotations

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
William Faulkner

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
Ella Maillart

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
Earl Wilson

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul Kalam