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The William's guide has lots of great climbing quotes. I've resisted the urge to repost them. Instead, you'll find climbing related quotes I've came across from other sources.
"Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity; it's a battle against oneself."
Walter Bonatti
"A few hours of mountain climbing turns a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to equality and fraternity - and, in the end, liberty will surrender to sleep."
Frederich Nietzsche
"Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived."
Willi Unsoeld
"It's not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again.
And who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may not be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mohandas Gandhi
"You think of your sword and his sword and nothing else."
Hector to Paris before Paris fights Menelaus
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