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Rock Climber Inspirational Quotes (214)

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My most-used word was no! I said no to pockets, no to zippers, no to extra loops. In the end, all the products were so slim and light.
Ueli Steck
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I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.
Ueli Steck
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My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.
Allen Steck
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People need to learn to live with more risk.
Alain Robert
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I see myself as a climber and an activist.
Alain Robert
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I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
Alain Robert
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Life has to be dangerous.
Alain Robert
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It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
Alain Robert
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Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
Alain Robert
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To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it it's part of my life.
Alain Robert
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Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
Alain Robert
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There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.
Alain Robert
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I love all people, whatever race they are.
Alain Robert
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All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Alain Robert
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I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.
Alain Robert
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Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.
Alain Robert
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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
Yvon Chouinard
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Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.
Yvon Chouinard
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...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.
Yvon Chouinard
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
Yvon Chouinard
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Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
Yvon Chouinard
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During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.
Yvon Chouinard
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I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
Yvon Chouinard
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I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
Yvon Chouinard
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