Mountains are also a powerful metaphor for successfully achieving a goal in life or business through hard work and perseverance. Like a mountain, life is full of upsides and downsides, and challenges to get there along the way. And just like climbing to the top of an actual mountain, the only way to tackle a personal problem giving you pause or achieving the next level in your career is to start by placing one foot in front of the other. As Mother Abbess famously encouraged Maria in The Sound of Music, take every step that you can, climb each next hill, until you reach your dream! This list of 55 quotes on mountains will surely inspire you as you head off on your next mountain-climbing adventure, motivate you to reach higher in business, or provide some encouragement to get you through a particularly rocky moment in life. This collection of mountain quotes comes from naturalists and mountaineers who have been up close and personal with some of the most majestic ranges around the globe, as well as authors and celebrities who have drawn comparisons to life’s steep inclines. Just remember, when you get to the top, take a minute to look around, marvel at how far you’ve come, and be proud of your accomplishment!
55 Mountain Quotes
- “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Sir Edmund Hillary
- “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”— Unknown
- “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” — John Muir, The Mountains of California
- “Nothing lives long; Only the earth and mountains.” — Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
- “When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time.”— Catherine Pulsifer
- “You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom
- “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”— Anatoli Boukreev
- “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” — Hermann Buhl
- “Mountain top: the place where life finds the purest meaning of freedom.” ― Vinicius Montgomery
- “If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain.” — Unknown
- “Mountains make me believe that nothing can be bigger than nature, not even human ego.” ― Jay Kumar Singh
- “When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart.” — Dan May
- “Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.” ― Seuss, Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
- “It’s on the mountain that God reveals to us our weaknesses and insecurities. We find in our relationship with him strength we didn’t know existed.” — Jarrett Stephens, The Mountains Are Calling
- “Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.” — William Blake RELATED: 100 Hiking Captions For Instagram
- “Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”— Theodore Roethke
- “Mountains are the beginning and end of all natural scenery.” — John Ruskin
- “Sometimes in life, we don’t get to choose the mountain; it chooses us.” — Neal McCoy, A New Mountain to Climb
- “You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.” — Pink
- “Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskjöld
- “Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” — Sir Martin Conway
- “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” — Muhammad Ali
- “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery of why we climb.”— Greg Child
- “The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far." — Paulo Coelho
- “Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.” — Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go
- “Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them.”— Swami Vivekananda
- “When life gives you mountains, put those boots on and start hiking." — Unknown
- “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Always be thankful for the little things… even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!” ― Nyki Mack RELATED: The Best Winter & Snow Instagram Captions
- “Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.”— Aleksander Lwow
- “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” — Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond
- “Every mountain has a peak. The beauty of this life is that there are many mountains to climb and new limits to reach.” ― Nate Hamon, Terra Dark
- “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”— Jack Kerouac
- “Don’t pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” — Andy Rooney
- “May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” ― Harley King
- “The mountain affords perspective.” ― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen
- “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” ― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise
- “You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” — Tom Hiddleston
- “The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.” ― Lori Lansens, The Mountain Story
- “Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” — Unknown
- “No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.” — Emily Kay McCallister
- “The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.” — Marianne Williamson
- “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.” — Greg Child
- “When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.” ― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
- “The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” — Robert M. Pirsig
- “Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.” — Werner Herzog
- “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — David McCullough Jr.
- “No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.” — Chinese Proverb
- “Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through, the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” — Andy Andrews, The Noticer
- “I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.” — Andrew Garfield
- “The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.” — Herbert A. Simon
- “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
- “We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.” — Todd Skinner Next, check out… 101 Nature Quotes 75 Snow Quotes 150 Words of Encouragement
