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Quotes

Wise words for hard moments...

Sometimes you have no clue how to continue, whether on a steep mountain, in your armchair or behind your desk. 


But the 7summits.com quotes come to the rescue! We have collected a bunch of motivating, humorous and serious qoutes from famous and not so famous people.

Most of them relate to mountaineering in one way or another although even we don't always see the connection :-)




Motivational climbing quote 1:

"I love climbing because it feels so good when I stop..." -- Karl "we're all nuts".


Motivational climbing quote 2:

"Big alpine routes aren't exactly safe... You need to have your feelers out, and you need to be willing to back off in things aren't quite right. At the same time, you have to push through your doubts and fears." -- Michael Kennedy.


Motivational climbing quote 3:

"If you don't let go, you can't fall off !" -- Jerry Moffat.


Motivational climbing quote 4:

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Gandhi


Motivational climbing quote 5:

"Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert." -- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75), Decameron, The Third Day, X.



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