150 Mountain Quotes To Make You Wanna Hike Right Now

There are hundreds of inspirational mountain quotes available on the internet. I’ve collected the best ones to provide you with lovely words describing the beauty and power these nature giants hold!

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Best Mountain Quotes

1. “The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach, and it may even be just by the side of you!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

2. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books.” — John Lubbock

3. “The hardest mountain to climb is the one within”. — J. Lynn

4. “There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself — in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue — that has to be the goal.” — Karyn Kusama

5. “I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what’s important in life.”― Mark Obmascik

6. “Life’s a bit like mountaineering — never look down.” — Sir Edmund Hillary

7. “Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved.” — William Arthur Ward

8. “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

9. “Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” ― David McCullough Jr.

10. “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”— Jeffrey Rasley

Inspirational Mountain Quotes

1. “Always be thankful for the little things… even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!” — Nyki Mack

2. “Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.” — Idowu Koyenikan

3. “Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.” — Dale T. Mortensen

4. “Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.” — Janice Anderson

5. “Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.” — Tyler Knott

“Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.” — Tyler Knott

6. “When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time.” — Catherine Pulsifer

7. “May your dreams be larger than mountains, and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” — Harley King

8. “Some mountains only require a good pair of shoes. Others require an entire team to conquer. Knowing which is which is the key to success.” — We Dream of Travel

9. “It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” — Muhammad Ali

10. “Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” — Theodore Roethke

11. “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” — Victoria Erikson

12. “Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.” — Thomas W. Higginson

13. “We don’t live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for”. — George Mallory

14. “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

15. “In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.”— Robert Green Ingersoll

Short Mountain Quotes

1. “No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.” — Chinese Proverb

2. “Go where you feel most alive.” — Unknown

3. “When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart.” — Dan May

4. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Unknown

5. “There is no wifi in the mountains, but I promise you will find a better connection.” — Unknown

6. “The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.” — Lori Lansens

7. “How wild it was to let it be.” — Cheryl Strayed

8. “Nothing lives long, only the earth and mountains.” — Dee Brown

9. “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” — Sir Rannulph Fiennes

10. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” — Unknown

11. “My spirit soars where the air goes thin.” — We Dream of Travel

12. “Life’s a climb, but the view is great.” — Unknown

13. “The deepest sea has a bottom, the highest mountain has a summit.” — Chinese Proverb

14. “The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.” — Rabindranath Tagore

15. “A little more altitude, a little less attitude.” — Unknown

Mountain Travel Quotes

1. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!” — Dr. Seuss

2. “I’m always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I’ll build a new one.” — Sylvester Stallone

3. “Those who travel to mountain tops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion.” — Robert Macfarlane

4. “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis

5. “Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.” — Charles Lindbergh

“Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.” — Charles Lindbergh

6. “I like geography best because your mountains & rivers know the secret; Pay no attention to borders.” — Brian Andreas

7. “What are men to rocks and mountains?” — Jane Austen

8. “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire, and some peace and quiet.” — Brooke Hampton

9. “When the wind calls, you know, that somewhere in the mountains, it has found the answers that you were looking for. The pull of the horizon overcomes the inertia of reason… And you just have to go.” — Vikram Oberoi

10. “There’s a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.” — Bill Janklow

11. “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” — Anatole France

12. “The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” — Paulo Coelho

13. “Sometimes you just need the adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul.” — Unknown

14. “It’s always further than it looks. It’s always taller than it looks. And it’s always harder than it looks.” — The three Rules Of Mountaineering

15. “When a man is a traveler, the world is his house, and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” — Drew Bundini Brown

“When a man is a traveler, the world is his house, and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” — Drew Bundini Brown

Mountain Life Quotes

1. “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.” — Wu Ming—Yi

2. “If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.” — Edmund Hillary

3. “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”— Vera Nazarian

4. “You cannot conquer a mountain, for it shall continue to exist beyond you. However, if not careful, a mountain can conquer you.” — We Dream of Travel

5. “Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.” — Werner Herzog

6. “Let’s not mince words: Everest doesn’t attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.” — Jon Krakauer

7. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S. Eliot

8. “It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.” — William Arthur Ward

9. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” — Hermann Buhl

10. “I see every person as a mountain of sorts; we can see how they look from afar, but will never know them until we explore.” — We Dream of Travel

11. “If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.” — Wilfrid Noyce

12. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life.” — John Amatt

13. “Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like a yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast forever and ever.” — Charles Spurgeon

14. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed”. — Jon Krakauer

15. “The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.” — Jeanne Moreau

Mountain Hiking Quotes

1. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

2. “Hike more. Worry less.” — Unknown

3. “I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.” — John Mackey

4. “Life is better in hiking boots.” — Unknown

5. “When life gives you mountains, put on your boots and hike.” — Unknown

6. “You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.” — Amit Kalantri

7. “Hiking is not escapism; it’s realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.” — Jennifer Pharr Davis

8. “We don’t stop hiking because we grow old — we grow old because we stop hiking.” — Finis Mitchell

9. “I found far more answers in the woods than I ever did in the city.” — Mary Davis

10. “A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

John Muir Mountain Quotes

1. “You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” — John Muir

2. “Going to the mountains is like going home.” — John Muir

3. “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” — John Muir

4. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir

5. “Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.” — John Muir

6. “We are now in the mountains, and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us”. — John Muir

7. “And into the mountains, I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” — John Muir

8. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” — John Muir

9. “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir

10. “One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.” — John Muir

Mountain Love Quotes

1. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.” — Unknown

2. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

3. “Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. “Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow’s gentle caress on their peaks.” — Munia Khan

5. “Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” — John Ruskin

6. “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” — Anatoli Boukreev

7. “The mountains whisper for me to wander; my soul hikes to the call.” — Angie Weiland—Crosby

8. “I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” — Michael Kennedy

9. “Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” — William Shakespeare

10. “My happy place…. The forest, the mountains…. No better place to recharge than in the embrace of mother nature.” — Unknown

11. “When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” — Wilma Rudolph

12. “The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.” ― Thomas Wolfe

13. “Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough

14. “This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” — Bridget Asher

15. “To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” — Mary Davis

Mountain Top Quotes

1. “Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” — Sir Martin Conway

2. “I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.” — Andrew Garfield

3. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” — Khalil Gibran

4. “We always discuss reaching the top of the mountain as the challenge. But those that have been there know coming back down is the hardest part.” — We Dream of Travel

5. “I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.” — Julian Lennon

6. “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter, and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life, not as a competition.” — Shannon L. Alder

7. “The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.” — Marianne Williamson

8. “The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.“ — Robert M. Pirsig

9. “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

10. “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

“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

11. “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

12. “Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.” — Jon Krakauer

13. “Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskjold

14. “The great thing about reaching the top of the mountain is realizing that there’s space for more than one person. And you’re now in the prime position to help others up.” — We Dream of Travel

15. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” — Barry Finlay

Mountain Climbing Quotes

1. “The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain — he is inspired by it.” — William Arthur Ward

2. “The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows.” — Sam Cummings

3. “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

4. “Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.” — Jimmy Chin

5. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” — Andy Rooney

6. “The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” — Conrad Anker

7. “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery of why we climb.” — Greg Child

8. “Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.” — Bear Grylls

9. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

10. “There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.” — Alex Lowe

11. “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.” — Rene Daumal

12. “Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.” — George Bernard Shaw

13. “You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.” — Lito Tejada-Flores

14. “A younger me needed to climb every mountain. The older me says they photograph better from the bottom.” — We Dream of Travel

15. “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