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Quotes about mountains and the heights we climb. This hand-picked collection brings together 21 of the finest mountains quotes ever written — from Jane Austen, Chinese Proverb, Confucius and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly — mountains teach humility.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

— Jane Austen

Never underestimate the power of determination — it has moved more mountains than dynamite.

Mountains are not fair or just, they are dangerous — and that is their lesson in humility.

Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

— Chinese Proverb

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

— Confucius

The conquest of the mountain is the conquest of the self.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

The mountain is the mountain, and the man is the man — until they meet.

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