Mountain Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old mountain quotes, mountain sayings, and mountain proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Mountain mother is a birth gate that joins the above and below, she is a prayer house, she is a mountain. Mountain is a mountain. Joan Halifax
Where the mountain crosses. On top of the mountain, I do not myself know where. I wandered where my mind and my heart seemed to be lost. I wandered away. John Bierhorst
Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease. Israelmore Ayivor
You have to conquer every mountain to realize the dream. Lailah Gifty Akita
You may not be able to move the mountain with one hit, but you can do so by picking up the rocks bit by bit! Stop loading yourself and go bit by bit... You will get there! Israelmore Ayivor
The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet Lama Anagarika Govinda
A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Vasily Grossman
It seems the mountain is too high to climb. Halfway to top,spirit will break. Todd J.Caudill
The poem that took the place of a mountain. Wallace Stevens
Dancing to the music inside a mountain garage. Kurt Philip Behm
Girt in by mountain walls and washed with waterfalls. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mountain summits, thy expanding heart. Shall feel a kindred with that loftier world. William Cullen Bryant
The mountain eagle seems to sail a ship far seen at even Henrik Johan Ibsen