Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? [ Beattie ]

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. [ Proverb ]

You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others down. [ Proverb ]

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. [ William Shakespeare ]

Knowledge is the hill which few; may hope to climb; duty is the path that all may tread. [ Lewis Morris ]

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [ Dante ]

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]

The poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon mountain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If you would get to heaven you must climb thither by putting Mount Sion upon Mount Sinai. [ Bishop Hopkins ]