Jimmy Chin Quotes

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

I climb mountains.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.

For me, I feel empowered when I use my body to exercise, play sports, and explore the world. My body allows me to sing, dance, talk, feel - and eat a damn good piece of cheesecake.

I'm going to try to jump over people, and I'm going to try to run all day. If my body lets me, I'll do it.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.