Werner Herzog Quotes

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.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

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.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.