Adventure Quotes
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" Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. "
Henry David Thoreau, American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher (1817-1862)
" Lead by example...
The greatest adventures have nothing to do with life... and everything to do with living... "
The Bubble
" In a world in which we are all slaves to the laws of gravity, I’m proud to be counted as one of them freedom fighters. Skydive "
Anonymous
" If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle. "
Anonymous
" You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation..... "
Anonymous
" All people who live, die. But, not all people who die have lived "
Anonymous
" A life lived in fear is a life half lived "
Anonymous
" The coward dies a thousand deaths "
Anonymous
" Look to the skies! They are ever changing. "
Anonymous
" Only skydivers know why the birds sing "
Anonymous
" Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. "
Helen Keller
" Skydiving: It is not just a matter of life and death...it is much more important than that. "
Anonymous
" Anyone can fall out of an airplane; skydivers just do it right "
Anonymous
" It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her. "
Ernest Hemingway
" A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk "
Craig Elliot
" Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect. "
Anonymous
" Out of 10,000 feet of fall, always remember that the last half inch hurts the most. "
Captain Charles W. Purcell, 1932
" When the people look like ants-PULL, When the ants look like people-PRAY "
Anonymous
" Adventure is just bad planning "
Roald Amundsen
" Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. "
Annie Besant
" Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? "
Frank Moore Colby
" Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential "
John Amatt organizer and participant in Canada’s first successful expedition to the summit of Mt Everest.
" Adventure is not outside man; it is within. "
David Grayson
" If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. "
Thomas Alva Edison
" The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes "
Marcel Proust
" It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. "
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
" People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. "
St. Augustine
" You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. "
Rabindranath Tagore
" One should count each day a separate life. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
" A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are built for. "
John A. Shedd
" Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- ’WOW, what a ride!!! "
Anonymous
" An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered "
G.K. Chesterton
" Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It?s just not done. "
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. A View of the Nile
" Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp. "
Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief
" Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered. "
Barry Targan
" Life is a dangerous adventure,? says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it?s not an adventure. "
Jose Bergamin
" The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer... "
Ralf Waldo Emerson
" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. "
Alexander Eliot
" There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won?t. "
William Trogdon
" We?re not home-and-hearth people. We?re the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we?re only alive. "
Alexandra Ripley
" Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. "
Ray Stannard Baker
" Adventure is worthwhile in itself. "
Amelia Earhart
" Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure, it is either a daring adventure or nothing. "
Helen Keller
" Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life. "
G.K. Chesterton
" I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. "
Vincent van Gogh
" Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. "
Rebecca West
" The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. "
E.L. Konigsburg
" To die will be an awfully big adventure. "
James Matthew Barrie
" Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. "
Richard Evans Schultes
" Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them. "
Hunter S. Thompson
" Life is either a great adventure or nothing. "
Helen Keller
" Courage is doing what you?re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you?re scared. "
Eddie Rickebacker
" A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. "
Jean Paul Richter
" Courage is being scared to death ? but saddling up anyway. "
John Wayne
" It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves ? in finding themselves. "
Andr? Gide
" I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand ... Adventure is a state of mind ? and spirit. "
Jacqueline Cochran
" There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. "
Jawaharla Nehru
" The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. "
Oprah Winfrey
" Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. "
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
" I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. "
Matthew Heywood
" Adventure is worthwhile. "
Aesop
" The traveler was active; he went stenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. "
anon
" A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. "
Laurence Sterne
" Chance is the providence of adventurers. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. "
Anonymous
" In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. "
William Blake
" A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. "
Bertrand Russell
" Adventures are to the adventurous. "
English Proverb
" And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. "
Lord Byron
" Without adventure civilization is in full decay. "
Alfred North Whitehead
" It’s when you’re safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you’re having an adventure you wish your were safe at home. "
Thornton Wilder
" It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. "
Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
" We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. "
Henry David Thoreau
" Let the spirit of adventure set the tone. "
anon
" For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
" Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but ... "
Francis Bacon
" Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,? our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be. "
Hortense Odlum
" I’m going to take you on the greatest adventure of your life. You probably will never even thank me. Let’s go. "
Austin
" Adventure, without it, why live? "
Johan Radcliffe
" Life is a dangerous adventure,? says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it?s not an adventure. "
Jose Bergamin
" The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer... "
Ralf Waldo Emerson
" The test of an adventure is that when you?re in the middle of it say to yourself, ?Oh, now I?ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish... "
Thornton Wilder
" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. "
Alexander Eliot
" I decided that adventure was the best way to learn. "
Lloyd Alexander
" I have but one life to give to adventure. "
Bors The adventures of Sir Galahad
" Renegades is a better word. It implies a spirit of adventure. Desertion is cowardly. We’re not that. "
Captain Jefferson Addis
" Come on! There is greater adventure beyond. "
Porthos The Iron Mask
" The colour of adrenalin is brown. "
Jenny Radcliffe
" Adventure is worthwhile. "
Aristotle
" Adventure: the pursuit of life. "
Daniel Roy Wiarda
" Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. "
Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry
" Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived. "
Richard Bach
" One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. "
William Feather
" Every man can transform the world from one of the monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. "
Irving Wallace
" ?Adventurer? ? he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another... "
H. Rider Haggard
" We live in a world full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. "
Jawaharlal Nehru
" Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing "
Johan Friedrick von Schiller
" A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. "
Laurence Sterne
" If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. "
Voltaire
" Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. "
Andr? Gide
" Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. "
Aristophanes
" I hope there’s lots of food in our next adventure. "
Tum Tum Ninja Turtles
" Life is adventure, not predicament. "
James Broughton
" If at first you don’t succeed so much for skydiving. "
Henry Youngman
" Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it. "
Anonymous
" An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within
your control. It is up to fate, in other words "
Sebastian Junger
