Adventure Quotes

Jose Bergamin

" Life is a dangerous adventure,? says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure. "

Ralf Waldo Emerson

" 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... "

Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief

" Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp. "

Barry Targan

" Adventure is hardship aesthetically considered. "

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. A View of the Nile

" Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. "

G.K. Chesterton

" An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered "

John A. Shedd

" A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are built for. "

Anonymous

" 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!!! "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" One should count each day a separate life. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. "

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

" 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. "

St. Augustine

" 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. "

Marcel Proust

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"

Thomas Alva Edison

" If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. "