Adventure Quotes

David Grayson

" Adventure is not outside man; it is within. "

John Amatt organizer and participant in Canada’s first successful expedition to the summit of Mt Everest.

" 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 "

Annie Besant

" 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. "

Frank Moore Colby

" 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? "

Roald Amundsen

" Adventure is just bad planning "

Anonymous Skydiver

" When the people look like ants-PULL, When the ants look like people-PRAY "

Captain Charles W. Purcell, 1932

" Out of 10,000 feet of fall, always remember that the last half inch hurts the most. "

Anonymous

" 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. "

Craig Elliot

" 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 "

Anonymous Skydiver

" Anyone can fall out of an airplane; skydivers just do it right "

Ernest Hemingway

" 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. "

Anonymous Skydiver

" Skydiving: It is not just a matter of life and death...it is much more important than that. "

Helen Keller

" Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. "

Anonymous Skydiver

" Only skydivers know why the birds sing "