Adventure Quotations

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

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

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

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

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

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?

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.