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June 12, 2014 by kevinstilley

Adventure – select quotes

adventure.001Adventure is worthwhile.
~ Aesop

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.
~ John Amatt

Adventure is just bad planning.
~ Roald Amundsen

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
~ Roberto Assagioli

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
~ Yogi Berra

Adventure must start with running away from home.
~ William Bolitho

Always remember, it’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life is adventure, not predicament.
~ James Broughton

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
~ Joseph Campbell

No, no! The adventures first, explanations takes such a dreadful time.
~ Lewis Carroll

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterston

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
~ Douglas Coupland

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
~ Norman Cousins

I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
~ Jim Dale

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
~ Amelia Earhart

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
~ George Eliot

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
~ Andre Gide

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Andre Gide

We love because it’s the only true adventure.
~ Nikki Giovanni

There’s a call to adventure. It’s something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
~ Gary Gygax

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
~ Herbie Hancock

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.
~ Christopher McCandless

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
~ Ovid

Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
~ Steve Pavlina

Travel brings power and love back into your life.
~ Rumi

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
~ John A. Shedd, Salt From My Attic, Mosher Press (1928), page 20 [This quote is sometimes attributed to Grace Hopper, William Shedd, Benazir Bhutto, or Grant M. Bright]

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find an adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.
~ Ravindranath Tagore

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries everyday with new experience and character.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~ Mark Twain

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
~ Alfred North Whitehead

Adventure: the pursuit of life.
~ Daniel Roy Wiarda

When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
~ Thorton Wilder

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Adventures don’t some calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.
~ Unknown

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