Adventure Quotes

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

~ Jacob Bronowski

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.

~ Nev Schulman

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

~ André Gide

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

All adventure is now reactionary.

~ William F. Buckley

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

~ D. H. Lawrence

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.

~ Henry Beston

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

~ Kristin Armstrong

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

~ Che Guevara

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

~ Brian Blessed

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

~ Helen Keller

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

~ James J. Hill

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.

~ Don Kardong

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

~ Tim Cahill

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

~ Tim Cahill

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

~ Jan Morris

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

~ Aristophanes

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

~ Clint Eastwood

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

~ John Eldredge

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

~ Cate Blanchett

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.

~ Deborah Moggach

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

~ Norman Cousins

We live in a wonderful world that is 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

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

~ Marie Curie

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.

~ Peter Ackroyd

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.

~ Rick Perlstein

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

~ Mordicai Gerstein

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

~ John Lydon

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

~ Graham Brown

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

~ Andrew Clements

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.

~ George Leigh Mallory

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

~ Arthur Henderson

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

~ Drew Houston

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

~ Guy Laliberte

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

~ William Feather

It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.

~ Robert Kurson

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.

~ Angelina Jolie