18 quotes about Adventure



The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Aesop quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Byron, Lord quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Chesterton, Gilbert K. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Adventure is worthwhile.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Earhart, Amelia quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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 swing and play to the confined powers.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Emerson, Ralph Waldo quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Farquhar, George quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gogh, Vincent Van quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Grayson, David quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Jung, Carl quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

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.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Nehru, Jawaharlal quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Sterne, Laurence quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Tagore, Rabindranath quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Trogdon, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Voltaire quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Whitehead, Alfred North quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Wilder, Thornton quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Woolf, Virginia quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK