Adventure Quotes

1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors

I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough… — Unknown Author
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation… — Jimmy Carter
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus… — Alfred North Whitehead
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men… — George Ellery Hale
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit! — Unknown Author
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges… — H.G. Wells
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures… — Alfred North Whitehead
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we may… — Theobald Smith
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of… — Unknown Author
No one from the beginning of time has had security. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment. — Pearl Bailey
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. — Ilka Chase
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. — Erica Jong
I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life… — Kylie Minogue
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. — Margrethe II of Denmark
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt. — Unknown Author
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. — Margaret Truman Daniel
There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us. — Margaret Mitchell
As long as we keep searching, the answers come. — Joan Baez
I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk. — Donna Shalala
Life has no romance without risk. — Unknown Author
The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me. — Kate Capshaw
No coward soul is mine. — Emily Bronte

Who Wrote These Adventure Quotes

1,200 authors contributed a total of 1,845 Adventure Quotes, led by these top contributors: