Adventure Quotes
1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
— Harry S. Truman
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
— John Updike
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
— John Updike
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Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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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…
— James D. Watson
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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…
— Daria Werbowy
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
— Rebecca West
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
— Charlotte Whitton
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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing…
— Elie Wiesel
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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.
— Thornton Wilder
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The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for…
— Ricky Williams
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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
— Oprah Winfrey
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
— Lin Yutang
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
— Hanna Rosin
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
— Dorothy Parker
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You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
— Isak Dinesen
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."…
— Lewis Carroll
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life…
— Mother Teresa
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If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and…
— Christopher Moore
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the…
— Jack Kerouac
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This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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