Adventure Quotes

1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit. — Jacqueline Cochran
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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… — Jose Bergamin
Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure. — Jose Bergamin
I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen. — Laird Hamilton
Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. — Laurence Sterne
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. — Unknown Author
Nothing adventured, nothing attained — Peter McWilliams
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. — Rebecca West
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves.… — Richard Bach
Security is a kind of death. — Tennessee Williams
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. — Thornton Wilder
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. — Vincent Van Gogh
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words — Sebastian Junger
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another... — H. Rider Haggard
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly… — Richard Bach
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an awful… — Thornton Wilder
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. — Alfred North Whitehead
Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them. — Hunter S. Thompson

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