Adventure Quotes

1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. — Unknown Author
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow… — Frank Moore Colby
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors… — Unknown Author
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing… — Ernest Hemingway
Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop. — Murray Leinster
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

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