Adventurer Quotes
87 quotes by 75 authors
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or…
— James Buchan
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need…
— Isabel Allende
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no…
— Joseph Conrad
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
— Ovid
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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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
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an…
— Paulo Coelho
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers…
— Jean Batten
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that…
— Richard Bach
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the…
— Jean Batten
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The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has…
— Henry Harrower
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I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch…
— Lynda Carter
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Im crazy about my father, hes an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were…
— Peta Wilson
Who Wrote These Adventurer Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 87 Adventurer Quotes, led by these top contributors: