Adventure Quote by Ernest Shackleton

“Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case…

— Ernest Shackleton

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great…

— Ernest Shackleton

“Some came for sheer love of adventure and wanted no reward beyond that; some wanted fame or its counterfeit, publicity; some were mercenary and…

— Lawrence McKinley Gould

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it…

— Anonymous

“The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Whoever undertakes a long journey, if he be wise, makes it his business to find out an agreeable companion. How cautious then should he…

— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

“It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source…

— Sallust

“merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the…

— Giles Milton

“Men resort to him, and receive no hurt, but (find) rest, peace, and the feeling of ease.”

— Lao Tzu

“This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.”

— Walter Lord

“Men think that it is essential that the "Nation" have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an…

— Henry David Thoreau