"The greatest danger in life is not to…" — George Leigh Mallory
"The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure."
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18 Quotes by George Leigh Mallory
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What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We…
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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
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My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
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To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
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Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We…
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How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the…
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The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the…
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We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
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One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate…
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Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through…
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use…
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Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe…
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More Adventure Quotes
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one of 1,845 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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