Adventure Quote by Jean Batten

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged…

— Jean Batten

“what motivated explorers? What inspired Magellan, battered by South America’s strange williwaw winds, to hold to his course through an unknown strait with no…

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“We are charred vessels vestiges of wood & wonder anchors tethered to our bows. It is the irony of a ship burning at sea,…

— Clint Smith

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

— John Piper

“Through all his years of roving, even on nights like this, he had remained blind to the beauty of the sea, and now his…

— William Outerson

“For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?”

— Joan W. Blos

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed…

— Carl Sagan

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

— Ami Ayalon

“The route to our highest hopes tends to run right through some dark, booby-trapped places. A girl needs a map and a light to…

— Sharon Pywell

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [...]…

— Joy Harjo

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

— Paulo Coelho