Adventurous spirit Quote by Jon Krakauer Download Open image ““Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”” — Jon Krakauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventurous spirit Religion Time
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
“What is more important... Better yet, essential to man's well-being than his sense of imagination and free-will.” — Poet Diction Copy Share Image
“You can't have adventures without risk. You can't have great things if you constantly fear loss.” — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“Some men are so willing to know their future, but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
“When love carries us away on its brittle wings, we are too intoxicated to comprehend its power. We just want to soar and feel… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Initially, the only thing that mattered to me - I was too young to understand the politics of the day - was that there… — Beth Mowins Copy Share Image