Adventure Quotes

"Exploring is delightful to look forward to, and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name."
- Samuel Butler in Erewhon

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot

"Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.
-Mason Cooley

"The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, “Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.” And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."
- Thornton Wilder

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Helen Keller

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." - Anon

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland."
- Douglas Coupland

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), British author

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Muriel Strode

"I like to collect experiences the way other people like to collect coins and stamps."
- Michael McGuire, adventurer

"If you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
- Abraham Lincoln

"If you're pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough,"
- Robert Capa

"We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot

"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."
-Annie Besant

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
-Jack London

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
-Mark Twain