Quotes About Adventure

I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.