Quotes About Adventure

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

Taking risks gives me energy.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

To play it safe is not to play.

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

No guts, no glory.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

All serious daring starts from within.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.

The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.