Quotes About Adventure

We have had heroes here, and now He will be over hero for The Grand Journey.

We must explore for if we do not, we are not fulfilling our purpose here.

You could do nothing in life and remain safe and cushioned or you could do and see all and hurt all too and be remembered far beyond one's own singular being.

You must explore beyond that of any other before you; you must seek new discoveries; then come ever so closer to revealing the ultimate mystery.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.

There is a world outside the one we know," he said softly, "with cultures and races and armies who have never heard of us. Yes, and cities greater than Yenking and Karakorum. To survive, to grow, we must remain strong. We must conquer new lands, so that our army is always fed, always moving. To stop is to die, Chagatai.

Life has ways to turn and curve in a way you don't expect. But, I wouldn't want to be different, no matter the suffering it brings. Too many futures have already been decided; it's good we can't now every detail because life would have been grey and it would turn in a boring kind of death

I fear I am once more in your debt, Mr. Owens," she said, her voice shaking just a bit. "Think nothing of it," Jim said, calmly replacing his pistol in its shoulder holster and leaning back on his bedroll. He no longer got rattled at having to shoot things, climb things, chase things, or dive into things to snatch her back from the precipices she seemed always to be leaning over. It was all in the day's work. "Please. Continue with what you were saying.

He was Archie Grant, boon companion, should-be pirate, and suspected second-story man who could melt a girl with his smile but then would have no idea where the puddle at his feet had come from.

He had just brought Richelieu back down to the ground after a frolicsome attempt to touch a cloud with his front hooves.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge ' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Weeks passed, a whirl of lights and sound and laughter, a fever dream, vertiginous, roaring, mad, he quit his job, not caring what came after, and struck out blindly; money enough he had, and life, by Christ, would go now as he bade; he got it by the throat, he was its master; sing! went his whip, and life danced on the faster.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad. I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding; you do not guess the adventure I have had!... Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures, your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet.

Cosmos mariner destination unknown

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man,and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters on? Mind your hat! ("Mr. Arcularis")

Periodista: -¿Por qué vá a subir al Everest? Mallory: -Porque está ahí.

Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

Even in 1922, on Everest, the expedition leader, General Charles Bruce, in a confidential summary, described Mallory as 'a great dear but forgets his boots on all occasions.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Why does everybody think I'm so wild? I'm not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.