logo

Quotes About Adventure

Dream big and dare to fail.
~ Norman Vaughan
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain
~ Miyamoto Musashi
I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.
~ David Livingstone
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
~ Stephen Curry
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
~ David McCullough Jr.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
~ Mary Oliver
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
~ Leonard Nimoy
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
~ Francis Drake
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
~ Wentworth Miller
In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
~ Georges Danton
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
~ Ray Bradbury
Anywhere you can take Jesus Christ with you is all right to go.
~ J. Vernon McGee
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
~ Anais Nin
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
~ Francis Chichester
If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
~ Marianne Williamson
The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
~ Billy Idol
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson