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Quotes About Adventure

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
~ Alan Alda
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.
~ Art Buchwald
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
~ Cate Blanchett
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
~ Lao Tzu
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
~ Antonio Machado
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
~ Joseph Heller
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.
~ Herb Brooks
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
~ Jon Krakauer
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
~ Martha Beck
A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
~ Sting
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
~ Paul Virilio
Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.
~ Walt Disney Company
Time to toss the dice
~ Robert Jordan
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
~ Kabir
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.
~ Garth Brooks
If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.
~ Joan Littlewood
You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.
~ Joe Vitale
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
~ Doug Larson
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
~ Stephen Covey