Quotes About Adventure

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Chance favors only those who court her.