Quotes About Adventure

Captain Cook quickly got up on his feet again and strutted to the street ahead of Mr. Popper with many quick turns of his head and pleased comments on the new scene.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.

If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it's like to win.

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

the best motto to follow is 'Nothing ventured; nothing gained'.

If someone offers you an Amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say Yes - then learn how to do it later.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a ride!

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham

I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later!