Quotes About Adventure

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.

Success is in the journey, but the reward is the view from the top.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.

Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.

Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos? -Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto. -Pero, ¿adónde vais? -Al mar

This being understood, let us proceed with our history.

However much a man is inured to taking risks, however well prepared he is for danger, the fluttering of his heart and the pricking of his skin will always let him know the vast difference that lies between dream and reality, planning and execution.

A young man—we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown;

Follow me, then," said the abbe, as he re-entered the subterranean passage, in which he soon disappeared, followed by Dantes.

He called successively at the abodes of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Neither of them had returned.