Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
—Laurence Sterne (1713–68) Irish Anglican Novelist, Clergyman
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
—George Farquhar (1677–1707) Irish Dramatist
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
—Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68) American Politician, Lawyer
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Adventure is worthwhile.
—Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American Aviator
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian Head of State
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
If we didn’t live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
—Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher
Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
—Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Egyptian Greek Poet
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
—Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937) American Financier, Philanthropist
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