"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."

Aesop on Adventure
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"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."

Byron, Lord on Adventure
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Adventure
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"Adventure is worthwhile."

Earhart, Amelia on Adventure
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"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adventure
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"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."

Farquhar, George on Adventure
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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

Gogh, Vincent Van on Adventure
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"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

Grayson, David on Adventure
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Jung, Carl on Adventure
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"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."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on Adventure
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"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on Adventure
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"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."

Sterne, Laurence on Adventure
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adventure
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"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William on Adventure
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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire on Adventure
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."

Whitehead, Alfred North on Adventure
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on Adventure
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"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."

Woolf, Virginia on Adventure
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