Quotes about adventure

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

— Aesop

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.

— Lord Byron

Adventure is worthwhile.

— Amelia Earhart

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

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

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

— David Grayson

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

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

— Laurence Sterne

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

— Rabindranath Tagore

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

— William Trogdon

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

— Voltaire

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

— Carl Jung

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.

— Thornton Wilder