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I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
Sep 10, 2025
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
All that is gold does not glitter.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do