Adventurous Life Quotes

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

I have always wanted an adventurous life.  It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

Live your life to the fullest.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

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

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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.

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.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with 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.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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.

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 dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

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.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

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.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.