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 Russell
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. — Jacqueline Cochran
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful. — Agnes Martin
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place. — Louis L'Amour
Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Adventure And Risk Image Quotes
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Car Adventure Quotes
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy. — Jon Winokur
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. — Dan Chaon
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. — Paul D. Boyer
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. — Emile Genest
My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel. — Rachel Bilson
I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind... — John Mayer
Ho who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying. — Jimmy Carter
Life Is An Adventure With You Quotes
There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living. — Brian Molko
You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest. — Brian Blessed
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. — Saul Alinsky
I'd rather have a life of "oh wells" than a life of "what ifs".
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you. — Oleg Cassini
People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises. — Bear Grylls
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course. — Kate Atkinson
Adventure And Travel Quotes
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. — Christopher McCandless
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
Take the risk or lose the chance.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Chief Seattle
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
Risks And Taking Chances Quotes
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. — Gordon Parks
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. — Jim Harrison
Be honest: Would you be as successful if you followed all the rules and always behaved and never took chances? No, you’d be just like everyone else, scared about failing and worried about being liked. — Tim Grover
Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.
Don’t listen to others, You need to take chances and you need to take the risk sometimes in order to make things happen for yourself. — Nirmal Purja
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances. — Patrick Warburton
Take risks, take chances, and never be afraid to fail—it’s part of life. — Joe Rogan
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Exploration And Adventure Quotes
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. — Edmund Hillary
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Take risks and conquer your fears.
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. — Emilio Estevez
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim. — Robert Fulghum
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us. — Guy Laliberte
Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit. — Michael Steger
Adventurous Life Quotes
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. — Kurt Hahn
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break. — J. R. R. Tolkien
As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure. — Hans Zimmer
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Risk Taking Quotes
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen
Great things are achieved only when we take great risks. — Frederick the Great
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
Adventure Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure. — Beatrix Potter
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
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
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. — Oliver Sacks
I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow — Kid Cudi
When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one. — Grace Kelly
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. — Alan Hirsch
Risk And Reward Quotes
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. — David Platt
Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders’ assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. — Edward O. Thorp
If I could only own one asset for the next 10 years, it would be bitcoin $BTC It encapsulates all of my larger macro views and feels like the point on the far horizon we are headed to, in some shape or form. Yes, like gold too and many other things but BTC risk/reward beats all. — Raoul Pal
You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional. — Mark Udall
Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. — Naval Ravikant
The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. — Susan RoAne
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion — Joe Rogan
Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards. — Donald Trump
The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure. — Jack Canfield
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?" — Peter R. Scholtes
Risk And Success Quotes
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton
Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks
You're never going to see any success if you don't take risks with your time and money. Losing money is a part of the process. It's your real-life tuition. — Jaspreet Singh
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it. — Chamath Palihapitiya
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres
My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. — Tony Hawk
The key to success is having the courage to take risks and not be afraid of failure. — Joe Rogan
We've climbed in 60 to 75 kilometer an hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it's all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that's why we've been so successful. We always climb with what we have. — Nirmal Purja
This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks. — Elon Musk
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. — Randy Komisar
John F. Kennedy once said, ‘There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.’ — Pat Flynn
Risk means uncertainty about which outcomes will occur and about the possibility of loss when the unfavorable ones do. — Howard S. Marks
If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God's will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net of grace, when you know that God will catch you and set you back on his path when you fall, then you'll feel the freedom to pursue the adventure that kingdom living is all about. — Will Davis
I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh. — Mike Yaconelli
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. — Helen Keller
I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." — Joan Miro
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers. — Rene Dubos
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. — Friedrich Schiller
Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive. And the only way to be more alive is to live dangerously, is to risk, is to go on an adventure. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core. — Osho
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path. — Larry Crabb
I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live. — Kathleen Hanna
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. — Rene Dubos
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. — John Updike
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art. — Albert Camus
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down. — Monica Baldwin
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk — Craig Elliott
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. — Brian Blessed
Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them. — Carl Jung
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248) — Simone de Beauvoir
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. — Che Guevara
I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk. — Michael J. Fox
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul. — Alan Hirsch
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. — Richard Branson
When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure. — Julia Cameron
What I need for my characters in my books [is] a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have. — Jon Voight
Adventure comes with no guarantees or promises. Risk and reward are conjoined twins—and that’s why my favorite piece of advice needs translation but no disclaimers: Fortes fortuna juvat. ‘Fortune favors the brave,’ the ancient Roman dramatist Terrence declared. In other words, there are many good reasons not to toss your life up in the air and see how it lands. Just don’t let fear be one of them. — Mary South
I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find. — Idra Novey
I was a risk-taker as a young man, and I don't regret it. I'm not adventurous in quite the same way now, but I still love the challenge of testing myself to the limits, flying around the world, or seeing if I can be the first to fly a balloon across the Atlantic, or trying to take people into space at an affordable price in an environmentally friendly way. I'll be going into space with three generations of my family! — Richard Branson
I am the opposite of boring, but I'm a little reckless, and I'm not against taking risks, and I think I'm always down for an adventure. — Claire Holt
We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent. — Alison Gopnik
Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a "down payment" on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens. — John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio
No nation can advance unless the old ideals of exploration and adventure are lived. There must be lives lost in flying, as in every other step of progress, and as many lives have been lost in the past, but there is no need to run foolish risks. The search for adventure need not entail foolhardiness. Fear is a tonic and danger should be something of a stimulant — Sophie
'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards. — Buzz Aldrin
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that. — John Taylor Gatto
I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it. — Monique Coleman
An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside. — Richard Branson
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