Adventurous Life Quotes:

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.

- Richard Bach

topic: Adventurous Life, Long, Realizing

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.

- Sherman Alexie

topic: Adventurous Life, Borders, Individual

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is An Adventure, Adventurer

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

- Mark Jenkins

topic: Real, Adventure, Self, Travel The World, Love Adventure

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

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Pursue Your Dreams, Inspirational Adventure

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.

- Mark Jenkins

topic: Travel, Kindness, Real, Way In Life, Travel The World

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

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

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

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

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.

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Reality, Men, People, Inspirational Adventure Time, Spirit Of Adventure

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

topic: Life, Motivational, Travel, Joy Of Living, Inspirational Adventure Time

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.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

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.

- Graham Lowe

topic: Sports, Hate, Team, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

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.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Life, Change, Meaningful, Courage To Change, Punishing Yourself

Live your life to the fullest.

- Shakira

source: "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

topic: Life, Birthday, Beauty, Live Life To Its Fullest, Soul Beauty

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

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Life And Love, Holiday, Value Of Life, Source Of Life

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Fate, Free Spirit, Fate And Destiny, Life Adventure

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

- William Mather Lewis

source: "Abiding Values".

topic: Break Up, Long, Waiting, Long Wait, Love Emotion

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

- Stephen Hunt

topic: Motivational, Space, Personality, Taking Risks, Life On The Edge

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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Live To The Fullest, Inspirational Adventure

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Spiritual, Doe, Superstitions, Experiencing Things, Either Or

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.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Journey Inspirational, I Am Strong

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.

- Aron Ralston

topic: Adventure, Passion, Reality, Spirit Of Adventure, Monotonous Life

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

- Irving Wallace

topic: Travel, Adventure, Men, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

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

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Arriving, Journey And Destination, Journey Home

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

- William Feather

topic: Life, Happiness, Adventure, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

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

- Andre Gide

topic: Life, Travel, Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time, Outdoor Adventure

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

- George Eliot

topic: Wisdom, Travel, Adventure, Inspirational Adventure, Compunction

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.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Live Life To Its Fullest

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

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

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Scribbles, Mind Heart

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!

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

topic: Life, Death, Suicide, Worn Out, Kickass Women

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Hate, Memorable, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

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

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Joy, Sun, Different, Monotonous Life, Joy Of Life

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Patience, Adventure, Firsts, Keep Patience, No Patience

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

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature, Costa Rica, Nomadic

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

- Katharine Hepburn

source: Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Independent Thinking, Powerful Women

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

- Grace Hopper

source: 1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Maritime, Nautical

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.

- Raymond B. Fosdick

topic: Adventure, May, Adventurous, Stampede, Adventurous Life

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.

- Margaret Craven

source: Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

topic: Past, Rivers, Waiting, Adventurous Life

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.

- Paul Tournier

topic: Inspirational, Kind, Life Is, Adventurous Life

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.

- Raymond B. Fosdick

topic: Book, Thinking, People, Stampede, Adventurous Life