Exploration And Adventure Quotes:

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Memorable, Carpe Diem, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

- Annie Besant

topic: Country, Courage, Adventure, Exploration And Adventure

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

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot

source: Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Journey And Destination, Journey Of Self Discovery

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Indian, Solo Travel

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Photography And Travel

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation, Live For Yourself, Soft Heart

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

- Andre Gide

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Taking Risks, Newness

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Fun, Journey And Destination, Journey Inspirational

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

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

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

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

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

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

- Helen Keller

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

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

source: Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

topic: Motivational, Travel, Adventure, Space Science, Space Travel

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

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Life, Photography, Wisdom, Exploration And Adventure

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

- Hanna Rosin

topic: Adventure, Names, Discovery, Exploration And Adventure

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