Adventure Quotes

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.

The brave venture anything.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

Oh, the places you will go.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure

A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

Writing a book is an adventure.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

All my lifeI have been restless--I have felt there is somethingmore wonderful than gloss--than wholeness--than staying at home.

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.