Quotes about Adventure
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.
— Paulo Coelho
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar?
— Cindy Woodsmall
And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.
— Herman Melville
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
— Herman Melville
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
— Hilaire Belloc
A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.
— Adoniram Judson
Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.
— Mother Angelica
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
— CT Studd
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
— Bill Gates
We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.
— Vance Havner