(392 quotes found)
“The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive”
Joseph Campbell
“When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.”
Aristotle
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
Oscar Wilde
“Adventures are to the adventurous”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints”
Wilfred Peterson
“Nothing adventured, nothing attained.”
Peter McWilliams
“In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe”
Ayn Rand
“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
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces”
Anatole France
“Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.”
T.S. Eliot