(436 quotes found)
“Adventures are to the adventurous”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Nothing adventured, nothing attained.”
Peter McWilliams
“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”
Henry David Thoreau
“Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?”
Frank Moore Colby
“The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings”
Lincoln Steffens
“Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”
George Santayana
“I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.”
Harry Callahan
“It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.”
William Orville Douglas
“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”
Ovid
