Top 101 Adventurer Quotes & Sayings

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.

I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

I'm an adventurer. There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd love to do an Angelina Jolie and dress in lycra and kick the crap out of somebody in a movie. It doesn't matter how rubbish the script is.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.

I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

She's a real adventurer, my mother.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch what we eat.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

…not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.