Top 1200 Great Adventure Quotes & Sayings

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.

Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said 'Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,' then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

Even my fiction novels are all about outdoor adventure, and have plenty of information to encourage the reader to get interested in adventure and conservation.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

I'd worked with Matt Strevens on 'Adventure in Space and Time' and he's a great friend of mine.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

One thing I can say about pursuing a career in the arts is, it is an adventure - a beautiful, intimidating, and fulfilling adventure.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

Life is adventure. Travel is adventure at a different address.

It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I would be honest when I say that the adventure element in my life was introduced by Abhinav. He really enjoys pushing his limits when it comes to adventure sports.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.