Quotes on Inspirational Adventure

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.