Adventure Quotes - Page 13

• Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

  Ryan North

  Firsts, Steps, First Steps

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

  Peter Høeg

  Inspirational, Travel, Tourism

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.339, Macmillan

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• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Travel, Heart

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.301, The Mountaineers Books

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Eye

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Positivity

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All". Book by Yogi Berra, 2003.

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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  Hanna Rosin

  Discovery, Names, Long

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Home, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Adventure is not outside; it is within.

  Ray Stannard Baker

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Consistency, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

  Homer

  Two, Resolution, Resolve

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.260

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• Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

  Tacitus

  Hazards, Fool, Reckless

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• Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Past, Destiny, Knows

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• Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Stimulus, Experiments

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.507, Harvard University Press

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• And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Flower, Phrases, Literature

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• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Errors

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, America, Office

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.62

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