Saying about Adventure
Who seeks adventures finds blows. ~ German Proverbs
Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Venture all; see what fate brings. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
Venture a small fish to catch a much greater one. ~ English Proverbs
Try the ice before you venture on it. ~ American Proverbs
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~ Traditional Proverb
Deep swimmers and high climbers usually don’t die in their beds. ~ Dutch Proverb
Adventures are to the adventurous. ~ English Proverb
Quotations about Adventure
The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, “Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.” And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish. ~ Thornton Wilder
Adventure is a state of mind and spirit. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. ~ Jacqueline Cochran
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous. ~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. ~ Richard M. DeVos
The only difference between fear and adventure is how much you breathe. ~ Rob Kalnitsky
It is very difficult to generalize. Everyone’s adventure is original. ~ Bernard Pivot
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ~ George Eliot
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. ~ David Herbert Lawrence
Chance is the providence of adventurers. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ Norman Cousins
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Each child is an adventure into a better life –an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. ~ Voltaire
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ~ Charles De Montesquieu
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. ~ Che Guevara
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. ~ Irving Wallace
We love because it’s the only true adventure. ~ William Gladstone
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. ~ William James
Each venture is a new beginning. ~ T. S. Eliot
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit. ~ Jacqueline Cochran
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.~ Francis Bacon
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs. ~ Vance Havner
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ~ Carl Sandburg
The unknown puts adventure into life…. The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. ~ Eli Stanley Jones
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture challenging the whole of the personality. ~ Carl Jung
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickened of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. ~ Lord Byron
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ~ Emily Dickinson
Adventure may hurt but monotony will kill you. ~ Author Unknown
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life. ~ John Bradshaw
To die will be an awfully big adventure. ~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ Helen Keller
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. ~ Vincent van Gogh
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always. ~ James Alan Gardner
Death is just life’s next big adventure. ~ J. K. Rowling
Faith is the soul’s adventure. ~ William Bridges
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. ~ Lorraine Anderson
Trust the actions and impulses of your soul-venture bravely and all is well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim. ~ Charlotte Curtis
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ~ Thornton Wilder
The brave venture anything. ~ Author Unknown
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. ~ Horace
Let the spirit of adventure set the tone. ~ Author Unknown
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ~ Charles Frohman
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. ~ Laurence Sterne
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Nothing ventured, nothing gained — but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere. ~ Peter Wastholm
Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid. ~ Professor Bernie
Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find. ~ William Least Heat-Moon
The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started. ~ Author Unknown
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ~ Bertrand Russell
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~ Edwin Powell Hubble
Adventure without risk is Disneyland. ~ Doug Coupland
One of the advantages of defeat in life — maybe the main advantage — is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat… invariably leads to new adventures. ~ James Reston
Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ~ Peter Mcwilliams
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. ~ Carrie Chapman Catt
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. ~ William Feather
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing. ~ Herodotus
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down. ~ Allen H. Neuharth
Adventure is worthwhile. ~ Aesop
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ~ S. T. Coleridge
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it. ~ Juliette Binoche
It’s when you’re safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ~ Thornton Wilder
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It’s difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it’s the greatest gift we have. ~ Jon Voight
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ~ Amelia Earhart
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we didn’t live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt, but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. ~ Virginia Woolf
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ~ Jacob Bronowski
Adventure is just bad planning. ~ Roald Amundsen
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves. ~ André Gide
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ~ David Grayson
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ~ Frank Gifford
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. ~ Eugene Ionesco
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t. ~ William Trogdon