The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

— Aesop

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

— Byron, Lord

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

— Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Adventure is worthwhile.

— Earhart, Amelia

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.

— Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

— Farquhar, George

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

— Gogh, Vincent Van

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

— Grayson, David

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

— Jung, Carl

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.

— Nehru, Jawaharlal

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

— Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

— Sterne, Laurence

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

— Tagore, Rabindranath

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

— Trogdon, William

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

— Voltaire

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

— Whitehead, Alfred North

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

— Wilder, Thornton

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.

— Woolf, Virginia