Adventurous Quotes

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  • Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

    Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press
  • One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

    "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.
  • People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

    "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.
  • You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

    Artist   Thinking   Roles  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.277, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that would have been sick. But right now, China is way more adventurous for me.

  • The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

    Father   Home   Character  
  • I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

    Real   Thinking   Miracle  
    Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Do not follow where the path may lead.

  • A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

    Romance   Tasks   Merit  
    Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.87, Booklassic
  • I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

    Mom   Kids   Games  
    "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.
  • I was talking to the great Armen Ra, the world's most renowned theremin player, and he told me, "I don't trust old people that do drugs, but I don't trust young people that don't do them." I think what he meant by that is that you've got to be young, you've got to be adventurous and experimental. I'm certainly not asking any of my fans or kids to do drugs, but I certainly wouldn't judge them for doing them.

    Kids   Player   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

    Fun   Dad   Men  
    "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.
  • The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  • As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

    Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
  • Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

  • I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  • 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.

    "Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.
  • I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

  • I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

    Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.
  • Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

    Self   Trying   Done  
    Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”
  • One should not be adventurous being a woman.

  • I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

  • We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?

    Mind   Trying   Scratches  
  • One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

    Love   Dream   Adventure  
  • Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber
  • I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

  • Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

    Stars   Men   Challenges  
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