2,981 Quotes About Adventure

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

I?m 57 years old and there are adventures out there for me.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.