Adventurer Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Adventurer". There are currently 163 quotes in our collection about Adventurer. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Adventurer!
The best sayings about Adventurer that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

    Life   Happiness   Travel  
    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 07, 2011
  • 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.
  • Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

    Book   Heart   Character  
  • Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

    Dream   Heart   Fighting  
  • The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.

  • A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

    Strong   Giving   World  
    Sarah Orne Jewett (1966). “Deephaven, and other stories”, New College & Univ Pr
  • All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  • I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

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

  • Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

    Morning   May   Firsts  
  • Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

    Cities   Humanity   Today  
  • I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

    Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK
  • There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  • I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

    Life   Inspiring   Views  
    "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.
  • The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

    World   Scar   Brushes  
    Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”
  • As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

    Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic
  • The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

    Artist   Risk   Excess  
    John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.189, Random House
  • 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
  • Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

  • The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

  • It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

    Life   Travel   Adventure  
  • It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

  • I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.

    Country   Jobs   Military  
  • There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

    Travel   Adventure   Two  
    William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.59, Hachette UK
  • This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

    Want   Aviation   Flight  
  • Man is a thought-adventurer.

    D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.281, Jester House Publishing
  • Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

    Effort   Berries   Matter  
    Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
  • There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  • Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

    Dream   Architect   Wells  
  • It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

Page 1 of 6
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • We hope our collection of Adventurer quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Adventurer is constantly growing (today it includes 163 sayings from famous people about Adventurer), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Adventurer!