Bryant H. McGill Quotes

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

Life is a risk.

You've got to embrace what you don't know.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

It is good to love the unknown.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.