Ben Saunders Quotes

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

I accept any challenge, so challenge me

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

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.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.