Adventurous Spirit Quotes

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

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.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every stoplight on the way out of town. "Put your back into it!" Gansey shouted breathlessly. He was talking to himself, of course, or to the gearbox. "Don't let it smell fear on you!" Blue wailed each time the engine revved up, but not unhappily. Noah played the drums on the back of Ronan's headrest. Adam, for his part, was not wild, but he did his best not to appear unwild, so as not to ruin it for the others.

The truth is, I've got a naturally outgoing nature, and I still have a great love for experimentation.

I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.

I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.