Venture Quotes - Page 4

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Drop it like it's hot.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.