Adventurers Quotes

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. - Alexandra Ripley

We will fly again. It's important to us as adventurers and explorers . . . The nation needs a vision. - Bill Nelson

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. - Lakhdar Brahimi

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. - Steve Fossett

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. - William Trogdon

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. - John Updike

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence. - James Joyce

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. - Charles De Montesquieu