Adventurous Spirit Quotes

• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

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

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Adventure, Doors, Looks

  Twitter post from May 05, 2013

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Aron Ralston

  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventurous Life, New Experiences, Monotonous Life

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Reality

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

  Christopher McCandless

  Men, Reality, Adventurous Life

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Men, Land, Stories

  "The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory". Book by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, June 29, 2000.

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• I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Heart, Spirit, Adventurous

  "The Real Sonia Sotomayor". "NBC Today Show" with Savannah Guthrie, nbclearn.com. January 15, 2013.

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Dark, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.320, Discovery House

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• I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: medium.com

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• There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

  Lizzy Caplan

  People, Spirit, Adventurous

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Romance, Tasks, Merit

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.87, Booklassic

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• So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discovery, Land, Sailor

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.68, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Jeri Brown has it all - adventurous spirit, superb musicianship, and technique to spare.

  Fred Hersch

  Technique, Spirit, Adventurous

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• There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.

  Doug Stanhope

  Lines, Spirit, Adventurous

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• Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we've had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, United States, Spirit

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Ambition, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.277, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Strong, Reading, Moving

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Innovation, Age

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