The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that’s just fascinating.

Life’s greatest adventure is in doing one’s level best.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Iran is a powerful country. Iran is a big country with a large population, natural resources, human resources. But we are a country that is content with its size, content with its geography. We have not engaged in any military adventures in the past 250 years. We don’t see any of this as Iran trying to dominate this region. We see some people panicking in our region and we believe there is no need to panic. We are prepared to work with all our neighbors to ensure the security and prosperity of our region.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life’s highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn’t a risk that your children can fail, then you haven’t succeeded as a parent.

Every time that I’m challenged with a film I think that I haven’t learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery – the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

I’ve completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I’ve been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

I think I’m open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I’m really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.

It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: ‘Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.