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45 Inspiring Quotes, Adventure Quotes and Life Quotes

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

1. “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Author Unknown

2. “I put all my genius into my life. I put only my talent into my work.” –Oscar Wilde

3. “The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”-Paris Hilton

4. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.” –Eminem

6. “I don’t want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.” –Laird Hamilton

7. “As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?” –Charlie Sheen

8. “I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”-Anthony Bourdain

9. “When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” –Rumi

10. “The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzybski

11. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” –Author Unknown

12. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”-Clint Eastwood

13. “Actions speak louder than words.”-Theodore Roosevelt

14. “Adventure is worthwhile.” –Amelia Earhart

15. “Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” – Sun Tzu

16. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”-David Grayson

17. “Chance is the providence of adventurers.”-Napoleon Bonaparte

18. “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” –Voltaire

19. “Go ahead. Be invincible!” –Author Unknown

20. “When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold.” –Atomosphere

21. “All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back.” –Avatar

22. “Drop it like it’s hot.” –Snoop Dogg

23. “The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”-Germaine Greer

24. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” –Leonardo Di Vinci

25. “If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti

26. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” –Andy Warhol

27. “Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.” – 50 Cent

28. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it.” –Unknown Author

29. “Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled.” –Mohammed

30. “Have less. Do more. Be more.” –Author Unknown

31. “The world is an interesting place to the imaginative mind.” – Author Unknown

32. “Wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”-Neil Armstrong

33. “Just do it.”-Nike Slogan

34. “Our truest life is when we are awake in our dreams.” –Author Unknown

35. “Be all that you can be.” –U.S. Army Slogan

36. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

37. “God did not annihilate His son on the cross so that you could live like hell.” –Author Unknown

38. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” –Muhhamed Ali

39. “If you risk nothing you gain nothing.” –Bear Grylls

40. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.” –Tupac Shakur

41. “Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.” –Avatar

42. “Proof is in the pudding.” –Author Unknown

43. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”-Clint Eastwood

44. “I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. Do you?” –Charlie Sheen

45. “Everything I’m not make me everything I am.” –Kanye West

20 Inspiring Adventure Quotes and Quotes About Life

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

1. “Before you try and change the world, let the world change you.” –Semester at Sea Saying

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” –Helen Keller

3. “The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…” –Bear Grylls

4. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”-Dr. Seuss

5. ”You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.” –Lady Gaga

6. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”-James Dean

7. “In life, anything worth taking seriously is worth poking fun at.” –Author Unknown

8. “A man’s actions are a direct testament of his thoughts (live adventurously).”-Author Unknown

9. “However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”-Henry David Thoreau

10. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”-Barack Obama

11. “Put a ding in the universe.” –Steve Jobs

12. “Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.” –Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter

13. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”-Oprah

14. “I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn’t.” –Johnny Knoxville

15. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” –Dr. Seuss

16. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” –Dr. Seuss

17. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” –G.K Chesterton

18. “All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”-Sally Ride

19. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” –Nikki Giovanni

20. “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”-Vincent Van Gogh

50 Best Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by

1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Philosophical Quotes

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop

Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass

I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

There’s more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau

Before enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment – chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu

Vagabonding and Travel Quotes

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Dont take life too seriously…no one comes out alive – Elbert Hubbard

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu

He who knows that he has enough, will always have enough – Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. – Buddha

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope – Edward Abbey

My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau

Always do what you are afraid to do – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

We will not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Elliot

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer

Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there – Unknown

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. – Tim Cahill

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty & well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’ – Hunter S. Thompson

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. – Rudyard Kipling

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling

And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran

25 Kickass Inspirational Quotes about Life

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

1. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself – George Bernard Shaw

2. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain

3. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson

4. We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are – Talmud

5. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back – Arthur Rubinstein

6. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be – Marcel Pagnol

7. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu

8. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive – Howard Thurman

9. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like – Will Rogers

11. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been – Wayne Gretzky

12. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional – Anony-mouse

13. Every man dies. Not every man really lives – William Ross Wallace

14. Life isn’t a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ‘Woohoo WHAT A RIDE’! – Unknown

15. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein

16. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security – John Allen Paulos

17. You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours – F Perl

18. How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware. – Unknown

19. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing – Helen Keller

20. Life is not about kissing ass, it’s about kicking ass! – Unknown

21. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau

22. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself – Harvey Fierstein

23. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are – John Wooden

24. In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away – Shing Xiong

25. Breathe. It’s just a bad day. Not a bad life – Unknown

Inspiring Adventure and Life Quotes

Posted on September 18, 2011 by