Inspirational Adventure Quotable Quotes

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~ Edwin Powell Hubble

The real trick of life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. ~ Fred Alan Wolf physicist

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Leo Tolstoy

I don't know Marge, trying is the first step towards failure. ~ Homer Simpson

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps. ~ Henry Ford

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. ~ Paulo Coelho

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

And Shakespeare says, "Yes, I quite agree. It was very painful [King Lear's humiliation], and I could have arranged for him to take a sedative at the end of Act I, but then, ma'am, there would have been no play." ~ Malcom Muggeridge

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose to his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. ~ Ayn Rand

It is a common saying that a man needs only six feet of earth. But six feet is what a corpse needs, not a man.... Man needs not six feet of earth, not a farm, but the whole globe, all of nature, where unhindered he can display all the capacities and peculiarities of his free spirit . ~ Anton Chekhov "Gooseberries" 1898

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." ~ Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces"

One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. ~ Henry David Thoreau, US essayist, poet, and naturalist

The greatest successes have always been built by spectacular and often repeated failure. ~ Wade Zawalski, Scott's former housemate

I want to know if you can live with failure... and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the edge of the silver of the full moon, "Yes!" ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer, "The Invitation"

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character! ~ Henry David Thoreau

To die will be an awfully big adventure. ~ Aristotle

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. ~ William Blake

Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway. ~ Webb Chiles

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is NOT what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. ~ Aldous Huxley

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I would rather be ashes than dust! ~ Jack London

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~ Lin Yutang

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Not all those who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ~ Lao Tzu

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

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. ~ D. H. Lawrence

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. ~ Cesare Pavese

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ~ Dagobert D. Runes

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. ~ Moorish proverb

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ~ Jack Kerouac

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ~ Samuel Johnson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ~ Lewis Carroll

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein

Imagination rules the world. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery? ~ Thomas A Kempis

Man is made, or unmade, by himself. In the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

By the right choice and the true application of thought, man ascends to divine perfection. By the abuse and the wrong application of thought he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and their master. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little. He who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

Every man is where he is by the law of his being. The thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This is just as true of those who feel out of harmony with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

A strong man cannot help a weaker, unless that weaker is willing to be helped. And even then the weak man must become strong of himself. He must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None, but himself, can alter his condition. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he commands the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or full of divine promise and confidence than this - that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind and the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions and a heavenly environment. With these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. ~ James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ~ The Buddha

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them. ~ Richard Bach

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~ Martin Luther King

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The Miracle isn't that I finished.......The Miracle is that I had the courage to start. ~ John Bingham

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~ Aart Van Der Leeuw

It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves. ~ Sir Edmond HIllary

Not all those who wander are lost. ~ JRR Tolkien

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~ Mark Twain

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. ~ C.S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew

Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view... more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you... ~ Edward Abbey

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Quest for happiness -- Around the world on a bicycle

New widescreen HD version with never-seen-before footage. A montage of photos and videos from Scott's 4 year, 26,000 mile bicycle tour around the world. Previously a Youtube Feature Video and specially requested for the Boston Bicycle Film Festival showcased on World News Network and more.