Quotes About The Call To Adventure

#1. There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Joseph Campbell

#2. The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Joseph Campbell

#3. Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

Joseph Campbell

#4. The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

Joseph Campbell

#5. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

Bob Black

#6. The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.

Tracy L. Higley

#7. I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice.

"Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.

Sarah Nicolas

#8. The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing - your call to adventure - is your best tool in that battle.

Bill Jensen

#9. Adventure responds to your call.

Garfield Whyte

#10. The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

R.A. Salvatore

#11. Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

Kenneth Grahame

#12. If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life.

Steve Maraboli

#13. There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Gary Gygax

#14. Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
"That comes
as you call it
of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#16. Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

S.A. Tawks

#17. If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

Joe Bob Briggs

#18. This is the first adventure I've survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I'd call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

#19. Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.

S.A. Tawks

#20. But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#21. Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name
suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

Gina Greenlee

#22. Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Mercedes Lackey

#23. Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?

Tilda Swinton

#24. When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

John Buchan

#25. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Harrison Ford

#26. The call to the creative life is a call to dignity, to a life of vulnerability and adventure and the call to a life that exquisite excitement and indeed ecstasy will often visit.

John O'Donohue

#27. Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories.

David E. Fessenden

#28. But somehow, knowing the Moleskine was tucked away in my bag, containing our thoughts and clues, our imprints to each other, somehow that made me feel safe, like I could have this adventure and not get lost and not call my brother to save me.

Rachel Cohn

#29. Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the adventure inside you found yourself partaking in something wondrous and unfathomably rich.

Liam W. Russell

#30. It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

Sean Patrick

#31. I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet ... So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

Tom Waits

#32. There are five forms of wealth: economic wealth, relationship wealth, physical wealth, adventure wealth and what I call psychic wealth (which is all about filling your life with meaning).

Robin S. Sharma

#33. I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

Rabindranath Tagore

#34. I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

Joan Miro

#35. Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

Aristotle.

#36. Life is an adventurous ride in a train we call time.

Debasish Mridha

#37. You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Brian Blessed

#38. They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

G.S. Jennsen

#39. It was the ideal place where people call 'home.

Erica Sehyun Song

#40. As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that ... adventure travel.

Buzz Aldrin

#41. Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Alice Foote MacDougall