25 Quotes to Inspire Your Next Outdoor Adventure
Looking for more inspiration to get you started on your first (or next) thru hike/section hike/backcountry adventure? Below are some little hunks of inspiration to motivate you to get started and to handle any complications that head your way! Make them your morning mantras, set phone reminders with them throughout the day, or hey, just passively scroll through them because you’re bored and it’s something to do!
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Quit Dreaming and Get Going!
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot, novelist & poet
You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, writer & artist
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ~ Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
If you love life, don’t waste time for time is what life is made up of. ~ Bruce Lee, martial artist & actor
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: The fear of failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho, lyricist & novelist
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; its something you design for the present. ~ Jim Rohn, entrepreneur & motivational speaker
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ~ Meister Eckhart, philosopher
“We should all start to live before we get too old.” ~ Marilyn Monroe, actress & model
Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do. ~ Brian Tracy, motivational speaker & author
Even if you fall on your face, youre still moving forward. ~ Victor Kiam, entrepreneur
Either move or be moved. ~ Ezra Pound, poet
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~ Jim Rohn, entrepreneur & motivational speaker
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.” ~Hunter S. Thompson, author & founder of Gonzo journalism
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Words of Encouragement During Challenging Times
When you feel like quitting think about why you started. ~ Anonymous
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist & poet
Stay committed to your decision, but stay flexible in your approach. ~ Tony Robbins, businessman & author
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, swordsman & ronin
“Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Mark Twain, writer
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ~ Warren Buffett, investor
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ~ Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the U.S.
Breathe. Its just a bad day not a bad life. ~ Anonymous
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, til it seems as if you couldnt hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist & author
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett, novelist & playwright
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. ~ Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ~ Viktor Frankl, author, psychologist & Holocaust survivor
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