“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” —Martha Stewart
Below are 50 quotes said by women about bravery, adventure, travel, and growth. I hope these women give you inspiration if you need it, and help you find encouragement wherever you are:
On Bravery
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t
ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” —Nora Roberts
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” —Kate Douglas Wiggin
“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing
the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm
“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” —Gaby Basora
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t
done.” —Lucille Ball
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.” —Daphne Du Maurier
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending
our lives running from it.” —Brene Brown
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without
delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” —Diane von Furstenberg
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop
me.” —Ayn Rand
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” —Gloria Steinem
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay
and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” —Lisa St. Aubin De
Teran
On Adventure
could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” —Caroline Myss
“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The
universe is telling you something.” —Gloria Steinem
“If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.” —Reese Witherspoon
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“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
—Dolly Parton
“If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re
certainly not taking enough business and career chances.” —Sallie
Krawcheck
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed.
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose
to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” ―Cheryl Strayed
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.” —Virginia Rometty
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” —Oprah Winfrey
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so
with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” —Maya Angelou
“Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.” —Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth
knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.” —Elif Safak
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the
day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.”
—Anita Septimus
“Expect the unexpected, and whenever possible, be the unexpected.” —Lynda Berry
“Expect the unexpected, and whenever possible, be the unexpected.” —Lynda Berry
On Travel
“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference
between being fully alive and just existing.” —Holly Morris
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I
exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
—Arianna Huffington
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” —Anaïs
Nin
“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
life?” —Mary Oliver
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
—Mary Louise Alcott
“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference
between being fully alive and just existing.” —Holly Morris
“Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far
you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.” —Heidi Johnson
“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
—Anne Lamott
On Growth
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
—Amelia Earhart
Do you have a favorite quote about bravery, travel, adventure, or growth? Let me know!
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is only enough.” —Mae West
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to
amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” —Mary Oliver
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” —Angelina Jolie
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
—Jodie Foster
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” —Helen Keller
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“It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got
to blast through and have faith.” —Emma Watson
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