Adventure Quotes

Do you love going on adventures as much as I do? Do you have a fun, exciting trip coming up? Get hyped up with these adventure quotes!

Whether you’re traveling across the country or within your state, with friends, family, or on your own, I’m sure you’ll have a great time. Enjoy!

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“The only way to escape the ordinary is to explore the extraordinary.” — Jon Miksis
“The greatest adventure is the one within.” — Jon Miksis
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” — Yogi Bhajan
“We’re not home-and-hearth people. We’re the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we’re only alive.” — Alexander Eliot
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” — William Least Heat Moon
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“Oh the places you’ll go.” — Dr Seuss
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” — Paul Coelho
“Adventure isn’t all about rowing oceans or climbing mountains. Adventure in its purest form is simply a way of thinking. Live by that philosophy and you’ll make more of the short time we’ve been given on this rock” — Sean Conway
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
“Adventure is a mindset, not a destination.” — Anonymous
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ― Helen Keller
“Adventure is worthwhile.” — Aristotle
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S Eliot
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be” — Douglas Adams
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” — Jack Kerouac
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru
“I’ve done a lot of thinking about fear. For me the crucial question is not how to climb without fear – that’s impossible – but how to deal with it when it creeps into your nerve endings.” — Alex Honnold
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” — Trenton Lee Stewart
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” ― Paulo Coelho
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” — Walt Disney
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” — Anthony Bourdain
“Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” — John Muir
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” — Randy Komisar
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Andre Gide
“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” — Jaime Lyn Beatty
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” — Oscar Wilde
“Being brave or being courageous is really just a matter of how much you want to do something. If you don’t want to do something that much then you won’t be brave enough to do it. If you really want to do something then you will be brave enough to do it” — Hazel Findlay
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” — Erol Ozan
“The shell must break before the bird can fly.” — Alfred Tennyson
“All those who wander are not lost” — JRR Tolkein
“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” — Wilfred Peterson
“The best view comes after the hardest climb.” — Anonymous
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ― Mark Twain
“Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.” — Bear Grylls
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” — Oprah Winfrey
“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” — Irving Wallace
“A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are for” — William Shedd
“When a man is a traveler, the world is his home and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home and all the people are his family.” — Drew Bundini Brown
“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else” — Lawrence Block
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Not till we are completely lost or turned around…do we begin to find ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau
“I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had’.” — Florine Bos
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson
“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” — Marcus Purvis
“Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure” — Bob Bitchin
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” — Angela N Blount
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” — Les Brown
“Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” — Frank Herbert
“Every Mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing” — Barry Findlay
“You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice
“Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.” — John Amatt
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta
“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” — Lewis Carroll
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” — Roy T Bennett
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
“More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I’m trying to go in a different direction. I’m getting closer and closer.” — Dean Potter
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best adventures are the ones that make your heart race and your soul sing.” — Jon Miksis
“To Travel is to Live” — Hans Christian Andersen
“Adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” — Unknown
“Take vacations. Go as many places as you can. Whenever you can. You can always make money. You can’t always make memories.” — Unknown
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” — Mark Jenkins
“When you are in the middle of the Gigantic & Majestic Himalayas, you really find your true place in the Universe. You really figure out how small you are in the grand scheme of things. All your ego completely gets cleaned.” — Kuntal Joisher
“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” — Edward Abbey
“The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination.” — Sal Di Stefano
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” ― Unknown
“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” — Carew Papritz
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.” — Steve Prefontaine
“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than aeroplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” — Charles Lindebergh
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.” — John Lubbock
“An adventure a day keeps the routine away.” — Jon Miksis
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” ― Douglas Adams
“Just Go. Immerse yourself in the beauty of the world. It’s waiting for you!” — Mitchell A. Glass
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.” — Isak Dinesen
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius
“My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.” — Brian Blessed
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” — Richard Branson
“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Cover the earth before it covers you.” — Dagobert Runes
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” — Jack Kerouac
“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” — Ewan McGregor
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” — William Feather
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” — Freya Stark
“‘Average’ is a life less than you’re capable of.” — Jon Acuff
“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored” — David Attenborough
“Then I realized that to be more alive, I had to be less afraid. So I did it. I lost my fear and gained my whole life.” — Anonymous
“You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” — Kirsten Hubbard
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Saint Augustine
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Stephen Covey
“The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what really matters” — Conrad Anker
“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” — Ella Maillart
“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” — A.A. Milne
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” — Karen Gibbs
“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it” — Edmund Hillary
“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
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru
“It is not death most people are afraid of. It is getting to the end of life, only to realize, that you never truly lived.” — Prince Ea
“I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what’s around the corner.” — Jimmy Chin
“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” — Paulo Coelho
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.” ― Alexandre Dumas
“Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer
“I want to be where the sun warms the sky.” — Madonna
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“You only ever grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone.” — Scott Jurek
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.” — T.E. Lawrence
“When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can’t stop him. In our culture we don’t have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk… may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.” — Jon Krakauer
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves. We travel, next, to find ourselves.” — Pico Iyer
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts.” — Yvon Chouinard
“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” — Patrick Rothfuss
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary
“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.” ― Roberto Assagioli
“Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.” — Angelina Jolie
“Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” — Eckhart Tolle
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” — Randy Komisar
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction” — Unknown
“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” — Anonymous
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.” — Navjot Singh Sidhu
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” — Robert Frost
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury
“Set forth on an adventure, it shall be more rewarding than a job could ever be” — Unknown
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills
“Sometimes getting lost is not a waste of time.” ― Unknown
“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” — Eric Roth
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmancher
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” — Babs Hoffman
“To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.” — Tenzing Norgay
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” — John Muir
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“It’s bad manners to keep an adventure waiting.” ― Unknown
“Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” — Mercedes Lackey
“Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.” — Drew Houston
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” — Alfred Wainwright in A Coast to Coast (2003)
“I urge you; go find buildings and mountains and oceans to swallow you whole. They will save you, in a way nothing else can.” — Christopher Poindexter
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Go where you feel most alive.” — Unknown
“What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. It’s the fun of seeing new things, of learning new names and faces, of exploring strange places, and above all, the delight of being alive.” — Freya Stark
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” — William Least Heat Moon
“Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures” — Unknown
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell
“The best opportunities are found only once you’re already in motion.” — Ryan Finley
“In the mountains there is the promise of… something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb…” — Rob Parker
“The journey is the reward.” — Steve Jobs
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.” — Robin S Sharma
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskjold
“I love the places that make you realize how small you and your problems are.” — Anonymous
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” — Michael Jordan
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” — Bill Bryson
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin
“It’s time to remember what it’s like to feel alive.” — Anonymous
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us.” — Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” — Lewis Carroll
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” — Anatole France
“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — David McCullough Jr.
“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad, and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” ― Ernie Harwell
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” — G. K. Chesterton
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir
“Add life to your days, not days to your life.” — Unknown
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.” ― Seanan McGuire
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” — Terry Pratchett
“I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” — Bill Bryson
“Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.” — Captain James Cook
“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” — Steve Pavlina
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”— George Eliot
“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.” — Hunter S Thompson
“Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
“And now I’ll just go, and only worry about the events that lie ahead of me. Day by day, one by one. It is the here and now that counts. What comes next is uncertain in any case. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Ueli Steck
“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” — Casey Neistat
“Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.” ― Scott Borchetta
“Adventure Awaits. Go find it!” — Unknown
“Comfort zones are where adventures go to die.” — Mitchell A. Glass
“I like to leave myself open for beautiful accidents, for strange things to happen, and then I want to pursue those.” — Patrick Rothfuss
“Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury
“May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” — Harley King
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” — Walt Disney
“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.” — Roy Chapman Andrews
“The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.’’ — Joseph Campbell
“Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” — Anonymous
“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.” ― Tim Daly

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