Adventure Quotes, Sayings, Advice
Good adventure quotes can inspire you to be brave, go on a journey, or step out of your comfort zone.
Going on an adventure is bold, risky, and memorable. Remember, adventure is always out there. You have to find it!
Embrace a challenge and get the most out of life. Dare to take that first step!
Best Adventure Quotes
1.) Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.
Jaime Lyn
2.) People don’t take trips, trips take people.
John Steinbeck
3.) Only the ones loving adventure will understand the world.
Unknown
4.) 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
5.) If happiness is the goal—and it should be—then adventures should be the top priority.
Richard Branson
6.) 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
7.) Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.
Steve Pavlina
Amazing Exploits Quotations
8.) As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.
Winnie the Pooh
9.) An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. Chesterton
10.) Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes
11.) The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.
Rich Ridgeway
12.) Adventure is worthwhile.
Aesop
13.) Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.
Lewis Carroll
14.) Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.
Roy Chapman Andrews
15.) Spontaneity is the best kind of adventure.
Unknown
16.) Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.
Erol Ozan
17.) If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal!
Paulo Coelho
18.) Adventure is in the eye of the beholder.
Annie Andre
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Inspirational Adventure Quotes
19.) 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
20.) Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
Unknown
21.) Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
Ewan Mcgregor
22.) You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.
Sue Fitzmaurice
23.) 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
24.) The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Christopher McCandless
25.) It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
26.) A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Dare to Be Great Adventure Quotes
27.) Adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.
Unknown
28.) Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J.K. Rowling
29.) It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement, there is life, and in change, there is power.
Alan Cohen
30.) Run towards adventure and not away from it!
Unknown
31.) Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace
32.) Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Alfred North Whitehead
33.) If you don’t go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen, and your life will never begin.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
34.) You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
35.) 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
Live Life Sayings
36.) Your adventures take you further than your fears.
Unknown
37.) Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38.) The journey, not the arrival matters.
T.S. Eliot
39.) I do not have the slightest clue what I am doing…that’s the adventure…I stopped worrying about it…that’s the beauty.
Jason King
40.) Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts; it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Anthony Bourdain
41.) Every adventure, actually everything in life, requires a first step.
Unknown
42.) The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, and to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
Eleanor Roosevelt
43.) 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
44.) Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
Mark Jenkins
About Life Adventure Quotes
45.) Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
46.) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
47.) 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
48.) May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
49.) I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.
Carew Papritz
50.) 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
51.) 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
52.) Because In The End, You Won’t Remember The Time You Spent Working In An Office Or Mowing Your Lawn. Climb That Damn Mountain.
Jack Kerouak
Embrace Daring Adventures
53.) Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.
Unknown
54.) Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that’s part of the fun – the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn’t allow us to enjoy the adventure.
Patrick Lencioni
55.) One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
56.) To live will be an awfully big adventure.
Peter Pan
57.) You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
Karen Blixen
58.) Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure and go ever upward.
Drew Houston
59.) Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
Babs Hoffman
Adventure Travel Quotes
60.) The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
61.) I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
Robert Louis Stevenson
62.) 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
63.) Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.
Lovelle Drachman
64.) To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
Freya Stark
65.) There’s only one place I want to go, and it’s to all the places I’ve never been to.
Nikki Rowe
66.) Travel is not really about leaving our homes but leaving our habits.
Pico Iyer
67.) The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.
Paulo Coelho
68.) 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 Iver
69.) The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell
Live Your Dreams
70.) The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
71.) 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
72.) A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
English Proverb
73.) Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.
Unknown
74.) Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
Unknown
75.) 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
76.) The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
77.) Of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
Richard Francis Burton
78.) 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
Best Travel Quotes
79.) Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot
80.) So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
Jack Kerouac
81.) Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
Bo Bitchin
82.) I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
83.) A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
Lao Tzu
Adventure Instagram Captions
84.) Come get lost with me.
85.) Never stop exploring.
86.) Go for it!
87.) Go where you feel most alive.
88.) Every day is an opportunity to explore somewhere.
89.) Wild and free.
90.) Adventuring is an action verb.
91.) So many countries, so little time.
92.) Cover the earth before the earth covers you.
93.) Life is short; travel more.
94.) The adventure begins where the comfort zone ends.
95.) Dare to explore.
96.) Follow your heart and follow your dreams.
97.) Paradise looks just like this.
98.) Sure, I climb mountains — on Netflix.
99.) Playing it safe is a gamble, too.
100.) Canoe more, worry less.
101.) Good friends and great adventures.
102.) Take the high road.
103.) Go Wild!
How To Use These Adventure Quotes
These adventure quotes make great photo captions for Instagram, Facebook, and other social media. You might also consider using a favorite quote for your email sign-off after your name and contact information.
Great quotes make good book chapter headings and can also be used in introductions to speeches and closings for presentations.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He’s the author of Best Sports Slogans and Captions. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and authored four books on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market — most of them dealing with wordplay.
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