100+ ADVENTURE QUOTES TO INSPIRE WANDERLUST

I love to incorporate some sort of adventure into my travels so thought I would compile a list of adventure quotes. I’m not into scary, crazy adventure, I am more of the soft adventure type of person.

Traveling in itself brings on a lot of adventure. Compiling this list of quotes about adventure is getting me excited and bringing on the itch to travel. Like a song can bring on memories, these quotes on adventure are making me want to pack my travel bags. Do you have a favourite quote on adventure?

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TOP ADVENTURE QUOTES

These quotes about adventure are great to inspire you to go and explore this beautiful world. Whether it is hopping on an airplane to a faraway destination or simply a road trip. These quotes on adventure are also great to use when posting your travel pics on Instagram and Facebook.

FAMOUS ADVENTURE QUOTES

1   “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”― Helen Keller

2    “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta

3    “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling

4    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ― Amelia Earhart

5    “To Travel is to Live” — Hans Christian Andersen

6    “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.” — Bilbo Baggins

7    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll

8    “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” ― Jaime Lyn

9    “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” ― Unknown

10   “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 Pratchet

11  “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” — Marcus Purvis

12   “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu

13  “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be ― Douglas Adams

14   “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin

15   “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” ― Paulo Coelho

16  “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck

17   “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Andre Gide

18   “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ― Mark Twain

SHORT ADVENTURE QUOTES

Sometimes the best adventure quotes are the short and sweet quotes. The journey to any destination can be an adventure in itself. Traveling to any new destination is an adventure.

19   “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” — Bob Bitchin

20   “All good things are wild and free.” ― Henry David Thoreau

21    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin

22   “Life is an adventure, not a package tour” – Eckhart Tolle

 23   “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal!”– Paulo Coelho

24   “If you really want it, you will find a way. If not, you will find excuses.”

 25   “If you are unhappy with it, stop doing it. If you are dreaming about it, do it!”

26    “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

27   “Once upon a time, there was an adventure…!”

28   “To have an adventurous life, we have to lose the fear of failing!”

29   “The journey matters more than the destination.”― Tony Fahkry

30   “Adventure is my best therapy!”

31   “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ― Danny Kaye

32    “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

33   “There is no need to be bored in a world as beautiful as this!”

34   “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

35   “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”― George Eliot

36   “Sometimes getting lost is not a waste of time.”― Unknown

37   “Make your life the best adventure!”

38   “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.”

39   “It’s the little moment that makes life great!”

40   “Only the ones loving adventure, will understand the world!”

41   “If thinking about it makes you excited, imagine actually doing it!”

42   “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”― Sir Edmund Hillary

43   “Oh, the places you’ll go.”— Dr. Seuss

44   “A wish doesn’t change anything. A decision changes everything!”

45   “Take vacations. You can always make money. But you cannot always make memories.”

46   “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.” ― Alexandre Dumas

47   “Life without adventure is like pizza without cheese.” — The Global Castaway

48   “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” — Lovelle Drachman

49   “A tourist looks, a traveler lives!”

50   “In case of emergency, break the routine and take an adventure!”

51   “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”— Unknown

52   “Run towards adventure and not away from it!”

53   “Don’t travel just to see. Travel to try, listen, feel, taste. That way there won’t be any place you cannot find beauty.”

54   “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.” ― Drew Barrymore

 55   “Life happens when you are busy making plans!”

56   “There is no certainty; there is only adventure.” ― Roberto Assagioli

INSPIRING ADVENTURE QUOTES

57   “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” ― John Muir

58   “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.” ― Seanan McGuire

59   “There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing. It’s getting too comfortable. Every day, we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure, and that’s made all the difference.” ― Drew Houston

60   “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey

61   “Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.” ― Scott Borchetta

62   “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” ― Lewis Carroll

63   “I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.” ― Elizabeth Taylor

64   “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” ― Roy T. Bennett

65   “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner…and the world is still full of corners.” ― Roy Chapman Andrews

66   “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.” ― Lao Tzu

67   “Kids are curious, and if you don’t lose that, then everything is an adventure.” ― Diane Greene

68    “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton

69   “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” — Ewan Mcgregor

70   “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

71    “Adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” ― Unknown

72   “Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find.”― William Least Heat-Moon

73   “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.” ― Unknown

74   “A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.” ― Pico Iyer

75   “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!” —Dr. Seuss

76   “You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” — John Muir

77   “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ― Danny Kaye

78   “Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure.” ― Drew Houston

79   “The world is not in your books and maps; it’s out there.” — Gandalf

80   “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

81   “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a top priority.”― Richard Branson

82   “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” ― Barry Finlay

83   “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” ― Christopher McCandless

84   “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

85   “Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.” ― Guy Laliberte

86   “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Aristophanes

87   “Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen, and your life will never begin.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes

88   “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by.” — Robert Frost

89   “Life movies pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller

90   “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.

91   “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” — John G. Shed

MORE QUOTES ON ADVENTURE

92   “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

93   “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher

94   “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” — Sylvia Plath

95   “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

96   “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” — William Feather

97   “There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”― Jawaharlal Nehru

98   “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” — Anthony Bourdain

99   “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ― Christopher McCandless

100  “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

101  “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” ― T.S Eliot

102  “One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” ― Ella Maillart

103  “There’s only one place I want to go, and it’s to all the places I’ve never been to.” ― Nikki Rowe

104  “Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.”   ― Nita Morgan

105  “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

106  “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ― Thomas Alva Edison

107  “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

108   “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.” — Winnie the Pooh

109  “The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” — John Muir

110  “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” — Asian Proverb

111  “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” ― G.K. Chesterton

112  “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

113  “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” — W.M. Lewis

114  “Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.” ― Amelia Earhart

115  “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

116  “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” — A.A. Milne

FUNNY ADVENTURE QUOTES

117   I feel like most of my problems could be solved with an adventure… anywhere.

118   I want to live in a world where searching for plane tickets burns calories.

119   I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% ready for a new adventure.

120   Have you ever stopped to think, maybe adventure is addicted to me?

121   Some people spend their life searching for “the one”. I’m just searching for the one good travel deal.

122   Dear adventure, I think about you all the time.

123   Life is short. Call in sick and book that last-minute flight.

124   My passport is screaming to be stamped.

125   Travitude: when you start to feel grumpy and sassy cause you haven’t traveled in a while.

126   Notriphobia: the fear of not having any adventure booked.

127   I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.

128   I followed my heart and it took me to the airport.

129   If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day private tent on a Safari.

130   No reason to stay is a good reason to go.

131   I am getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach.

132   So much world so little time.

133   I have an insane calling to be where I am not.

134   “You can’t buy happiness” Okay, explain travel then…

135   My favorite memory from childhood is my parents paying for my holidays

136   I just need a large coffee, a one-way plane ticket, and a bag full of cash.

137   Me on the way to work: If I quit my job now I can make it to the airport in 2 hours.

ADVENTURE QUOTES CONCLUSION

There you have it, a list of the top adventure quotes. Do you have a favourite quote about adventure that I should add to my quotes on adventure?

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