These adventure quotes will inspire you. An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or participating in extreme sports.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging adventure quotes, adventure sayings, and adventure proverbs.
Best Adventure Quotes
- “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” ~ Jack Kerouac , Travel adventure quotes
- “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucius
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“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” ~ William Feather
- “There is no certainty; there is only adventure.” ~ Roberto Assagioli
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“Life is a daring adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
- “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
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” ~ Amelia Earhart
- “Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.” ~ Katharine Hepburn
- “Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” ~ Omar N. Bradley
- “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.” ~ Annie Besant
- “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Adventure is worthwhile.” ~ Aristotle
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.” ~ Steve Pavlina
- “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing” ~ Ranulph Fiennes
- “We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” ~ George Eliot
- “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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 , Nature adventure quotes
- “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “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.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.” ~ Edward Abbey
- “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
- “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ~ Danny Kaye
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“Adventure must start with running away from home.” ~ William Bolitho
- “The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.” ~ O. Henry
- “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ~ Martin Buber
- “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. 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
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“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find.” ~ William Least Heat-Moon
- “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” ~ John Muir
- “Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” ~ John Muir
- “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our 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.” ~ Aron Ralston
- “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” ~ William Penn , Adventure quotes friends
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“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” ~ Herman Melville
- “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
- “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ~ Rumi , Adventure quotes love
- “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” ~ Lewis Carroll
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“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.” ~ Carl Jung
- “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
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” ~ Tom Stoppard
- “To me, art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.” ~ Mark Rothko
- “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.” ~ Isak Dinesen
