Whether it’s hiking to the top of a mountain, kayaking down a river, or simply hiking into the middle of nowhere, we love a good adventure. Although it doesn’t always have to be about getting outdoors, sometimes it’s taking on a new role that can really take you out of your comfort zone.
Whenever you’re feeling like you need a little push to start your next adventure, you can look through these quotes for inspiration and perhaps a little bit of courage!
Here are our favourite quotes about adventure.
We hope you enjoy them.
120 Adventure Quotes
“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
- Paulo Coelho
“The best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventure”
- Anonymous but usually attributed to Lewis Carroll
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal!”
- Paulo Coelho
‘’The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!' to your adventure.’’
- Joseph Campbell
“If happiness is the goal - and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.”
- Richard Branson
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
- J.K. Rowling
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
- Anthony Bourdain
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”
- Freya Stark
“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.”
- Jaime Lyn
“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
“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
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
- Seth Godin
“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
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
- Amelia Earhart
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Andre Gide
“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”
- Marcus Purvis
“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
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
- T.S Eliot
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
- George Eliot
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
- Jack Kerouac
“You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.”
- Sue Fitzmaurice
“Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe“
- Jim Rohn
“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”
- Roy T. Bennett
“Be careful going in search of adventure - it’s ridiculously easy to find.”
- William Least Heat-Moon
“Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life”
- John Amat
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.”
- Michael Jordan
“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”
- Roberto Assagioli
“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”
- Casey Neistat
“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.”
- Ewan Mcgregor
“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner… and the world is still full of corners.”
- Roy Chapman Andrews
“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.”
- Steve Pavlina
“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
- Danny Kaye
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
- W.M. Lewis
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.”
- Karen Gibbs
“Life is an adventure and that is best lived boldly.”
- Bear Grylls
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
- Lewis Carroll
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
- Marty Rubin
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
- George Eliot
“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
“Oh, the places you’ll go.”
- Dr. Seuss
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”
- Lovelle Drachman
“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”
- Ernest Shackleton
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
- William Feather
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.”
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”
- Stephen Covey
“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
“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
“Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”
- Emily Wing Smith
“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 a competence.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
- Seanan McGuire
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”
- Babs Hoffman
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
- Trenton Lee Stewart
“I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it.”
- Alexander Sattler
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
- James Cook
“Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.”
- Scott Borchetta
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.”
- Sir Richard Burton
“My only fear is that I might awaken in my bed, destined to live a common life once again.”
- Marco Polo
“Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.”
- Guy Laliberte
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
- Charles Darwin
“Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, and to truly see that impossible is just a word.”
- Richard Branson
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”
- Mark Jenkins
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
- Alan Keightley
“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
- Vincent van Gogh
“The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
- Dalai Lama
“May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.”
- Harley King
“Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure.”
- Drew Houston
“The mountains are calling and I must go”
- John Muir
“There’s only one place I want to go, and it’s to all the places I’ve never been to.”
- Nikki Rowe
“How wild it was to let it be.”
- Cheryl Strayed
“If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.”
- Wilfrid Noyce
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”
- Robin S. Sharma
“There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.”
- C.S. Lewis
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
- Amelia Earhart
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.”
- Mandy Hale
“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”
- Jennifer Lee
“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
- Jawaharlal Nehru
“And then there is the greatest risk of all - the risk of not spending your life doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom later to do it.”
- Randy Komisar
“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
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
- Neale Donald Walsch
“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible”
- Thornton Wilder
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”
- Frank Herbert
“Adventure, without it, why live?”
- Hortense Odlum
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
- Lao Tzu
“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
“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”
- Roy T. Bennett
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
- John C. Maxwell
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
- Alan Sachs
“Take every chance you get in life because some things only happen once.”
- Karen Gibbs
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Better an oops than a what if”
- Beau Taplin
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing”
- Barry Finlay
“Live your life by a compass not a clock.”
- Stephen Covey
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- Mae West
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
- Katharine Hepburn
“Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.”
- Drew Houston
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”
- Shanti
“Your comfort zone is your danger zone.”
- Greg Plitt
“Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.”
- Eckhart Tolle
“Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.”
- Jim Rohn
“If it’s both terrifying and amazing then you should definitely pursue it.”
- Erada
“It’s never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.”
- Robert Kurson
“I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.”
- Jim Dale
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
- T.S Eliott
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”
- Rachel Wolchin
“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.”
- Irving Wallace
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had”
- St. Augustine
“To live would be an awfully big adventure.”
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.”
- Nita Morgan
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
- Jack Kerouac
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