150 Adventure Quotes to Put a FIRE Under Your Butt

The Best Adventure Quotes Collection

There’s nothing quite like a list of adventure quotes to inspire you.

Whenever I need something to jolt me out of the status quo (and off the couch), I scout the internet for the best adventure quotes.

Life, after all, is a series of everyday adventures. Be it in finding the courage to start something new, daring to get out of your comfort zone, or seeking out a solid reason to pursue a life of travel.

To explore.

To get in touch with nature and all things wild.

Merriam Webster defines ‘adventure’ as:

“ an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.”

I do feel, however, that the definition misses out on capturing the rewards of an adventurous undertaking.

Which is why adventure quotes from some of the most learned sources in history can teach us the merits of making difficult choices and flying in the face of conformity.

Below, I’ve made a collection of adventure quotes and you’re free to read and save them for inspiration. Whether you need a nudge to book a one-way flight ticket to Thailand, to start a business, to write a book, or to just get outside and feel the sun on your skin – these are quotes and sayings from people who dared, and lived to tell the tale.

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FAMOUS ADVENTURE QUOTES

1. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

2. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!”
― Dr. Seuss

3. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

4. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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

6. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Saint Augustine

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

8. “Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis

9. “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

10. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

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

12. “Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
― Dead Poets Society

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

14. “Let’s step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling

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

16. “One way to make the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
― William Feather

TRAVEL ADVENTURE QUOTES

17. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.”
―Bill Byson

Bill Bryson is easily one of my favorite travel writers. He can crack me up, make me nostalgic, leave me in wonder and fill my heart with deep wanderlust – all that over the course of a few pages. His writing is immensely emotive. 

The above travel quote especially hits home. The feeling of being a stranger in a new city, and exchanging smiles with other strangers along the way, is liberating. There’s so much to explore. It’s a brand new adventure.

18. “Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.”
― Jon Krakauer

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

20. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”
― Stephen Covey

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

22. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

23. “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be, lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Ma Jian

24. “Travel Opens Your Heart, Broadens Your Mind And Fills Your Life With Stories To Tell.”
― Paula Bendfeldt

25.  “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

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

27. “Live life with no excuses. Travel with no regrets.”
― Oscar Wilde

28. “Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.”
― Paul Theroux

29. “Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.”
―  Unknown

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

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SHORT ADVENTURE QUOTES

31. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan

32. “Go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

33. “The world is too big to tell just one story.”
― Unknown

34. “Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.”
― Lovelle Drachman

35. “First, think. Second, dream. Third, believe. And finally, dare.”
― Walt Disney

36. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller

37. “Never try, never know!”
― John Barrow

38. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan

39. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

40. “Don’t exist. Live. Get out, explore.”
― Brian Krans

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

42. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.”
― Sue Fitzmaurice

43. “Collect moments, not things.”
― Karen Salmansohn

44. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.”
― Steve Pavlina

45. “What is life but one grand adventure!”
― Unknown

46. “One day this will be twenty years ago.”
― Bill Bryson

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

48. “What fills the eyes fills the heart.”
― Irish proverb

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

50. “Life is an adventure… dare it!”
― Mother Teresa

51. “Go where you feel most alive.”
― Unknown

52. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”
― Unknown

53. “Say yes to new adventures.”
― Ian Fleming

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FUNNY ADVENTURE QUOTES

54. “Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.”
― J. Maarten Troost

55. “I Do Believe It Is Time For Another Adventure.”
― Unknown

56. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville

57. “My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.”
― V.S. Naipaul

58. “I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.”
― Unknown

59. “Everywhere is within walking distance.”
― Steven Wright

60. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.”
― Paulo Coelho

61. “I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had’.”
― Florine Bos

62. “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.”
― Eckhart Tolle

63. “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

64. “It’s not an adventure unless something goes wrong.”
― Yvon Chouinard

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NEW ADVENTURE QUOTES

65. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao-Tzu

66. “As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.”
― Rumi

67. “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

68. “I’m choosing happiness over suffering.
I know I am.
I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

69. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
― Jack Kerouac

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

71. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream another dream.”
― C.S. Lewis

72. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
― Paulo Coelho

73. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
― John Augustus Shedd

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

75. “In my life I’ve discovered that if I cling to the notion that something’s not possible, I’m arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.”
― Gay Hendriks

76. “What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

77. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
― John C. Maxwell

78. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
― Robin S. Sharma

ADVENTURE QUOTES FOR COUPLES

79. “We had no idea we were creating memories. We thought we were just having fun.”
― Winnie the Pooh

80. “Let’s wander where the WIFI is weak.”

81. “Let’s find some beautiful places to get lost together.”

82. “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.”

83. “You keep me safe, I’ll keep you wild.”

84. “I don’t want to be tied down to someone. I want to be set free with someone.”

85. “What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.”
― Robert Brault

86. “We were together. I forgot the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

87. “So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned.”
― J.M. Barrie

88. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

89. “Love is meant to be an adventure.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

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

FAMILY ADVENTURE QUOTES

Having a family shouldn’t be a reason to stop having adventures. It should be a reason to start having them, instead!

This list also includes adventure quotes for kids.

91. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
― Leigh Hunt

92. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”

93. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”
― Lewis Carroll

94. “Everyday we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

95. “The family that travels together, stays together.”

96. “Kids won’t remember their best day of television.”

97. “The world is your playground.”
― Nicole Williams

98. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.”
― John Lubbock

99. “Life happens when you’re busy making plans.”
― John Lennon

100. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.”

101. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
― Francis Bacon

102. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.”
― Hodding Carter

ADVENTURE QUOTES WITH FRIENDS

103. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
― Unknown

104. “Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.”
―  Patrick Lindsay

105. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”
― Tim Cahill

106. “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
―  African proverb

107. “Adventures are better when shared.”
― Tanya Bindra

108. “Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.”
― Unknown

109. “There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.”
― Jim Henson

110. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
― Shirley MacLaine

111. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
― Izaak Walton

ADVENTURE QUOTES FOR WOMEN

112. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”
― Cheryl Strayed

113. “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.”
― Mae West

114. “Fancy clothes and a diamond ring? No, honey, passport, tickets and a backpack.”

115. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
― Maya Angelou

116. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

117. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.”
― Norma Shearer

NATURE ADVENTURE QUOTES

118. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
― Henry David Thoreau

119. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

120. “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.”
― Toni Morrison

121. “The Earth Has Music For Those Who Listen.”
― William Shakespeare

122. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
― Sir Edmund Hillary

123. “Sky above, earth below, peace within.”
― Unknown

124. “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

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

126. “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and winds long to play with your hair.”
― Kahli Gibran

127. “Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
― Walt Whitman

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

129. “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

130. “The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.”
― Nancy Newhall

131. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

132. “A walk in nature walks the soul back home.”
― Mary Davis

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MORE ADVENTURE QUOTES

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

134. “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

135. “Every once in a while, I hope you remember to let life blow you away a bit.”
― Tanya Bindra

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

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

138. “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

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

140. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
― Seth Godin

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

142. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”
― Marcus Purvis

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

144. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”
― Grace Lichtenstein

145. “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

146. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

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

148. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.”
― Karen Gibbs

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

150. “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

Which of these adventure quotes resonated the most with you? 
Do you have more inspiring quotes about life and adventure that you would like to share? Drop them below in the comments. Cheers to sharing that spirit of adventure!