Top 100 Adventure Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

2. “The mountains are calling and I must go.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Positive Short Quotes, Passion Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Nature Quotes

3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

4. “The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Beautiful Quotes

5. “By endurance we conquer.”

— Ernest Shackleton

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

6. “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

— Gene Roddenberry

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Future Quotes, Space Quotes

7. “I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

8. “You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

9. “It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes

10. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Journey Quotes

11. “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Journey Quotes

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

— Jon Krakauer

Also featured in: Journey Quotes

13. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

— William G.T. Shedd

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

14. “All good things are wild and free.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Wise Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

15. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Famous Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

16. “Going to the mountains is going home.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Nature Quotes, Mountain Quotes, Destination Quotes

17. “I am prepared to try anything once.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Crazy Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

18. “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.”

— Jimmy Buffett

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Enjoy Life Quotes, Running Quotes

19. “I now walk into the wild.”

— Jon Krakauer

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Nature Quotes

20. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Imagination Quotes

21. “May the Force be with you.”

— George Lucas

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Character Quotes, Space Quotes, Hero Quotes

22. “The only limit is the one you set yourself.”

— Felix Baumgartner

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Challenges Quotes

23. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Path Quotes, Creative Quotes

24. “Why climb Mount Everest? Because it’s there.”

— George Leigh Mallory

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Clever Quotes, Mountain Quotes, Climbing Quotes

25. “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

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Future Quotes, Moving Quotes

26. “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

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

27. “The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

28. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Different Quotes

29. “May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.”

— George Jung

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Destiny Quotes, Good Luck Quotes

30. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Values Quotes, Passion Quotes, Crazy Quotes

31. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

32. “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

33. “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

34. “Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Moving Quotes, Quotes About Home

35. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

— Neil Armstrong

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Space Quotes, History Quotes, Moon Quotes

36. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Firsts Quotes

37. “To die would be an awfully big adventure.”

— J.M. Barrie

38. “Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Survival Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Men, Fear Quotes

39. “The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Destiny Quotes

40. “I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Environment Quotes, Mountain Quotes

41. “The best way to do it, is to do it!”

— Amelia Earhart

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Commitment Quotes, Practice Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

42. “Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Fun Quotes, Weekend Quotes

43. “When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.”

— C.P. Cavafy

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Journey Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes

44. “Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.”

— John Eldredge

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Hero Quotes

45. “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

— Ernest Shackleton

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Problem-Solving Quotes, Survival Quotes

46. “Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.”

— Rick Riordan

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Hero Quotes

47. “No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

— Amelia Earhart

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Freedom Quotes

48. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

— Amelia Earhart

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Journey Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Teaching Quotes

49. “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Journey Quotes

50. “Just can’t wait to get on the road again.”

— Willie Nelson

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, Quotes About Songs, Weekend Quotes, Vacation Quotes