Top 35 Adventure Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure.”

— Jim Rohn

2. “To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

Also featured in: Travel Quotes

3. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Hiking Quotes

4. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes

5. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Travel Quotes

6. “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.”

— Eckhart Tolle

7. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Running Quotes, Travel Quotes

8. “It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong.”

— Yvon Chouinard

9. “You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure...”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Beautiful Quotes

10. “The adventure of life is to learn...”

— William Arthur Ward

11. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Travel Quotes, Country Quotes

12. “The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Stress Quotes

13. “Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly – all these make for great stories.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

14. “Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

— Yogi Berra

Also featured in: Humble Quotes

15. “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”

— William Blake

16. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Nature Quotes

17. “Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn’t you have fun at work?”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Fun Quotes, Quotes About Home

18. “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

— James Joyce

Also featured in: Real Quotes

19. “In that world, you’ll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Quotes About Childhood

20. “I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

— Louisa May Alcott

21. “You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.”

— Janis Joplin

Also featured in: Worry Quotes

22. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

— Jane Austen

Also featured in: Travel Quotes

23. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Also featured in: Travel Quotes

24. “There are so many adventures that you miss because you’re waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.”

— Randall Munroe

25. “None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.”

— Pearl S. Buck

26. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”

— Paul Theroux

27. “You aren’t nearly through this adventure yet.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

28. “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

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Travel Quotes

29. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

— Lin Yutang

Also featured in: Travel Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Quotes About Home

30. “Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.”

— Pope John Paul II

31. “I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Challenges Quotes

32. “All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying

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

— Herman Melville

Also featured in: Quotes About Laughing, Quotes About Laughter

34. “The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.”

— Yvon Chouinard

35. “My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.”

— Louise Hay

36. “Journalism combines adventure with culture.”

— Oriana Fallaci

37. “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Travel Quotes, Hate Quotes

38. “The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.”

— William Penn

39. “The greatest adventure in life – knowing God – begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a “Hallelujah!””

— David Jeremiah