Top 100 Adventure Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

52. “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.”

— Roman Payne

53. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

— Edward Abbey

54. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

— Lloyd Alexander

55. “True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.”

— Yvon Chouinard

56. “For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There’s a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

57. “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.”

— Bear Grylls

58. “If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.”

— Christopher McCandless

59. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

— Barry Finlay

60. “Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing.”

— John Muir

61. “Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

— Jim Rohn

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

64. “To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

67. “Life is an adventure. It’s not a package tour.”

— Eckhart Tolle

68. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Yvon Chouinard

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

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Yogi Berra

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

— William Blake

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

— John Muir

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Janis Joplin

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Gustave Flaubert

85. “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

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

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Paul Theroux

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

89. “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

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

— Lin Yutang

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

— Pope John Paul II

92. “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

93. “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

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

— Herman Melville

95. “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

96. “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

97. “Journalism combines adventure with culture.”

— Oriana Fallaci

98. “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

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

— William Penn

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

— David Jeremiah