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Quotes About Adventure – 50 Best Travel and Adventure Quotes

These quotes about adventure will inspire you to step outside your comfort zone and embrace new experiences! Here's our list of top 50 adventure quotes.

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Adventure Quotes

Take a walk on the wild side, and leap into a life of adventure and travel! This collection of 50 quotes about adventure and traveling will show you there's a different way to live your life.

Whether you want to climb a mountain, cycle around the world, hike in Nepal, or backpack through South America, the first step begins with your imagination. 

So, get ready to be inspired and motivated with this list of the best quotes and captions about adventure!

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen!

– Winnie Pooh

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen! – Winnie Pooh


Great things never come from comfort zones!

Adventure Quotes - Great things never come from comfort zones!


Make your life the best adventure!

Quotes about travel and adventure: Make your life the best adventure!


Every adventure, actually everything in life requires a first step!

Quotes about Adventure: Every adventure, actually everything in life requires a first step!


Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute your experience!

Inspirational Adventure and Travel Quote: Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute your experience!


Failing means you tried something new. That’s a win, not a fail!

Inspiring Quotes: Failing means you tried something new. That’s a win, not a fail!


We have nothing to lose and a world to explore!

Quotes about Exploring and Adventure: We have nothing to lose and a world to explore!


Being nervous is nothing bad. It means, you are trying something you didn’t try before.

Inspirational quote about adventure and life: Being nervous is nothing bad. It means, you are trying something you didn’t try before.


Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Adventure and Sailing quotes: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.


“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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


Adventure Travel Quotes

Here's our next selection of inspiring adventure quotes paired with stunning images. Just the thing to use on a vision board, screen saver or Pinterest board!


“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

“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


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

– Bear Grylls

Life Adventure Quotes - “Life is an adventure and that is best lived boldly.”– Bear Grylls


“Start where you are. Do what you can. Use what you have!”

Motivational Quotes: “Start where you are. Do what you can. Use what you have!”


“Life is a wonderful adventure. Share it with someone special”

“Life is a wonderful adventure. Share it with someone special”


“Relationship status: in love with adventure”

Adventure and Travel Quotes: “Relationship status: in love with adventure”


“Life is one big adventure. Wanna join?”

Adventure Life Quotes - “Life is one big adventure. Wanna join?”


When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

– Thornton Wilder

Adventure Captions - When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. - Thornton Wilder


A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

– Eugene Ionesco

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind - Eugene Ionesco


“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

― G.K. Chesterton

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”― G.K. Chesterton


Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”

― Emily Wing Smith

Adventure traveling quotes - Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”― Emily Wing Smith


Quotes About Adventure

What does adventure mean? I think that whatever takes you outside you comfort zone is an adventure. For some, it's visiting a new country, for others, conquering a mountain!


“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

― George Eliot

Adventure captions - “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”― George Eliot


“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”

― E.M. Forster

Sayings about adventure - “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”― E.M. Forster


“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”

― Jack Kerouac

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”― Jack Kerouac quote


“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”

― Seanan McGuire

Adventure travel caption: “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”― Seanan McGuire


May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”

― Trenton Lee Stewart


One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

― André Gide

quotation - One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”― André Gide


“I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”

― Craig Ferguson

Famous adventure quotes - “I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”― Craig Ferguson


All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”

― Ellen Potter

Funny adventure quotes - All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”― Ellen Potter


Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”

― Antonio Porchia

Best travel captions - Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”― Antonio Porchia


I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”

― Edmund Hillary

Climbing quotes - I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”― Edmund Hillary


Travel and Adventure Quotes

Here's our next selection of adventure and travel captions. We've really enjoyed collecting these for our list!


I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Famous quotes about travel and adventure - I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”― Lloyd Alexander


For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophical quote - For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”― Jean-Paul Sartre


It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.”― Lailah Gifty Akita


I – will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”

― Marc Norman

Quotes about life and adventure - I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”― Marc Norman


A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them…”

― William Petersen

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...”― William Petersen


Go small, go simple, go now”

― Larry Pardey

Go small, go simple, go now”― larry pardey


Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”

― Kij Johnson

Adventure Quote - Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”― Kij Johnson


All adventure is now reactionary.

– William F. Buckley, Jr.

Quote about Adventure - All adventure is now reactionary. William F. Buckley, Jr.


It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

– Edmund Hillary

Funny quote - It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it. - Edmund Hillary


Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

– Douglas Coupland

Bucketlist quotes - Adventure without risk is Disneyland. - Douglas Coupland


Quotes about Travel and Adventure

This is our last section of quotes and sayings about adventure. If you're looking for more travel inspiration, take a look at our other collections at the end of this blog post.


I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. 

– Werner Herzog

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. Werner Herzog


Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

– Shia LaBeouf

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure. Shia LaBeouf


To die will be an awfully big adventure.

– James M. Barrie

To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie


My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

– Kevin Mitnick

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. Kevin Mitnick


Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

– Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Alfred North Whitehead


One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

– William Feather

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather


I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

– Leonard Nimoy

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may. Leonard Nimoy


Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

– Travis Kalanick

Adventure with a purpose is what we do. Travis Kalanick


I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

– Herbie Hancock

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures. Herbie Hancock


“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

― Alexandre Dumas

Adventure seeking quote - “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”― Alexandre Dumas

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