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Last updated on October 21, 2020 By Dave Briggs Leave a Comment

Travel and Adventure Quotes – Motivational Quotes For Inspiration

The best travel and adventure quotes to inspire your next journey. These motivational adventure and travel quotes can change your life and enable you to see the world through new eyes!

The Best Travel and Adventure Quotes

Adventure and Travel Quotes

Here's another collection of my favourite quotes about travel and adventure. Each one has been matched with a beautiful image to add to the inspiration.

I've always found the looking at images, reading about destinations, and immersing myself in thoughtful travel and adventure quotes is a great way to get ‘in the zone' before a big trip.

I did this before cycling from Alaska to Argentina, and before cycling across Europe from Greece to England. I hope these travel quotes have the same effect on you!

Adventure Quotes

Travel Quote: Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

– Amelia Earhart


Travel and adventure quote: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

-F. Scott Fitzgerald


Adventure and Travel quote: The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.’’

– Casey Neistat


Motivational Travel Quote: How wild it was, to let it be.

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed


Motivational Adventure Quote: If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.

“If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.”

– Jimmy Chin


Motivational Travel and Adventure Quote: Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

— Andy Rooney


Motivational Adventure and Travel Quote: Don't ask for security, ask for adventure.

“Don't ask for security, ask for adventure.”


Inspirational Travel Quote - Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

― David McCullough Jr.


Inspirational Adventure Quote - I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

“I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.”

— Tenzing Norgay


Inspirational Travel and Adventure Quote - Go where you feel most alive.

“Go where you feel most alive.”

— Unknown


Inspirational Adventure and Travel Quote - Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

—Dag Hammarskjold


Travel Quote - Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains

“Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains”

— Dee Brown


Mountains and Adventure quote - Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

—Reinhold Messner


Travel Quotes

Best Travel Quotes - To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”

– Freya Stark


Outdoor Adventure Quotes - You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

“You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.”

— Jim Whittaker


Adventure Travel Quotes - 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.

“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


Quotes about Adventure ravel - Adventure: An undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

“Adventure: An undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.”

-Meriem Webster


Quotes about Travel - Not all girls are made of sugar and spice, and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, fine beer, brains and no fear.

“Not all girls are made of sugar and spice, and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, fine beer, brains and no fear.“

– Unknown


Top inspirational quote - Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.

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

– Karen Gibbs


Winnie the Pooh Quote - As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen

“As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen”

– Winnie the Pooh


Sailing adventure quote - A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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

– John Augustus Shedd


Quotes about Travel and Adventure

Quote about Traveling - I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

– Carew Papritz


Digital Nomad Quote - If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.

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

– Rachel Wolchin


Quote about travel and adventure - Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

– Marty Rubin


Happiness and Travel quote - You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.

“You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.”

– Katrina Mayer


Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

– Anthony Bourdain


Follow your dreams quote

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

– Oprah Winfrey


A life of travel and adventure - Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life

“Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life”

– John Amat


Winnie the Pooh quote - You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Winnie The Pooh


Inspirational Adventure Quotes

Here is another selection of adventure quotes.

Adventure quotes - The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

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

– Paulo Coelho


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

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

– William Feather


Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

-T.S Eliot


Philosophical quote - The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt


To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

-Bill Bryson


Traveling quote - People don’t take trips, trips take people.

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

– John Steinbeck


Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”

– Robert Frost


Excitement and Adventure quote - Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.”

– Irving Wallace


When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”

– A.A. Milnie


Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

– Helen Keller


Adventure is worthwhile.

“Adventure is worthwhile.”

– Aesop


Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

– Ernest Hemingway


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