150 Adventure Quotes About Life, Outdoors, Love, and Funny

If you are looking for adventure quotes, you have DEFINITELY come to the right place. I have scoured basically the entire internet for the best quotes about adventure, and laid them all out for you below.

You’ll find 6 main sections with dozens of adventure quotes in each – starting with life adventure quotes which draw comparisons between the feeling of an adventure to one’s outlook on life as a whole (because life is an adventure, of course! :P) .

Next, we have adventure love quotes that liken love and affection to adventure, or speak of adventuring with your loved one. Funny adventure quotes are pretty self-explanatory (they are sure to give you a laugh), and then inspirational adventure quotes will make you want to pack your bag and leave on an adventure right away.

Lastly, we have outdoor + nature adventure quotes that muse about the feelings of the open road, fresh air, and reaching the mountain top, and short adventure quotes for those who are in a bit more of a rush or have less space!

For those on the lookout for captions, you can check out my separate article on Adventure Captions for Insagram and Beyond! I also have Sunset quotes and sunset captions (to complete my blog theme in quotes)!

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Life Adventure Quotes

These life adventure quotes will make you feel inspired to live your life to the fullest.

• “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

This quote by Helen Keller is very famous, but usually only the last sentence is cited. I really enjoyed hearing more of its context!

• “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 – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.”- John Amatt

• “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – Wilfred Peterson

• “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho

• “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle

• “You only live once. It’s actually your duty to live life as fully as possible.” – Will Traynor

• “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” – Richard Branson

• “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.” – Rumi

• “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

• “Blessed are curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

• “Life isn’t safe, remember. But life can be wonderful if you choose adventure rather than fear.” – Chip Gaines

• “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

• “Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.” – Drew Houston

• “It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” – Evelyn Dunbar

• “A good adventure is like a good literature. They both descend to the depths of our souls and they become unforgettable all our lives!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

• “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

• “Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” – Libya Bray

• “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins

• “Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before.” – Richard Aldington

• “May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” – Harley King 

• “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

• “You never discover the unexpected if you always stick with the familiar” ― Jeff Dixon

• “Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – Paul Sheeha

• “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

• “Of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Richard Francis Burton

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

• “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

• “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

• “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe“ – Jim Rohn

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

• “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

• “Life movies pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller

• “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” – W. M. Lewis

• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

• “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” – Vera Nazarian

• Pursuit of a dream is a daring adventure.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

• “No life is more real than the life full of adventure!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

• “The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.” – Joseph Campbell

• “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”– Marty Rubin

• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

• “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” – Conrad Anker

• “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina

• “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – Alan Sachs

• “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

• “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

• “My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.” – Brian Blessed

• “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay 

• “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure” – Bob Bitchin

• “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”– Vincent van Gogh

• “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

• “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.” – Drew Barrymore

• “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

• “Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realize how important it is to use the time I have.” – Viggo Mortensen

• “Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.” – Idowu Koyenikan

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

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

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

• “I love places that make you realize how tiny I and my problems are.” – Unknown

Adventure Love Quotes

These adventure quotes have an element of love or romance to them, or entwine the feeling of love with that of an adventure.

• “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”– A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

• “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder, if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E. Grin

• “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

• “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan Mcgregor

• “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – William Gladstone

• “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

• “Love is meant to be an adventure.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

• “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.” – African Proverb

•  “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie the Pooh

• “Let’s make this marriage our best adventure.” – Unknown

• “So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

• “It doesn’t matter where are you going it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown

• “You keep me safe; I’ll keep you wild.” – Unknown

• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

• “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend takes them with you.” – Unknown

• “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

• “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new with someone you love” – Anonymous

• “Adventure is in the eye of the beholder” – Annie Andre

• “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart 

• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

Funny Adventure Quotes

These funny adventure quotes will make you smile – with some silly jokes or funny comparisons.

• “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

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

• “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

• “The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.” – Paulo Coelho

• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” Charles M. Schulz 

• “Me on the way to work: ‘If I quit my job now I can make it to the airport in 2 hours.‘” – Unknown

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

• “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

• “I just need a large coffee, a one-way plane ticket and a bag full of cash.” – Unknown

• “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss

• “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

• “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.” – Unknown

Inspirational Adventure Quotes

These inspirational adventure quotes will fill you with wanderlust and make you want to get up and go!

• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

• “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” – John Muir

• “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd

• “I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it.” – Alexander Sattler 

• “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

• “Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.” – Josiah Bancroft

• “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

• “Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – Ella Maillar

• “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

• “Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.” – Francis Shenstone

• “I am just a girl chasing her dreams and having an amazing adventure” – Madeline Stuart

• “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

• “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable. – Carew Papritz

• “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

• “Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – Diana Ambarsari

• “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.”– Myles Munro

• “Live life by the abc’s…adventure, bravery and creativity.” – James Thurber

• “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” – Norman Rockwell

• “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N Blount

• “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

• “I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – Eric Roth/F Scott fitzgerald ????

• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin 32

Outdoor + Nature Adventure Quotes

These outdoor and nature adventure quotes will make you want to climb a mountain! They capture the amazing feelings of being in the great outdoors.

• “If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.” – Wilfrid Noyce

• “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir

This is one of the most famous outdoor adventure quotes in the world! John Muir penned quite a few quotes on this list, actually; he was inspired by his trips to California and Yosemite!

• “The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – Rosita Forbes

• “You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” – Jim Whittaker

• “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” – John Lubbock 

• “Real freedom lies in the wilderness, not in civilization.” – Charles Lindbergh

• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”– Jack Kerouac

• “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine

• “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir

• “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”– Greg Child

• “Between two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir

• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”– Sylvia Plath

• “Don’t stay in the harbor and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn’t mean you have to be.” – Joyce Rachelle

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

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

• “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau

• “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin

• “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

• “A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.” – Sir Martin Conway

• “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” – Victoria Erikson

• “There is no WiFi in the forest but I promise you will find a better connection.” – Unknown

Short Adventure Quotes

To finish up the list, here are some short adventure quotes that are simple and to-the-point.

• “Go where you feel most alive.” – Unknown

• “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

• “Life hurts, nature heals.” – Unknown

• “Some call it an adventure, I call it my way of life.” – Unknown

• “Everyday is another adventure!” – Tracee Raptis

• “Now, bring me that horizon..” – Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

• “Adventure: the pursuit of life.” – Jenny Radcliffe

• “To live would be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

• “Get lost in nature and you will find yourself.” – Unknown

• “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.” – Unknown

• “The road listens. It believes in you.” – Foster Kinn

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That’s it for adventure quotes for today! Let me know if you have any more I should add on. Thank you for reading!