Here’s a list of the most inspirational adventure quotes that have left a lasting impact on my life. They’re from the famous, not so famous, and the unknown. I hope they will have an impact on your life as well and motivate you to get out there and explore!
1 – “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu
2 – “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry
3 – “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide
4 -“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ― Jawaharial Nehru
5 -“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Anonymous
5 -“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” ― Moorish proverb
7 -“The journey not the arrival matters.” ― T.S. Eliot
8 -“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart
9 -“I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in.” ― Rowland Waring-Flood
10 -“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
11 -“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”— Albert Einstein
12 -“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”— Hunter S. Thompson
13 -“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of.” ― Louis C.K.
14 -“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ― Hilaire Belloc
15 -“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
16 -“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
17 -“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, and the Half-Blood Prince
18 -“To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.” ― Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me
19 -“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” ” Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
20 -“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
21 -“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey
22 -“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” ― G.K. Chesterton
23 -“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
24 -“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ― Aldous Huxley
25 -“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ― Albert Einstein
26 -“Travel teaches toleration.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
27 -“Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.” ― Unknown
28 -“The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” ― Saint Augustine
29 -“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
30 -“Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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.” ― JRR Tolkien
31 -“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ― Hilaire Belloc
32 -“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ― Samuel Johnson
33 -“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” ― Paul Fussell
34 -“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton
35 -“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
36 -“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ― John Steinbeck
37 -“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ― Lin Yutang
38 -“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark
39 -“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
40 -All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ― Martin Buber
41 -“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ― Paul Theroux
42 -“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
43 -“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
44 -“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ― Michael Althsuler
45 -“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” ― Edward Abbey
46 -“Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.” ― Alfred North Whitehead
47 -“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats
48 -“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway
49 -“Life is an adventure, not predicament.” ― James Broughton
50 -“Tourists visit. Travelers explore.” ― Unknown
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