90+ EPIC Adventure Quotes on Living a Dreamy Life

As Helen Keller said, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” So, what adventure means to you? Adventure means to be living in outdoors with the mountains and nature. Adventure also means embracing uncertainty and enjoying the challenge of the unknown to get out into the world to experience new things.

If you’re searching for beautiful quotes on journey that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of popular vacation quotes, powerful travel quotes and top getaway quotes.

Best Adventure Quotes

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. Seth Godin

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

Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac

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

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

Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure. Roy T. Bennett

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 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

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. Erol Ozan

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. J.K. Rowling

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 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

When a man is a traveler, the world is his home and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home and all the people are his family. Drew Bundini Brown

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. Herman Melville

I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying I can’t believe I did that instead of if only I had. Florine Bos

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? it’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s good bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. Jack Kerouac

You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong. Sue Fitzmaurice

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

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

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. Lewis Carroll

Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit. Edward Abbey

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. Alexandre Dumas

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable. Carew Papritz

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me. Patrick Rothfuss

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock

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

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

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

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone. I should think so in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! J.R.R. Tolkien

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. Freya Stark

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. St. Augustine of Hippo

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

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. Ella Maillart

Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. Lloyd Alexander

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. Angelina Jolie

Nobody who says, I told you so has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. Ursula K. Le Guin

The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. Paulo Coelho

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. Roy T. Bennett

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

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. Patrick Rothfuss

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side. Roman Payne

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self. Charles Dickens

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. John Muir

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

I urge you; go find buildings and mountains and oceans to swallow you whole. They will save you, in a way nothing else can. Christopher Poindexter

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

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure. Emily Wing Smith

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. T.S Eliot

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start. Jason Mraz

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

In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything. Veronica Rossi

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. Bob Bitchin

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees. Grace Willows

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

Those who travel to mountain tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. Robert Macfarlane

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams

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

Adventures do occur, but not punctually. E.M. Forster

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. Roy T. Bennett

Do you think we can be friends? I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend. Priya Ardis

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

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Herman Melville

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

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you’re off on a journey of exploration and discovery. David Almond

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

The struggles we endure today will be the good old days we laugh about tomorrow. Aaron Lauritsen

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. Karen Blixen

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

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir

What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course. Roman Payne

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

There’s only one place I want to go and it’s to all the places I’ve never been. Nikki rowe

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

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before and thus was the Empire forged. Douglas Adams

It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary

We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check in, and hashtag. Jeremy Glass

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. Babs Hoffman

What chilled my blood was a felt marker outline of a woman on the wall. Hands above the head, where there was a hook, then below the shape of the head, a neck strap. Then a waist strap, and two ankle clamps. The silhouette gave me no doubt that Gina had been confined here. But where was she now? Grahame Shannon

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often. Tim Daly

She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved. Grace Willows

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. Pico Iyer

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, Let’s go do that together. Bob Goff