Exploration
- “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
- “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
- “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” – Frank Borman
- “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
- “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
- “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
Growth
- “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
- “Growth is in the unknown, the fear, the adventure.” – Yvon Chouinard
- “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.” – E.M. Forster
- “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot
Risk and Courage
- “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot
- “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
- “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
- “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” – Unknown
- “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
- “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
Discovery
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
- “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho
- “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers.” – Pat Conroy
- “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
- “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin
- “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle
Spirit of Adventure
- “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
- “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
- “Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you.” – Richard Aldington
- “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” – Richard Branson
- “Spontaneity is the best kind of adventure.” – Unknown
- “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
- “There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
- “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
Nature and Wilderness
- “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
- “The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.” – Nancy Newhall
- “Going to the mountains is going home.” – John Muir
- “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
- “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey
- “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir
- “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” – William Ruckelshaus
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
Overcoming Challenges
- “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins
- “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
- “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar
- “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes
- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Unknown
- “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
- “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
- “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart
Inspiration and Motivation
- “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – Unknown
- “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.” – Unknown
- “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
- “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
- “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
- “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
- “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reflective and Thought-Provoking
- “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
- “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
- “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “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
Humorous and Light-Hearted
- “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin
- “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
- “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
- “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Genest
- “I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.” – Jean Kerr
- “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
- “There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.” – Orson Welles
- “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henny Youngman