Travel & Adventure: Adventure Quotes

Explore a handpicked collection of adventure quotes celebrating curiosity, courage, and the thrill of the unknown. From mountain passes to ocean crossings, these lines capture the spirit of setting out, getting lost, and finding your way. Use them for motivation before a trek, a weekend road trip, or a leap into a new culture. Whether you crave remote trails or city discoveries, these words invite you to embrace risk thoughtfully and turn travel into a story worth telling.

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"Adventure is just bad planning"

Roald Amundsen, Explorer

Roald Amundsen

"I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

Chris Hadfield

"I like adventure"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

Marc Garneau

"I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

Chris Hadfield

"Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

"This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

Laurel Clark

"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate"

O. Henry, Writer

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

Che Guevara

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

Amelia Earhart

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit"

Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

Jacqueline Cochran

"I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun"

Alex Lowe, Athlete

"Adventures are to the adventurous"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes"

Euripides, Poet

Euripides

"Buy the ticket, take the ride"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

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

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"Zero G and I feel fine"

John Glenn, Astronaut

John Glenn

"All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death"

Ernest Thompson Seton, Leader

"We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves"

Daniel Boone, Explorer

"Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!"

Jon Heder, Actor

Jon Heder

"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"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, Author

Helen Keller

"Without adventure civilization is in full decay"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"Adventure is worthwhile"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"Always remember, it’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"The Eagle has landed"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

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