Considering moving overseas but lacking the courage to make it a reality? We have composed a list of the greatest adventure quotes of all time to give you the extra push you need. We are sure these quotes with resonate with you and give you the inspiration to make the move…
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert
- “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
- “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
- “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian proverb
- “It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for someplace that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.” ― Danzy Senna
- “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
- “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
- “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra
- “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” ― Charles Bukowski
- “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
- “If you think adventure us dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
- “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
- “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
- “For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
- “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal
- “Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
- “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
- “Please understand, I have been waiting to leave ever since I figured out there were roads willing to take me anywhere I wanted to go.” – Unknown
- “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
- “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S Eliot
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
- “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” ― Mercedes Lackey
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “…adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” — Unknown
- “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you’ve traveled.” – Mohammed
- “If you can’t live longer, live deeper.” – Italian proverb
- “My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run.” – Unknown
- “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s life.” – Mark Twain
- “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
- “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
- “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
- “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.” ― Roy Chapman Andrews
- “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult
- “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
- “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little.” – Alexander Sattler
- “Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
- “No reason to stay is a good reason to go.” – Unknown
- “Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t soar free.” ― C.J. Milbrandt
- “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
- “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
- “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather
- “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
- “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Annonymous
- “As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a lifetime.” – Winnie the Pooh
- “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” – Anon
- “A couple who travel together grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi
- “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
- “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority.” – Richard Branson
- ”Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” – Unknown
- “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
- “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.’’ – John Amatt
- “Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure and go ever upward.” – Drew Houston
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” – J.K. Rowling
- “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” –Rosalia de Castro
- “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it.” – Unknown
- “I do not have the slightest clue what I am doing…that’s the adventure…I stopped worrying about it…that’s the beauty.” – Jason King
- “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
- “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
- “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure” – Bob Bitchin
- “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. ” – Johann Friedrick von Schiller
- ”Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” – Unknown
- “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, discoverthat I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.” – Guy Laliberte
- “There is no certainty; there is only adventure.” – Roberto Assagioli
- “The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.’’ – Joseph Campbell
- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “If it’s both terrifying and amazing then you should definitely pursue it.” –Erada
- “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.’’ – Jack Kerouac
- “Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.” – Angelina Jolie
- “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” – Herman Melville
- “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen
- “We’re not home-and-hearth people. We’re the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we’re only alive.” – Alexander Eliot
- “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.” – Drew Barrymore
- “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye
- “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”- Michael Althsuler
- “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.’’ – Willfred Peterson
- “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot
- “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
- “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
- “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
- “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.” – Jason Mraz
- “Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.” – Annie Besant
- “Make your life a mission – not an intermission.” – Unknown
- “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
- “You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.” – Karen Blixen
- “I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.” – Jim Dale
- “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” ― André Gide
- “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
- “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
- “It’s never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.” – Robert Kurson
- “It is not death most people are afraid of. It is getting to the end of life, only to realize, that you never truly lived.”– Prince Ea
- ‘’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 best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” – Rich Ridgeway
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
- “Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.” – Andre Geim
- “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” – Yogi Bhajan
- “All great adventures have moments that are really crap.” ― Ellen Potter
- “This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.” – Henry Hudson
- “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”– Shanti
- ‘”You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.’’ – Sue Fitzmaurice
- “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.” ― Roy Chapman Andrews
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