Here are some inspirational quotes about adventure which might just be the push you need to provoke exciting escapades and experiences.
1. “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” – John Muir
2. “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.” – Rumi
3. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
4. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – Alan Sachs
5. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
6. “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine
7. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
8. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir
9. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
10. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi
11. “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir
12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
13. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
14. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
15. “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
16. “Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – Diana Ambarsari
17. “The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” – Conrad Anker
18. “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Rannulph Fiennes
19. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha
20. “The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – Rosita Forbes
21. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”- Buddha
22. “A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd
23. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”- Ibn Battuta
24. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
25. “A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.” – Ryszard Kapuciski
26. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown
28. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon
29. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
30. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
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