120 Epic and Inspirational Adventure Travel Quotes
/A list of the most epic and inspiring adventure travel quotes from world travelers, adventurers, sailors, celebrities, business leaders, philanthropists, scholars, authors, poets, celebrities and artists. All of these adventure travel quotes will inspire your wanderlust!
By Michelle Segrest—Navigate Travel Adventures
There is something special about traveling the world and becoming immersed in a new culture, new scenery, and exciting adventures. The opportunity to travel is truly a privilege. I love sharing my worldwide travel and sailing adventures, and I hope that these awesome adventure travel quotes will inspire you to untie the bowlines and begin checking off your bucket list!
Adventure Travel Quotes from World Travelers & Adventurers
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”—Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battúta: Explorations of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, China and India from 1325 to 1354, An Autobiography
2. "Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."—Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
3. “Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly.”—Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Adventures
4. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”—Amelia Earhart, Amelia Earhart, The Truth At Last
5. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”— Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
6. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel—as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them—wherever you go.”—Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
7. “Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain or living among lions. Adventure is an attitude to experience everyday things.”—John Amatt
8. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks—on your body or on your heart—are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”—Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Adventure Travel Quotes from Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs & Philanthropists
9. “The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”—Jim Rohn, Treasury of Quotes
10. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”—Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
11. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”—Walt Disney, Walt Disney: An American Original
12. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure.”—Jim Rohn, Seasons of Life
13. “If happiness is the goal– and it should be, then adventures should be a priority.”—Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
14. “Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.”—Drew Houston
15. “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, The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
16. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.”—Steve Pavlina, Personal Development for Smart People
17. “Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you.”—Erick Widman
18. “When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.”—Clint Borgen
19. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”—Walt Disney, The Triumph of the American Imagination
Travel Adventure Quotes from Movies, Television & Books
20. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.”—Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
21. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
22. “Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary”—John Keating, Dead Poets Society
23. “To live would be an awfully big adventure”—J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
24. “We have to live a life of no regrets.”—Portgas D. Ace, Eiichiro Ora—One Piece
Adventure Travel Quotes from World Leaders, Dignitaries & Scholars
25. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”—Dalai Lama, The Dalai Lama: From One Life to Another
26. “Adventure is worthwhile.”—Aristotle
27. “We live in a 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, Selected Works of Jawaharial Nehru
28. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”—Eleanor Roosevelt, The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
29. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.”—Harun Yahya, Seeing Good in All
30. “I am not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.”—Seneca, Seneca Six Pack: Six Essential Texts
31. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”—Saint Augustine, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
32. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”—Shanti
Adventure Travel Quotes from Sports Heroes
33. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.”—Babs Hoffman
34. “When a man is a traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.”—Drew Bundini Brown
Adventure Travel Quotes from Celebrities & Artists
35. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”—Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
36. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”—Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
37. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.”—Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
38. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”—Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
39. “There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask ‘What if I fall?’ Oh but my darling, what if you fly?”—Erin Hanson, Erin Hanson: Open Impressionism Art Book, Volume II
40. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.”—Cherie Gilderbloom
41. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”—Gaby Basora
42. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”—Sir Richard Burton, THE DEVIL DRIVES - A Life of Sir Richard Burton
43. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.”—Norma Shearer, Norma Shearer: A Biography
44. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”—David Bowie, David Bowie: Icon: The Definitive Photographic Collection
45. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.”―Michael Palin, Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days
46. “If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you’re still in love with that person, get married.”―Bill Murray, The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
47. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.”—Jamie Lyn Beatty
Adventure Travel Quotes from Famous Authors, Journalists & Poets
48. “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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”—Mark Twain, Letters from Earth
49. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”—Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch 4 Books Collection Set - Awaken the Species
50. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”—Simon Raven, Driving the Trans-Siberian: The Ultimate Road Trip Across Russia
51. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”—Robert Orben, 2,000 Sure-Fire Jokes for Speakers: The Encyclopedia of One-Liner Comedy
52. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”—Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
53. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”—Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
54. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”—Susan Sontag, Sontag: Her Life and Work
55. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.”—Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream
56. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”—John Lennon, The Last Days of John Lennon
57. “Do not dare not to dare.”—C.S. Lewis, The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics (8-Volume Box Set): An Anthology of 8 C. S. Lewis Titles: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, Miracles, The ... The Abolition of Man, and The Four Loves
58. “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, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
59. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”—Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
60. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
61. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.”—Paul Coelho, The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream
62. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”—Lawrence Block, Generally Speaking: All 33 columns, plus a few philatelic words from Keller
63. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”—Holly Morris, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
64. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”—Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Collection
65. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”—Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
66. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
67. “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, On the Road
68. “Not all those who wander are lost.”—J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”—Herman Melville, Moby Dick Annotated
70. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”—Anatole France, Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)
71. “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, The Illustrated Children's Library: Treasure Island: The Classic Novel with 80 Original Illustrations
72. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”—Cheryl Strayed, Wild
73. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalists Collection (Illustrated): Walden, Walking, Self-Reliance and Nature
74. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.”—Bob Bitchin, Biker to Sailor
75. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”—Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society Complete Paperback Collection
76. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”—Ray Bradbury, The Stories of Ray Bradbury
77. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”—David McCullough, Truman
78. “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.”—Karen Lamb
79. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I…I took the one less traveled by.”—Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost
80. "Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates."—Mark Twain, Mark Twain: Five Novels
81. “To travel is to live.”—Hans Christian Anderson, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
82. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”—Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
83. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”—Marty Rubin, Boiled Frog Syndrome
84. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”—Mary Anne Radmacher, Live with Intention: Remember and Do What Matters
85. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.”—Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift
86. "And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure." —Bob Bitchin, Letters from the Lost Soul
87. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”—Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
88. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”—Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll: A Biography
89. “You can. You should. And if you are brave enough to start, you will.”—Stephen King, The Stand
90. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”—Grace Lichtenstein, Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans
91. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”—Rachel Wolchin
92. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.”—Ayn Rand, The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
93. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”—T.S. Eliot, Complete Poems and Plays
94. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”—Freya Stark, Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel (The Freya Stark Collection)
Sailing Adventure Travel Quotes
95. "Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting."―Francis LeGrande
96. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”—Ernest Hemingway
97. "If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late."—Pete Goss
98. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built.” – John A. Shedd
99. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”—Andre Gide
100. “It’s in moments like these that you forget how soothing the sea can be, and you remember its power and force.”—Michelle Segrest
101. “We can battle the sea, or we can embrace it. Sometimes she will be sweet and sometimes mean as a snake. We must embrace the experience and trust we will get through it.”—Michelle Segrest
102. “All those hours of being sick and uncomfortable were only a distant memory now and totally worth it for 40 minutes of a glorious encounter with this gentle giant of the sea.” —Michelle Segrest, How to Get Your Sea Legs—Sailing Adventure to the Canary Islands: A Whale of a Tale
103. “When you sail for the first time, you have one of two experiences. It becomes a one-time, bucket-list thing you check off your list, or it becomes a part of your soul forever.”—Michelle Segrest, How to Get Your Sea Legs—Learn to Sail: Top 10 Tips for Beginning Sailors
104. “Adventure comes in all shapes and sizes. It can be dramatic or poetic, heart pounding or profound. It can be all of the above or something totally and completely unexpected.” —Michelle Segrest
105. “Perhaps you have experienced this personal nirvana that makes you continue to want and need the next special experience. I believe this is what makes your passion a part of your heart and soul and not just a hobby.”—Michelle Segrest,
Inspirational Adventure Travel Quotes from Anonymous Sources
106. “To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation.”
107. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away.”
108. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”
109. “What is life but one grand adventure?”
110. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures”
111. “Adventure Awaits. Go find it!”
112. “Life is a wonderful adventure. Share it with someone special.”
113. “When there is no WiFi, you might be about to have an adventure.”
114. “I have an insane calling to be where I am not.”
115. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
116. “If we travel simply to indulge ourselves, we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer.”
117. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
118. “The best views come after the hardest climb.”
119. “Always take the scenic route.”
120. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.”
