Adventure Quotes

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

Sir Edmund Hillary

"Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark."

Rebecca Solnit

"Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world."

Mark Jenkins

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

Kurt Vonnegut

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."

G. K. Chesterton

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

Oprah Winfrey

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

Grace Hopper

"Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!"

Valentina Tereshkova

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."

Sally Ride

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

Anaïs Nin

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Nikki Giovanni

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!"

Dr. Seuss

“Spontaneity is what travel is all about.”

“I'm down for adventure and up for anything.”

“I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.”

“I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like "Lord of the Rings" or superhero films like "Batman."

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”

“Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to "Be Prepared" to meet them.”

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“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.”

“I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.”