170 Great Adventure Quotes

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Famous Great Adventure Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile. — Aesop

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it. — Amelia Earhart

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon. — Warren Miller

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. - Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Daring to Adventure - Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Daring to AdventureHelen Keller

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity. — Ron Luce

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. — James J. Hill

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. — O. Henry

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners. — Roy Chapman Andrews

The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!" — David Jeremiah

Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. — Wally Byam

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

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

There was nothing a good adventure couldn't cure. — Veronica Chambers

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful. — Agnes Martin

Short Great Adventure Quotes

  • Adventure is not outside man; it is within. — David Grayson
  • Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive. — Mercedes Lackey
  • his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Without adventure civilization is in full decay. — Alfred North Whitehead
  • All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. — Sally Ride
  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — Norman Cousins
  • Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
  • The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. — Joseph Campbell
  • The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. — Christopher McCandless
  • Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho

Great Adventure Image Quotes

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Great adventure quote I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.

Adventure Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. - Alain Gerbault

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure. — Beatrix Potter

Great adventure quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. — Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Love Adventure Quotes

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice

We love because it's the only true adventure. - Nikki Giovanni

We love because it's the only true adventure. — Nikki Giovanni

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top. — 50 Cent

Great adventure quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. — Matthew Heywood

Great adventure quote Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

I would love to set foot on another planet – lunar or Mars or somewhere. — Peggy Whitson

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. — Maya Angelou

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love. — Joshua Prager

As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer. — Bill Bright

Inspirational Adventure Quotes

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. - Ibn Battuta

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsch

Great adventure quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Henry David Thoreau

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end. — Akiane Kramarik

Great adventure quote I'd rather have a life of "oh wells" than a life of "what ifs".
I'd rather have a life of "oh wells" than a life of "what ifs".

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. — Thor Heyerdahl

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! - Lewis Carroll

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! — Lewis Carroll

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities — Marie-Louise von Franz

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. — A. A. Milne

Exciting Adventures Quotes

The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant

If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age. — Gad Saad

Go on a few wild and crazy adventures that you'll be excited to tell your kids about someday. — Sahil Bloom

Great adventure quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. — Norman Rockwell

Being a working mom and traveling as well with a baby, my goodness it’s a lot, but it’s all so exciting. — Meghan Markle

We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It’s going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times. — Peggy Whitson

Great adventure quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. — James Framo

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. — Harry Callahan

I live a pretty crazy lifestyle. — Dana White

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible? — Dale Carnegie

Family Adventure Quotes

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. — John Taylor Gatto

You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world. — Atticus Shaffer

We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels. — Mark Consuelos

Great adventure quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. — Paul D. Boyer

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. — Pam Brown

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." — Joan Miro

Great adventure quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends. — Walt Disney

I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue. — Patrick Duffy

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure. — E. B. White

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth. — John Phillips

Adventure Books Quotes

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. - Lewis Carroll

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. — Erich Maria Remarque

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

Great adventure quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll

Life is a book, and every day that we live is a new page, so paint every page of your life with amazing colors of good deeds and amazing adventures. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. — Jon Scieszka

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then — Lewis Carroll

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public. — Winston Churchill

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see? — Lewis Carroll

Going On An Adventure Quotes

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen. — A. A. Milne

Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything. — A. A. Milne

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live. — Kathleen Hanna

Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up. — Chris Pratt

I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet. — Stana Katic

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp. — James H. Billington

William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book. — James Tate

When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff. — Max Schneider

I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together. — Rachel McAdams

I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure. — Ralph Fiennes

Adventure And Travel Quotes

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. - Jack Kerouac

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Chief Seattle

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. - Susan Sontag

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag

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

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. — Hunter S. Thompson

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. — Ella Maillart

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

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. — Brian Selznick

New Adventure Quotes

I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow — Kid Cudi

When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one. — Grace Kelly

We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character. — Henry David Thoreau

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently. — Thelonious Monk

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. — Christopher McCandless

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives. — Paul Kagame

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti. — Joe Rohde

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. — Christopher McCandless

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons. — Leslie Weatherhead

Exploration And Adventure Quotes

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. — Edmund Hillary

Do not follow where the path may lead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. — Emilio Estevez

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim. — Robert Fulghum

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us. — Guy Laliberte

Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit. — Michael Steger

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood. — Bertrand Piccard

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More Great Adventure Quotes

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it — Mother Teresa

John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose. — Michael Palin

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility. — Gary Snyder

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. — Mircea Eliade

On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings. — Bernard Law Montgomery

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. — Virginia Woolf

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure. — Alexis Carrel

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive. — John Eldredge

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. — Sophie Swetchine

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. — Mother Teresa

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better. — Justina Chen

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. — John Steinbeck

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure. — Emmet Fox

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. — Edith Wharton

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man. — Daniel Boone

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. — J. K. Rowling

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. — Bill Bryson

Pursue a big life and you’re pursuing the greatest life you can possibly live. — Gary Keller

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life. — Anthony Perkins

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep. — Bear Grylls

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you. — Ewan McGregor

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure. — Sayings

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? — Bruce Sterling

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. — H. G. Wells

Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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