When we say “adventure” we often think about traveling or trying different sports that seem risky and can give us the right adrenaline kick.

But adventure is a lot more than that. It can be anything that can take you out of your comfort zone. It can be a new opportunity or the courage to start again. Any challenge, any experience that is daring or risky can be considered a new adventure.

While some have kept their adventurous spirit in time, others have lost it. Why? Well, it’s when we’re children that we love adventure the most. That’s when everything is new to us, exciting and worth exploring.

As children, we don’t think too much about consequences and we love a challenge. As adults, we tend to weight every aspect before doing something. And that’s the right thing to do, but sometimes we overthink things and we deny ourselves a lot of experiences that could feed and heal our souls. So today make a promise to yourself that you will do whatever it takes to reignite your adventurous spirit.

Here are 30 adventure quotes to embrace new and exciting experiences:

Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. 


JACK KEROUAC (more Jack Kerouac quotes)

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. 


TRENTON LEE STEWART

You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong 


SUE FITZMAURICE

If happiness is the goal  and it should be, then adventures should be top priority. 


RICHARD BRANSON

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.


ALEXANDRE DUMAS

I urge you; go find buildings and mountains and oceans to swallow you whole. They will save you, in a way nothing else can. 


CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

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


ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (more Eleanor Roosevelt quotes)

Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul. 


JAIME LYN

It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. 


SIR EDMUND HILLARY

The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. 


PAULO COELHO (more Paulo Coelho quotes)

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.


E.A. BUCCHIANERI

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


A.A. MILNE

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

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

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.


IRVING WALLACE

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. 


ERIC ROTH

Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be. 


STEVE PAVLINA

We live in a wonderful 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

Watch this Goalcast video if you’re inspired to start a new adventure:

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. 


T.S, ELIOT

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


EWAN MCGREGOR
Today, make a promise to yourself that you will to whatever it takes to reignite your adventurous spirit. Here are 30 adventure quotes to embrace new and exciting experiences.

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


OPRAH WINFREY

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. 


ANAIS NIN (more Anais Nin quotes)

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.


G.K. CHESTERTON

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. 


ANGELINA JOLIE

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.


J.K. ROWLING (more J. K. Rowling quotes)

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. 


JOHN MUIR (more John Muir quotes)

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.


GEORGE ELIOT

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

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.


FRIEDRICH NIETSZCHE

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. 


PATRICK ROTHFUSS