65 Epic Quotes about Adventure and Travel to Inspire Wanderlust
Research shows that staying active keeps you young and healthy. It supports physical, mental, social, and spiritual health.
So I’ve compiled 65 of my favorite quotes about adventure and travel to inspire your wanderlust and youthful spirit. These epic quotes should encourage you to plan more great adventures in the future!
Epic Quotes About Adventure and Travel
Adventure isn’t just about traveling to far-off places—it’s about embracing new experiences, stepping outside your comfort zone, and living life with a spirit of curiosity and excitement.
Whether you’re exploring hidden gems in your own backyard or setting off on a grand journey, every adventure fuels your soul, strengthens your relationships, and enhances your well-being.
So grab your favorite travel companions, chase the thrill of the unknown, and say yes to new experiences. Laugh louder, wander further, and make memories that keep you young at heart. The world is waiting—go explore it!
Let these quotes about adventure and travel spark your wanderlust!
Great Adventure Quotes
Let’s get started with the first thirteen great adventure quotes and don’t forget to read the quotes on the images! I think they will trigger your youthful spirit and make you want to take off on an adventure today!
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.
Rachel Wolchin
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
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 Pratchet
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Ibn Battuta
Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.
Jaime Lyn
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
Cover the earth before it covers you.
Dagobert Runes
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Thomas Alva Edison
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart
Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.
Marty Rubin
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Wanderlust Quotes to Spark Your Desire to Explore
These are some of the best adventure quotes to spark your desire to actively explore the world around you.
I reflect on these words and SMILE (I may even GIGGLE out loud at some of them)! I realize I have been fortunate enough to do some amazingly adventurous things in my life. But there is so much more out there that I want to do!
The question isn’t ‘What are we going to do?’ The question is ‘What aren’t we going to do?’
Ferris Bueller
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
A. A. Milne
Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!
Dr. Seuss
Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller
How to Stay Young and Healthy Through Adventure
Stop and really think about how these quotes about adventure and travel can inspire your wanderlust and youthful spirit. Think about the deeper meaning behind them. Reflect on the words and the meanings behind the words.
These are some of my favorite adventure quotes that make me want to live a life full of adventure and fun, sometimes even doing things that I may fear—stepping outside my comfort zone. Adventure promotes a growth mindset that supports overall well-being.
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure.
Drew Houston
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
Anthony Bourdain
I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had.’
Florine Bos
Travel and adventure are proven to help you live a longer, happier life. A life of adventure improves mindfulness and gratitude.
It helps to rejuvenate your soul and reduce stress. Adventure is a wonderful form of self care and self-love.
An active and adventurous lifestyle is directly connected to wellness and overall improved health.
Why not let these quotes about adventure inspire you to get off the sofa and start LIVING A LIFE OF ADVENTURE and WANDERLUST?
The Purpose of Life
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 biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.
Karen Gibbs
The Spirit of Adventure
Since we know an adventurous spirit helps you stay young in mind, body, and spirit, why not start planning some adventures?
Regardless of your age, you know it’s going to be a healthy alternative to boredom, stress, and monotony! Right?
The process of learning and doing new things keeps both your mind and body active.
Let these best quotes about adventure inspire you to do things you would not typically do, or explore places you would not normally visit, or even learn about places that may not have interested you in the past.
Or, as in my case, learn about things you didn’t know anything about in the past!
I didn’t know until recently that Harriet Tubman was very active during her Underground Railroad years near my hometown! I find that fascinating and have begun to read and learn more about her local connections.
Soon, I will be planning an adventure to visit some of the places in Maryland that famously honor the work she did.
Our next BIG adventure will be out west to South Dakota and Wyoming to see Mount Rushmore and the surrounding areas before driving on to Yellowstone National Park! I can hardly wait! Lots of outdoor fun, exploring, and U.S. culture and history!
If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a top priority.
Richard Branson
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
There’s only one place I want to go, and it’s to all the places I’ve never been to.
Nikki Rowe
Famous Adventure Quotes
Adventure has always captivated the hearts of explorers, dreamers, and storytellers. Whether it’s setting sail into the unknown, wandering down an unbeaten path, or embracing the thrill of discovery, these timeless words remind us that life is meant to be explored.
From philosophers to fearless travelers, here are some of the most famous adventure quotes to ignite your wanderlust and inspire your next journey!
🧳 Mark Twain – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
🚗 Jack Kerouac – “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
🏞 Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
🚐 John Steinbeck – “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
🌏 Lao Tzu – “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
🏴☠️ Robert Louis Stevenson – “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
✈ Michael Palin – “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.”
📸 Susan Sontag – “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
🎩 Dr. Seuss – “Oh, the places you’ll go!”
🌍 Bill Bryson – “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time.”
🏕 Henry David Thoreau – “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
🧚♂️ Hans Christian Andersen – “To travel is to live.”
🛤 Robert Frost – “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
📚 Henry Miller – “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
⛪ Saint Augustine – “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
🗻 Dalai Lama – “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
👣 Eleanor Roosevelt – “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.”
✈ Amelia Earhart – “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
🏍 Ewan McGregor – “The best thing about traveling is that you have no idea what’s going to happen next.”
🌲 John Muir – “The mountains are calling, and I must go.”
🎶 Walt Whitman – “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it yourself.”
🎭 Oscar Wilde – “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.”
🚀 Seth Godin – “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
🏰 Walt Disney – “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
📖 Ray Bradbury – “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
🏛 Benjamin Disraeli – “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
🔮 Joseph Campbell – “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
🌍 Sir Richard Burton – “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
⛺ Bear Grylls – “Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone.”
⚓ Herman Melville – “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
🌍 African Proverb – “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
🚆 Paul Theroux – “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
Final Thoughts
I hope you have enjoyed these quotes about adventure and travel to inspire your wanderlust and youthful spirit.
I also hope you’ll give consideration to adding adventure to your self care routine! It supports your wellness, mindset, and happiness in so many ways!
Remember, you don’t have to go far and you don’t have to spend a fortune. Just look for interesting places to explore while getting outside to rejuvenate, refresh, and STAY YOUNG!
For further reading, I found a really great related article—11 Life Lessons I’ve Learned From Travelling The World. Check it out! The writer talks about valuable lessons about human connections, learning to say YES to life, and growth mindset.
Thank you for visiting! Stay well! And travel much!
Love to All! ! ~Susan
