1. You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

- Christopher Robin

2. Adventure: An undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

- Meriem Webster

3. You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.

- Katrina Mayer

4. Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

- George Eliot

5. As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen.

- A.A. Milne

6. Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.

- Karen Gibbs

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

- Richard Branson

8. People don’t take trips, trips take people.

- John Steinbeck

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

- Oprah Winfrey

10. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

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

- Sue Fitzmaurice

12. The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

- Aaron Lauritsen

13. Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now.

- Roy T. Bennett

14. Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

- Reinhold Messner

15. Nothing lives long, only the earth and mountains.

- Dee Brown

16. 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

17. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

- William Feather

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

- Steve Pavlina

19. 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

20. 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

21. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.

- Patrick Rothfuss

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

- Trenton Lee Stewart

23. Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

- Michael Jordan

24. The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.

- Paulo Coelho

25. A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

- Walt Disney

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

- Friedrich Nietszche

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

28. 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

29. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.

- Babs Hoffman

30. Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.

- Emily Wing Smith

31. You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

- Jim Whittaker

32. I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

- Carew Papritz

33. I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

- Tenzig Norgay

34. To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.

- S?ren Kierkegaard

35. 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

36. 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

37. I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.

- Andrew Garfield

38. Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

- Stephen Covey

39. To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. … See the desert on a fine morning and die — if you can!

- Gertrude Bell

40. If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

- Seth Godin

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

- Anais Nin

42. 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

43. Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realize how important it is to use the time I have.

- Viggo Mortensen

44. 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

45. 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

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

- Irving Wallace

47. If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.

- Jimmy Chin

48. You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.

- John Muir

49. I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’

- Sylvia Plath

50. Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.

- Dag Hammarskjold

51. Then I realized that to be more alive, I had to be less afraid. So I did it. I lost my fear and gained my whole life.

- Anonymous

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

- A.A. Milne

53. How wild it was, to let it be.

- Cheryl Strayed

54. Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.

- Edward Abbey

55. Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

56. Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

- Greg Child

57. You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

- Karen Blixon

58. So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.

- Jack Kerouac

59. All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

- T.E. Lawrence

60. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

- Henry David Thoreau

61. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Andre Gide

62. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.

- Robert Frost

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

- J.K. Rowling

64. The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

- Casey Neistat

65. The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

- Myles Munroe

66. To live would be an awfully big adventure.

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

67. Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

- Andy Rooney

68. If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.

- Rachel Wolchin

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

- G.K. Chesterton

70. 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

71. Adventure is worthwhile.

- Aesop

72. 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. Tolkein

73. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

- John Muir

74. Oh, the places you’ll go.

- Dr. Seuss

75. Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.

- Jaime Lyn

76. The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

77. Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

- Danny Kaye

78. One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it.

- Edward Abbey

79. Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

- Barry Finlay

80. We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.

- Jeremy Glass

81. Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. A

- Charlotte Erikson

82. Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

- Robert Macfarlane

83. The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

- Jeanne Moreau

84. One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

- Ella Maillart

85. Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

- Ursula Le Guin

86. 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

87. Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

- Lloyd Alexander

88. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

- Marty Rubin

89. One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

- Jimmy Buffett

90. Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.

- John Amat

91. 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

92. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.

- John Lubbock

93. If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.

- Drew Barrymore

94. If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

- Wilfred Noyce

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

- Sir Edmund Hillary