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Quotes about adventure and living boldly. This hand-picked collection brings together 26 of the finest adventure quotes ever written — from Lao Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dante Alighieri and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

— Lao Tzu

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

— Dante Alighieri

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time.

— Anne Frank

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

— Helen Keller

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

It's Friday! Time to go make stories for Monday.

The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence their guide.

— John Milton

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

— T. S. Eliot

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Native American Proverb

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

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

— T. S. Eliot

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Explore. Dream. Discover.

— Mark Twain

To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

— Mark Twain

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

— Oprah Winfrey

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.

— Walt Whitman

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

We ran as if to meet the moon.

An engagement is the start of a new adventure — two hearts, one promise.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfil your own purpose and potential.

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