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- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)
- “We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character” Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
- “Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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. Tolkien
- “I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” Rosalia de Castro quotes (The most outstanding modern writer in the Galician language, 1837-1885)
- “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.” Vincent van Gogh quotes (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)
- “Adventure must start with running away from home” William Bolitho
- “Adventure is worthwhile.” Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
- “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 (Indian Prime Minister. 1889-1964)
- “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."” Daniel J. Boorstin (American social historian and educator, 1914)
- “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
- “It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
- “A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.” Bertrand Russell (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
- "In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." William Blake
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T. S. Eliot
- “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” St. Augustine, Early Christian Priest
- “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- "Security is a kind of death.” Tennessee Williams
- “Adventure: the pursuit of life.” Daniel Roy Wiarda
- “Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.” Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
- “You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” Rabindranath Tagore
- “A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.” Laurence Sterne
- “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.” André Gide:
- “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” Charlotte Bronte
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” Voltaire
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