Going On An Adventure Quotes

• 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

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

  Lewis Carroll

  Travel, Wonderland, Way

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• 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

  Change, Travel, Life Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

  Earl Mac Rauch

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Travel

  Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• 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

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• 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

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adventure, Wonderland, Care

  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Pig and Pepper

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• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.301, The Mountaineers Books

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• Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

  Chris Pratt

  Adventure, Two, Three

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff.

  Max Schneider

  Coffee, Drinking, Adventure

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• I'm going on an adventure!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure

  "Fictional character: Bilbo Baggins". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", 2013.

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