The Best Adventure Quotes to Inspire Your Grandest, Daring Moments

Here are some inspirational quotes about adventure which might just be the push you need to provoke exciting escapades and experiences.

1. “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” – John Muir

2. “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.” – Rumi

3. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

4. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – Alan Sachs

5. “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

6. “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

7. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

8. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir

9. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

10. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi

11. “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

12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

13. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

14. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

15. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

16. “Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – Diana Ambarsari

17. “The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” – Conrad Anker

18. “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Rannulph Fiennes

19. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha

20. “The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – Rosita Forbes

21. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”- Buddha

22. “A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd

23. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”- Ibn Battuta

24. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

25. “A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.” – Ryszard Kapuciski

26. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown

28. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon

29. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

30. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin

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The Best Inspirational Adventure Quotes

Here are the best quotes on adventure which are meant to challenge you and remind you of what is important in life.

1. ‘’Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.’’ – John Amatt

2. ‘’If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a top priority.’’ – Richard Branson

3. ‘’You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.’’ – Sue Fitzmaurice

4. ‘’Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.’’ – Ewan Mcgregor

5. ‘’Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.’’ – Jaime Lyn

6. ‘’Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.’’ – Steve Pavlina

7. ‘’Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.’’ – Helen Keller

8. ‘’The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.’’ – Joseph Campbell

9. ‘’As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.’’ – Winnie the Pooh

10. ’’Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.’’ – Steve Pavlina

11. ‘’Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.’’ – Jack Kerouac

12. ‘’Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.’’ – Bob Bitchin

13. ‘’Adventure is worthwhile.’’ – Aristotle

14. ‘’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

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Action and Adventure in Space

When the standard dose of action and adventure just isn’t enough to get your heart pumping and your blood flowing, why not take it to space? Here are three action adventure novels set in space that are sure to satisfy and thrill every bit as much as they entertain.

The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Part of a series following the saga of Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled military man whose intellect more than makes up for his disabilities, The Warrior’s Apprentice is a particularly action-packed installment that thrills with every page, and a shining example of why the Vorkosigan Saga has earned Bujold multiple Hugo awards.

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. Once labelled “as close as you’ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form” by io9, Corey’s tale of space adventure offers a little bit of everything, from mystery to romance, with a whole lot of thrills in between. Oh, and did we mention vomit zombies?

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. The third novel in the critically acclaimed Culture Series, Use of Weapons offers all the thrills we’ve come to expect from Banks, but this time in the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe. Nominated for multiple awards and topping many fan favorite lists, it’s well worth the read.

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Action Packed Games and The Movies They Inspired

Here’s a quick look at two of our favorite action packed games and the at-times head scratching movies they spawned.

Assassin’s Creed. Ubisoft had a major hit on their hands with Assassin’s Creed. The first title in the franchise, released in 2007, has since spawned several sequels, not to mention a plethora of merchandising, novelizations, comic book adaptations, and a 2016 film starring Michael Fassbender. Unlike other video game adaptations, however, the Assassin’s Creed film featured an original story that felt wholly detached from the game. It may have met with mixed reviews, both from critics and from fans of the games, but it was a box office success, nearly doubling its $125 million production budget.

Doom. Nothing short of a classic in the video game world, the original Doom still enjoys a following to this very day despite a number of sequels and reboots. Some of those sequels attempted to make the game far more serious that its original incarnation, and such was the case with the movie, which made an attempt to be a genuine horror film. Starring such notable names as Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike, the film failed to appease fans of the game, this despite including a first person shooting sequence as a nod to its roots. The film flopped with critics, and didn’t manage to match its $60 million budget at the box office.

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The Iron Giant: A Sleepy Classic

Few lists of the best animated movies of all time would be complete without 1999’s Iron Giant. The Warner Bros feature, which marked the directorial debut of Brad Bird, was based on Ted Hughes’s 1968 novel The Iron Man and tells the story of a young boy named Hogarth Hughes. Hogarth, who is growing up in the height of the Cold War, finds and befriends a giant mechanical robot who fell to earth from outer space. The US military, suspecting the robot to be of Russian origin, set out to destroy him, with only Hogarth and a beatnik artist named Kent Mansley standing in their way.

Featuring the voices of Vin Diesel (as the Iron Giant), Eli Marienthal, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney, the film had all the making of an instant classic and no shortage of hype surrounding its release. The box office numbers proved otherwise, however. On a staggering budget of $70-80 million, the film only managed to gross $20 million in the US and $31 million worldwide, making it a huge flop for Warner Bros.

Audiences, however, didn’t turn their attention away from the film outright. Although its initial release attracted few to the cinema, critics praised the film’s innovative mix of computer and traditional animation, not to mention its captivating storyline. Slowly but surely audiences sought out the film and it developed a cult following, eventually leading to a 2015 remastered theatrical re-release.

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Action and Adventure in Space

When the standard dose of action and adventure just isn’t enough to get your heart pumping and your blood flowing, why not take it to space? Here are three action adventure novels set in space that are sure to satisfy and thrill every bit as much as they entertain.

The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Part of a series following the saga of Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled military man whose intellect more than makes up for his disabilities, The Warrior’s Apprentice is a particularly action-packed installment that thrills with every page, and a shining example of why the Vorkosigan Saga has earned Bujold multiple Hugo awards.

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. Once labelled “as close as you’ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form” by io9, Corey’s tale of space adventure offers a little bit of everything, from mystery to romance, with a whole lot of thrills in between. Oh, and did we mention vomit zombies?

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. The third novel in the critically acclaimed Culture Series, Use of Weapons offers all the thrills we’ve come to expect from Banks, but this time in the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe. Nominated for multiple awards and topping many fan favorite lists, it’s well worth the read.

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Action/Adventure Books With Queer Female Leads

We’re about as sick of the stereotypical male action here as you are, so here are two great novels with queer women taking the lead! Who says boys should have all the fun?

Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou. Lethal Affairs follows our heroine Domino, aka Luka Madison, an operative who can fight terrorists with heavy artillery every bit as comfortably as she can class it up with the rich elite. James Bond, eat your heart out. When she’s assigned to investigate a suspicious journalist named Hayley Ward, she finds herself questioning her loyalties and wondering if the ends justify the means. The first installment in the Elite Operatives adventure series, each of which features a different lesbian spy/assassin, Lethal Affairs is loaded with the perfect combination of edge-of-your-seat action and steamy romance.

Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley. Pirates and revenge make for some excellent reading, and this graphic novel combines the treat for the mind with a feast for the eyes. In Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess, the first installment of an ongoing series, we meet Raven Xingtao, a queer woman of color who’s captain of her own pirate ship with an all-female crew. Raven is on a quest for revenge as she seeks out her own brothers who have taken what’s rightfully hers.

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Our Deep Rooted Need for Adventure

It’s easy to fall into routine. We are, after all, creatures of comfort. Wake up, get ready for work, got to work, come home from work, relax on the couch with Netflix, lather, rinse, repeat. Perhaps there’s the occasional trip to the gym our outing with friends, maybe even a vacation thrown in every once in a while for good measure.

Somewhere along the way, however, we lost something. Somewhere along the way we dropped the sense of wonder that came from childhood dreams of grand adventures, adventures where we’re heroes on a quest, out to explore or out to save the day. These days we content ourselves to live vicariously through our social media feeds and travel blogs, rather than go out and have experiences of our own.

We’ve become a generation of consumers. Not consumers in the material sense that our parents were, as more and more of us are adopting minimalist lifestyles, but consumers of content. On-demand streaming services give us our fix whenever we want it, and ebooks have made the written word more accessible than ever. This is not a bad thing, but it’s time to do something better with it.

Rather than consume our content and let it haunt our dreams with adventures we can never hope to live through, it’s time to let that content inspire us! It’s time to make ourselves the heroes we watch, read about, and indeed dream about. It’s time to satisfy our deep rooted need for adventure. Let’s go out and make it happen!

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Fun Facts About Die Hard

While the arguments rage on as whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie, the fact of the matter is that it’s one of the most beloved movies of all time regardless of its status as a holiday classic. Here are two fun facts about Die Hard you may not have known.

Die Hard is based on a novel. Yes, that’s right, Bruce Willis’s action packed portrayal of detective John McClane is actually based on the adventures of detective Joe Leland, the principal character in Roderick Throp’s Nothing Lasts Forever. Although an adaptation of Throp’s novel, Die Hard did include some significant changes to the original story, notably the age of the protagonist (Willis played a much younger character) and the ending of the story, which was considerably happier in the movie.

John McClane is barefoot for nearly the entire movie. Early in the film McClane receives the following advice from a fellow airplane passenger: “You want to know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you’re going, take off your shoes and socks. Then you walk around on the rug barefoot and make fists with your toes. I know, it sounds crazy. Trust me, I’ve been doing it for nine years. Yes, sir! Better than a shower and a hot cup of coffee.” Little did he know that listening to that advice would leave him barefoot throughout a terrorist encounter. Even when McClane has the opportunity to lift some shoes from one of the terrorists they end up being too small. Sometimes you just can’t catch a break.

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Action Packed Shows Based on Books

With so many great movies based on our favorite novels released on a regular basis, it may be easy to forget that television often takes its inspiration from the literary world as well. Here are three of the many popular shows that take their inspiration from books.

Game of Thrones. It’s no secret to fans that HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones was inspired by George R.R. Martin’s bestselling series A Game of Ice and Fire. Although substantial changes were made in later seasons by the show writers, the first season closely mimics the first book. Martin himself contributed some earlier scripts for the show before dedicating himself to finishing the last novel in the series.

Altered Carbon. Based on the 2002 novel of the same name, Altered Carbon tells the thrilling tale of a dystopian future like only Netflix can. Already renewed for a second season, we owe the first to British author Richard K. Morgan, whose book was brought to life by screenwriter and producer Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis.

The 100. Action, excitement, and drama are to be found in abundance in The CW’s fan-favorite sci-fi show The 100. Although the show differs considerably form Kass Morgan’s series of young adult novels of the same name, The 100 nonetheless shares the basic premise of the novels: A scouting mission to earth to see if it’s still habitle manned by a group of teen criminals.

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