155 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World
We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to journey around the world and experience new places and things abroad.
What follows is a complete collection of 155 of the best travel quotes, including some famous quotes from figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.
Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find them inspirational!
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155 Best Travel Quotes
• famous travel quotes.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown
I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash
Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown
Collect moments, not things. — Unknown
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown
I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life
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
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen
Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss
I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost
When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens
• Mark Twain Travel Quotes
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.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.
It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
• Funny Travel Quotes
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige
Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
• Short Travel Quotes
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown
Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart
Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai
Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir
A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir
A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho
Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro
A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu
It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen
It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier
• Misc Travel Quotes
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein
Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire
To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe
• Inspirational Travel Quotes
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
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. — Lawrence of Arabia
Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman
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
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. 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
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson
• Travel With Friends Quotes
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Adventure Travel Quotes
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill
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
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey
Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd
Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins
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
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington
Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley
• Solo Travel Quotes
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark
When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt
Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman
• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.
Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I’ve been. I’ve learned for sure only what I don’t know — and how much I have to learn.
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.
At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.
I have seen firsthand that things can turn on a dime. Tremendously awful, evil things happen to nice people all the time. I have seen people, again and again, relentlessly grinding under the wheel of poverty or oppression. At the same time, I see random acts of kindness and pride in the most outrageous and most unexpected circumstances. I am grateful. I understand that I am very privileged to see what I am seeing, even when it hurts. I think that people, particularly Americans, need to be more inspired to travel and be adventurous with the things they eat. And if they are curious about the world and willing to walk in somebody else’s shoes—that is surely a good thing.
Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time
- Quotes , Travel Tips
- November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
- 12 min read
If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.
Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.
In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.
Famous travel quotes
1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”–Andre Gide
2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed
5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain
6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
7. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –Saint Augustine
11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous
12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” —Robert Frost
14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama
15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill
16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”-Anonymous
18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous
20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc
22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong
24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho
25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin
26. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin
27. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain
29. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
30. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
32. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
33. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
34. “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
35. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
36. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell
38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
39. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
40. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss
41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
42. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac
43. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
44. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde
45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
46. “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
47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” –Harun Yahya
48. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” –Unknown
49. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
50. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
51. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
52. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
54. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
56. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
57. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
58. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
59. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
60. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
61. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
62. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
63. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
64. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
65. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
66. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
67. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
68. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
70. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
71. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
72. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
73. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
74. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
75. “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
76. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
77. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
78. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
80. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
81. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
82. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
83. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
84. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
85. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
86. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery
87. “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
88. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
89. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac
90. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
92. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller
93. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
94. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” -Eric Weiner
95. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost
96. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
97. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
98. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” –Arthur Frommer
99. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde
100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde
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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned
Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…
For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.
Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.
When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.
It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).
Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.
With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.
inspirational travel quotes
1. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson
12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
13. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd
17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama
22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs
32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin
43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
50. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton
52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
54. “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
55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
60. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller
62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya
67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw
68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl
81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
83. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens
85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)
87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
88. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton
91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman
95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )
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Top 100 Best Travel Quotes of All Time To Inspire You To Hit The Road
- March 29, 2023
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We all do love travel quotes! They let us dream, plan those long desired adventures, they remind us what we‘re passionate about, and many times they help us to face our fears .
In this article, we’ve put together a list of the best travel quotes of all times, told by inspiring humans who certainly know what a powerful thing it is to grab your backpack and explore the world with open heart and mind.
Get inspired, get motivated, and hit the road!
The best travel quotes of all time
1 – “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
2 – “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
3 – “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
4 – “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
5 – “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
6 – “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
7 – “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
8 – “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
9 – “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
10 – “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
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11 – “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
12 – “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
13 – “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
14 – “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
15 – “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
16 – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
17 – “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
18 – “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
19 – “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. “– Anonymous
20 – “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
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21 – “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
22 – “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
23 – “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
24 – “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard
25 – “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
26 – “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
27 – “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
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28 – “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
29 – “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
30 – “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. “– Oscar Wilde
31 – “A true traveler’s journey is never complete” ~ jda
32 – “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
33 – “Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
34 – “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
35 – “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
36 – “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
37 – “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
38 – “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
39 – “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
40 – “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
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41 – “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
42 – “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
43 – “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
44 – “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
45 – “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
46 – “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey
47 – “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
48 – “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
49 – “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt
50 – “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
51 – “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
52 – “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
53 – “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
54 – “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
55 – “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
56 – “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
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57 – “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
58 – “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
59 – “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
60 – “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
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61 – “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
62 – “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
63 – “Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
64 – “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
65 – “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
66 – “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” – Walt Whitman
67 – “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
68 – “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
69 – “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith
70 – “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
71 – Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
72 – Wherever you look, there you will fly – Thai Proverb
73 – “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” – Shane Koyczan
74 – “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
75 – “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
76 – “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry
77 – “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”. – Anatole France
78 – ‘‘Where curious and curiosity keep leading us down new paths” – Walt Disney
79 – “People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
80 – “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmache
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81 – “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” – Ross Morley
82 – “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” – Thomas Jefferson
84 – “Travel is like knowledge, the more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen” – Mark Hertsgaad
85 – “Life isn’t about the number of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.”- Maya Angelou
86 – “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
87 – “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
88 – “One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” – Charles Dickens
89 – “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon
90 – “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” – Henry Miller
91 – “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled. “–Mohammed
92 – “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
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93 – “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt
94 – “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
95 – “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
96 – “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
97 – “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
98 – “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
99 – “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
100 – “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake
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200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World
Whether you are an experienced world traveler or merely just a dreamer with a case of wanderlust, these are the best travel quotes to inspire you. Everything from short to long, to sayings about love, couples, friendship and family. And of course the ever so popular Mark Twain travel quotes! Plus, it just wouldn’t be right for me to not include the top bucket list quotes in the bunch.
Whether they are spoken, or a taken from a book or poem, travel quotes continue to engage our imagination and lift our spirits. They make us re-evaluate our corner of the world, and inspire us to defy our boundaries. Let these quotes on travel inspire you to start packing your bags!
Best Travel Quotes: 200 Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World
Travel Quotes by Mark Twain Short Travel Quotes Funny Travel Quotes Travel Quotes About Love, Couples & Marriage Quotes on Travel with Friends Quotes About Fear & Goals Bucket List Quotes Most Inspiring Travel Quotes
Best Travel Quotes by Mark Twain
1. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
2. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain
3. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” — Mark Twain
4. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
5. “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
Top Short Travel Quotes
6. “You lose sight of things…and when you travel everything balances out.”
7. “If not now, when?”
8. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
9. “Travelers never think they are the foreigners.” — Mason Cooley
10. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”
11. “Learn to travel. Travel to learn.”
12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
13. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
14. “Travel is my therapy.”
15. “Wander often, wonder always.”
16. “Fill your life with adventure, not things.”
17. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha
18. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
19. “Embrace the detours.” — Kevin Charbonneau
20. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
21. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berr a
22. “Adventure is out there.”
23. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventure fills your soul.”
24. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
25. “Everyone smiles in the same language.”
26. “Eat well, travel often.”
27. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hillaire Belloc
28. “Put a ding in the universe.” — Steve Jobs
29. “Dream without limits.”
30. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”
31. “Die with memories, not with dreams.”
32. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” —Paulo Coelho
33. “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” —Ray Bradbury
34. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” —Paul Theroux
35. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” Thomas Fuller
36. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.”
37. “Travel is an investment in yourself .” —The Cultureur
38. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.”
39. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” —H elen Keller
40. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
41. “Design a life you are inspired to live.” — Annette White
42. “Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.”
43. “Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.”
44. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” — Caskie Stinnett
45. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
46. “Wherever you go…go with all your heart.” Confucius
47. “I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer.”
Best Funny Travel Quotes
48. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
49. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark
50. “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Martin Buber
51. “Vacation calories don’t count.”
52. “Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.” — Terry Hanson
53. “In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.” — Robert Benchleyl
54. “You want to know what it’s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.” — Lewis Black
55. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” — Rudyard Kipling
56. “ Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.” — Anthony Bourdain
57. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” — Dagobert D. Runes
58. “Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” — Regina Nadelson
59. “One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.” — Erma Bombeck
60. “[Airline food] is the tiniest food I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get — chicken, steak, anything — has grill marks on each side, like somehow we’ll actually believe there’s an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.” — Ellen deGeneres
“Stop making excuses for why you can’t do epic shit and start making plans for how you can.”
— Annette White
61. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” —Rudyard Kipling,
62. “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” — Charles Kuralt
63. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” — Clifton Fadiman
64. “If traveling was free, you’d never see me again.”
65. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore
66. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” — Russel Baker
67. “Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.” —Charles Kuralt
68. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” —George Carlin
69. “Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.” — Al Boliska
70. “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” — Paul Theroux
71. “There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous.” — Theo Cowan
72. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” — Emile Ganest
Travel Quotes About Couples, Love & Marriage
73. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” — John Steinbeck
74. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”
75. “I’ve got a crush on the world.”
76. “All you need is love & a passport.”
77. “Relationship status: In a relationship with my passport.”
78. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” —Lewis Carroll
79. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.”
80. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —Winnie the Pooh
81. “Together is our favorite place to be.”
Quotes on Travel with Friends
82. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
83. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
84. “A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
85. “In life it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.”
86. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”— Izaak Walton
87. “Be careful who you make your memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze
88. “I just want to eat good food, make good love, travel near and far, and surround myself with good people who get me. Happiness over everything. Anything less than that is irrelevant.” — Alex Elle
89. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”
90. “Everyone needs someone who calls and says, “get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.”
91. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
92. “I want to travel and meet beautiful souls. I want friends in every city.”
Quotes About Fear & Goals
93. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley Maclaine
94. “Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” — Athena Singh
95. “Don’t let fear make your decisions for you.” — Annette White
96. “Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain
97. “The toughest challenge may be overcoming the damage our own fears have created.” — Annette White
98. “What if fearful thoughts were a habit like overspending, avoiding eye contact, or saying “umm” when you speak?” — Annette White
99. “To escape fear you have to go through it, not around it.” — Richie Norton
100. “Each time you try something for the first time you will grow—a little piece of the fear of the unknown is removed and replaced with a sense of empowerment.” — Annette White
101. “Fear does not stop death, it stops life.”
102. “Put the fear aside and focus on the endless possibilities the world had to offer.” — Annette White
103. “Instead of listing the thousands of reasons that I can’t do something, I find the half dozen reasons to believe why I can. I find solutions instead of making excuses.” — Annette White
104. “What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
105. “Only take advice from someone who has achieved what you desire.” — Annette White
106. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
107. “Whatever you have accomplished was because you decided it was a priority in your life and something else was not as important.” — Annette White
108. “Great things never came from comfort zones.”
109. “The key is to make your goals a priority, by eliminating the words “I don’t have time” when referring to them. We all have time for what we choose to have time for and you need to make yourself a priority.” — Annette White
110. “Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Bucket List Quotes
111. “The very words “bucket list” can stir up some pretty heavy-duty fears. It can be a reminder of our own mortality, and death is typically something we would rather not think about. But, the reminder that our time is limited is actually one of the best gifts we can be given. It is one that can guide us to achieve what is most important to us before it is too late.” — Annette White
112. “Make a bucket list and fill it with dreams that have no boundaries.” — Annette White
113. “The first thing on my bucket list is to fill the bucket with wine.”
114. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
115. “For too many people it takes a terrifying illness, hit- ting retirement age, or some other life altering event to honestly begin thinking about the things they want to experience in their lifetime. In many of these cases, it will then be too late to turn these dreams into a reality.” — Annette White
116. “Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.” — Annette White
117. “Whatever you want, there are benefits to turning them into a bucket list, and a well-crafted one can push you to lead your version of an ideal life.” — Annette White
118. “One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it’s worth watching.”
119. “It is never too early to begin a bucket list, don’t wait for that someday that may never come.” — Annette White
120. “Facing uncertainties every day and being able to over- come them on my own opened up more possibilities to achieving my bucket list goals.” — Annette White
121. “We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.” — The Bucket List Movie
122. “Creating a bucket list is only one small piece of the passionate life puzzle—actually living the bucket list lifestyle is the whole shebang.” — Annette White
123. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
Best Inspirational Travel Quotes
124. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” —Mohammed
125. “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”
126. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
127. “Be the girl who decided to go for it.”
128. ‘Travel has the ability to enrich your life in some way, shape, or form—you return a different person than when you arrived.” — Annette White
129. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps, than a house full of stuff.”
130. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket.”
131. “I’m no the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
132. “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
133. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —Freya Stark
134. “Don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s not worth even beginning if you are only able to make a small start.” — Annette White
135. “Better to see something once than to hear about it hundred times.”
136. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or moving your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac
137. “Discover your passion, then take one step every day to live it.” — Annette White
138. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —H enry Miller
139. “Stop defining travel by the distance the destination is from your departure or the length of time you will be away from home. Instead characterize it as a journey of exploration, relaxation, adventure, and learning.” — Annette White
140. “I may not be rich, I don’t wear designer clothing or drive a luxury sports car, but bathing elephants in Thailand doesn’t require Louis Vuitton, just a passport and a desire.” — Annette White
141. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” —Game of Thrones
142. “Without a plan, aspirations are nothing more than hollow ideas floating around in your head.” — Annette White
143. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” — Carson McCullers
144. “You know all those things you always wanted to do? You should go do them.”
145. “There is a false perception that you need to be rich to travel, which simply is not true.” — Annette White
146. “Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
147. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” — Elizabeth Drew
148. “There are seven days in the week and someday isn’t one of them”
149. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” — William Least Heat Moon
150. “Leave the comfort of your resort hotel and be engulfed into the world around you.” — Annette White
151. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”
152. “Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” — Rick Steves
153. “Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ” — Kevin Kelly
154. “Of all the books in all the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport”
155. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton
156. “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
157. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” — Harun Yahya
158. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only the first page.” — St. Augustine
159. “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
160. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mariam Beard
161. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
162. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener
163. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
164. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
165. “The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.”
166. “Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibu Battuta
167. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have in only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharial Nehru
168. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux
169. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin
170. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
171. “We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more.” — Pico Iyer
172. “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
173. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark
174. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” —Oscar Wilde
175. “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
176. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” — Bill Bryson
177. “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.” —Roy Chapman Andrews
178. “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.” — J.S. Eliot
179. “Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone…It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?” — Donald Miller
180. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” —Roman Payne
181. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” — Anita Septimus
182. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll
183. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” — Cesare Pavese
184. “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
185. “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
186. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” — Rachel Wolchin
187. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun drenched elsewhere.” —Isabelle Ebehardt
188. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
189. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau
190. “Some people live more in twenty years than others do in forty. It’s not the time, it’s the person .” —Doctor Who
191./ “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” Chris Humphrey
192. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli
193. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
194. “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” — Martin Yan
195. “Live with no excuses, travel with no regrets.”
196. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
197. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”
198. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi
199. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
200. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
For many of these travel quotes, their style, humor and clarity of expression have inspired dreamers, and travelers for generations and continue to comfort kindred spirits today. Read them when you’re stuck in a rut or need to fuel your wanderlust… that is… if it’s possible to add any more fuel to that fire!
Do you have any travel, adventure or bucket list quotes to add to the list?
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49 thoughts on “200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World”
I feel like I've seen this list before? If not then I've definitely read most of the quotes before. I'm such a sucker for quotes, I even have a quote app on my phone.
There’s lots of travel quote lists out there, these are just my favorite ones ;)
I've not come across a lot of these quotes before like Elle has. My favourite one from the list is "5. Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Oh Yea, that’s a good one :)
These are good quotes, I like 6, 18, 34, 40 and 42.
So glad you read and picked your favorites!
2 is my favorite and one that I live by.
I love these, especially 18 and 31. Also ha ha to number 16. I always think of Uncle Traveling Matt's song from Fraggle Rock as inspirational for travelers. "Every sunrise shows me more and more/ So much to explore/ Come and follow me", etc.
So funny, I used to watch Fraggle Rock all the time!
Loved the list.. so inspiring ?
You’re amazing and inspiring.. Glad to read his post. Thank you so much for sharing a great information!!
Wow! What a comprehensive list! I love food and especially travel, and I find those things often bring you to a point of poignant reflection. Thanks for sharing these!
loved the list… So Inspiring…
I am glad that I am not the only one who has a huge urge to travel the world. I hope someday my dreams wont be dreams anymore!
Wow…This is a most amazing list and becomes more inspiring.
It really inspire me to travel even though I’m alone :)
It’s true! Travel is Therapy. Nice blog dude.
Enjoyed reading all the travel quotes! Each one is better than another. Some of them have really forced me to look at life from a different perspective and also sparked the interest for traveling in me. Thank you for posting such a wonderful conglomeration of travel quotes.
I love the 79th quote about friend and adventure other were also good but it was deep. I too have my own quote ” If you love surprises then Nature will never disappoint you” . Hope you like my quote too
Oh! That is actually good one too. :)
I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in their mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way, I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure!
Oh Anette! You have done such an amazing job with this article.
I agree with every factor that you have pointed out. Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts on this.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too :)
That’s a good one. Will take note of this!
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130 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust
There are so many quotes that inspire wanderlust and travel that I wanted a place to put all my favorites. This will be updated regularly as I come across new quotes (or as you tell me your favs!) This is an ongoing updated this to create the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire you – to book the ticket, take the adventure, and to check off that bucket list (so I’ve tried to avoid cliche’s as much as possible).
There’s a mix of short travel quotes, long travel quotes, travel quotes by famous travelers (like Anthony Bourdain) and some lesser-known. Some are funny travel quotes while others are a bit more serious travel quotes. Some are quotes about traveling with friends or traveling with family, and others are about solo travel – you can do both! I hope this list inspires you to get out and explore the wonderful world we live in.
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100+ Inspirational Travel Quotes:
- “You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ~ Miriam Adeney This is my ultimate favorite quote – I even got it tattooed on my back! I have pieces of my heart all over the world!
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2. Live your life by a compass, not a clock ~ unknown There is something about travel that destroys our routine – and it’s amazing. It’s something I try to do once in a while even when I’m not traveling.
3. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey ~ Babs Hoffman There are always potholes, but trying to enjoy the journey despite them is important.
4. “ 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 I’ve come to accept that I’ll get lost wherever I am, so I just have to keep going!
5. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes- Marcel Proust
7. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~ Omar Khayyam
8. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Unknown
9. Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. ~Anonymous
10. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. ~Bill Bryson
11. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~ Anita Desai
12. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ~ Samuel Johnson
13. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. ~ Unknown
14. A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. ~Tim Cayhill
15. Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind. ~ Unknown
16. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller
17. It’s a big world out there, would be a shame not to experience ~ JD Andrews
18. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. ~ MelodyTwong
19. Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time. ~Breanna Smith
20. We travel, some of us forever, to see other places, other lives, other souls. ~ Anais Nin
21. Fill your life with adventures, not thing. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. ~ Unknown
22. It’s a big and beautiful world. Most of us live & die in the same corner where we were born & never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. ~Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
24. I want to make memories all over the world – Unknown
25. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. – David McCullough Jr.
27. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love – Hemingway
28. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man & the universe – Anatole France
29. The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein
30. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life – Agnes Repplier
31. You only live once, but if you do it right, once in enough. – Mae West
32. The journey is my home – Unknown
33. It’s not the destination where you end up… but the mishaps and memories you create along the way – Unknown
34. Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view – Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
35. Great things never came from comfort zones – Anonymous
37. You can shake the sand from your shoes, but you can’t shake it from your soul. – Anonymous
38. Don’t quite your day dream – Unknown
39. Fear is only temporary. Regret lasts forever. – Anonymous
41. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain
42. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
43. Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Unknown
44. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world – Mary Anne Radmacher
45. Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. – Unknown
46. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years. – Unknown
47. The ‘traveler’ rush that hits you upon arrival to a new place is like a drug. And like a drug, the more you expose yourself to it, the more you want it. – Clayton B. Cornell
48. Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living – Anthony Bourdain
49. We travel, some of forever, to see other places, other lives, other soulds – Anais Nin
51. The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself – Andrew McCarthy
52. Stop dreaming about your bucket list, and start living it! – Annette White
53. Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell. – Paula Bendfelt
54. The ideal is to feel at home, anywhere – everywhere – Geoff Dyer
56. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot
57. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain
58. You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ~ Eugene Fodor
59. Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. ~ Jennifer Lee
60. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. ~ Muhammed Ali
61. You need not even listen, just wait .. the world will offer itself freely to you, unmaking itself. ~ Frankz Kafka
62. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart.
63. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
64. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. – William Least Heat Moon.
65. Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – Gayland Anderson
66. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen – Benjamin Disraeli
67. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharp – WB Yeats
68. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor
69. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown
70. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
71. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Way and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while, you fumble for words, trying to vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it. – Anthony Bourdain.
73. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper – WB Yeats
74. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert
75. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Erick Widman
76. Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Anthony Bourdain
77. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves, we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown
78. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
79. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru
80. When a man is a traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family. – Peter Hoeg
81. Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
82. Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman
83. 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.
84. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. An in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain
85. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
86. Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – Peter Hoeg
87. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – Secret Life of Walter Mitty
88. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
89. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson
90. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
91. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life – Marcel Proust
93. How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? – Ernesto Che Guevara
94. Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has a very little to do with the food itself. – Anthony Bourdain
95. Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. – Michael Palin
96. Travel, not to escape life, but so life does not escape you. – Unknown
97. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
98. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark
99. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
100. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
101. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling
102. Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau
103. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith
104. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G. K. Chesterton
105. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain
106. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
107. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot
108. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
109. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
110. I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breathe in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood
111. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question – Harun Yahya.
112. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
113. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
114. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
115. Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac
116. One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. – Edith Wharton
117. We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. – Ray Bradbury
118. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. – A. A. Milne
119. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
120. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. – Lawrence Block
121. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
122. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
123. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
124. He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish proverb
125. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten
126. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener
127. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman.
128. 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
129. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton
130. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
131. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: This is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.” – Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules.
132. The World is a Book, and those who do not Travel, Read only one page. – Agustine of Hippo
133. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. – Oscar Wilde.
134. The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty wallet. – English proverb
135. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
136. Better to travel hopefully than to arrive. – English Proverb
137. The Journey itself is my home. – Bash ō Matsuo
138. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
139. In the desert of life, the wise travel by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone. – Arab Proverb
139. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo
140. So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac
141. The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. – Don Williams, Jr.
142. Arriving there is what you are destined for. Ithaka gave you the Marvellous Journey – C.P. Cavafy
143. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo
144. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd
145. We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parentheses in eternity. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
146. 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
147. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. – Diane Von Furstenberg.
148. Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. – Irving Wallace
149. The life you have led does not need to be the only life you have. – Anna Quindlen
150. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson
151. The true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. it’s the symbol of his liberty- his excessive
152. Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard
153. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: The desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. – Paul Theroux
154. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. – Pascal Mercier
155. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. – Paul Theroux
156. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
157. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – Unknown
158. Plane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore
159. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. – Brian Chesky
160. He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook. – African Proverb
161. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. – Thomas Jefferson
162. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies du voyage: Perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. – Gustave Flaubert
163. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it – John Steinbeck
1 64. Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time. – Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye
165. If you are planning to travel where corn grows, you should take a sickle with you. – Ethiopian Proverb
166. You go away for a long time and return a different person – You never come all the way back – Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
167. The traveler sees the world in its true proportions: Small enough to hold within his arms, yet large enough to encompass him. He feels himself part of the universe, instead of separate and apart from it – James Michener
So there you have it – 167 incredibly inspirational travel quotes (so far) to get you to live your best life.
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow is my favourite. It’s so true
I love travel quotes. They are so inspirational. Since I’m a solo traveller, #35 really resonates with me.
This is a hard one! Which would my favorite be…? I’m between my compatriot Rosalia de Castro and the unknown “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, quote number one hit differently! Pieces of my heart have been left in nearly every place I’ve ever visited, any place I’ve ever made a memory with new or old friends.
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” I think that pretty much sums up why I’m driven to travel 😀 Great list!
Thanks for sharing these quotes! “Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” is one that resonates with me most strongly. It is such an important reminder that sometimes when we’re traveling we need to put down our tour book and busy agenda and just stop to appreciate the new and exciting surroundings around us. Thanks for the reminder!
Absolutely! It’s easy to get swept up in all the “must sees” instead of what the destination is trying to show us!
Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view is my favorite. Cant wait to travel again. Hope this pandemic ends soon
I completely love the first quote you mentioned!! I can see why you got it tattooed. After reading them all, the other one which stands out to me the most is the one about us being the foreigners!
So many beautiful quotes! I can’t wait to be able to travel again
Oh I just loved these quotes. Thanks for the great post!! I miss traveling so much!
Same here! Glad you enjoy them!
I love these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
This is so inspirational! Love it!
Love these inspirational travel quotes! My favourite is number 11. It’s so true that a destination stays with you long after you leave it whether it’s a smell, a dish etc.
So many beautiful quotes! Love the positivity and inspiration during this crazy time we are in 🙂
So many great quotes, thanks for sharing. It reminds me of travel days.
This is a fantastic list of inspiring travel quotes! I’ve heard of most of them but also there a few that are new to me, so I really appreciate this! This one is one of my all time favorites –“Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living” – Anthony Bourdain
Thanks for including that one on this ultimate list!
Haha that’s my favorite reminder that work is just work. – Which (at least in America) is often forgotten.
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Best Travel Quotes: The 55 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time
Posted on Last updated: November 10, 2021
As cheesy as it may sound, I love inspirational travel quotes!
Whether you’re planning a trip, battling post-trip blues, or just aimlessly scrolling through your phone, you can be sure there is a quote about travelling somewhere out there that will hit the spot for you.
There are travel quotes about finding yourself, travel quotes to inspire your next trip, great travel quotes that push you to live your best life and more.
We can all relate to inspiring travel quotes, which is what makes them so fun to read. In this post I’ve put together some of the most famous travel quotes (and my personal favourites).
I hope you will find these awesome travel quotes inspiring and they will make you want to head out and see some more of the world!
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Famous travel quotes
1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
2. “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed
5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
7. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Short travel quotes
10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous
12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” — Robert Frost
14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama
15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”
20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
Travel the world quotes
21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc
22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong
24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho
25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin
26. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin
27. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”
28. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
Adventure travel quotes
29. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain
30. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
31. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
32. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
33. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
34. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
35. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
36. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
37. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction”
Quotes about travelling & coming home
38. “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
39. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
40. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
41. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell
42. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
43. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
Inspirational travel quotes
44. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss
45. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
46. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ― Jawaharial Nehru
47. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac
48. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
49. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde
My personal favourite travel quotes
50. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
51. “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
52. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya
53. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
54. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown
55. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel
I hope you’ve enjoyed these awesome travel quotes and you’re feeling inspired and full of wanderlust after reading them!
This is just a compilation of my own personal favourite quotes about travel, if you’re still looking for more awesome travel quotes, check out these 111 travel quotes and 100+ quotes perfect for Instagram by other awesome content creators.
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Wednesday 22nd of May 2019
Waving a big hello to you, friend! My favourite: 9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” Looking forward to hearing from you more :)
Tuesday 28th of May 2019
Hi Steve! That one is one of my favourites too :)
Saturday 18th of May 2019
What a wonderful list of travel quotes. My personal favourite is “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen. i just want to travel more and more
Monday 27th of May 2019
That's one of my favourites too :)
Marc Deschamps
Wednesday 17th of October 2018
My favourite: 27. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Thank you very much for this inspirational post. Living this life, too... Marc and Sylvia
Monday 22nd of October 2018
One of my favourite quotes too :)
Brian & Noelle
Thursday 30th of August 2018
We absolutely love number 36 and 41! Travel quotes are so good for a little inspiration!
Those are amongst my favourite too! :)
Tuesday 7th of August 2018
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tzu
Saturday 24th of November 2018
That a good one. So true. Plans are made on the go. It might extend
Saturday 18th of August 2018
Another beautiful travel quote!
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73 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Next Vacation
These inspirational travel quotes will make you want to book your next trip as soon as possible.
Elizabeth Rhodes is a special projects editor at Travel + Leisure , covering everything from luxury hotels to theme parks to must-pack travel products. Originally from South Carolina, Elizabeth moved to New York City from London, where she started her career as a travel blogger and writer.
It's hard to put into words just how transformational travel can be. Thankfully, artists, authors, philosophers, and world travelers have captured the essence with inspirational travel quotes that remind us of our past journeys and serve as fuel for future trips.
We've rounded up some of the best travel quotes from the likes of Anthony Bourdain, J. R. R. Tolkien, and other literary greats to help you get excited about your next big adventure. These beautiful quotes also make great travel captions for Instagram, so add them to your next post to encourage your followers to get out and see the world.
Inspirational Travel Quotes
"Once a year go somewhere you have never been before." — Dalai Lama
"You lose sight of things … and when you travel, everything balances out." — Daranna Gidel
"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." — Moslih Eddin Saadi
"When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you're visiting." — Clint Borgen
"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn." — Anthony Bourdain
"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
"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
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." — Andre Gide
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." — Lin Yutang
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." — Henry David Thoreau
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." — John A. Shedd
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." — St. Augustine
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
“You need not even listen, just wait … the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.” — Franz Kafka
Quotes That Make Perfect Travel Captions for Instagram
"Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour." — Eckhart Tolle
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey
"Robert Frost was right. To take the 'road less traveled by' does make all the difference." — Samantha Brown
"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you." — Anthony Bourdain
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." — Michael Altshuler
"A great way to learn about your country is to leave it." — Henry Rollins
"Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien
"People don't take trips, trips take people." — John Steinbeck
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." — Hilaire Belloc
“Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.” — Jamie Lyn Beatty
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” — Lovelle Drachman
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” — Melody Truong
“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
Best Travel Quotes About the Journey
"I don't know where I am going, but I'm on my way." — Carl Sagan
"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness." — Ray Bradbury
"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." — Seneca
"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting." — Sargent Shriver
"Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints." — Chief Seattle
"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror." — Orson Welles
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." — Lao Tzu
"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." — Paul Theroux
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell
“The journey not the arrival matters.” — T.S. Eliot
“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” — Harvey Lloyd
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” — Babs Hoffman
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
Best Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust
"The Wanderlust has got me ... by the belly-aching fire." — Robert W. Service
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain
"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live." — Hans Christian Andersen
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." — Anaïs Nin
"For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” — Oscar Wilde
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” ― Bill Bryson
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” — Michael Palin
“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
“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” — Paul Brandt
“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” — Sir Ernest Shackleton
Best Travel Quotes for After Your Trip
"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust
"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? ― it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." — Jack Kerouac
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” — Isabelle Eberhardt
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” — Paulo Coelho
“Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Buttuta
“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” — Sandra Lake
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” — Benjamin Disraeli
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The 100 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Spark Your Next Adventure
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I was a voracious reader when I was growing up, typically reading two books a week on average.
My lower-middle class family didn’t have the money to do much in the way of traveling, outside of the occasional camping trip in North Georgia . Both my parents worked, and my dad worked multiple jobs to support his family of five.
The furthest we ever traveled was a trip to visit my godparents in Virginia when I was 14. So instead I read books about travel and adventure long before I had the financial means to start taking adventures of my own.
It was the written word that originally fueled my travel dreams, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books to Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea .
It was through Henry David Thoreau’s Walden , John Muir’s Our National Parks , and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature that I developed a passion for the environment. Without them, who knows if I would’ve become the advocate for ecotourism and wildlife conservation I am today.
And when I finally started traveling, the work of travel writers such as Jon Krakauer , Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux greatly influenced the way I did it.
But the first classic quote I remember having a significant impact on me came in the form of a Robert Frost poem: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” This idea influenced many of my choices, setting me on the path to becoming a full-time professional writer in my twenties.
For me, these inspirational travel quotes aren’t just words: They are the distillation of a philosophy that continues to drive my life and work today. I hope they will prove equally influential for you… –Bret Love; photos by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett
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Inspirational Travel Quotes
1. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust
2. “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
3. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” –Freya Stark
4. “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
5. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” –Miriam Beard
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6. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” –Paul Theroux
7. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy .” –Sir Richard Burton
8. “I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.” – Rick Steves
9. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust
10. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
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Quotes About Adventure Travel
11. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Andre Gide
12. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” –Jawaharial Nehru
13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.
14. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” –Hans Christian Andersen
15. “In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain .” –Jack Kerouac
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16. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho
17. “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
18. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” –Ray Bradbury
19. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” –Irving Wallace
20. “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.” —Robert W. Service
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21. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” –Anonymous
22. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –Helen Keller
23. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” –Saint Augustine
24. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” –Rumi
25. “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” –Norwegian Proverb
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26. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu
27. “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” –Tennesee Williams
28. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” –Anais Nin
29. “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” – Irish proverb
30. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” –Roy T. Bennett
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31. “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch , or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed better because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –Lin Yutang
33. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” –Mark Paterson
34. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” –Harvey Lloyd
35. “If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” –Alex Day
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36. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle
37. “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
38. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –Hodding Carter
39. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life.” –Pamela T. Chandler
40. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill
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41. “The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy
42. “A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess
43 “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious wherever you stand.” –Shannon L. Alder
44. “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer
45. “How will I know who I can become if I don’t give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?” ― Eileen Cook, With Malice
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46. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I– I took the one less traveled by… And that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost
47. “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley
48. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty
49. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada
50. “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money, or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In Search For The Great Perhaps
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Couples Travel Quotes
51. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
52. “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
53. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
54. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer
55. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
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56. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll
57. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
58. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” — Robert Brault
59. “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Anonymous
60. “To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” — Rebecca Solnit ( A Field Guide to Getting Lost )
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61. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley
62. “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 ( The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 )
63. “If you reject the food , ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
64. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” -William Least Heat Moon
65. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all the familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things– air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky– all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
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66. “ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
67. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult
68. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
69. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen
70. “Be spontaneous, never be afraid to try new things or find new ways. Don’t let overplanning and routine poison your life.” ― Mouloud Benzadi
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71. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
72. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
74. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” –Neale Donald Walsch
75. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
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76. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
77. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the Universe.” –Anatole France
78. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –St. Augustine
79. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in P.S. I Love You
80. “I find the great thing in this world is not so much about where we stand, as in what direction we are moving… We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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81. “Stop creating a life that you need a vacation from. Instead, move to where you want to live, do what you want to do, start what you want to start, and create the life you want today. This isn’t rehearsal, people. This is YOUR life.” –Dale Partridge
82. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” –Bill Bryson
83. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” ―Judith Thurman
84. “Travel is the antidote to fear. It makes you see the similarities and differences that exist around the world, and it opens your eyes– and mind– to new and different approaches.” –Julia Cosgrove
85. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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86. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. 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
88. “Travel while you are young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” — Anonymous
89. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food , it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain
90. “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
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91. “Look deeper into nature , and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein
92. “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
93. “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” –Schopenhauer
94. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir, The Mountains of California
95. “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you– it is YOU who belongs to this land.” –Native American proverb
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96. “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” –Cree Indian Proverb
97. “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
98. “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep , and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more.” –Lord Byron
100. “We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” ―David Attenborough
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54 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Pack Your Bags
From funny to inspirational, these quotes will fuel your wanderlust.
Short Travel Quotes
- Inspirational Travel Quotes
- Vacation Quotes
- Funny Travel Quotes
Whether you're an avid traveler or dreaming of your first big trip, these travel quotes reflect the spirit of travel, offering insights and motivations for your next journey from authors, poets, and philosophers.
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- "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai
- “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
- "Travel brings power and love back into your life." — Rumi Jalalud-Din
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
- "I read; I travel; I become." ― Derek Walcott
- "Adventure is worthwhile." — Aesop
- "To travel is to evolve." — Pierre Bernardo
- "Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets." — Oscar Wilde
- "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." — G.K. Chesterton
- "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Suess
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Erica Jong
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
Inspirational Travel Quotes
- "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell
- "I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." — Anna Louise Strong
- "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens
- "One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." — Henry Miller
- "Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest." — Freya Stark
- "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. “We strain to renew our capacity to wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." — Shana Alexander
- "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
- "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." —Anaïs Nin
- “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
Vacation Quotes
- “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” ― Elbert Hubbard
- “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” ― Kenneth Grahame
- “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ― Betty Williams
- “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Here's to a vacation of no regrets!” ― Joan Rylen
- "I can lie around and relax at home. A vacation is a chance for doing.”― Tessa Bailey
- “Well, I think every day’s a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you’re working on, it’s like always being on vacation.” ― Andy Warhol
- “Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over.” ― J.S. Wik
- “What I needed in the moment was a family vacation.” ― Deena Kastor
Funny Travel Quotes
- "Jet lag is for amateurs." — Dick Clark
- "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." — Mark Twain
- “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
- “There is nothing safer than flying—it’s crashing that is dangerous.” –Theo Cowan
- “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” –Robin S. Sharma
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
- “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” –Steve Martin
- “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” –Mercedes Lackey
- “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain
- “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
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100 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire you in 2024 (with photos)
Inspiring travel quotes were always something I loved. Even before I travelled the world, I wrote many of the meaningful travel quotes I came across in my diary.
And today, they resonate with me as much as they did back then.
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There are many awesome travel quotes listed in this blog.
Also, my favourite ones in recent years are Anthony Bourdain travel quotes. That man was a huge travel inspiration.
How come so many of us look for travel quotes? They are the perfect way to daydream about travel or reflect on our past adventures.
Choosing your favourite travel quote is a hard task, but I have compiled 100 of the best travel quotes of all time right here with photos as well.
So feel free to share them with your friends or family or just pin them for later.
100 Inspiring Travel Quotes that you’ll love!
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Best Travel Quotes of all times
1. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
2. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” – Ibn Battuta.
3. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” – Tony Robbins
4. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.“ – Lao Tzu
5. “He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
6. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Muhammad
7. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anonymous
8. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James A. Michener
9. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
10. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous
Short Travelling Quotes
- “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
- “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever” – Anonymous
- “Travel teaches toleration”– Benjamin Disraeli
- “Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “People don’t take trips — trips take people”- John Steinbeck
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
- ”Eat Well, Travel Often.”- Anonymous
- “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”– Chinese Proverb
- “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”- Anonymous
Inspirational Travel Quotes
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
- “Travel is my therapy.” – Dalai Lama
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by”- Robert Frost
- “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
- “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”- Matthew Karsten
- “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan!” – Dr. Zelana Montminy
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
Funny Travel Quotes
- “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
- “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
- “It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!“ – Anonymous
- “I love my job, only when I’m on vacation.” – Anonymous
- “You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license!“ -Anonymous
- “My favourite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.“ – Anonymous
- Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
- “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.“ – Anonymous
- “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.“- Anonymous
- “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous
Quotes For Travelling The World
- “Open your heart to the world. It’ll dazzle you in ways you never thought possible.” – Anonymous
- “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.“ – Wallace Stevens
- “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion” – Paulo Coelho
- “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro
- “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- ”Life is short and the world is wide” – Simon Raven
- “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Anonymous
- “Let’s get lost.” – Adi Alsaid
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
Travelling Quotes With Friends
- “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”- Anonymous
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
- “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”- Anonymous
- “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”- Anonymous
- “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
- “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Terry Allison
- “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”- William Butler Yeats
- “Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
- “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable…it’s being separated and knowing nothing will change.” – Anonymous
- “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” – Tim Cahill
Adventure Travel Quotes
- “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
- “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.“ – Marty Rubin
- “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
- “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
- “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Irving Wallace
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn
- “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis
Solo Travel Quotes
- “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
- “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
- “Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” – Ragnar Lothbrok
- “Table for one, food for two, please.” – Anonymous
- “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”- Anonymous
- “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”- Anonymous
- “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”- Anonymous
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”- Anonymous
- “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Anonymous
Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes
1. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.”
2. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald’s? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”
3. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
4. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
5. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
6. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
7. “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.”
8. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”
9. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
10. “When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.”
Wanderlust Travel Quotes that Inspire to Travel
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
- “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Anonymous
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
- “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
- “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
These are my 100 quotes for travelling the world that inspire to travel. Do you have any favourite travelling quotes? Let us know in the comments.
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Every Travel Quote Ever
Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.
Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!
Inspirational Travel Quotes
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown
“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway
“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb
“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
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net
“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca
“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown
If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/
“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman
“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
Adventure Travel Quotes
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton
The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap
“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)
“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“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
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt
“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
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120 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Journey
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Travel has played a crucial role in human lives for millennia. These travel quotes show it can play a role in yours too.
Though we see travel through the lens of our own experiences and the world around us, the desire to spend time in a place far from home is not new. People have been traveling across countries and continents for generations.
Travel is an exciting adventure . Though some of us travel for business, many of us are motivated by vacations, which give us the opportunity to recharge, reconnect, and understand our place in the world.
Whether you’re going to a new place for a week, embarking on a gap year before college, or making a big move, we’ve got the best travel quotes to inspire you to get there.
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Travel Quotes
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
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Miriam Beard
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. Dutch Proverb
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin
Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets. Oscar Wilde
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. Peter Hoeg
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. Martin Buber
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing in the pursuit of something else. Lawrence Block
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. Bill Bryson
One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. Edith Wharton
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. Tony Robbins
Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time. Brenna Smith
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. Anthony Bourdain
The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot
For the born traveller, traveling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. Aldous Huxley
Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Why We Travel
We know that the urge to travel, explore, and see new things is not a new one for humankind, but what encourages us to pack our bags and leave home?
Whether you go by car, on foot, by rail, or air, these travel quotes are all about the forces that drive us to go new places and seek new experiences.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
The journey itself is my home . Matsuo Basho
I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it. Alexander Sattler
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave. Charlotte Erikkson
To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them. Mark Twain
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
Focus on the journey, not the destination, joy is found not in finishing the activity, but in doing. Greg Anderson
Once you have travelled, 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
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered. Kahlil Gibran
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. Isabelle Eberhardt
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. Susan Sontag
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. Agnes Repplier
Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home. Anatole France
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed pope-mobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. Anthony Bourdain
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful , receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. Pico Iyer
Solo Journey Quotes
Traveling alone is one of the scariest and most rewarding things you can do. Going where you want, when you want, without having to account for someone else… it sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Well, yes and no.
Taking a solo trip is liberating and reminds us how responsible and accountable we can be for our actions. We get to enjoy the journey, as well as the amazement of going somewhere we’ve never been before, with no distractions or drama.
Although traveling alone can be a little lonely, it’s also a great way to build confidence . It’s worth remembering that a solo trip might also introduce us to new friends, family we didn’t know we had, or even a significant other.
Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime. Jacqueline Boone
Some journeys can be only traveled alone. Ken Poirot
Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. John Mayer
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell
A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much committed to movement as committed to transformation. Pico Iyer
Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself. Anonymous
The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude . Paul Theroux
When preparing to travel, let out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before. Anonymous
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to new influences, to change . Katharine Butler Hathaway
To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown. Freya Stark
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. Margaret Storm Jameson
Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating thing of your life, try it at least once. Anonymous
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. Hannah Arendt
Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone. Chinese Proverb
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love . Ernest Hemingway
Business Travel Quotes
Some of us travel more than others, and for some travel is more about obligation than enjoyment. For businesspeople who have to travel from place to place, it doesn’t seem like much of a privilege at all.
However much of an obligation traveling for work may seem, there are always ways to make it more enjoyable, fulfilling, and rewarding.
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. Paulo Coelho
One thing I love about traveling for work is growing and learning out of my comfort zone. Anonymous
But my sense in speaking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. Steven Soderbergh
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… adventure is a state of mind and spirit. Jacqueline Cochran
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. David Randi
Better to see something once, than to hear about it a thousand times. Asian Proverb
No one traveling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. Thorstein Veblen
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success . John D. Rockefeller
Road Trip Quotes
Taking a road trip is a quintessential American dream for many, how many of us are brave enough to jump in the car, turn on the music, and drive for thousands of miles?
If this sounds like your idea of a perfect vacation, or something you’ve always wanted to do, make this the year that you plan it and do it!
Take the time to plan out a rough guideline for your adventure. Include must-see sights, places to stay, and experiences you just can’t live without. Making space for spontaneity is important, too, for some of the best times of our lives happen when we least expect them.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. Robert Frost
I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it. Grace Jones
I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. Walt Whitman
I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. Corinne Hoffman
Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. Unknown
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Isak Dineson
If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music. Edgar Wright
Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. Emma Chase
Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things. Victoria Erikson
Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions. Jenn McKinlay
What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip. Crestless Wave
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. Romesh Gunesekera
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. Jon Bon Jovi
I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. Miriam Toews
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Jerry Seinfeld
I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place. Caleb Johnson
You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. Steve Rushin
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. Aaron Lauritsen
That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. John Green
Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement. Anthony Joshua
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. Jack Kerouac
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. Paulo Coelho
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. Susan Magsamen
When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. Charles de Lint
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. William Least Heat Moon
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
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt
The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Jack Kerouac
Wherever your next trip takes you, we hope you found a quote to inspire you on your journey! And if you’ve just returned home, now may be the perfect time to start planning your next adventure.
Travel has always been a transformative experience for those who dare to do it. Visiting different places, cultures, and lands can introduce us to parts of ourself we otherwise may never know.
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The 80 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes of All-time
- “We travel just to travel.” — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004
- “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
- “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
- “Don’t be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.” — National Geographic’s Andrew Evans
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
- “When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
- “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
- “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
- – Katharine Butler Hathaway
- “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
- “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
- “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
- ”If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right.” — Roland Gau
- “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” — Oscar Wilde
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener
- “He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” — Dutch proverb
- The greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” — Bill Bryson
- “Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” — Lily Leung
- “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
- “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
- “No matter where you go, there you are.”
- “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
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharal Nehru
- “How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.” — Spanish Proverb
- “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.” — Diane von Furstenberg
- “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
- “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
- “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” — Danny Kaye
- “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen
- “Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.” — Rolf Potts
- “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
- “The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.” — Lao-Tzu
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
- “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”— Gustave Flaubert
- “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer
- “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” — Ross Morley
- “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
- “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” — Eudora Welty
- “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel
- “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” — Amelia E. Barr
- “Let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen closely.”
- “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs
- “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
- “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost
- “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” — Glenn Clark
- ”Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men, instead, seek what they sought.” — Matsuo Basho
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide
- “Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson
- “You can see it for miles. Like, it goes over the hills and stuff ….but so does the M6.” – Karl Pilkington on the Great Wall of China
- “Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of colour without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream’s shadow.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
- “ Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger
- “Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere” – Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance
- ” I needed no better reason for the journey than to be exactly where I was, knowing what I knew. Those were the times when I felt full of natural wisdom, scratching at heaven’s very door.” – Ted Simon, Jupiter’s Travels
- “The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.” – Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
- “And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, what am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?” – Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
- “ What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “A new kind of heat, brutal and hard, carrying the smell of another continent. As I came down the mountain this heat piled up, pushing against me with blasts of sand, so that I walked half-blind, my tongue dry as a carob bean, obsessed once again by thirst. These were ominous days of nerve-bending sirocco, with peasants wrapped up to the eyes… but far down in the valley, running in slow green coils, I could see at last the tree-lined Guadalquivir.” – Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- “A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
- “Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.” – Alex Garland, The Beach
- “Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.” – Jan Morris, Venice
- “All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet’s hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.” – Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
- “I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.” – Colette
- “He won’t fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won’t fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.” – Spalding Gray
- “Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child’s transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.” – Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
- “The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.” – Graham Greene
- “Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.” – Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here?
- “Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station’.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
- “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
- “With the palms zipping past and the big sun burning down on the road ahead, I had a flash of something I hadn’t felt since my first months in Europe. A mixture of ignorance, and a loose, what-the-hell kind of confidence that comes when a man picks up and begins to move in a hard, straight line toward an unknown horizon.” – Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
- “We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure.” – Terry Darlington, Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
Written by Ryan Lum
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For all those out there with hearts full of reisefieber (that’s German for travel fever), this post goes out to you. I’ve collected the 103 best travel quotes to fuel your wanderlust, caption your Instagram posts, and inspire your next adventure. I hope you enjoy.
This post was updated November 2023.
Quotes That Define Travel
1.”Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things—air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky—all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” -Cesare Pavese
2. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’” -Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
3. “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
How Travel Defines Us
4. “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
5. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” -William Langewiesche
6. “You get a strange feeling when you leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you’ll never be this way ever again.” -Azar Nafisi
7. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” -Edith Wharton
8. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley Maclaine
Quotes About Why We Travel
9. “I’ll never be content to stay forever in one place. I’m too madly in love with all the places I haven’t been, the people I haven’t met, the food I haven’t tried, and the streets I haven’t danced on.” -Brooke Hamptom
10. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” -Robyn Yong
11. “We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” -Patrick Rothfuss
12. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” -Bill Bryson
13. “We travel because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something inside our minds has changed, and that changes everything.” -Jonah Lehrer
14. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” -Jack Kerouac
15. “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
16. “I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don’t know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, to be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.” -Beau Taplin
We were made to move
17. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” -Harun Yahya
18. “A ship at harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -John A Shedd
19. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” -Rachel Wolchin
Quotes About How Travel Changes Us
20. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Batutta
21. “At its best, travel should challenge our perceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” -Arthur Frommer
22. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
23. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustave Flaubert
24. “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.” -Deborah Lloyd
25. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
Travel Quotes About Home
26. “You will never be completely home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” -Miriam Adeney
27. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” -Carson McCullers
28. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins
29. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
30. “Wild hearts find a home in every place they roam.” -C. Churchill
31. “A man does not belong to the place where he was born, but where he chooses to die.” -Orson Welles
Proverbs From Around the World
32. “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” -Irish Proverb
33. “He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Dutch Proverb
34. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” -Chinese Proverb
35. “Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.” -Arab Proverb
On the Journey, the Road, the Destination
36. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu
37. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” -Susan Sontag
38. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” -David Bowie
39. “The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the onset you never thought to ask.” -Rick Ridgeway
40. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
41. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” -Emma Chase
42. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost
43. “There are roads left in both of our shoes.” -Death Cab for Cutie, Soul Meets Body
Travel Quotes About Tourists v. Travelers
44. “When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” -Drew Bundini Brown
45. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux
46. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” -G. K. Chesterton
47. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” -Andrew Zimmern
Travel Quotes From Explorers and Travel Writers
Freya stark.
Freya Stark (1893-1993) was a British/Italian explorer and travel writer. She traveled extensively in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Asia. In fact, she was one of the first non-Arabs to cross the Arabian Desert.
48. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” -Freya Stark
49. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” -Freya Stark
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018), chef, travel writer and documentarian. This is a man who needs no introduction. He taught us about other cultures and countries, unapologetically examining both the good and the bad with raw honesty and respect.
50. “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” -Anthony Bourdain
51. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” -Anthony Bourdain
52. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” -Anthony Bourdain
Pico Iyer (1957–) is a contemporary British travel writer. He tends to focus his writing on often over-looked topics. For example, he examines the disconnect between local tradition and global pop culture, the cultural repercussions of isolation, and how travel can help us find a calm and stillness in today’s busy pace.
53. “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” -Pico Iyer
54. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” -Pico Iyer
55. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” -Pico Iyer
56. “Anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life.” -Pico Iyer
Travel Quotes From Naturalists
57. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” -Henry David Thoreau
58. “The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” -John Muir
59. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” -John Muir
60. “Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.” -John Muir
Travel Quotes From Great Literary Authors
61. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” -Hans Christian Anderson
62. “For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known.” -Alfred Tennyson
63. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” -Oscar Wilde
64. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” -T. S. Elliot
65. “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” -F Scott Fitzgerald
66. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” -Mark Twain
67. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” -Kurt Vonnegut
68. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and diet, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou
Travel Quotes From Books
69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick
70. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” -Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
71. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” -David Mitchel, Cloud Atlas
72. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” -Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
73. “Would you like an adventure now or shall we have our tea first?” -Peter Pan
74. “Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.J.R. Tolkien
75. “It’s a dangerous business…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
Travel Quotes on Books and Education
76. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” -St. Augustine
77. “I read, I travel, I become.” -Derek Walcott
78. “Of all the books in all the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” -Saber Ben Hassen
79. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” -Sandra Lake
80. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” -Muhammad
Travel Quotes About Wealth
81. “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.” -Anonymous
82. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” -Alexander Sattler
83. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
84. “To travel is to possess the world.” -Burton Holmes
Quotes on Adventure
85. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” -Lovelle Drachman
86. “If happiness is the goal—and it should be, then adventures should be a priority.” -Richard Branson
87. “Nothing adventured, nothing attained.” -Peter McWilliams
88. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” -Sue Fitzmaurice
89. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
90. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” -Marty Rubin
Travel Quotes That Offer Advice
91. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” -Dalai Lama
92. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” -Stephen Covey
93. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman
94. “Cover the earth before it covers you.” -Dagobert D Runes
95. “Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” -David Avocado Wolfe
96. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller
97. “Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.” -Aliyyah Eniath
98. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” -Cesare Pavese
99. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” -Clifton Fadiman
100. “Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.” -Jhumpa Lahiri
Travel Memories
101. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” -Travelermentality
102. “I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in.” -Rowland Waring-Flood
103. Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” -Will Rogers
Without a doubt, there are a lot of amazing travel quotes out there. However, I’ve only shared a few of them. Do you have a favorite quote I missed? I’d love to hear from you. So tell me, what are your favorite travel quotes, and why do they speak to you?
Also, if you’re looking for a little more travel inspiration, check out Clarice’s Travel Bucket List . Or if you’re looking for more quotes, you can check out 13 John Muir Quotes for the Adventurers at Heart , too.
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The best quotes about travel will inspire you to pack your bags, book that ticket, and start your journey in a new place. We’re always thinking about our next trip, and sometimes a saying or quote can remind us why we travel in the first place.
Traveling is a great opportunity to step out of your comfort zone, reflect on the bigger picture, and learn about the world and yourself. If you need some motivation, I’ve got a collection of inspirational travel quotes , quotes about traveling with friends , funny travel quotes , and more. With that and our step-by-step guide on planning a trip anywhere , you will have no excuses.
Short travel quotes
Most inspiring travel quotes, best quotes about traveling with friends, travel quotes for couples, best quotes about traveling with family, quotes for traveling alone & solo travel quotes.
Spend some time reading through these adventure travel quotes and see which ones resonate with you most. Keep your favorites handy, so you can revisit them when you want some insight or something to inspire your wanderlust !
These short travel quotes are simple but can inspire lofty ideas for your next journey!
1. A change of latitude would help my attitude. – Unknown
As this short travel quote suggests, going to a new place can give you a total attitude adjustment!
2. Adventure is out there. – Charles Muntz
This travel quote from the animated film Up has inspired kids and adults alike. Adventure is out there; go find it!
3. Live your life by a compass, not a clock. – Erica Jong
I appreciate travel life quotes like this one. It’s not about how long you live, it’s whether you live it to the fullest. And for me, that means seeing the world!
4. Oh, the places you’ll go! – Dr. Seuss
This simple travel quote is a good one for life in general. Whether you’re moving to a new city or taking a trip around the world, oh, the places you’ll go!
5. Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle
This poignant travel quote is a reminder to treat our planet with respect, especially while traveling. Things like eco-tourism, carbon offsets, and environmental footprints need more attention!
6. The journey, not the arrival, matters. – T.S. Eliot
This is a quote about trips that can encourage you to slow down and enjoy the journey. Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in where we’re going, that we forget to appreciate all that’s around us.
7. There is a world elsewhere. – Shakespeare
This poetic travel quote is short and sweet. It’s easy to become distracted by daily life, but there is so much more out there.
8. To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen
This travel quote says it all: traveling truly is one of the best ways to experience life.
The best travel quotes will inspire you to take the leap and go on a new adventure! Check out these inspirational travel quotes for more insight and direction.
9. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
This inspiring travel quote applies to life, too. Step by step, we can reach new destinations, as well as our goals.
10. A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Gael Attal
Remember that you are the ship, and you’re meant to experience this beautiful, magical world while you’re here!
11. Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. – Asian proverb
No matter how many photos you see or stories you hear, nothing beats seeing a place in person!
12. Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled. – Mohammed
This travel saying reminds us that experiencing unfamiliar places and cultures is one of the best ways to learn.
13. Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This inspirational travel quote is about taking charge of your life and, as a traveler, getting off the beaten path to discover new places.
14. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten
A lot of people think about investing in their career or home, but the life experience you get through traveling is one of the greatest investments. The insight, perspective, and resilience you gain can help you in all facets of life.
15. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
This tried and true travel quote is another one that can inspire you to push past fears and embrace adventure! And remember, everyone’s comfort zone is different!
16. Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. – Paulo Coelho
While taking a trip requires money, this inspirational travel quote reminds us that you also need the courage to leave behind familiarity for adventure.
17. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
Frost was a poet who understood the importance of charting your own path rather than following the crowd. That principle applies to traveling too, as you can find all kinds of unique places when you venture away from the tourist traps.
18. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous
This is one of the best travel quotes because it sums up why so many people pack their bags. When we’re traveling, we’re fully living !
Quotes about traveling the world
These quotes about traveling to new places will ignite your desire to pack up and go somewhere new!
19. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – Melody Truong
Here is a famous travel quote that can spark wanderlust in anyone, especially travel junkies like us!
20. It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it. – J.D. Andrews
Even if you can only go to the next town over, it’s always worth it to visit a new place and see something different.
21. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
This is another travel quote that points out how you need to face some fears to travel to new destinations. Of course, it’s totally worth it!
22. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine
Here is a wonderful metaphor that can motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and go someplace new. Travel always reminds us that the world doesn’t revolve around us, and there are so many different ways of life.
23. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens
This simple travel quote truly needs no explanation. When you feel down or uninspired, the world is there in all its natural beauty.
24. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
This quote about traveling the world can shift our perspective to see the big picture.
25. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac
Some people live to travel, and they get bored when they’re in one place for too long. If that’s you, know that you’re not alone!
26. Travel because life is short, and the world is huge. – Anonymous
If you need an inspiring travel quote , here it is!
27. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
This travel quote is also about the big picture. If you’ve ever stood on the edge of a cliff or sailed in the middle of the ocean, you know that sensation of feeling ridiculously small in a big world.
28. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai
A wonderful quote about traveling the world , this sentence captures the feeling of taking a piece of your travels with you while leaving a part of you behind .
Quotes about travel & adventure
These quotes are for travel lovers who crave their next adventure. If you’re ready to indulge your wanderlust, keep reading this adventure sayings !
29. Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
This travel quote will resonate with many digital nomads and explorers. Waking up in a new place and experiencing a different culture may be jarring at first, but that kind of adventure is much better than doing the same thing every day.
30. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
Anyone who has traveled will agree that this wanderlust quote is 100% true.
31. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman
Life is full of adventures and things to see, and if you’re curious enough, you’ll experience them all!
32. Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. – Unknown
Odds are, the most interesting and fulfilled people you’ve met have spent more time seeing the world than buying things.
33. If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Rachel Wolchin
This is one of the best travel quotes for a burst of inspiration.
34. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Unknown
While it’s pragmatic to have both, it’s true that you gain something when you travel that you don’t get anywhere else.
35. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
Helen Keller’s motivational travel quote applies to life in general, so whatever the word adventure means to you, go for it!
36. Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! After a trip, you always come home with a story or two to tell, and those tales stay with you for life.
37. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. – Mark Twain
This is a simple travel quote to motivate you. Have you ever met anyone who said they regretted traveling?
Some of the best trips are the ones you take with good friends. I’m sure these travel quotes will inspire you to hit the road with your best friends. These are my favorite quotes about traveling with friends .
38. A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you. – Unknown
Whoever said this trip quote knows what it’s like to have that best friend who will explore the world and navigate life with you.
39. Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown
Here is another fun quote about traveling with friends . Do you have that bestie that’s always ready for the next adventure?
40. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain
I’m sure everyone can relate to this funny travel quote . When you take a trip with someone, you learn a lot about them, yourself, and your relationship!
41. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. – Unknown
As this travel quote suggests, one of the best parts of taking a trip isn’t the destination, but who you’re with.
42. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures. – Anonymous
I don’t think anyone can argue against the idea that adventure and friendship are two of the best things in life!
43. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas. – Thelma and Louise
This cute saying is the perfect travel quote to inspire your next road trip!
44. The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
This life travel quote is an excellent reminder of how people can connect across cultures, countries, and languages. One of the best things about traveling is that it introduces you to diverse ways of seeing the world and living life, and of course, new friends.
45. Travel is better with friends. – Unknown
This travel quote needs no explanation. While a solo trip can be fun now and then, traveling with friends is one of the best experiences in life.
46. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
Those who love to explore will understand the depth of this quote. Traveling is the best way to find yourself, others, and new insights about the world.
Traveling with friends is great, but if you have a significant other, it’s a unique experience. Let these couples’ travel quotes encourage you to take a journey with your partner!
47. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck
This couples’ travel quote is an important one. As with life and relationships, there are many things out of our control, and the same goes for traveling. However, that doesn’t mean the trip isn’t worthwhile!
48. Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. – Lewis Carroll
This excerpt from Alice in Wonderland makes for a wonderful travel quote . Money gets spent, clothes get tattered, and cars break down, but adventures give you memories that last forever.
49. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world. – Unknown
I love this quote about traveling together because you can share perspectives and gain even more from your trip.
50. In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schulz
Here is a beautiful quote about traveling with a partner or friend that I 100% agree with!
51. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. – Hemingway
Although it’s a funny travel quote , it’s quite true!
52. No road is long with good company. – Turkish proverb
I love this proverb about travel because no matter where you’re going, as long as you have a loved one beside you, it’ll be okay.
53. Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more. – Unknown
This is another great travel quote for couples or friends. A solo adventure can be fun, but it’s different from sharing travel experiences with someone you love.
54. Together is our favorite place to be. – Unknown
This quote about travel and love is so heartwarming. Having your partner by your side can make any trip more magical, although simply being in each other’s presence is often enough.
55. Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
This longer travel quote is an interesting analogy that frequent travelers might relate to. Visiting new lands and meeting new people is like flirting; as soon as you start to connect, you move onto a different location.
56. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault
Whether or not you believe in soulmates, it’s true that the best partner is the one we can go on adventures with.
Taking a trip as a family can be a bonding experience, as well as frustrating and memorable! These quotes about family vacations are funny and heartwarming, so they perfectly capture all facets of traveling with your kids.
57. A family that travels together stays together. – Unknown
Some travel quotes and sayings are cute and sweet, like this one. Family trips can be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together and strengthen bonds.
58. I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. – Caskie Stinnett
While it’s a funny travel quote , this saying can also correspond to family life. Sometimes families get tied into a routine and lose touch with each other. Taking a trip together disrupts the monotony and brings everyone closer.
59. Love is the food of life, travel is dessert. – Anonymous
If you ask any adventurous spirit, they’ll agree that love and travel is all you need!
60. Not all classrooms have 4 walls. – Unknown
I think this is one of the top travel quotes , and it’s especially pertinent to families. Sometimes, parents get nervous about letting their kids travel, but seeing a new place and a unique way of life is one of the most fulfilling ways to educate oneself.
61. Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. – Unknown
A contemplative quote about travel and life , this simple sentence encourages us to go on adventures while we can. After all, when we’re old, it’ll be easier to work than to hop on a plane!
62. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
This is such a cute couples’ travel quote to remind us that home is the people we love, not a specific place.
63. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter
This is one of the sweetest travel quotes for families . While kids need stability, they also have vivid imaginations. Traveling with their parents can awaken their childlike wonder and instill in them a sense of adventure.
If you’ve ever taken a solo trip, you know that it’s one of the most life-changing experiences. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of traveling alone yet, hopefully, these quotes about solo trips can inspire you!
64. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
This is a beautiful travel quote about how you change as a person when you wake up in an unfamiliar environment. Going through daily life in a different place truly alters the way you view the bigger picture.
65. I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne du Maurier
If you’re thinking of going on a solo adventure and need a nudge, consider this quote about traveling alone . Sometimes, going on a trip with people we know can distract us from the full experience of discovering a new place.
66. Not until we are lost do, we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau
Here is another simple travel quote that has a deeper meaning. Sometimes, we have to get lost and break away from what’s familiar in order to truly meet ourselves.
67. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark
Something that digital nomads crave is the feeling of being lost or a stranger in a new land. For these people, there is no other feeling like it!
68. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain was one of the most beloved world travelers, so his adventure travel quote resonates deeply. The best thing about traveling is that you sprinkle a bit of yourself everywhere you go, and you bring a bit of that place back with you.
69. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell
Read between the lines of this travel quote , and it makes so much sense. The more you stray from what you know, the more you learn about yourself, and the world!
70. When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
I agree that taking a trip with friends or a partner is awesome, but when you travel alone, you have so much time to get to know yourself.
Funny travel quotes
The deep, motivational sayings are great, but sometimes a funny travel quote is all you need to inspire your next adventure!
71. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! Where is your next adventure going to be?
72. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein
This short and sweet saying is another reminder that it’s often the journey – not the destination – that matters most.
73. I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin
It could be Europe or a few miles from your house, but when you travel, you gain new insights into yourself – your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, everything.
74. I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! – Unknown
This silly travel quote is funny , but all too true!
75. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho
Yes, stability is important, but adventure is fulfilling and just as essential.
76. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! – Unknown
Here’s another lighthearted travel quote to remind you to book that vacation!
77. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
This travel quote is funny yet wise. Even though we are more connected than ever, you truly don’t understand a place until you step foot there yourself.
78. You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… – Unknown
You can’t deny that this funny travel vacation quote is true !
Quotes about wanderlust
The best travel quotes plant a seed in your mind, a will in your heart, and a spark in your spirit. I’m sure these motivational quotes about traveling the world will awaken your inner wanderer!
79. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
This one is for the wanderers and frequent travelers. While there is a place for planning and preparation, some of the best trips are those with limited foresight.
80. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller
One of the best quotes on traveling , this saying gets to the root of why so many people love to travel. Visiting a new destination opens us up to all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, people, and lessons.
81. People don’t take trips, trips take people. – John Steinbeck
This is another travel quote that’s funny and deep. You can plan your trip, but things never go 100% according to plan, and you often end up with experiences you didn’t expect!
82. Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman
Goodman’s quote about travel and happiness reminds us that the journey is more important than the destination.
83. Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world.
Does this definition of wanderlust resonate with you? Which part of the world do you want to see next?
84. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
Proust’s motivational quote about traveling rings true. The more you travel, the more you open your mind and heart.
85. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. – Unknown
Forget souvenirs; this travel quote reminds us that the best thing you gain from a trip is the richness of the experience.
86. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination. – Unknown
It doesn’t matter if that destination is near or far, as long as it’s someplace new .
Quotes about wandering
Similar to the wanderlust quotes , these sayings appeal to those with a nomadic spirit. Which one is your favorite?
87. It is better to travel than to arrive. – Buddha
The Buddha’s quote points out that the true treasure is the journey itself.
88. Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien’s words remain one of the most popular quotes about wandering . Some people are simply born to travel and visit different lands!
89. This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one. – Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, a destination can seem strange and intimidating, but it’s simply a new adventure waiting for you!
90. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France
I think this travel quote about nature makes a good point. When we explore all the beautiful natural places in the world, we gain a deeper appreciation for this planet.
91. The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton
This travel quote is self-explanatory, but travel lovers will agree that the best moments of their lives were probably while they were exploring.
92. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
There is something to this quote about travel and life . It describes how we can wander, either by hopping from one place to another or by changing up certain aspects of our lives. However, these are usually distractions, and it’s when we travel wholeheartedly that we feel fulfilled .
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This last section of trip quotes is perfect for sharing on social media or keeping around the house.
93. Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! – Hostelgeeks
Would you rather see the world than have fancy things? Me too!
94. Measure life by countries, not years. – Unknown
If you love to travel, you’ll appreciate this one. It’s a quote for travel and life and says that it’s not about how long you live; it’s about how well you live!
95. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy. – Unknown
I bet you don’t need more convincing to take a tropical vacation, but this beachy travel quote is a good one!
96. The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. – Henry David Thoreau
When you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and get off the beaten path, you find yourself having experiences of which you wouldn’t even dream!
97. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. – Anonymous
This travel quote doesn’t need an explanation; there are so many gorgeous places to see in this world.
98. Travel – the best way to be lost and found at the same time. – Brenna Smith
This short travel quote is straight to the point!
99. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. – Sandra Lake
This inspirational travel quote is definitely worth sharing. The more we travel, the more we learn about different people and ways of life. And that leads to more understanding and tolerance, which is a beautiful thing!
100. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer
Piggybacking off the previous travel quote , this sentence encapsulates the idea that adventuring requires an open mind.
I hope you loved these travel quotes and sayings! If they inspired you to go on an adventure or sparked your wanderlust, let me know. Also, what are some good travel quotes you’ve heard? Leave me a comment below to share your favorites!
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Traveling opens doors to new perspectives and unforgettable experiences. These quotes ignite my wanderlust and remind me of the endless adventures awaiting discovery. Let’s explore
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What are the best cities to live in the world? Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) evaluates cities across the globe for their liveability, releasing the much-anticipated Global Liveability Index 2024 .
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Saudi Arabia also performed well. “In the past few years, Saudi Arabian cities have seen strong investment in domestic infrastructure, education and health in order to become more attractive to foreign tourists and expatriates, and diversify their economies,” says Bhattacharyya. “These efforts have been rewarded with movements up the rankings.”
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5. Geneva, Switzerland (tie)
7. Sydney, Australia (tied with Vancouver)
7. Vancouver, Canada (tie)
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9. Auckland, New Zealand (tie)
11. Adelaide, Australia
12. Toronto, Canada
13. Helsinki, Finland
14. Tokyo, Japan
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16. Brisbane, Australia
17. Frankfurt, Germany (tied with Luxembourg)
17. Luxembourg, Luxembourg (tie)
19. Amsterdam, Netherlands
20. Wellington, New Zealand
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1. Honolulu, Hawaii (overall ranking: 23)
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9. Somewhere on your journey, don't forget to turn around and enjoy the view. ~Anonymous. 10. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. ~Bill Bryson. 11.
Famous travel quotes. 1. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.". - Andre Gide. 2. "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all" - Helen Keller. 3. "I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.". - Mary Anne Radmacher.
The good news is you're the pilot." — Michael Altshuler. "A great way to learn about your country is to leave it." — Henry Rollins. "Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien ...
21. "Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life." -Anonymous. 22. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller. 23. "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." -Saint Augustine. 24. "Travel brings power and love back into your life." -Rumi. 25.
The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.". - John Steinbeck. "There is nothing safer than flying—it's crashing that is dangerous." -Theo Cowan. "If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal." -Paulo Coelho. "Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life." -Robin S. Sharma.
29: "Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.". - Jamie Lyn Beatty (This one is one of my favorite travelling quotes - and one of the reasons I made the above graphic!) 30: "Don't listen to what they say. Go see.". 31: "Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.".
8. "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.". - James A. Michener. 9. "Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.". - Anonymous. 10. "Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.". - Anonymous.
Let your memory be your travel bag.". — Alexander Solzhenits. "The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.". — Henry David Thoreau. "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.".
Inspirational Travel Quotes. "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.". - Henry Miller. "We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.". - Unknown. "I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.". - Michael Palin.
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell. A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much committed to movement as committed to transformation. Pico Iyer. Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself. Anonymous. The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.
One should always have something sensational to read in the train.". — Oscar Wilde. "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.". — Aldous Huxley. "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.". — James Michener. "He who is ...
2. "Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" -Lisa St. Aubin de Teran. 3. "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.
13. Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. This inspirational travel quote is about taking charge of your life and, as a traveler, getting off the beaten path to discover new places. 14. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.
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