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81 Inspiring Quotes for Travel Lovers

What is it about travel that we fall in love with? Sometimes it is hard to articulate why we love to travel, so rather than doing it ourselves, we’ve turned to the experts who have summed it up rather nicely. We’ve found 81 inspiring quotes for travel lovers that will inspire wanderlust and remind you why you love to travel.

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Quotes About Travel

To start things off, we’ve gathered some of the most beautiful quotes about travel. They delve into why we should travel, why we love to travel and touch on the benefits of travel.

1. It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. – Asian Proverb

2. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page . – Saint Augustine

3. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen . – Benjamin Disraeli

4. Don’t listen to what they say, go see. – Chinese Proverb

5. Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing . – Gayle Foreman

Not all those who wander are lost . J. R. R. Tolkien

7. I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. – Robert Louis Stevenson

8. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

9. Just Go. Go see all the beauty in the world. – Anonymous

10. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before . – Dalai Lama

11. I read , I travel , I become . – Derek Walcott

Quotes About Adventure

One of the reasons we love to travel is because we love an adventure. These quotes are guaranteed to ignite your sense of adventure, while reminding you that life is one big adventure and you should embrace that.

12. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all . – Helen Keller

13. Great things never came from comfort zones . – Anonymous

14. If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and 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.

15. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal . – Paulo Coelho

16. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

17. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. – Marty Rubin

18. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see . – G.K. Chesterton

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anaïs Nin

20. 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

Travel Quotes About Journeys

Travel is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. These quotes remind us to acknowledge that and take a little while to appreciate the view along the way. Journey’s don’t always go smoothly, but they should be enjoyed as part of the overall travel experience.

21. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. – George Fairman

22. It’s better to travel well than to arrive . – Buddha

23. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

24. It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way. – Penelope Riley

25. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Babs Hoffman

26. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference . – Robert Frost

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

28. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead . – Ma Jian

Travel Quotes About Learning

There is a lot we can learn from traveling. These quotes encourage us to be open to learning from our expriences. Interestingly, a lot of the time, this means learning more about ourselves.

29. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world . – Gustave Flaubert

30. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries . – Aldous Huxley

31. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Travel far enough, you meet yourself . David Mitchell

33. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things . – Henry Miller

34. I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Travel Quotes About Life

Travel and life are so intrinsically linked. These quotes remind us that travel is an important component of life, which in itself, if a journey. They also remind us how travel contibutes to a sense of fulfilment and happiness.

35. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous

36. The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. – Paulo Coelho

37. To travel is to live . – Hans Christian Anderson

38. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough . – Mae West

39. Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

40. Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi Jalalud-Din

41. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not . – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. David McCullough Jr.

Travel Quotes About Growth

Like with the lessons we learn from travel, travel also helps us grow. We grow through the new experiences that travel brings. These quotes perfectly capture how travel helps us change a little and grow a lot.

43. Travel has a way of stretching the mind. – Ralph Crawshaw

44. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

45. 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

46. Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself . – Anonymous

You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back. Paul Theroux

48. 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 

Travel Quotes About Money

No matter how cheap you can make your travel buget, taking a trip is always an investment. However, these quotes explore what it is we are buying in return for our money. They remind us that it is experiences, not money, that makes us rich.

49. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul . – Jamie Lyn Beatty

50. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer . – Anonymous

51. There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. – Jo Walton

I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it. Alexander Sattler

53. To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice . – Elizabeth Gilbert

Quotes About Getting Lost

It would be remiss of us not to call out those quotes about getting lost. To us, getting lost is about the ability to escape and lose ourselves in the beauty of the world. These quotes perfectly capture our philosophy and remind us why getting lost is never a bad thing.

Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time . Brenna Smith

55. Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost. – Anonymous

56. The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. – Henry David Thoreau

57. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves . – Pico Iyer

58. It feels good to be lost in the right direction. – Anonymous

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Marin Buber

60. Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost . – Erol Ozan

Funny Travel Quotes

So, we all know that there are elements of travel that just never go to plan or are just not enjoyable. These quotes find a lighthearted way of capturing those moments and we can’t help but smile at them!

61. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.’ – Douglas Adams

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

63. Jet lag is for amateurs. – Dick Clark

64. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

If you’re anything like us, you won’t need much to motivate you to jump on a plane to a new destination. If you do need any further prompting, these quotes for travel lovers are bound to light up your wanderlust. You’ll be booking your next flight after reading these!

65. I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met . John Green

67. Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller . – Ibn Battuta

68. 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 Kerouak

69. You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul . – Anonymous

70. Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn

71. Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down. – Ryu Murakami

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

Travel Quotes About Dreams

And finally, quotes that talk about travel and dreams. Travelers are innately dreamers and these quotes capture those dreams of travel, adventure and discovery.

73. 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

74. Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets . – Oscar Wilde

75. I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. – Brian Selznick

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do . H. Jackson Brown Jr.

77. I want to make memories all over the world. – Anonymous

78. Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world. – Anonymous

79. Don’t quit your daydream. – Anonymous

80. This heart of mine was made to travel this world. – Anonymous

81. Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling. – Roman Payne

Quotes For Travel Lovers

So these are our top 81 inspirational quotes for travel lovers! Overall, they all capture the essence of what drives us to travel; the sense of adventure, self-discovery, growth, fun, escape and wanderlust. We hope you love these quotes as much as we do; let us know which one is your favourite!

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15 thoughts on “81 Inspiring Quotes for Travel Lovers”

I love these great inspirational quotes!

Thanks! We’re glad you like them!

I love the quote “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” as it’s applicable to everything in life. It’s best to judge something for ourselves rather than depend on someone else’s version of it. Great post.

Absolutely! I love the way travel opens our eyes to so many new cultures and experiences. You definitely need to immerse yourself into things before you judge them! We’re glad you like the post!

Loving all of these quotes! Perfect for reminding me how much I love travel.

Aren’t they great? Some of them had us itching to get our bags packed straight away! We’re glad you like them!

“If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you’re still in love with that person, get married.” – Bill Murray

I love this! Thanks for the recommendation!

I love all of these! #35 and #38 are my favorites! <3

Aren’t they great? I find it too difficult to pick a favorite! I do agree with you on #38 though!

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153 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 travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 153 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous 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 some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 153 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

153 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’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.

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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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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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

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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

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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!

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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!

My favourite has to be #136 – I live my life while muttering “climb that goddam mountain” any time something hard comes along.

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50 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

Nothing can inspire your wanderlust more than a beautiful quote about travel. Watch out! After reading these you might just book another trip!

“The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine

“The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu

“Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

“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

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ― Mark Twain

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ― Dalai Lama

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

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Andre Gide

Feeling inspired to travel the world yet?

“Live without excuses, travel without regret” ― Oscar Wilde

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” ― Sandra Lake

“Only those who risk going too far can find out how far one can go.” ― T.S. Eliot

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

“So much of who we are is where we have been.” ― William Langewiesche

“There ain’t no journey that don’t change you some.” ― David Mitchell

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” ― Ma Jian

“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

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan

“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” ― Ray Bradbury

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are detours you didn’t mean to take.” ― Angela Blount

Use one of these quotes as your caption on your next Instagram travel post.

“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

“Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” — C. JoyBell C.

“Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!” — C. JoyBell C.

“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

“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

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell

“Wherever you go, go with all of your heart.” – Confucius

Which of these travel quotes has resonated with you?

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

“It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“Just Go. Go see all the beauty in the world.” – Anonymous

“I read, I travel, I become.” – Derek Walcott

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

“Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous

These travel quotes will inspire your next adventure. Where are you going next?

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

“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

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

“Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.” – Anonymous

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Anonymous

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

Which of these travel quotes was your favorite?

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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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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Most Inspirational Travel Quotes

Travel quotes are there to express the feeling you experienced while traveling. Combine the best travel quotes with the power of an image and instantly let people have a taste of your travel feelings. This collection of travel quotes is made to inspire and motivate you and others to pack your bags and go explore! Or simply to add as a travel caption under your brand new Instagram post or to pin to your Pinterest . Also read our adventure quotes to spark your wanderlust !

Top 50 Best Travel Quotes

1. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” 2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” 3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

5. “Travel is my therapy. ” – Travel Quote

6. “ In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take ” In 2017, we took an exciting and scary step. We decided to turn our travel blog from a hobby into our full-time job. We would’ve had so much regret if we didn’t take this opportunity. Now, each of these travel quotes fit the stories we’ve made.

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7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” 8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” 9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

11. “Life is short, and the world is wide.” 12. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” 13. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” 14. “Sandy Toes sunkissed nose.”

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15. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. ”

16. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” 17. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” 18. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” 19. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

20. “Adventures are the best way to learn.”

21. “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.” 22. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” 23. “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” 24. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Popular Travel Quote

26. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” 27. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” 28. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” 29. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

30. “Have stories to tell not stuff to show. ”

31. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” 32. “At the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” 33. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” 34. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

35. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time. ”

36. “Always take the scenic road.” 37. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” 38. “Go where you feel most alive.”

39. “I want to make memories all over the world” Every destination you’ll visit leaves its own unique memory. Our travels through Sri Lanka , Myanmar , or Petra in Jordan already give us goosebumps. As this travel quote says: Make memories all over the world!

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40. “Travel is the healthiest addiction ”

40. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” 41. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” 43. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going. Are you coming with me?” 44. “Let’s get lost.”

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

46. “Beach please.” 47. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” 48. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” 49. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”

50. “Ocean air, salty hair.”

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Published January 19, 2023 · Updated January 24, 2023

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It leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller . Travel lover : I don’t need much motivation or inspiration to get me traveling and if you’re a fan of this site, chances are you don’t either. It’s naturally a way of life for us travellers and a part of who we are . But, every once in a while a travel quote has a way of expressing in words the way you fell deep inside.

Every time I’ve stumbled across such a quote for traveling the world, I’d smile , make a note, write it down, or take a screenshot.

Over the years I’ve amassed quite the list…

These are my favourite Journey Quotes

also affectionately referred to as:

The Best Quotes About Traveling the World

Whether you enjoy short travel quotes , longer inspirational journey quotes for travelling the world, funny travel quotes , solo traveller quotes, or widely quoted travel phrases, I’m almost certain a couple of these quotes about world travel will speak to your love for exploring the world, discovering new destinations, and of life in general. Many of these travel sayings also make for great traveling questions , traveling lover quotes for Instagram, and as lyrics to your favorite songs about travel .

If you often find yourself saying, “ can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world? ” continue reading ↓↓

Are you ready? Let’s get into it guys…

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 whose 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 — Pico Iyer

Not all those who wander are lost — J.R.R. Tolkien

I haven’t been everywhere , but it’s on my list — Susan Sontag

For once you have tasted flight , you will walk the Earth looking skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return — Leonardo Da Vinci

We travel not to escape life but life not to escape us.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself — Danny Kaye

Travel far enough, you meet yourself — David Mitchell

The joy is in the journey — Quotes about a journey

Wherever you go, go with all your heart — Confucius

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves. In finding themselves — Andre Gide

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes — Marcel Proust

You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a plane ticket and that’s kind of the same thing

The only way to way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion —   Albert Camus

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all — Helen Keller

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

May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — Edward Abbey

Travel brings power and love back into your life — Rumi

No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. Into the Wild

Our greatest purpose in life is simply to align with what makes our heart sing — Emmanuel

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving — Lao Tzu

Adventure is worthwhile — Aristotle

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world — Mary Radmacher

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places — Isabelle Eberhardt

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe — Anatole France

I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. — Mexican quote for travel

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home — Rumi

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If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling — Margaret Runbeck

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

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to — JRR Tolkien

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step — Lao Tzu

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart — Julien Green

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else — Lawrence Block

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

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

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love — Rumi

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

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To travel is to live — Hans Christian Anderson

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

I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way – Carl Sagan

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see – G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free — famous travel quote

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey – Fitzhugh Mullan

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls — Anais Nin

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference — Robert Frost

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. Browne Jr.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding — Sandra Lake

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world — Scott Cameron

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

The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent — Paulo Coelho

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn’t that what we’re all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the “now” — Jon Krakauer

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

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled — Prophet Mohammed

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness — Ray Bradbury

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before — Dalai Lama

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life — Agnes Repplier

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not — Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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

The world is a book and he who doesn’t travel reads only one page — St. Augustine

Throw away your brilliant career and start living — World travelling quotes to inspire

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world — Freya Stark

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

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean , at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering — St. Augustine

The journey is the destination — Dan Eldon

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

No matter where you go, there you are — Buckaroo Banzi

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself — William Least Heat Moon

When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon — Paulo Coelho

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for — John A. Shedd

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him — Dutch Proverb

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things – Henry Miller

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling – Rumi

Travel is the best way to get lost and be found at the same time

He who does not travel does not know the value of men — Moorish proverb

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself — Ella Maillart

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves — Euripides

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living — Nelson Mandela

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary — Steve Jobs

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

Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? — Rumi

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment — Hilaire Belloc

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 — Gilbert Chesterton

He who chooses his own path needs no map. African Quote

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

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow — Lin Yutang

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

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. — Dagobert Runes

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer

Every exit is an entry somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. — James Michener

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. — Paul Theroux

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you — Rumi

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

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings — Moslih Saadi

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves — Henry David Thoreau

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, 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 — Richard Burton

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions — Peter Hoeg

Not I – Not anyone else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself — Walt Whitman

It is better to travel well than to arrive — Buddha

If a donkey goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse — Thomas Fuller

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life — Jack Kerouac

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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart new vigor to the mind — Seneca

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place — Rumi

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness — Mark Twain

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car — Emile Ganest

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 your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind — Anthony Bourdain

Travel teaches toleration — Benjamin Disraeli

People don’t take trips… Trips take people — John Steinbeck

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them — Amelia E. Barr

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears — Cesare Pavese

Paris is always a good idea — Audrey Hepburn —> Quotes about Paris

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles — Tim Cahill

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

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends — Shirley MacLaine

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears — Rumi

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad — George Bernard Shaw

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort — Aldous Huxley

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen — Benjamin Disraeli

The journey not the arrival matters — T.S. Eliot

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God — Kurt Vonnegut

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware — Martin Buber

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it — John Steinbeck

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign — Robert Stevenson

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive Albert Einstein

It feels good to be lost in the right direction —  short traveling quote

Oh the places you’ll go — Dr Seuss

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

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

I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding! I’m on the road to the airport

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries — Aldous Huxley

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine — Caskie Stinnett

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. — C Cooley

It is not down in any map; true places never are — Herman Melville

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation — Elizabeth Drew

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time — Andre Gide

I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met — Melody Truong

It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times — quote about wanderlust

Jet lag is for amateurs — Dick Clark

If you look like your passport picture, you probably need a trip — funny quote about travelling the world

Travelling – It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller — Ibn Battuta

A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions — Oliver Wendell

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal — Paulo Coelho

Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

— quote for traveling the world

I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places — Henny Youngman

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful , we must carry it with us or we find it not — Ralph Emerson

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost — Henry David Thoreau

You go away for a long time and return a different person. You never come all the way back — Paul Theroux

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination — Roy M. Goodman

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

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home — James Michener

Live your life by a compass, not a clock — Stephen Covey

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Wanderlust quote travel love

Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost.

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage — Paulo Coelho

Travel has a way of stretching the mind — Ralph Crawshaw

Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better — Simon Raven

If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together . — African Proverb

I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it — Alexander Sattler

I have found out that there ain’t a no surer way to find whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them — Mark Twain

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

Travelling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.

Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets — Oscar Wilde

Let’s find someplace beautiful to get lost. Inspirational travel quote

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow — Anita Desai

Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing — Gayle Foreman

If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a priority.

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

Many of these quotes on traveling the world have inspired me to keep exploring our planet. I hope they inspire you too and give you that wanderlust motivation. Over to you guys… What are some of your favourite travel quotes about a journey, wanderlust quotes, and world traveling quotes? Do you also have a list? Let me know in the comments below.

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these wanderlust quotes. I will use all of them. Regards

Glad to hear. Thank you

Amazing article, Thanks for sharing these quotes on travel and adventure! I will use all of them

You’re welcome. Keep coming back as I add more to this

Great article. I was constantly checking your site and I am impressed! Extremely helpful information throughout 🙂 I was looking for travel quotes for a very long time. Thank you and good luck.

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The Best Road Trip Quotes

This collection of the best road trip quotes sum up why hitting the road is such a powerful experience we all should do, and do often! 

1) “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

One of my favorite inspirational car ride quotes

2) “I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

3) “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Few knew the adventure of the road more than RLS himself, so it’s no surprise he has several quotes on road trips. Were you inspired by reading Treasure Island?

This is one of my favorite long road quotes!

4) “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 Erickson

5) “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck

Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ is a high school text that many of us studied. Have you read the classic about George and Lenny?

6) “I want to go on a road trip. Just you and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.” – Unknown

7) “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.

Definitely one of the most inspiring road trip captions for Instagram!

8) “Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.” – Daniel Gilbert

I know my travel memories will last a lifetime. Always take the adventure over the car! 

9) “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

The Best Short Road Trip Quotes 

Short, sweet, and succinct, these short, beautiful road quotes truly encapsulate the power of an epic road trip and will surely stick with you for an entire road trip.  

10) “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11) “you may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – tom wolfe, 12) “people don’t take trips, trips take people.” – john steinbeck.

13) “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri

14) “roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – confucius, 15) “roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – rebecca solnit, 16) “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – izaak walton.

17) “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon

18) “if you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – lewis carroll.

19)  “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” -Edgar Wright

20) “the only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – tony robbins .

One of the best short road trip quotes

21) “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown 

The greatest parts of a road trip happen unexpectedly along the way. Do you agree?

22) “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua

23) “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

24) “i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me.” – walt whitman.

Walt Whitman is the king of quotes about road trips

25) “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish proverb

26) “travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – david mitchell.

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27) “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” –Sir Richard Burton

The days before departing for an unfamiliar and exotic destination are so exciting. Almost as awesome as when you get there. 

28) “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho

29) “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

30)  “if you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – scott myers.

This is one of my favorite road trip captions for Instagram

31) “Just grab a friend and take a ride together upon the open road.” – A Goofy Movie

32) “discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.

33) “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

This is one of the best road travel quotes because your experiences on the road can shape you for years to come.

34) “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

35) “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! … It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

36) “sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – unknown.

And if they’re happy to split the cost of gas… even better. 

37) “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

38) “every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: i was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” – debi tolbert duggar.

Road Trip Captions for Instagram

Can’t wait to share your fantastic road trip snaps with your followers? I can guarantee that these short road quotes will fit in like a glove as the perfect Instagram caption.

39) “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 Trip Quotes to inspire!

40) “Happiness is a road trip.” – Unknown

41) “sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” – stacy westfall, 42) “the pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – alain de botton.

43) “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

I’ve been on some camping adventures that this road trip Instagram caption would be perfect for! 

44) “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown

This is personally one of my favorite road tripping quotes, as it really hits home that the journey is about the people you get to spend it with. Not saying that solo travel can’t be just as incredible, but for me – it’s always about who I have beside me that makes memories.

A road trip with friends definitely makes the journey even more fun! One of my top short road trip quotes!

45) “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

46) “always take the scenic route.”- unknown.

One of the best scenic route captions to tag along on a post with unbelievable scenery.

47) “Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

48) “the open road is there, it will always be there. you just have to decide when to take it.” – chris humphrey, 49) “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.

50) “Let’s go somewhere where nobody knows our name.” – Unknown 

51) “wanderlust and city dust.” – unknown, 52) “good friends follow you anywhere.” – winnie the pooh.

A road trip with friends is just more memorable, so who are the Tigger, Eeyore, and Piglet you need along with you for the ride?

53) “Making memories one road trip at a time.” – Unknown

54) “some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – erol ozan.

55) “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

56) “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, 57) “the world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.” – unknown, 58) “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.

59) “Let’s get lost.” – Unknown

But not like, lost lost.

60) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing” – Helen Keller

61) “and so the adventure begins.” – unknown.

Heading to Europe soon?  Give a read through this article on “ The 20 Best Road Trips in Europe To Add to Your Bucket List “. 

Inspirational Quotes About Road Trips

Craving a bit of inspiration to fire you up for your next big road trip? These inspiring road trip quotes will see you packing your bag and taking that ride in no time. 

62) “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

63) “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

This is one of those quotes about roads in life that work for both road tripping and just life in general.

64) “You Can’t Find The Right Roads When The Streets Are Paved.” – Bob Marley

65) “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.

Woooo-ah, we’re halfway there… woo-ahhh livin’ on a prayer! 

66) “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

67) “sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself” – stacey westfall.

68) “Travel is the only thing we buy that makes us richer.” – Unknown

And I can promise you, it’s worth every penny. 

69) “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

70) “look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. there are no wrong turns.” – susan magsamen.

71) “Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.” – Unknown

What’s on your must-have road trip playlist? If you’re looking for some rockin’ tunes to cruise along to, Spotify is packed with epic road trip compilations. 

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

Funny Road Trip Quotes 

What’s on your must-have road trip playlist? If you’re looking for some rockin’ tunes to cruise along to, Spotify is packed with epic road trip compilations.  

 73) “Road trips require a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes- oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay

Fuel me up with coffee, candy and an epic road trip playlist and I’m one happy boy. 

74) “It doesn’t matter how old you are, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9 year old given $100.” – Unknown

75) “a road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – tom lichtenheld.

One of my favorite family road trip quotes, and if you’ve ever been on a family road trip, I’m sure you can agree with this one! It’s probably also one of the funniest long drive quotes on this list!

76) “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

77) “we all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a road-trip or posting quotes about a road-trip.” – crestless wave.

…I think I’m that friend. 

78) “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. – John Green

79) “kilometers are shorter than miles. save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”  – george carlin, 80) “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.

Is there no truer quote about travel? 

81) “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way.” – Unknown

Road trip calories don’t count… do they? Because I want Taco Bell, Wendys, and Burger King every day!

82) “I wish road trips could pay my bills.” – Unknown 

Road Trip Movie Quotes 

There are so many classic films out that involve a road trip – usually where a major life lesson is learned along the way. We all love road trips, so the tried and tested film formula works. These movie quotes about road trips come from some of the most famous road trippin’ flicks in history. 

83) “Remember: the car is you, you are the car. Okay? Let’s ride!” – Gone in 60 Seconds

84) “well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.”- thelma & louise.

What road trip movie is more widely loved than Thelma & Louise? It’s entertaining sure, but I just hope none of your adventures take the detour theirs did!

85) “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb and Dumber

86) “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” – Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

A (semi-autobiographical) road trip cinematic classic from the mind of the late, great Hunter S. Thompson. This is bat country! 

87) “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet. Where I’m gonna wind up.” – Titanic  

88) “adventure is out there.” – up  , 89) “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.” – lord of the rings .

One road trip to rule them all. I just hope my next road trip isn’t as treacherous as Frodo and Sam’s.

90) “Now bring me that horizon…” – Pirates of the Caribbean 

91) “when i get home i shall write a book about this place… if i ever do get home.” – alice in wonderland, 92) i just said we’d make it across. i didn’t say anything about the wheels staying on.” – road trip .

Now, what road trip quote list would be complete without a quote from the hilarious teen comedy itself? 

93) “This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for fun. You’re gonna have fun, and I’m gonna have fun… We’re all gonna have so much f***ing fun we’re gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles!” – National Lampoon’s Vacation

Who else had a father that road-tripped like Chevy Chase? 

94) “Mi scusi!” – Euro Trip 

Fans of this side-splitting road trip film will know exactly what this quote means! 

Road Trip Quotes from Song Lyrics 

Singers, the beloved modern-day poets, have some of the best driving quotes ever. While this shortlist of the best song lyrics about road trips may span musical decades and genres, they all nail the freedom a great road trip brings…

94) “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” – Cruise , Florida Georgia Line

95) “no one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. the new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. the success of your journey and your destination all depend on who’s driving.” – born to run, bruce springsteen.

96) “I drove all night to get to you.” – I Drove All Night , Cyndi Lauper

For when you can’t think of any night ride quotes.

97) If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – Any Road , George Harrison

98) “so, remember when we were driving, driving in your car. speed so fast felt like i was drunk. city lights lay out before us, and your arms felt nice wrapped around my shoulders, and i had a feeling that i belonged, and i had a feeling i could be someone.” – fast car, tracy chapman.

*Listens to Fast Car on repeat for an entire day. 

99) “Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back / No more, no more, no more, no more!” – Hit The Road Jack, Ray Charles

100) life is a highway, i wanna ride it all night long. if you’re going my way, i wanna drive it all night long.” – life is a highway, rascal flatts.

Easily one of the best highway quotes for road trips.

101) “Baby, you got the keys. Now shut up and drive.” — Shut Up and Drive , Rihanna 

102) “Big wheels keep on turning / Carry me home to see my kin / Singing songs about the south-land / I miss ‘ole’ ‘bamy once again.” – Sweet Home Alabama , Lynyrd Skynyrd

Proud Mary’s chorus starts with the same four words. Coincidence? I think not. 

103) “I got a blacked-out Chevrolet. You don’t have a destination. Traveling where the wind will take us. That might be from place to place.” – Let’s Go, Khalid 

What are your favorite Road Trip Quotes…?

There really is an endless amount of inspirational and fun car travel quotes, so I’d love to hear from you to see if there’s any specific quote I need to add to this list! Whether it’s from a movie, song, book, or poem – I’d love to keep this list up-to-date with the best road trip quotes available!

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1. “It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Anonymous

2. “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz

3. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.” – Unknown

4. “We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.” – Unknown

5. “In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.” – John Green

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24. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

25. “I want to travel the world with you.” – Unknown

26. “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

27. “I would gladly live out of a suitcase if it meant I could see the world with you.” – Unknown

28. “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E.Grin

29. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll

30. “As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a lifetime.” – Winnie the Pooh

31. “Traveling with your partner is the true test of love.” – Unknown

32. “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting” – N.R Hart

33. “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” – Anonymous

34. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin

35. “As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.”- A.A. Milne

36. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brauld

37. “You keep me safe, I’ll keep you wild.” – Unknown

38. “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.” – Unknown

39. “I don’t want to be tied down to someone. I want to be set free with someone.” – Unknown

40. “Find someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.” – Unknown

41. “Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with.” – Beau Taplin

42. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

43. “The only baggage in this relationship is our suitcases.” – Unknown

44. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes

45. “I want to travel the world with two things in my hands: your hand in one and a camera in the other.” – Unknown

46. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Marie Cribaillet

47. “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Anonymous

48. “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – John Green

49. “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman

50. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare

51. “My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, and ending at never.” – Anonymous

52. “Hold my hand & I’ll go anywhere with you.” – Unknown

53. “Come get lost with me.” – Unknown

54. “Let’s do what we love and do a lot of it.” – Marc Jacobs

55. “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul” – Charles Dickens

56. “Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.” – Unknown

57. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

58. “We don’t just get to grow old together. We get to grow up together. And that’s the real adventure.” – Unknown

59. “Love is meant to be an adventure.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

60. “Every heart seeks adventure. Some find it in the frost mountains resting along the horizon, some find it in the windy seashores, and some find it in the damp rain forests. While I’ve found my adventure in you.” – Ankit Choubey

61. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend” – Robert Louis Stevenson

62. “Together is our favorite place to be.” – Anonymous

63. “Away is a place where it’s not about the money you spend. It’s about the moments you share.” – Anonymous

64. “I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures.” – Conny Cernik

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66. “You are the end of my road. After a lifetime of missed exits and wrong turns, you feel like I’m finally home. One journey ends, and another begins with you.” – Unknown

67. “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” – Unknown

68. “Find love with someone who loves your free spirit, someone who has no intention of restricting your wild side but someone who wants to set it free and run with you.” – Unknown

Funny Couple Travel Quotes

Traveling as a couple is more than just romantic. These funny travel partner quotes show the real side of being on a journey with your partner.

69. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

70. “What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault

71. “You’d be surprised who the love of your life turns out to be. After all, adventure fell in love with lost.” – Mary Oliver

72. “The universe just fucking knows when souls are wired to wreck the world together!” – Erin Van Vuren

73. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

74. “That is why best trips are like best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

75. “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

76. “We followed our hearts, and it led us to the airport.” – Unknown

77. “I’d fly in the middle seat to get to you.” – Unknown

78. “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Amanda Jane Sturges

79. “Fancy clothes and diamond rings? No, honey. Passport, tickets, and a backpack.” – Unknown

80. “I love your feet because they wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.” – Pablo Neruda

81. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

Travel with Friends Quotes

Studies actually showed that good friendships are the most important relationships for a healthy and happy life. So why not travel with your best buddy or even someone you don’t know inside out? Who knows, maybe this trip will change your relationship forever. Check out these travel partner quotes for your next friend’s trip.

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. “Everyone needs a friend who will call, and say, ‘Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown

84. “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Unknown

85. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown

86. “Life was meant for great adventure and close friends.” – Unknown

87. “Good friends follow you anywhere.” – Winnie the Pooh

88. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

89. “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.” – Unknown

90. “The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

91. “The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.” – Ritu Ghatourey

92. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” – Unknown

93. ”Having a best friend is like having your own little corner of the world to escape to.” – Unknown

94. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” – Anais Nin

95. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” – Unknown

96. “When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than finding your friend whom you trust and can show the way.” – Toba Beta

97. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

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Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

These travel quotes are perfect to express your traveller mood, whether you’re recovering from a previous trip or you’re just planning your next one. So, read these beautiful quotes about travelling, and let them inspire you.

Travel. What does this word mean to you? Well, it is extremely hard to explain. Travelling is everything. As a matter of fact, it’s learning new things, discovering new cultures, exploring new realities. Travelling is fulfillment .

So, are you ready to fulfill your sense of wanderlust?

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times. (Alphonse de Lamartine)

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. (Saint Augustine)

Life is a trip, travelling is living twice” (Omar Khayyàm)

When you live in a place for a long time, you become blind because you did not observe anything. I travel to not going blind” (Josef Koudelka)

The only rule of travel is: don’t come back the way you went. Come back changed. (Anne Carson)

Traveling to discover the countries and you will find the continent in yourself. (Indian proverb)

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. (Jack Kerouac)

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled. (The Prophet Mohammed)

Best quotes for adventurers

But true travelers leave to leave and that’s it: light, balloon-like hearts that only chance moves eternally, always say “Let’s go”, and they don’ t know why. Their wishes have the shapes of the clouds. (Charles Baudelaire)

Traveling is being unfaithful. Be so without. … is being unfaithful. Be so without remorse. Forget your friends to strangers. (Paul Morand)

Diversion. Distraction. Fantasy. Change of fashion, food, love, and landscape. We need them as the air we breathe. (Bruce Chatwin)

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.” (Roman Payne)

Are you a tourist or a traveller?

He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he felt most at home. (Paul Bowles)

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The journey begins where the rhythm of the heart is exposed to the wind of fear. (Fabrizio Resca)

It’s really difficult, both in geography and morality, to understand the world without leaving your own home. (Voltaire)

Quotes for who’s passionate about travelling

Traveling is like falling in love, the world is made new. (Jan Myrdal)

Every hundred feet the world changes (Roberto Bolaño)

And there is nothing more beautiful than the moment before the journey, the moment when the horizon of tomorrow comes to visit us and tell us about its promises. (Mila Kundera)

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea. And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be. (Gerald Gould)

You take delight, not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer, it gives to a question of yours. (Italo Calvino)

The journey: a departure from me, an infinite of infinite distances and a coming to me.

(Antonio Porchia)

Travelling is a door through which one leaves reality to penetrate into an unexplored reality, which seems like a dream. (Guy de Maupassant)

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. (Anais Nin)

Travelling and all of its benefits

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. (Thor Heyerdahl)

Traveling is like dreaming: the difference is that not all, wake up, remember something, while everyone keeps warm memory of the destination from which he came back. (Edgar Allan Poe)

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. 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. (Jon Krakauer – Into the Wild)

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)

Motivational quotes

To Infinity and Beyond! (Buzz Lightyear)

Those who travel have chosen the wind as their profession. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

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)

What is the true meaning of the word travel? Change Location? Absolutely not! Traveling is changing opinions and prejudices. (Anatole France)

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. (Tim Cahill)

Find yourself and your inner peace

The shortest path to oneself leads around the world. Hermann Keyserling

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)

Travelling restores the original Harmony that once existed between man and the universe. (Anatole France)

The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands. (Sir Richard Burton)

Tourists went on holiday while travelers did something else. They travelled. (Alex Garland)

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler” (Ira Levin)

Go traveling and you won’t be the same

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. (Paul Theroux)

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world (Mary Anne Radmacher)

A good traveler should not perform affirm, explain, but keep quiet, listen and understand (Paul Morand)

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn’t what we see but what we are. (Fernando Pessoa)

There seems to be in the man, as in the bird, a need for migration, a vital need to feel elsewhere. (Margeruite Yourcenar)

Some places are an enigma, others an explanation. (Fabrizio Caramagna)

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. (Gustave Flaubert)

To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. (Freya Stark)

The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have. (Anna Quindlen)

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)

To travel means looking at the world through a new perspective

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. (Moslih Eddin Saadi)

What you’ve never seen is where you’ve never been. (African Proverb)

Man’s real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot. (Bruce Chatwin)

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide)

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” (Lao Tzu)

The perfect journey is circular: the joy of departure and the joy of return. (Dino Basili)

Travel and don’t be afraid to leave your comfort zone

Travelling! Losing countries! Be more constant because the soul has no roots! Go ahead, chasing the absence of having a goal to reach and anxiety to achieve it. (Fernando Pessoa)

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)

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. (Seneca)

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. (Sandra Lake)

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. (Benjamin Disraeli)

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. (Mary Anne Radmacher)

As always happens on a long journey, at the first two or three stations the imagination remains firm in the place where you left, and then suddenly, with the first morning met on the way, it turns towards the destination of the journey and now he builds the castles of the future there. (Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj)

Leaving is the most beautiful and courageous action of all, maybe a selfish joy, but a real joy, for those who can give value to freedom. Being alone, without needs, strangers, foreigners and yet feeling at home everywhere, and setting off to conquer the world. (Isabelle Eberhardt)

When you travel to Ithaca you must wish that the road is long, fertile in adventures and experiences. (Kostantin Kavafis, Itaca)

A journey is always a discovery, first of new places and then the discovery of what the new places do to your mind and your heart. Travelling is always, in some form, exploring oneself. (Stephen Littleword)

Tip for our travellers: visit a new place at least once a year

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. (Anonymous)

Of all the books out there, my passport is my favorite, the only in-octavo to open frontiers. (Alain Borer)

The most beautiful journey is the one you have not yet made. (Loick Peyron)

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. (Anonymous)

Those who travel without meeting the other, does not travel, moves. (Alexandra David-Néel)

I would always like to be elsewhere, where I am not, in the place from which I am now escaped. Only in the journey between the place I just left and where I’ m going, I’m happy. (Thomas Bernhard)

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, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” (Cesare Pavese)

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. (Asian Proverb)

I don’t know what world lies beyond this sea, but every sea has another shore, and I will arrive. (Cesare Pavese)

Discover your emotions by travelling

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. (Peter Hoeg)

A place is never just that place: that place is a bit like us too. Somehow, without knowing it, we carried it inside and one day, by chance, we got there. (Antonio Tabucchi)

People don’t take trips, trips take people. (John Steinbeck)

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. (Lin Yutang)

I have just returned from a leisure trip: I accompanied my mother-in-law to the airport. (Milton Berle)

When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. (Clint Borgen)

Travel and don’t forget to be open-minded

Strange thing this travel, once you start, it’s hard to stop. It’s like being alcoholics. (Gore Vidal)

People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination with the kind of people they ignore at home. (Dagobert D. Runes)

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home” (James A. Michener)

The journey never ends. Only travelers come to an end. And even these can extend in memory and narration. The journey never ends. When the traveler sat on the sand of the beach and said: “there is nothing else to see,” he knew that was not true. You need to see what you haven’t seen and what you have already seen. You need to see in spring what you saw in summer. Try to see in a day what you saw at night. Also, the Sun where the first time it rained, see the green, the ripe fruit, the stone that has changed place, the shadow that wasn’t there. We must retrace steps already done, to repeat them, and to paint alongside new ways. You have to start the trip again. All the time. The traveler returns immediately. (Jose Saramago)

Travel and fall in love with people and places

Journeys end in lovers meeting. (Shakespeare)

Journeys are on the sea, by ships, not by trains. The horizon must be empty and must set the difference between sky and water. There must be nothing around and on top of it the immense must be found, only, in this case, it is a journey. (Erri De Luca)

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. (Italo Calvino)

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. (Caskie Stinnett)

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Paths are made by walking. (Franz Kafka)

Traveling is giving meaning to one’s life, traveling is giving one’s life to one’s senses. (Alexandre Poussin)

Travel to discover something different

Life is a great field to cultivate. Traveling, it is sowing you the diversity of the Earth. To travel, it is embellishing it with the colors of the world. (Lesven)

Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. (Roy M. Goodman)

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)

You don’t take a trip. The journey makes us and undoes us, the journey invents us. (David Le Breton)

A new destination is a new way of seeing things

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. (Henry Miller)

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. (Susan Sontag)

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. (Sophie Swetchine)

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)

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. (Lawrence Block)

Travel to escape from your ordinary life

The journey not only broadens the mind, it shapes the mind (Bruce Chatwin)

To leave is to win a fight against habit. (Paul Morand)

Some travel to get lost, some travel to find themselves. (Gesualdo Bufalino)

And then, the train, when traveling, always makes us dream. (Antonio Machado)

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)

Travelling means to become someone new

He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left. (Chinese Proverb)

Travel like Gandhi-with simple clothes, open eyes, and an uncluttered mind. (Rick Steves)

Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. (Simon Raven)

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)

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)

A country, it is for me, a face, a smile, a welcome, a name, much more than the city, the mountains, forests or banks. (Pierre Fillit)

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. (G.K. Chesterton)

While travelling, you need to get lost

When travelling, the best thing is to get lost. When you are lost, plans give away to surprises, and it’s then —and only then— that the journey really begins. (Nicolas Bouvier)

You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system (Erol Ozan)

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. (Rosa Luxemburg)

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. (Edward Dahlberg)

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)

Your trip will always be part of you

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)

All things considered, there are two species of men in the world: those who stay at home and the others. (Rudyard Kipling)

I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. (Melody Truong)

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)

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. (Anita Desai)

Wherever you go, go with all your heart! (Confucius)

Adventure is worthwhile. (Aesop)

We travel to change our ideas

We travel to change, not of place, but of ideas. (Hippolyte)

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)

Travel because there’s a world to discover

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela)

Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest. (Freya Stark)

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. (Lao Tzu)

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Travel and make some unforgettable memories

Take only memories, leave only footprints. (Chief Seattle)

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. (Lovelle Drachman)

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. (Hilaire Belloc)

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one. (Paulo Coelho)

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)

Travel with no regrets

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal. (Paulo Coelho)

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. (Paulo Coelho)

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)

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)

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)

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. (Unknown)

Not all those who wander are lost. (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Get ready for a new adventure

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)

Travel brings power and love back into your life. (Rumi Jalalud-Din)

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 Nomad)

Be a dreamer

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)

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)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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)

But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. 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 even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. (Bill Bryson)

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport. (Douglas Adams)

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. (Ma Jian)

So, which quote is your favorite one ? Choose them to express your mood . For example, if you want to share some photos from your last trip, use them as a caption on your social media .

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200 Best Road Trip Instagram Captions & Quotes 

Niklas Forstreuter

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Make your road trip Instagram posts extra special with these quotes and captions. No road trip is complete without your best friends, a good playlist, and plenty of photos taken along the way.

We’ll help you come up with the perfect Instagram captions and quotes for your road trip posts, to make sure you’ll remember your trip forever.

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Best road trip Instagram captions and quotes

Embark on an unforgettable journey with these road trip captions and quotes, perfect for capturing the excitement and adventure of the open road on Instagram.

1. Life is a highway.

2. Collect moments, not things.

3. Finding paradise wherever I go.

4. We have nothing to lose, and a world to see.

5. No road is long with good company.

6. Feeling those road trip vibes.

7. Adventure awaits.

8. Come along and take a ride.

9. Vacation mood: ON.

10. Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.

11. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

12. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

13. Start the car!

14. Hit the road!

15. SHOTGUN!

16. To travel is to live.

17. Better to travel than to arrive.

18. Choose the scenic route.

19. Windows down, music up.

20. Are we there yet?

21.  Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.

22. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

23. Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.

24. Life was meant for good friends and great adventure. 

25. My heart is on the open road.

26. Cruisin’ is my forever mood.

27. If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.

28. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

29. I’ve got sunshine on my mind.

30. Making memories one road trip at a time.

More road trip Instagram captions and quotes

Hit the road and make memories with these additional road trip captions, designed to capture the thrill of the journey on Instagram.

31. Roads less traveled, memories more cherished.

32. Just another day in my rolling home.

33. Every mile, a new smile.

34. Cruising on the road of endless possibilities.

35. Finding myself one mile at a time.

36. Where the streets have my name.

37. From city lights to starry nights.

38. Keep calm and travel on.

39. Seeking adventures, finding myself.

40. Just a small town girl, exploring the world.

41. On a journey to the unknown.

42. Discovering new roads to happiness.

43. Not all those who wander are lost.

44. Creating stories one city at a time.

45. In a love affair with the open road.

46. My therapy: long drives and loud music.

47. Fuelled by caffeine and wanderlust.

48. Taking the path that leads to adventure.

49. Living one sunrise at a time.

50. Lost in the right direction.

51. Miles to go before I sleep.

52. On the road to my happy place.

53. Taking the scenic route to my soul.

54. Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.

55.  Driven by wanderlust.

56. The best views come after the hardest drive.

Short road trip Instagram captions and quotes

Embrace the journey with these short and sweet road trip captions, perfect for capturing the essence of adventure on Instagram. Looking for something even shorter? These one-word travel captions are the perfet choice.

57. Chasing horizons. 

58. On a wild ride. 

59. Miles of smiles. 

60. Destination: anywhere. 

61. Escape mode: on.

62. Wander where the WiFi is weak. 

63. Chasing sunsets. 

64. Lost and loving it. 

65. Road warrior. 

66. Asphalt adventurer. 

67. Nomad life. 

68. Highway to happiness. 

69. Detour into amazing. 

70. Open road, open heart. 

71. Fueling my soul. 

72. Journey vibes. 

73. Just keep rolling. 

74. Escape the ordinary. 

75. Let’s get lost. 

76. Freedom on four wheels. 

77. Gone exploring. 

78. Travel therapy. 

79. Joy ride. 

80. Roads to remember. 

81. Following the sun.

Funny road trip captions for Instagram

Spice up your road trip memories with these hilarious captions , guaranteed to add a dose of laughter to your Instagram feed!

82. Running on fumes and good vibes. 

83.  This trip is wheely fun!

84.  Cruisin’ and snoozin’ – that’s how we roll.

85. Our GPS is set to ‘Bliss’.

86. Roads? Where we’re going, we need more snacks.

87.  Hitting the road, caffeine level critical.

88. Is it too late to be a backseat driver?

89. Fueling my wanderlust and my caffeine addiction.

90. Eating up the miles like they’re snacks in the glove box.

91.  This trip is all about the journey… and the junk food.

92. I’ve got a full tank and no sense of direction.

93. Honk if you love random adventures!

94. Taking the scenic route to my nap spot.

95. Road trip rule #1: the co-pilot must have snacks.

96. My road trip playlist is longer than this highway.

97. Lost but making good time.

98. On a journey to find the best roadside diner.

99. You know you’ve found the perfect partner when they trust you to be DJ in the car.

Best road trip quotes for Instagram 

Embrace the spirit of adventure with these captivating road trip quotes, ideal for sharing the excitement and wanderlust of your journey on Instagram.

100. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton​​

101. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway​​

102. “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way” – Unknown​​

103. “It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi​​

104. “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen​​

105. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb​​

106. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius​​

107. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison​​

108. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon​​

109. “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​​

110. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green​​

111. “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” – Florida Georgia Line

112. “Hard roads require a will of steel” – Mehmet Murat ildan​​

113. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac​​

114. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.” – Chinese Proverb​​

115. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber​​

116. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount​​

117. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams​​

118. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost​​

119. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett​​

120. “We’re almost there, but nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going.” – Gilmore Girls​​

Road trip Instagram captions for friends 

Hit the road with your crew and make memories that last a lifetime with these road trip captions. A road trip is only as good as the company you’re with.

121. Friends, sunsets, and road trips.

122. Rolling with my homies.

123. Happiness is a mix CD and a road trip

124. Life’s a highway, and we’re the passengers!

125. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

126. With friends like these, who needs GPS?

127. On a journey to find the perfect selfie spot.

128. Squad goals: See the world. 

129. Eat. Sleep. Road trip. Repeat.

130. Friendship fueled by gas and laughter.

131. Chasing horizons with my besties.

132. In the journey of life, friends are the best pit stops.

133. Friendship is a two-way street.

134.  Lost with my crew.

135. Friends who travel together, stay together.

136. Taking the scenic route with my favorite people.

137. Friendship: Better than any roadmap.

138. Detours encouraged when I’m with my friends.

139. Life’s too short for boring road trips.

140. Together, we can go anywhere.

141. Saving the passenger seat just for you!

142. Friends, fast food, and freeways. 

143. On a quest for the best snack stops.

144. Our friendship is the best travel companion.

145. Finding new roads and old jokes.

146.  Friendship, laughter, and endless roads.

147. Exploring the world, one laugh at a time.

Road trip Instagram captions for couples

Embark on a journey of love and adventure with your partner by your side, and capture every moment with these road trip captions designed for couples on Instagram.

If you love a bit of romance in your Instagram posts, you’ll love these romantic travel captions .

148. Adventure partners for life.

149. Together, we travel.

150. Our love story written in mile markers.

151. Navigating life with my favorite co-pilot.

152. Love is the best journey.

153. Couple goals: See the world together.

154. Creating our own road map to happiness.

155. Road tripping with my forever plus one.

156. In love and in travel.

157. Every mile, a memory with you.

158. Love on the road less traveled.

159. Hand in hand, across the land.

160. Chasing sunsets and dreams together.

161. Our love fuels this journey.

162. Lost in the world, but found in each other.

163. Exploring the world, heart in hand.

164. Together is our favorite place to be.

165. Life’s a beautiful ride with you by my side.

166. Building our love story.

167. Our romance is always on the right track.

168. Two hearts, one road.

169. Endless roads, endless love.

170. On the road to forever with you.

171. Love knows no distance.

172. Driving into the sunset of our lives.

173. Together, every road feels like home.

174. Love is an open road.

175. With you, every journey is a love story.

Family road trip Instagram captions

Create unforgettable memories with the ones you love most on your family road trip, and cherish every moment with these heartwarming captions for sharing on Instagram.

176. Together is our favorite place to travel. 

177. Our family motto: Let’s get lost together.

178. Chaos, laughter, and family selfies.

179. Family road trip: More love, less WiFi.

180. Journeying through life as a family.

181. The family that travels together, stays together.

182. Making the world our playground.

183. Every road leads to new family adventures.

184. Love packed in a suitcase.

185. Our family’s adventure diary.

186. From A to B with my favorite people.

187. Family bonding at 60 miles per hour.

188. Passport to family fun.

189. Happiness is a family road trip.

190. Exploring the world, family style.

191.  Family, fun, and the open road.

192. Wherever we go, we go together.

193. Collecting moments, not things.

194. Our family: Explorers of the unknown.

195. Adventure awaits the family van.

196. Family time: the best travel time.

197. Discovering the world as a family.

198. Family escapades and roadside wonders.

199. Navigating life with my favorite crew.

200. Road trips: The ultimate family bonding.

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Travel Couple Quotes – 100 Captions for Travel Couples

• November 4, 2023
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Couples who travel together, stay together – or so they say.  In this article, I share 100 of the best travel couple quotes to help inspire your wanderlust.

I’ve always been a sucker for a great quote.  So, when Natalie and I were planning to travel, I got addicted to finding the best quotes for travelling couples.

In this article, you’ll find some of the well-known travel quotes for couples, combined with some that I’ve carefully crafted myself. 

Feel free to save or pin the graphics, and print and frame them as a  perfect gift for a travel couple  or your partner.

So let’s get to it. Here are 100 of the best quotes for travelling couples.

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The Best Couples Travel Quotes​

1. “Date someone who is a home and an adventure all at once”. – Unknown.​

2. “You keep me safe, I’ll keep you wild.” – Unknown.

3. “Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with. A relationship, with the right person, is a release, not a restriction.” – Beau Tapin.

4. “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – John Green.

5. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin.

6. “When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes.

7. “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.

8. “Night air, good conversation, and a sky full of stars can heal almost any wound.” – Beau Taplin.

9. “But the most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people, and places, and memories, and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter.” – Unknown.

10. “Memories are always special. Sometimes we laugh by remembering the days we cried. And we cry by remembering the days we laughed.. That’s life.” – Unknown.

11. “It was sunsets that taught me that beauty sometimes only lasts for a couple of moments, and it was sunrises that showed me that all it takes is patience to experience it all over again.” – A.J. Lawless.

12. “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl Rogers.

13. “Whatever is good for your soul, do that.” – Unknown.

14. “Travel. Make memories. Have adventures. Because I guarantee that when you’re 85 and on your death bed you won’t think about that flashy car you bought, or the twenty pairs of designer shoes you owned. But you will think about that time you got lost in your favourite city. The nights spent falling in love under the stars and all the beautiful people you met along the way. You’ll think of the moments that made you feel truly alive. And at the very end, those memories will be the only valuable possessions you own.” – Unknown.

“15. I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures.” – Conny Cernik.

16. “Find love with someone who loves your free spirit, someone who has no intention of restricting your wild side but someone who wants to set it free and run with you.” – Unknown.

17. “Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” – Unknown.

18. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt.

19. “I have found that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain.

20. “The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.” – Ritu Ghatourey.

21. “Did you know that we all have at least one soul place in the physical world? A soul place is a special site or spot where we experience unique feelings of belonging, empowerment, and energetic rejuvenation.” – Mateo Sol.

22. “I love the weirdos. The rule-breakers. The strange, whimsical, outlandish, peculiar, and uncanny. The misfits. The curious, unusual, eccentric, and unpredictable. The freaks. The radical, star-gazing vagabonds. The loners. The rejects. The outsiders. The silly romanticists who ridiculously believe of changing the world someday… because they do.” – Creig Crippen.

23. “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 Couple Captions

If you’re in a rush and looking for short & witty couple quotes for Instagram captions, look no further. These will entertain your followers without too much effort on your part.

24. “Fancy clothes and diamond rings? No, honey. Passport, tickets, and a backpack.” – Unknown.

25. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.” – Unknown.

26. “F**k Netflix & Chill. Let’s travel the world. Let’s make memories.” – Unknown.

“27. In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz.

28. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Robyn Yong.

29. “Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.” – Unknown.

30. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

31. “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Anonymous.

32. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.” – Unknown.

33. “We haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on our list.” – Susan Sontag.

34. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Rainie Navarro.

35. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy L. Goodman.

36. “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr.Seuss.

37. “Better to see something once, than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb.

38. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown.

39. “We followed our hearts, and it led us to the airport.” – Unknown.

40. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet, he said.” – Rachel Wolchin.

Couple Adventure Quotes

These couple adventure quotes are enough to send even the most laidback of an individual into a tizzy. So pack your bags, you’ll be off on an adventure in no time.

41. “The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.” – Roy T. Bennett.

42. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll.

43. “The universe just f**king knows when souls are wired to wreck the world together!” – Erin Van Vuren.

44. “I don’t want to be tied down to someone. I want to be set free with someone.” – Unknown.

45. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey.

46. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame. But something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault.

47. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair should be messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti.

48. “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.

49. “Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” – Unknown.

50. “Let’s change the world, one adventure at a time.” – Unknown.

51. “Every heart seeks adventure. Some find it in the frost mountains resting along the horizon, some find it in the windy seashores, and some find it in the damp rain forests. While I’ve found my adventure in you.” – Ankit Choubey.

52. “Love is meant to be an adventure.” – Gordon B. Hinckley .

53. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a priority.” – Richard Branson.

54. “All good things are wild and free.” – Henry David Thoreau.

55. “Being with you turned out to be the wildest, boldest, and the most beautiful adventure I ever took. You’re my crazy adventure.” – Shubhangi.

56. “Set fire to all your maps, forget how it’s always been. We’re explorers of the heart, learning to dream again. The adventure of a lifetime with love alone as our guide. Exotic places beyond imagination – ones we’ve longed for deep inside.” – John Mark Green.

57. “I want to go on a road trip. Just you and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.” – Unknown.

58. “We don’t just get to grow old together. We get to grow up together. And that’s the real adventure.” – Unknown.

59. “TRAVEL. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” – Martin Moodie.

60. “You are the end of my road. After a lifetime of missed exits and wrong turns, you feel like I’m finally home. One journey ends, and another begins with you.” – Unknown.

61. “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).

62. “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.” – Unknown.

63. “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 in it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things.” – Unknown.

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My Own Couple Travel Quotes

I don’t claim to be the most poetic writer in the world, but I hope you’ll enjoy the couple travel quotes I put together below.

64. “I can’t promise you the world, but I can promise you a lifetime of adventure. I can’t promise you money, but I can promise you a thousand sunrises and a million ‘I love yous’. I can’t promise you material things, but I can promise that freedom suits you better than any designer handbag. No I can’t promise you the world, but I can promise that all we’ll ever need is right here.” – Charlotte Hockin.

65. “The irony of losing yourself in travel, is that you actually end up finding the real you.” – Charlotte Hockin .

66. “And with courageous hearts, and curious minds, they left the world they knew behind.” – Charlotte Hockin.

67. “Out of all the beautiful things I’ve seen in the world, your smile is still my favourite.” – Charlotte Hockin.

68. “Life is short. Don’t let it pass you by without finding what it is that truly sets your soul on fire.” – Charlotte Hockin.

69. “They all said she was different. And deep down she knew it too. While they bragged of money, cars, and status, she yearned for something more. She wanted to walk bare feet on the sand and run naked into the sea. Foreign lands called out her name. Different cultures itched at her skin. Yes, she thought. I was born to be forever young, wild, and free. I want to be richer than they can ever be.” – Charlotte Hockin.

70. “A love that runs as deep as the ocean, a passion that burns like the sun in the sky. And with the gravitational force of the moon, they get carried away with the tide.” – Charlotte Hockin.

71. “When we met it was like a fresh start, a blank canvas. She gave me the confidence to create the life I wanted, and provided all the colours I needed to make it beautiful” – Charlotte Hockin.

72. “The road ahead of us is mysterious – full of ups & downs and twists & turns, all the while leading us to unknown destinations. This may be scary to some people, but to us this is living. And we have never felt so alive.” – Charlotte Hockin.

Travelling Couple Quotes by Brooke Hampton

Brooke Hampton  is such a talented writer. Every quote she writes just seems to speak to my heart, which is why I have dedicated an entire section to her here. You can find more  inspiring quotes from Brooke Hampton   here .

73. “I’m not waiting for a hero. I saved myself long ago. I don’t need someone to complete me. I am whole alone. I just want a weirdo to go on adventures with me, kiss me when I least expect it and make me laugh. That’s it.” – Brooke Hampton.

74. “I like people who get excited about the change of seasons, the sound of the ocean, watching a sunset, the smell of rain and starry nights.” – Brooke Hampton.

75. “I need a break from all the noise. I want to breath clean air and swim in clean water. I want to sit on the porch of an old cabin and listen to the stillness. I want to be out where things are simple and every breath is a reminder that there is beauty and magic left in this world.” – Brooke Hampton.

76. “Stop waiting. You may never be ready and there’s a good chance that the fear will never go away. Give yourself permission to be underprepared and uncomfortable. You may never get this chance again. Go.” – Brooke Hampton.

77. “Let’s wander, and decorate our memories with wild love, epic adventures, and soul talk with badass people. Help me collect stories people won’t believe, and memories that will keep us warm when we’re old.” – Brooke Hampton.

78. “Follow your heart and take a chance that you’ll be wrong. Take a chance that maybe you’ll f**k it all up and everyone will say you’re crazy. What’s the worst that can happen? Face that fear and accept it. Because to silence your heart and forget your dreams is to die while living. LIVE. Don’t let the world scare you into being something you’re not. Get out there and risk the unusual or you’ll have to settle for the ordinary. So, no-one else has done it before? There is no road map for you to follow? Then, you be the first! Pave the way for someone else. Find your courage and follow your heart.” – Brooke Hampton.

79. “Be brave, wild one, be brave.” – Brooke Hampton.

80. “No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t need more sleep. We need to wake up and live.” – Brooke Hampton.

81. “I don’t want fancy dinner dates, shiny cars, overpriced hotels, stuffy people and diamonds I won’t ever wear. Give me an old truck, bed full of blankets, a clear night sky full of stars, some homemade chocolate and a soul that can make me laugh and is willing to be real will me.” – Brooke Hampton.

Short Travel Couple Quotes

Finally, here are some short travel couple quotes that prove you can pack a lot of meaning into just a few words.

82. “Hold my hand & I’ll go anywhere with you.” – Unknown.

83. “Come get lost with me.” – Unknown.

84. “Let’s find some beautiful places to get lost together.” – Unknown.

85. “We Came. We Saw. We Loved.” – Unknown.

86. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.” – Unknown.

87. “Happiness is planning a trip somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Marty Rubin.

88. “Live for the moments that you can’t put into words.” – Clo Mailen.

89. “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Amanda Jane Sturges.

90. “Couples that travel together, stay together.” – Unknown.

91. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – Shakespeare

92. “It is ok to live a life others do not understand.” – Jenna Woginrich.

93. “And my heart’s at home when my hand is holding yours.” – Unknown.

94. “One of the best feelings is exploring a brand new place you’ve never been to before.” – Unknown.

95. “I wanna travel the world with you. Go to every country, every city, take pictures and be happy.” – Unknown.

96. “Life itself is a privilege. But to live life to the fullest – well, that’s a choice.” – Andy Andrews.

97. “Come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned.” – J.M Barrie.

98. “Let’s do what we love and do a lot of it.” – Marc Jacobs.

“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

99. “I have travelled through madness to find me.” – Danny Alexander.

100. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

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May 19, 2024 helicopter crash involving Iranian president

By Antoinette Radford, Dakin Andone, Michelle Shen, Steve Almasy, Matt Meyer and Kathleen Magramo, CNN

Iranian media has confirmed the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi. Our live coverage continues here .

President Raisi was likely traveling on a Bell 212 helicopter acquired before the Iranian Revolution, military expert says

From CNN's Rhea Mogul

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was likely traveling on a Bell 212 helicopter that began operating in the late 1960s, according to CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton.

Leighton told CNN's Paula Newton that the difficulty in obtaining spare parts could have played a factor in the crash.

The helicopter was first produced in the United States and then in Canada, Leighton, a retired US Air Force colonel, said.

“It was first introduced during the latter period of the Shah’s rule in 1976 in commercial form and it had a life before that in the US military, so the actual start of this particular type of helicopter may have been as early as the late 1960s,” Leighton said.

“So spare parts would have definitely been an issue for the Iranians.”

“In this particular case, I think this confluence of spare parts, because of the sanctions, plus the weather which was very bad over the last few days in this particular part of northwestern Iran. All of that, I think contributed to a series of incidents and a series of decisions that the pilot and possibly even the president himself made when it came to flying this aircraft… And unfortunately for them, the result is this crash.”

Drone footage shows wreckage of crashed helicopter

By CNN's Jerome Taylor

Iran’s president and foreign minister are presumed dead after Iranian media agencies reported that “no survivors” were found at the crash site of a helicopter carrying the two men and seven others.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were among the senior officials on board the downed helicopter.

Drone footage of the wreckage taken by the Red Crescent and carried on state media FARS News Agency showed the crash site on a steep, wooded hillside, with little remaining of the helicopter beyond a blue and white tail.

No official announcement of their deaths has yet been made.

Reuters news agency also cited an unnamed Iranian official as saying all passengers are feared dead.

No signs of life from helicopter passengers, says head of Iranian Red Crescent

From CNN's Negar Mahmoodi 

There are no signs of life from those traveling on the helicopter that crashed in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, said Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of the Iranian Red Crescent, according to Iranian state news IRIB.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi is believed dead after Iranian agencies reported that "no survivors" were found at the crash site of a helicopter carrying the leader, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and seven others.

BREAKING: "No survivors" found at crash site of helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian agencies report

From CNN's Artemis Moshtaghian 

"No survivors" were found at the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian state news agency IRINN and semi-official news agency Mehr News reported.

Some background: A former hardline judiciary chief, Raisi was Iran’s eighth president. The former prosecutor and judge was elected in 2021 following a historically uncompetitive presidential contest.

He oversaw a period of  intensified repression of dissent , according to human rights monitors.

Next in the line of succession would be First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, if approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran's Supreme Leader serves as the final arbiter of domestic and foreign affairs in the Islamic Republic, dwarfing the powers of the country's president.

Unlike his predecessor, the moderate former President Hassan Rouhani, Raisi had fostered a close alliance with Khamenei. Many Iranians believed Raisi was being groomed to one day succeed the ailing 85-year-old Khamenei.

CNN's Tamara Qiblawi contributed reporting to this post.

Rescuers have reached crash site of helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi

From Negar Mahmoodi and Artemis Moshtaghian

Rescuers have reached the crash site of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.

The agency did not say the condition of those who were on board the helicopter.

At least 73 rescue teams are in the area of the helicopter crash near the village of Tavil in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, according to Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of the Iranian Red Crescent, Tasnim reported.

Kolivand said the "the situation is not good," according to Iranian state news IRNA.

It's 6 a.m. in Tehran. Here's what we know

The crash site of the helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has been located, Iranian state news agency IRNA and semi-official news outlet ISNA reported on Monday. 

The helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country on Sunday.

As president of Iran, Raisi is the second most powerful individual in the Islamic Republic's political structure after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021, and he has overseen a period of intensified repression of dissent in a nation convulsed by youth-led protests against religious clerical rule.

The crash comes at a fraught moment in the Middle East, with war raging in Gaza and weeks after Iran launched a drone-and-missile attack on Israel in response to a deadly strike on its diplomatic compound in Damascus.

Here’s what to know:

• Others on board: Nine people were onboard the helicopter, including the country's foreign minister, and their status remains unknown as rescue operations continue through the early hours on Monday.
• Rescue: Rescuers are contending with dense fog and extreme cold in the country's remote East Azerbaijan Province. A Turkish drone had located a heat source but have not reached the crash site nor located the helicopter. Turkey and Russia have said they are sending aircraft to help in search operations.

BREAKING: Rescuers locate crash site of helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, state media says

 From CNN's Negar Mahmoodi and Artemis Moshtaghian 

The crash site of the helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and the country's foreign minister has been located, Iranian state news agency IRNA and semi-official news outlet ISNA reported on Monday. 

Rescuers are approaching the scene of the accident, ISNA said, citing Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of the Iranian Red Crescent.

State media did not give the exact location of the site. 

More to follow.

Analysis: Helicopter crash comes at a fraught time for region — and Iran itself

From CNN's Jerome Taylor

The crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister comes at an especially fraught moment in the Middle East – and for Iran domestically.

Israel’s war against Hamas and the subsequent humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded in Gaza over the last seven months has inflamed global opinion and sent tensions soaring across the Middle East. 

It has also brought a decades-long shadow war between Iran and Israel out into the open.

Last month Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel — its first ever direct attack on the country — in response to a deadly apparent Israeli airstrike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus that killed a top commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). 

Israel struck back a week later , according to US officials, hitting targets outside the Iranian city of Isfahan with a much smaller, calibrated response. 

Since then the tit-for-tat direct strikes between the two have stopped. But the proxy war continues with Iran-backed militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah continuing to fight Israel’s forces.

Meanwhile, Iran’s hardline leadership has weathered an explosion of recent popular dissent on the streets at home where years of US-led sanctions have hit hard.

The country was convulsed by youth-led demonstrations against clerical rule and worsening economic conditions following the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s notorious morality police.

Iranian authorities have since launched a widening crackdown on dissent in response to the protests.

That crackdown has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to “crimes against humanity,” according to a United Nations report released in March.

And while the protests for now have largely stopped, opposition to clerical leadership remains deeply entrenched among many Iranians, especially the young, who yearn for reform, jobs and a move away from stifling religious rule.

A former hardline judiciary chief with his own brutal human rights record, Raisi was elected president in 2021 in a vote that was heavily engineered by the Islamic Republic’s political elite so that he would run virtually uncontested.

While he is president, his powers are dwarfed by those of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who is the final arbiter of domestic and foreign affairs in the Islamic Republic.  

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