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From Desk to Destination: Unleash Your Inner Explorer with These Work Travel Quotes

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Travelling as you work is such bliss. And to express that feeling in words is such a beautiful thing to do. It is where work travel quotes come to your rescue.

Well, in this blog I have come up with 119 travel while working quotes that you can use to caption your pictures OR update your statuses. Come, let’s check them out!

119 Inspirational Work Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Productivity and Adventure  

I am sure you will appreciate these quotes about travel and work. Anyway, let’s get started!

Work. Eat. Wander. REPEAT!

I enjoy my vacations, besides working using my education!

I ensure that my education doesn’t go to waste even as I enjoy my vacation!

Wandering is the work operation I do to provide people with travel information!

Who worries about the location when I receive an abundance of concentration

My current workstation, as I enjoy nature’s creation!

Setting up your workstation on your vacation is a combination you shouldn’t restrict just to your imagination!

Work on your vacation; it leads to transformations!

Do you know what my occupation is? I am a worker on a vacation!

Working on a vacation is a motivation because it builds your reputation!

Don’t make your work a cause of your frustration, just make it a part of your vacation!

When vacation becomes a recreation in between your work situations!

Deriving vibrations from my beautiful vacations to make my work a celebration!

Your work life becomes a meditation when you do it on your vacation!

I am so inclined to vacation, look at how it scales up my work dedication!

Workation is not just my fascination, it is my current life situation!

Beautiful Travel and Work Quotes

Finish your graduation and go on a workation!

Hello all, this is a proclamation that I am presently on a workation!

Typing away my work in exquisite destinations!

I do online consultations, sitting by beautiful locations!

Try workation, it gives an awesome sensation!

Mandatory relaxation, if you are on a workation!

Accept my invitation for a workation!

Workation, is a revelation!

Becoming an inspiration, for those who aspire workation!

If a vacation is your thing, make it your foundation!

Workation is a temptation, if you get into it, it becomes an addiction!

Workation is salvation from mundane existence!

Do workation, experience liberation!

Isolation from the mundane, for better motivation!

Give workation as compensation for your life that badly needs a modification!

Official communication to casual conversations!

Vacation workers, lifetime seekers!

Announcing operation workation, to the Nation!

Working by the Sea, isn’t that a feat?

No more stress, as I work at rest!

Bury work stress and enjoy excess!

This is my office address, by the shady trees that caress!

Amazing Work Trip Quotes

Say YES, if you want to work like this!

Can anyone guess my present work address?

You make progress when there is less distress!

No more work recess, all set for progress!

Play chess, and work without caring about any mess!

Don’t be depressed, here is your chance to prove that you are not any less!

Tangled tresses, Sea breezes, and I am working my way to success!

Enjoying the views, from my office shoes!

No more Monday blues, working on a cruise!

Be wise and choose your work views!

Look at my devotion, as I work by the Ocean!

Under the Sun rays, making the most of my days!

Worked two weeks by the Ocean and look I got an official promotion!

Beach within my reach, working without any breach!

Skipping work in between, to take pool dips!

Heavenly abode and my workflow!

You grow when you become bold enough to work while in travel mode!

I owe this place loads because it helped me unload my workload in a go!

Sand, my present laptop stand!

Expanding my office space, by the beach sand!

Experience firsthand, the feeling of working from beach sand!

Backpack and work munching on a snack!

Difficulties I easily crack, whenever I backpack!

Backpack, enjoy your track and make a lakh!

I aspired to travel the Universe with logic, so I decided to become a full time travelling workaholic!

Time to pack your work along!

Pack your work and go to a place afar!

Overworked? Become a travel jerk!

Lurk when everything favours your work!

Do I appear quirky? That is okay, I work as I lurk!

Travel tricks, to arrange your work bricks!

I am an author, so I travel longer!

I am an explorer who blogs to make dollars!

I am nature’s daughter, so I am with her earning dollars!

Basically, I travel to fill my coffers!

Adoring nature’s colours, as my meetings, get longer!

Freelance, make three lakhs and travel the world till it lasts!

Pool-soaked feet and my work life feel so complete!

New people you meet, greet, and dance every day to your work beats!

 Tweeting my current life to inspire people to get on their feet!

My job is remote, and so I work as I float!

Thinking of a quote, as I work on the boat!

Would you love to work as you float? Please vote!

Please don’t judge, I travel with a budget!

I am a travel freak, so I went to work at the peak!

Never minding the work heat, because nature is the cushion I seek at the end!

Marvellous Business Trip Captions 

So many meetings, enjoying the surroundings!

Wearing a suit to show off the client is my official build, but inside I am always a kid!

Going to meet my Spanish client, do I look nice?

The world has got me tied, and so I fly high!

Smile and show off your style!

This beautiful place is going to be my workspace for the next five days!

Grace, that is what I feel at this place!

Lake I view, for my break!

Escape and embrace a new place as your workspace, it feels so great!

Every place adds value to my work trajectory!

Whenever I choose a new place to work, it helps me to recreate!

Don’t envy me, if you want you can join me!

Every corner gives a new perspective that makes your work effective!

Every business flight boosts my might!

Work gets me excited because it demands me to take flights!

At every new place I alight, my insides ignite!

Beautiful sights and my work becomes light!

Variety of food, before I set my work mood!

Let me enjoy some delicious cuisine before I head on to meet my deadline!

Enjoying a payment cannot be put into a statement!

Casual work is now a class!

Remote work has become usual, what a blessing to my vision!

It is a boon to attend meetings at zoom, off my cocoon!

Saying hi to the plane, no longer chained!

My work no longer drives me insane, thanks to the beautiful place!

Some luxury to keep me company!

Playing with the passport is my present work sport!

Visa stamped, all set for my next office camp!

Surrounding greens ensure that I work at leisure!

I glee, because I have the right to flee!

Foresee a work life in the midst of trees, how do you feel?

Don’t put yourself into a trap, pack your lap, flap and take off with your map!

The visit might be official, but I drive it like a whistle!

Sitting on the train, and using my brain!

Feeling sane, as I work on the plane!

I hope you liked my working while travelling quotes. As a person who works on travel, let me know which caption you loved the most in the comments below!

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21 Quotes About Work And Travel

The right words can stir up an emotion, trigger a memory and inflame an aspiration. Or, in the case of these quotes about work and travel, all three at once. Just think back on your best vacation or journey; then, imagine your ideal job. How would it feel if you could drop that perfect position into that favorite place?

Unless you’re already lucky enough to live and work in paradise, maybe it’s time to consider a move . Let these insightful comments tempt you to go.

Quotes to stir a little wanderlust for that job abroad…

1. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

2. If you really want to learn about a country, work there. – Charles Kuralt

3. Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. – Vincent Van Gogh

4. Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. – Andrew Carnegie

5. I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

6. Don’t sit on the fence; break it and move out! Don’t be confined to the little things you do; the sky should be below your limit! – Israelmore Ayivor

7. There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age? – Warren Buffet

Still need some convincing?  Quotes to cheer you on as you consider living and working abroad…

8. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs

9. Happiness is a journey. Not a destination. – Ben Sweetland

10. Vacation, I go there in my mind. Especially when I’m at work, getting paid for it. – Jarod Kintz

11. What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life. – Joseph Brodsky

12. What I found appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I liked having goals. – David Sedaris

13. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Anonymous

14. Our life doesn’t go on a plan. We just have to keep on working for what we are living for. – Analiza Garcia

Quotes to celebrate that special moment when you find the the right place and employment…

15. To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring – that’s living. – Manoj Arora

16. Don’t pick a job with great vacation time. Pick one that doesn’t need escaping from. – Sukh Sandhu

17. I wear my job like a robe. I can’t wait to take it off. I vacation like a nudist showers – in the rain, under an umbrella, with five judges watching and awarding style points. – Jarod Kintz

18. When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you’ve landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And yes, I’ve had a few good meals. – Toby Jones

19. Learn to balance a dream and a job, until your dream becomes your job. – Anonymous

20. Sal, straight, no matter where I live, my trunk’s always sticking out from under the bed, I’m ready to leave or get thrown out. I’ve decided to leave everything out of my hands. You’ve seen me try and break my ass to make it and you know that it doesn’t matter and we know time – how to slow it up and walk and dig and just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there? We know. – Jack Kerouac

21. My normal life is like being on holiday. – Valentino Rossi

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Quotes about Traveling for Work

Traveling for work allows me to see the world while making a living.

Every business trip is a chance to explore new cultures and expand my horizons.

Being on the road for work reminds me that life is an adventure worth experiencing.

Traveling for work gives me a sense of purpose and fulfillment.

In every new city I visit for work, I find a piece of myself I never knew existed.

Traveling for work is an opportunity to break away from routine and embrace the unknown.

The best way to broaden your perspective is to travel for work.

Every business trip is a chance to learn something new and grow as a professional.

Traveling for work teaches me to adapt and thrive in different environments.

Leaving the comfort of my home office to travel for work allows me to push my boundaries and achieve great things.

Traveling for work is like being a modern-day explorer, discovering new places and connecting with people from all walks of life.

Every business trip is a reminder that the world is full of endless opportunities.

Traveling for work empowers me to take on new challenges and tackle them with confidence.

Work and travel are the perfect mix of productivity and adventure.

Traveling for work gives me a fresh perspective and fuels my creativity.

When I travel for work, I am reminded of the diverse and interconnected nature of our world.

Business trips are like mini-vacations with a purpose.

Every new city I visit for work becomes a part of my personal story.

Traveling for work is a constant reminder of the endless possibilities that exist outside my comfort zone.

The world is my office when I travel for work.

When I’m on the road for work, I become a citizen of the world.

Traveling for work allows me to see the beauty in the everyday, even in unfamiliar places.

Business trips remind me that the world is vast and filled with fascinating people and places.

Traveling for work has taught me that possibilities are not limited by borders.

Every business trip is a chance to discover hidden gems and create lifelong memories.

Traveling for work is a constant reminder that the world is bigger than my corner of it.

Business trips are opportunities to connect with colleagues and build relationships across cultures.

When I travel for work, I am reminded that life is about the journey, not just the destination.

Work and travel go hand in hand, allowing me to experience the best of both worlds.

Traveling for work is a reminder to embrace change and find joy in new experiences.

Every business trip is an opportunity to leave a positive impact on the world.

Traveling for work gives me a sense of purpose and meaning beyond just the job.

When I travel for work, I feel like I’m on a mission to explore and connect with the world.

Business trips remind me that life is too short to stay in one place.

Traveling for work allows me to combine my love for adventure with my passion for my profession.

Every new city I visit for work is like a blank canvas waiting to be filled with new experiences and memories.

Traveling for work keeps my mind sharp and my spirit alive.

Business trips are opportunities to immerse myself in different cultures and expand my understanding of the world.

When I travel for work, I am reminded of the power of human connection and the importance of building relationships.

Every business trip is a chance to break out of my comfort zone and discover my true potential.

Traveling for work allows me to discover hidden talents and skills I never knew I had.

When I’m on the road for work, I feel like I’m living a life of purpose and excitement.

Business trips remind me to appreciate the beauty of the world and the people in it.

Traveling for work is a constant source of inspiration and motivation.

Every new city I visit for work adds a new dimension to my professional and personal growth.

When I travel for work, I feel like I’m on a never-ending quest for knowledge and self-discovery.

Business trips remind me that success is not limited to one place, but can be found anywhere in the world.

Traveling for work teaches me to adapt and thrive in unfamiliar environments, making me a stronger and more resilient individual.

Every business trip is an opportunity to leave my mark on the world and make a difference.

When I travel for work, I am reminded that life is a journey meant to be explored and enjoyed.

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35 Business Trip Wishes For Safe And Successful Travel

Home » B2B » 35 Business Trip Wishes For Safe And Successful Travel

Business Trip Wishes and messages are important to boos the morale of spouse, loved ones, boss, or colleague traveling for corporate trips. As the business travel fulfills the organization’s growth objectives besides fostering strong bonds between people through face-to-face interactions, these trips becomes inevitable. Employees travel to participate in seminars or to showcase products and services in trade exhibitions. Project engineers and service representatives undertake travel to visit clients’ sites to deliver services. Every business trip involves a specific objective besides managing multiple travel challenges. Hence, wishing your loved ones and colleagues will instill confidence in them to deliver nothing less than their best on the next trip.

Let us help you with the collection of the best wishes for a business trip for you.

Top business trip wishes

‘Happy journey’ has become a common phrase when it comes to business trip wishes. One should wish in a unique way so that the person traveling for business gets positive vibes before they begin their trip. We have curated a list of wishes you can use to wish someone before their business trips.

Common business trip quotes and messages

The following are a few best wishes for business travel for your friend or anyone close to you. Use them to express your feelings for concern, pride, and happiness to the business traveler.

1. May the Almighty make your business trip a grand success! Here is wishing you all the very best for the upcoming business trip!

2. I am excited to learn that you are planning your maiden business trip! Best of luck with a successful business voyage!

3. A little birdie tells me, you are going on a business trip again! Accept my best wishes for a gratifying and safe trip!

4. Have a fulfilling and safe business trip, dear! Don’t forget to catch up on some exciting fun and relaxation too!

5. The universe of business is waiting for you with open arms! Go, make your mark! Have an exciting and safe business voyage!

6. Seal the deal with a smile and return safely! Have an awesome business trip buddy!

7. Do not forget to pack our best wishes when you are arranging your business luggage. Have a memorable and successful business trip!

8. At last, your dream business trip is taking shape! Our best wishes for a successful and gratifying maiden business trip!

9. May the Lady Luck shower plentiful smiles as you prepare to board the flight for your business trip! Have a wonderful and satisfying business trip!

10. May luck and success be your co-passengers as you embark on your business trip!

11. Our best wishes for a great business trip!

Business trip wishes to your clients

Your clients are crucial for your business growth. Building sound rapport with clients is a significant aspect of business continuity. Wishing them success on their business trip can go a long way in building long-term relationships. These business trip wishes are sure to convey your feelings effectively.

12. Glad to know that you are finally packing your bags for the long-awaited business trip.

13. I wish you a safe, productive, and refreshing business trip.

14. Accept my best wishes for a safe and memorable business trip as you prepare for the conference!

15. Have a great business trip, sir/ madam! I wish you all the best for an impressive business presentation!

16. My heartiest congratulations on your selection to attend the grand convention! I am sure you will come back with lots of prizes! Have a safe and gratifying business tour!

17. Enjoy your business trip, sir/ madam, and find time to take some rest! I am waiting to learn about your success stories after your safe return! Happy landing!

Business trip wishes to the boss

Employees look forward to their boss’s success as they represent the team on a business trip. These business trip wishes for the boss reflect these feelings aptly.

18. Have a safe and victorious business trip, Sir/ Madam! May your trip boost our organization’s prospects!

19. Best wishes to you for your business trip! Take care of your health in your hectic schedule, sir!

20. Sir/ Madam, We will miss your support and guidance as you embark on the long business trip! Have a great trip, and come back soon!

21. Sir, wishing you all the success as you represent our organization in the upcoming trade exhibition!

22. May the upcoming corporate business trip lay the foundation for a grand success in the territory! Adios sir, and take care of yourself!

23. Sir, here is wishing you a winning trip that will add a new feather of success to your cap.

Business trip wishes to a colleague

An opportunity to go on a business trip and represent an organization is a proud moment beside the challenges. Business trip quotes and messages let your colleague know your feelings and derive motivation as they plan the next business trip.

24. My best wishes for a safe and successful business trip, buddy!

25. Congratulations on getting the opportunity to represent our company in the upcoming seminar! Best wishes for a rocking presentation, pal!

26. Let luck and success be on your side as you explore new business opportunities in unfamiliar destinations! Have a memorable and victorious trip, dear!

27. Your selection for the overseas business tour proves you are on the path to victory!

28. Have a fantastic tour, buddy!

29. Best wishes from all of us on your dream business trip assignment! Make the most out of the opportunity, dear!

30. Dear road warrior, wishing you the best of luck on your first international business trip!

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31. Good luck on your business trip, my dear. May you shine and make great strides in your career.

32. I will miss you while you’re away, but I know you will do amazing things on your trip. Stay safe and focused, and don’t forget to have fun!

33. Wishing you a successful and fulfilling business trip, my love. May you learn and grow, and return home with valuable insights.

34. Take good care of yourself while you’re away, and remember that I am always here for you. Have a safe and productive trip.

35. You are strong, capable, and talented, and I know you will excel on your business trip. Safe travels, and know that I love you!

Each business trip is a learning experience as it ensures personal and professional development. If the organization sends employees on a business trip, it expects them to represent its culture and strengths. A business trip is a profound responsibility besides the traveling stress and the pressure to achieve business objectives.

Business travelers deserve all good wishes from their colleagues, subordinates, and near ones. These business trip wishes are helpful to enhance the traveler’s confidence and convey warm feelings appropriately.

Business Trip Wishes FAQs

What is the main aim of traveling for business.

The most significant aim of traveling for business is to maintain and generate business through personal interaction with clients and prospects.

Why do companies take part in trade exhibitions?

Companies can showcase their services and products to a large target audience under a single roof besides exploring several networking opportunities.

What qualities are essential for a successful business traveler?

A business traveler needs to be punctual and organized. They should love traveling to develop and maintain business relationships and have exceptional adaptability to an unfamiliar environment. Business travelers must be strong communicators and go-getters.

What are alternative phrases to say pleasant journey?

You may say happy landing, adios, bon voyage, or Godspeed as an alternative to the oft-repeated phrase, pleasant journey.

Why should an entrepreneur undertake business travel?

A business owner travels to meet investors, franchise partners, and suppliers by undertaking business trips. They can expand their dealer network by traveling to new territories.

How can I wish my colleague good luck on their business trip?

You can use an informal tone to wish you safe travels to a colleague. You can simply congratulate them on the opportunity and wish them good luck.

Is it appropriate to wish someone a safe journey on their business trip?

Yes, it is always a good option to wish someone safe travels for a business trip. It shows that you care for them and boost their confidence.

How can I express my support to someone going on a business trip?

In the case of colleagues and family, show them that you care by gifting them something before their journey. In professional scenarios, express your support with a short message orally or in the mail.

How can I wish someone a productive and enjoyable business trip?

You can mail them your wishes before they embark on their journey. You can use the above mentioned phrases for different situations.

Pratyush is a traveling enthusiast who always looks for innovations in business travel management. He has 5 years of experience writing content on corporate travel management and working closely with expert business travel facilitators.

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Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

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

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

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

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

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

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

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

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

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

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

Adventure Travel Quotes

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

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

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

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

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

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

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

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

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

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

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

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

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

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

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

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

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

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

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

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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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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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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152 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 152 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!

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152 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

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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124 Inspirational Travel Quotes That’ll Make You Want to Travel in 2022

This is the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. Let wordsmiths such as Stephen King, Mark Twain and the Dalai Lama transport you around the world from your armchair.

Not all inspirational travel quotes are created equal. “You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow.” Ugh! Case and point. With so many of these clichés flying around, we forget the real purpose of an inspirational quote. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire. To resonate with and encourage you to take action.

Whether you’re stuck in a rut, hungry for change and adventure, lacking motivation or self-confidence, the right inspirational quote can give you a well-needed kick up the butt to get you on the right track towards achieving your goals

My favourite kind of inspirational quotes is travel related, obviously! They remind me that following my dreams will always lead to happiness and fulfilment. So, I’ve collated a rather epic list of not just any inspirational travel quotes, but the best travel quotes. Many of these travel quotes describe wanderlust perfectly. You’re going to love them!

There’s a mix of short travel quotes, some would even make perfect travel captions for Instagram, some are funny quotes about travelling with friends, but most of all they are all awesome trip quotes.

Ok, so the length of this list is probably a little overkill, but they are all beautiful travel quotes from some really inspiring authors and legends including Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, John Steinbeck, Lao Tzu, Euripides, Seneca, Dalai Lama, Bill Bryson, T.S Eliot, Oscar Wilde and so so many more.

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1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc

3. 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

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

5. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

6. time flies. it’s up to you to be the navigator. – robert orben, 7. the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – w.b. yeats, 8. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 9. the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – oprah winfrey, 10. take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – erick widman.

11. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart

12. living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – unknown, 13. it doesn’t matter where you are. you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – bob proctor, 14. if we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – unknown, 15. it is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of america – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – dwight d. eisenhower, 16. travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – peter hoeg, 17. when a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- drew bundini brown, 18. ‘i’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of. – louis c.k..

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

20. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy

21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you. – Unknown

22. 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. – Anthony Bourdain

23. 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. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

24. 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

25. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

26. though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- ralph waldo emerson.

27. This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime. – G Adventures

28. there is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. and you ask “what if i fall” oh but my darling, what if you fly – erin hanson.

29. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

30. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein

31 .the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – helen keller.

32. Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien

33. paris is always a good idea. – audrey hepburn, 34. own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. let your memory be your travel bag. – alexander solzhenitsyn, 35. our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. they always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – winnie the pooh, 36. 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..

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

38. nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – gayland anderson, 39. life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – unknown, 40. 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, 41. if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a movable feast. – hemingway, 42. if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – anon, 43. i’m not lost, i’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – unknown.

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

45. i love to travel, but hate to arrive. – albert einstein.

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

47. how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world i never knew – ernesto che guevara., 48. experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – euripides.

49. A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

50. A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins

51. 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, 52. 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, 53. travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – paul theroux.

54. 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

55. to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – aldous huxley, 56. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 57. the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – rudyard kipling, 58. not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – henry david thoreau.

59. 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

60. i have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. i have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. so, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – rowland waring-flood.

61. 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.

62. 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, 63. a wise traveler never despises his own country. – carlo goldoni.

64. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

65. Your true traveler 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

66. 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 colours. and the people there see you differently, too. coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – terry pratchett, a hat full of sky, 67. when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. cool, unlying life will rush in. – d. h. lawrence, 68. 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, why we travel, 69. 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.

70. 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

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

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

73. 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

74. trust me, it’s paradise. this is where the hungry come to feed. for mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. so never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. and if it hurts, you know what it’s probably worth it. – richard, ‘the beach’ (alex garland), 75. travelling 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, 76. 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, 77. travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – seneca, 78. tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – paul theroux, 79. too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – elizabeth drew, 80. to those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. but to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. – unknown, 81. 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, 82. to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – freya stark, 83. there is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – charles dudley warner.

84. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

85. the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – st. augustine, 86. 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, 87. the journey, not the arrival matters. – t. s. eliot, 88. stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘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, 89. to travel is to live. – hans christian anderson, 90. so much of who we are is where we have been. – william langewiesche 91. somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – unknown, 92. there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – beverly sills, 93. 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, 94. people travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – dagobert d. runes, 95. don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. – mohammed, 96. our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life. – jack kerouac, 97. one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – henry miller.

98. 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 99. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

100. no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – lin yutang, 101. never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – dolly parton, 102. man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – andre gide..

103. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

104. 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, 105. blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – lovelle drachman., 106. if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – james michener, 107. i want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. i want to explore the world. i want to watch tv in a different time zone. i want to visit strange, exotic malls. – homer simpson, 108. 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.

109. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca

110. he who does not travel does not know the value of men. – moorish proverb, 111. travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer, 112. 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, 113. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – ralph waldo emerson, 114. 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, 115. 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. all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – martin buber.

116. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

117. a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – lao tzu, 118. a journey is like marriage. the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – john steinbeck, 119. a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – tim cahill, 120. a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – lao tzu.

121. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain

122. 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.

123. 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

124. travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – gaby basora.

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Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure

Cant really travel due to the pandemic so ill just read travel quotes 🙂

Hi, there are some great quotes here, all make you stop and think – which is always a good thing! I think my favourite is ‘I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list’

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world :)) I saw it on profile on Worldee.com and its my favourite one!

That’s beautiful 🙂 Thanks for sharing Tomas

Yes, it’s really inspiring, but it’s a sad thing you can’t go anywhere at the moment…

Thanks Jenny 🙂 When borders open up again, we will be able to appreciate travel even more 🙂

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

I love this a lot, thanks for sharing Love from Indonesia

This is so true. Thanks for sharing Adi 🙂

My favourite is Anderson’s “to travel is to live” . In a lack of travel opportunities sometimes i feel i just exist ,not live. Crying:'((((

Thank you for this post. I loved it. Reading the quotes made me reflect on the feelings and experiences of my travels and made me long for more 🙂

Thank you, Allison, it’s my pleasure. It’s so wonderful to hear that you enjoyed it. I get a tad emotional myself every time I look back through this post. It’s definitely one of my favourites 🙂

The Winnie the Pooh one was good. Clever little bear , isn’t he. ?

Thanks for the amazing post. Some made me laugh, some made me think but all of them makes me want to travel more.

Thanks Basil 🙂 Did you have a favourite?

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70 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Travel, Business and Entrepreneurship

Our Picks for Some of the Best Inspirational Business, Travel & Entrepreneurship Quotes

When it comes to finding a purpose in life, nothing is more powerful and motivational than being inspired by someone who has succeeded in doing something great. Regardless of whether or not you’ve already found your passion or you’re still looking, we could all use some inspirational quotes and motivational messages to encourage us to push ourselves to the next level.

We’ve compiled a list of 70 of our favorite inspirational quotes focusing on business, travel and entrepreneurship, with the intention of helping you further your dreams, whatever they may be. These quotes are written with the intent to help open your mind, spark your sense of wanderlust and wonder, and perhaps help encourage you to become the entrepreneur you’ve always dreamed of being.

After all, one of the keys to success is to discover something that could help change the world for the better. Through travel and open-mindedness, we can solve problems and become successful along the way.

Which Inspirational Business, Travel Quotes & Entrepreneurship Quotes Are Your Favorite?

1 – “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”  – William Shakespeare

2 – “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

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3 – “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

4 – “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

5 – “Paris is always a good idea.”  – Audrey Hepburn

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6 – “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”  – Mohammed

7 – “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

8 – “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

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9 – “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

10 – “Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker

11 – “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” – Anatole France

12 – “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley

13 – “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins

14 – “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

15 – “Do. Or do not. There is no try.”  – Yoda, Jedi Master

16 – “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” – Wayne Dyer

17 – “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – General George Patton

18 – “There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” – Phil Libin

19 – “Anyone can start a business. Starting a business to solve a problem, having the motivation to bring that concept to life and seeing it through to having a meaningful impact on the world is what sets apart the doers from the sayers.” – Greig Santos-Buch

20 – “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” – Bradley Whitford

21 – “You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” – George Lucas

22 – “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” – Robert H. Schuller

23 – “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” – Steve Case

24 – “The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” – Rachel Carson

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25 – “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs

26 – “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

27 – “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

28 – “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” – Muhammad Ali

29 – “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” – John Dewey

30 – “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

31 – “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

32 – “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

33 – “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson

34 – “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” – George S. Patton

35 – “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” – Pope John XXIII

36 – “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

37 – “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

38 – “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

39 – “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” – Epictetus

40 – “To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor — Sail, not drift.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

41 – “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

42 – “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison

43 – “The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys. – Seth Godin

44 – “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

45 – “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

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46 – “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

47 – “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine

48 – “For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.” – Timothy Ferriss

49 – “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” – H. L. Hunt

50 – “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

51 – “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt

52 – “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

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

54 – “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

55 – “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” – Tom Kelley

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

57 – “We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

58 – “I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” – Steve McQueen

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

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

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61 – “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

62 – “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

63 – “You will never win if you never begin.” – Helen Rowland

64 – “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler

65 – “We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.” – Henry David Thoreau

66 – “No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

67 – “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” – Mark Cuban

68 – “Who seeks shall find.” – Sophocles

69 – “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.” – Katharine Hepburn

70 – “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – John F. Kennedy

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100 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes to Ignite Your Wanderlust

Travel quotes can be powerful and life-changing. Do you want to be inspired by wonderful words about traveling? We've put together a list of the most inspiring and most touching travel quotes to ignite your wanderlust.

We've never been fans of the collections of best travel quotes, until just recently. We are not sure whether getting older makes us more sentimental, or it happened after realizing that we cannot take travel for granted.

Still, it often happens to us, that when we read a famous travel quote, it just hit the place without any particular reason.

Words that are really meant can be powerful, inspiring; they can even change a person's life forever.

There are so many inspirational travel quotes that it is impossible to put them all in one list.

It is also possible that some of your favorite travel quotes will be missing on this list.

Well, believe us, writing a post like this is pretty personal, and it is a daunting task to simply say, here you go, these are the best inspirational travel quotes that will ignite your wanderlust. Period. Not really, it certainly does not work this way.

It is interesting that a quote can make us feel so many things.

After reading a travel quote, you can feel wanderlust, motivation to explore new places, passion to change your life, you can feel inspired, but also saddened that not everything goes according to a plan.

Besides inspiring your wanderlust, travel quotes often call people to action - to get out of their daily routines or comfort zones.

It is hard to believe that a few words can let us feel this way, and it does not even matter whether the quote is brand new or several centuries old. Apparently, even our ancestors had felt the same way about travel as we do today.

To be honest, the idea of creating this list of most inspirational quotes is a bit selfish too.

We simply wanted to put together our favorite and most meaningful sentences, so we will always know where to find them. But we also hope you will find this post inspiring as well, altogether with our photos.

Are you choosing the next travel destination, or are you wondering how traveling can change your life for the better?

Do you need to lift your spirit, boost your confidence, find more positive thoughts?

Here is the list of the most inspiring travel quotes.

Do you have your own favorite travel quote that is not on the list? Let us know in the comment section!

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

This quote holds so much truth. No matter how long the journey is about to begin, it necessary to overcome your fear and start with the first step.

Or should we today say with the first click?

Nowadays, almost everything moved from the real world online, especially planning the trip. Maybe this line will inspire you to travel the world.

"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien

Yes, yes, we know that Tolkien's quote is today almost a cliche. You won't find a single blog post focusing on travel quotes without this sentence, but it is impossible not to mention it here, as it is so beautiful.

Plus, we have a soft place for Lord of the Rings, which was also one of the reasons which brought us to New Zealand.

We would say that some who wander might be lost, but we believe the majority of travelers wander with purpose.

“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

You maybe remember the day before your first international trip.

You were excited but also anxious.

But once you had come back from your trip, you started immediately planning your next travels.

The travel bug is real. And it is infectious.

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." – Susan Sontag

Again, one of the most legendary travel quotes ever. Is your bucket list getting longer rather than shorter?

We do not know why, but every time we come back home from a vacation, we have one or two new countries where we would like to travel already in our minds.

"Take only memories, leave only footprints." – Chief Seattle

There are so many versions of this travel quote, and the message is straightforward. Take only memories, or photos if you like (when allowed, of course), but that should be it.

We often saw these words when hiking in New Zealand's backcountry , where for many days, we needed to collect our trash and throw it away once back in civilization.

But in general, we hope that most of you even do not have to think about it and keep the destination in the same state it was before your visit.

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

We cannot even count how many mishaps we experienced on the way, but the truth is that these memories are usually the strongest ones, and we will remember them forever.

Also, even when the situation was not funny back then, for example, I almost cried before sliding down the volcano in Nicaragua .

Now, it’s a funny story Martin never fails to mention. And we both very genuinely laugh every time.

"To travel is to live." – Hans Christian Andersen

No comment is necessary here. Maybe one thought. Isn't it intriguing that so many writers considered traveling so important?

Perhaps it had something to do with their inspiration, open mind, and way of living.

"Travel makes one modest; you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." - Gustave Flaubert

We love this travel quote very much.

When you are at home, you think that the world belongs to you.

Other places are only dots on the map. But once you travel abroad, you will soon realize how small you are and how much you have to learn.

These words really resonate with us, as it could not be more accurate.

"Great things never came from comfort zones." - Anonymous

We are not saying you should do things you are not comfortable with.

But even setting off for a trip will take you out of your comfort zone, out of a place where everything is simple.

Traveling will give you a chance to come out of your shell and enjoy every single moment.

"Once a year, go someplace, you've never been before." – Dalai Lama

Traveling broadens horizons, but it is also an essential part of our hurried world. It provides you with a chance to relax and forget everyday stress.

Do you have trouble finding yet again a new country to travel to?

Read our post on how to choose your next travel destination .

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did do." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It might seem that there is no right time to travel. Money, family, job - all of that can keep you from traveling, but it can be only yourself and your fears as well.

Stop postponing your dreams; it is really better to have memories based on real experiences than just the dreams.

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way how to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." - Mark Twain

It is challenging to be on the road. You must deal with unknown situations, and your real personality will eventually show.

That's completely fine, but if you travel with your partner, friend, or family member, unpleasant situations after a hard day can occur. And there is nowhere to hide.

Be prepared that traveling is a test of your relationships, but if you still cannot imagine seeing the world without your significant other, that's very positive news.

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal." – Paulo Coelho

Routine in your life is one of the most dangerous things. It is sneaking quietly to everyone's life, and only adventure and a positive mind can spare you.

"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

Once again, this is a famous travel quote highlighting the danger of postponing things you would like to do. We usually do it in favor of making more money, but who knows what will happen in the future?

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love." - Ernest Hemingway

Yes, why would you?

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

Why do we find traveling so appealing? It is explained in this travel quote.

Today, we live in a materialistic world, but we prefer spending money on seeing new places, exploring different cultures, trying new cuisine, and meeting new people.

That's why we arrive back home from every journey richer than before we left.

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

We realize we are privileged thanks to the fact we can travel, and we are so grateful we could already read more than one page.

Are we getting nearer to the end of the chapter? Well, who knows.

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

Intriguing attractions are one thing, but visiting a foreign country is never complete without learning about it, trying new things, and accepting the differences.

It makes no sense to travel in a country and stay away from locals, without trying to understand their values and culture.

It is one of the things we wish we knew before we started traveling .

If you do not mingle with locals, unobtrusively, of course, you could really stay at home and watch a documentary about the country on TV.

"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul." - Jamie Lynn Beatty

Yes, you need to save money for traveling, and having a job is absolutely necessary.

Does a full pocket give you the same feeling as seeing Machu Picchu with your own eyes?

Well, the answer is highly subjective, but we incline to no. Having money never gave us the same feeling than experiencing new adventures.

"Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever." - Anonymous

When fear overcomes you, always think of this quote.

Setting off for a journey to an unknown country can be intimidating, but once this first stage passes, you will be okay.

“The further I go, the closer to me I get." – Andrew McCarthy

Traveling is not only about the journey itself, but it will also help you to know yourself, find out what are your strengths and weaknesses.

This is one of the reasons why will traveling change your life for the better .

"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

Antony Bourdain was a famous American chef and a travel documentarian with a unique view of the world.

We think that these words hold true as it also shows the other part of traveling that is often hidden, and we do not show it to the world, but it is super-important.

And after having a life-changing experience, you will become a new, stronger person.

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

Even though it is very comforting to know that your parents, siblings, or friends will always be here to help you, we are confident that there is nothing wrong with breaking the bond for a while and travel far away to become more independent.

Thanks to this act, you will discover new places and new you, and it would not be possible with someone watching you closely.

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

Inspiring travel quotes are really here to inspire people. To allow people not to worry for a while, and not to think about difficulties that come with traveling.

Of course, before your journey, you need to create at least a rough travel itinerary, but you might imagine how it would have been not to have any intent on arriving, ever.

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." - Douglas Ivester

Having beautiful memories is excellent, but the fuel are our dreams and passions we want to achieve.

"Work, Travel, Save, Repeat." - Anonymous

Yeah, our life, and we think the life of many people looks similarly like this.

It would be quite sad if the travel part would be missing in the chain.

It is quite popular to combine work and travel nowadays, as many jobs are location independent, such as travel blogging.

"Adventure is worthwhile." – Aesop

Well, it is not necessary to explain the statement. Adventure is worthwhile, no matter how it looks like.

The word adventure means for every person something else, but the message is clear.

Let us know what ‘adventure’ means to you in the comment section!

"Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell." - Paula Bendfeldt

We believe that no school can teach you what travel does.

It will show you the raw beauty of the world, broaden the horizons, and give so many new experiences that you will share later.

The fact that we travel together for more than a decade brought us to the idea of sharing our travel guides and photos publicly.

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

We are not saying that one international journey will shake your world, and you will return as a new person. But it will definitely give you a perspective.

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect." - Paul Theroux

This saying holds so much truth. We cannot even count how many times we felt tired or uncomfortable on the road.

But once the situation has passed, and we looked at it in retrospect, we found out it was not that bad.

I will never forget when we climbed to Tilicho Lake in Nepal. It was so cold; it started to snow on the way up, so we had to turn and walk back to the hut.

The trail became really icy and slippery, and I was really anxious that we won't make it safely back. But then, the clouds broke and the sun started to shine, and we could continue up.

It was exhausting, but it was one of the most beautiful days in the mountains when looking at it retrospectively.

"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." – Tim Cahill

We met so many interesting people abroad. If you like to socialize, we recommend you booking a room or a bed in a hostel.

You will meet there many same-minded travelers with similar interests.

Regardless of the destination, we were really lucky to meet amazing people along the way, like when we hiked the Salkantay Trek or cruised the Galapagos Islands .

"He who would travel happily must travel light." – Antoine de St. Exupery

Packing is one of the most unpopular topics when it comes to traveling.

In this materialistic world, it is easy to overpack, but after many years, and many days when our back was dying because of heavy backpacks, we know that to be happy, a person must pack lightly.

After many more or less successful tries, we came up with the list of things we never leave home without . Then we add only a few pieces of clothes, and we are ready to go.

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher who lived 551 BC – 479 BC.

Apparently, even that many centuries ago, it was obvious what really matters.

It is the same when you decide to do something; you should do it right, not only half-heartedly.

"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost." - Erol Ozan

This quote can have many meanings, but we relate to the one that no journey is straightforward.

There will most likely be many wiles on the road before you find the right path, you might get strayed, but once you get lost, the places you discover will be twice as rewarding.

"The important thing is never to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, and we are pretty sure that the context of his words is a bit different, but the beauty in this quote is that it can be freely used in our everyday world, and it is still the truth.

Even for traveling.

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber

It would be a bit boring if we knew about all the places.

Thankfully, there are still so many secret destinations people do not know about. It is the motivation to explore these places is what keeps us going tirelessly.

"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

Are you looking for a fresh start? Do you want to leave your life behind and start over?

Although it is not possible entirely, traveling will for sure give you the option to meet people on the road, that won't judge you based on your past.

"With age, comes wisdom. With travel comes understanding." – Sandra Lake

The more you travel, the better you understand the world, even though different cultures and places will never stop astound us.

"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

One of the quotes that go to the very core is the one of Cesare Pavese. We think anyone can hardly explain the beauty of traveling with such raw honesty.

When you think about it retrospectively, how many times had you trusted people, you did not know, and how many times did you feel you were losing it?

"Paris is always a good idea." - Audrey Hepburn

I was to Paris with my friend many years ago, and we will hopefully book flights together with Martin soon.

Because Paris is always a good idea. Croissants, coffee, architecture, culture, museums, we cannot wait.

"Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times." – Asian Proverb

Nothing will ever replace the actual personal experience.

We live in an online world, but no picture on Instagram or travel documentary will be ever better than seeing a place with our own eyes.

"Nothing develops intelligence like travel." – Emile Zola

When on the road, you must deal with many situations.

You have to navigate yourself around the city you do not know, speak with other than your native language, learn how to communicate with people with different social and cultural backgrounds, and generally take care of yourself.

Traveling is like a university where the only degree you get is self-respect and happiness.

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

Many travel quotes focus on gaining a new perspective. We are not saying better perspective, but definitely a unique one.

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet." – Rachel Wolchin

Look down at your feet.

Do you see roots or feet? We hope the latter is the answer. Moving around is as natural as walking.

You do not have to travel abroad. Everyone should start by exploring their own country. At least in the beginning.

If you are looking for inspiration, read our blog post on our favorite countries we've been to so far .

"In books, I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own." - Anna Quindlen

...I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself...

"People don't take trips, trips take people." – John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck is one of our favorites authors. We had read almost all his books; maybe this is the reason why we decided to choose this line among the most inspirational travel quotes. It is so accurate.

If you have a space in your backpack, pack at least one of his books.

Instead of the obvious choices such us Of Mice and Men or Grapes of Wrath , pick the perfect travel book this time, Travels with Charley .

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

Well, this one is a bit funny. Almost every longer journey starts and ends at the airport. We take it as a necessity, and we do not particularly like spending time at the airport.

On the other hand, some people love airports, and they would probably be able to express this in a sentence.

What type of person are you? Do you like airports?

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." - Jack Kerouac

One of the few writers who can describe wanderlust so accurately is Jack Kerouac, the author of one of the best travel books ever made, On the Road .

Due to his fascinating life experiences, he is the king of favorite travel quotes.

"You don't have to be rich to travel well." – Eugene Fodor

We can relate to this saying even though we cannot pretend you do not need any money to travel.

We are used to traveling on a shoestring, and we know 100% that more money would not make our travel experience any better.

Perhaps a bit more comfortable, but that would be it.

Really, you do not have to be super-rich to travel the world. Or to be precise, to travel the world well.

"When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you're visiting." – Clint Borgen

One of the things we learned abroad is that we do not want to live anywhere else than in the Czech Republic .

We can imagine it for a short period of time - we lived for a year in New Zealand and then in Canada , but not forever.

When you talk with people from different countries, you will soon realize that life in your country is, in the end, not that bad.

And for us, it’s home.

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

This travel quote is so true, especially if you are a backpacker who carries everything necessary on your own back, and you collect memories that weight nothing along the road.

"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be a different place but to be a different person." - Seneca

It is good to remember that you will never escape your troubles unless you change yourself.

We met several people abroad who clearly wanted to change their past and start over, but if they would carry on in their old lifestyle, their history would for sure caught up on them soon.

Lazing on beaches in Brazil will help you forget for a few hours, but traveling is not a solution for everything.

"I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed." Marco Polo

This quote is centuries old. It comes from the times when common people did not travel, and Marco Polo was often seen as a lunatic.

Although today you would, for sure, be believed for what you saw, never brag about it.

"Greatness from small beginnings." - Sir Frances Drake

Yet another famous quote reminds us that you won't reach the sky and your limits without the first important step.

No matter how the steps seem small.

Did you just put your first dollar to the jar and you want to save money for travel? Did you just book a one-way ticket?

Things are going to happen.

"Have stories to tell, not stuff to show." - Anonymous

We know it is all about preferences, but we are glad to be in a community that gather experiences and then share stories with readers instead of buying stuff we do not need.

Be more realistic, and always, before you decide to buy something, ask yourself whether you really need it.

That's also a great way to save money for traveling .

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Augustus Moore

There's no place like home. Traveling broadens the horizons and helps you find what you are looking for.

Without it, you would hardly realize that the thing you were searching for quite often awaits you at home.

"Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone." - Bear Grylls

We try to follow this advice. We are not crazy and do not dive in headfirst.

There always needs to be a bit of stability - that is our travel style .

Still, to spice up our travels, we like to do adventurous stuff to get out of our comfort zone, but these twenty percents are quite enough.

Travel Insurance

We never leave home without travel insurance that was designed to cover our expenses if something goes wrong during the trip.

Travel insurance protects against theft, flight delays, injury, illness, cancellations, and much more.

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Travel smarter and safer!

"The best dreams happen when you're awake." - Cherie Gilderbloom

Don't stop living while chasing your dreams.

"At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling." - Shanti

And we would add, that this is what traveling is about.

The roads are often dusty, the wind is blowing, there is no place to take a shower, but it all does not matter in the evening when you watch the sunset after a beautiful day out.

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you." - Neil Gaiman

This quote says the old and unmerciful truth that you cannot escape from yourself, no matter where you travel.

Hopefully, one day we will write a post on our favorite books, and for sure, there will be at least one from Neil Gaiman, one of the best authors.

"At the very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure." Christopher McCandless

Almost every traveler either read or saw film Into the wild.

Both are based on a real character Christopher McCandless; once you see it or read it, you will have a very strange feeling. It is guaranteed.

"No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider." - Banana Yoshimoto

When you arrive in a foreign country, you cannot expect that everyone will be blown away by your presence.

You need to learn how to be alone, and even when locals accept you, the impression that you are one of them would be wrong.

As always, you would have to deserve their trust, but remember you are an outsider, especially if you are a drifter.

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

Can you even tell how many times traveling left you speechless? Was it when you climbed a mountain? Or when you were snorkeling and saw how rich is marine life under the ocean surface for the very first time?

Often the strongest experiences need time to settle; only then you can turn them into the words. It's just a process that requires time.

“Spooky how the times flies when one is having fun." - Gilderoy Lockhart

Every person or couple has a line that makes them smile. Well, this is ours.

We are fans of Harry Potter, and always when on the overnight bus, or when we are waiting for something, we just cannot fail to mention this sentence.

"Everything will be alright in the end, so if it is not alright, it is not the end." - Deborah Moggach

We like this quote, as it is so positive. You must feel it, even when you are depressed.

Although sometimes you might feel down, it is good to keep in mind that all bad will pass once day, and better days are ahead of you.

"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

This quote is for all the travel addicts out there. Can you relate to the words of Carew Papritz? Once you fall for traveling, there is no way back. All your thoughts, all your being, will be focused in only one direction.

"I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it." - Charles Bukowski

A famous quote from Charles Bukowski, an unorthodox writer. Do you look up when you hear an airplane above your head, and think about where the plane is going?

How would it be to sit on board and headed to a new destination?

Let's say Florianopolis ?

"You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system." - Erol Ozan

We like this quote for many reasons. One of them is that we often use public transport in foreign countries, so we personally tried and tested how exact these words are.

Public transportation is often a maze, a city within the city that a traveler has to master, to get around.

But once everything clicks together, the city will reveal its secrets.

"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

We feel that these words do not need a commentary. It is quite emotional to read it because we come and go every now and then, and this is precisely what exploring the world gives us.

The possibility to go home and to see it with different eyes.

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." – Bill Bryson

One of the most common reasons why people travel is to escape the routine.

It is yet another quote that reminds us why traveling is such rewarding, and why millions of people around the world crave visiting exotic countries.

"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda

It is probably not hard to guess who from our couple sneaked this quote into this list.

Usually, we share interests, but Star Wars is definitely not one of them.

On the other hand, I must agree that when you eliminate the word " try " from most of your actions, you have to either do it or not. There is nothing in between.

Thank you, master.

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

Every single travel experience, bad or good, will enrich your mind, your personality.

In other words, you will never be the same.

During life, we all collect knowledge, and our view of many things changes based on our experience. Traveling allows you not to stay on the spot and evolve.

"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." - Benjamin Disraeli

To prevent this problem, we decided to start this travel blog more than three years ago. We felt that our older travel memories slowly fade, and we wanted to remember and capture more.

It is funny how thoughts change in time.

Sometimes they disappear, sometimes they are more vivid, better than happened.

“I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world." - J. A. Redmerski

It is highly individual, but we think the answer here would be yes.

"Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things." - Winna Efendi

Did it happen to you that after all day sightseeing, you felt the best just sitting on the sand and watching the sunset?

After several years on the road, we indeed found out that the best things are the simple ones.

"No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere." - Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is a famous Japanese author and a wise man. He also deals with the topic of how a person cannot get away from himself.

You can stay at home or travel to the furthest corner of planet Earth, but you will never change this fact.

"Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets." - Oscar Wilde

We know that 100 quotes are quite a lot, but we just could not stop adding more and more as we were browsing the internet.

When you get so far, do you also feel that the best quotes are usually the simplest?

"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

Can you be homesick for a place you've never been to? We believe you can definitely feel something like nostalgia or longing, which is very similar to being homesick.

Has it ever happened to you that you wanted to travel to a place so badly?

"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." - Anita Desai

No matter what happens in the future, nothing but age will ever take you your memories.

Every single travel experience will move you forward, and it will form you as a person.

"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." ― Jack Kerouac

It would be too arrogant to say that sitting in an office or taking care of your household is nothing you can write home about.

But here we agree with Jack Kerouac, author of a great book On the Road.

Your memories exploring nature will, for sure, be different, to put it mildly.

"Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Great things are done when men and mountains meet." - William Blake

We will always slightly prefer mountains over the sea, that's why we are so prone to liking travel quotes that include the word mountains.

It expresses freedom, awe, respect, and humbleness.

The primary motivation to climb the mountain is to see the world from the top, not to be seen.

"You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers." - Amit Kalantri

Every time we read this quote, we would like to hang it on the walls in shopping centers. Do not know why.

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

We have a lovely Czech saying that can be translated like this. You are human as many times as the number of languages you speak, which expresses very similarly what once Goethe said.

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." - Aldous Huxley

Even though this quote might sound a bit negative, we think it expresses that every person must make their own opinion on every country he or she visits.

“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..." - Bill Bryson

Studying maps can be intoxicating. We work from home. It has pros and cons , but to make it more bearable, we have a large map of the world hanging above our work desk.

It is a scratch map, so when we wait for an impulse or idea we want to write about, we often look at the map and start thinking about where to go next.

Well, maybe we should hang it somewhere else as it can be a bit distracting.

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

We are pretty sure that sherpas in the mountains, for example in Nepal, must find incredibly funny to see a number of out of shape Europeans or Americans, overdressed in their brand new clothes, how they attempt to conquer mountains.

For us, for every person living in the cities, going to the mountain and experiencing the wilderness is a must-do thing, at least once in a lifetime.

It is necessary for our mental health, as getting to the roots is so important.

"Don't be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old." - Anonymous

If you wonder what the best time to start traveling is, it probably already was five minutes ago.

Never is a perfect time, but keeping all the adventures to the later stage of your life might not be such a good idea.

"Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place and very little different from becoming a parcel." - John Ruskin

This phrase is probably not the most inspirational one, but we think it belongs here.

Think about what we became, and remember if you want to be part of it or your travel style will be a bit different.

Traveling is about getting from one place to another, but it is also the whole process of planning and learning, and that's why we chose to travel independently - so we do not become a parcel.

"Don't call it a dream…call it a plan." - Anonymous

This message could not be more explicit. It is nice to be dreaming, but why not shift the dream to something more serious?

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

The fact that you are leaving the destination should not make you sad; memories will stay with you forever.

Even though you literally shake the sand, wash your clothes, and lose your tan after every holiday, you will always remember those beautiful days, and every memory will warm up your soul.

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people." - Thor Heyerdahl

We heard of Thor Heyerdahl for the first time when we were backpacking in Azerbaijan .

While visiting petroglyphs in Gobustan, we learned about his highly controversial theory that native Norway people have origins in this region.

The quote we decided to choose shows his open mind and spirit we admire.

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip." – Babs Hoffman

Some roads are full of potholes, and there is nothing you can do about it. Focus on the bright side, though, and enjoy your journey.

"No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more." - Rebecca Solnit

We like to explore new countries and new destinations. But we really feel there are countries we've already visited, and we still want to know them even better. One visit was simply not enough.

What are the countries we have on the list for the second visit?

Definitely Nepal , Colombia , or the USA .

"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things." - Tahir Shah

The grass is always greener on the other side.

We had already lived abroad in two different countries, and from our personal experience, living and traveling for a limited amount of time are two very different categories.

The first time we visited Canada, we did a road trip around the Canadian Rockies , the landscape was breathtaking, people were friendly, and it all seemed like a dream.

Later on, when we moved to Calgary , we had to deal with everyday stuff, and it was so different from the previous experience.

Not in the wrong way, but it was a very different experience.

"I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations." – Nyssa P. Chopra

Traveling is not a competition. We all know that it is hard to avoid seeing beautiful photos on social media and not feeling that everyone but you travels and cross countries off an imaginary list.

Today is becoming famous slow traveling, and for igniting your passion, you do not have to visit many countries.

It might seem obvious, but there is nothing wrong with reminding it to yourself from time to time.

Could it be that sometimes less is more?

"There ain't no journey what don't change you some." - David Mitchell

Every journey leaves a mark on your heart and changes you a little bit.

So next time you arrive from a trip, sit down and try to think of at least one thing that has changed your view, opinion, or habit.

"When preparing to travel, lay out all of your clothes and all of your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money". - Susan Heller

As we usually travel as light as possible, we always wonder what others bring with them on vacation.

Seeing all the people lugging those huge suitcases around the airport, we like to play a silly game and try to guess what they have in luggage.

Probably bricks. But all jokes aside.

Overpacking is one of those bad travel mistakes and habits that we all are guilty of when traveling abroad.

Unfortunately, we can't take twice the money, but at least we try to leave those extra t-shirts at home.

"Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing." - Albert Camus

Boredom is one of the main reasons why people travel. To be completely honest, you can't escape boredom even while on the road.

There are just those days, cities, or attractions that will almost bore you to death.

And by the way, it's okay to be bored. Even when on a trip or vacation.

Said that being bored always leads to something new.

"The best traveler is one without a camera." - Kamand Kojouri

Nowadays, everyone has a camera in their pocket when traveling. Sometimes we don't even see the beauty around us as we are really concentrating on capturing everything around us through the viewfinder.

For us, this is our dream to travel without a camera.

As we took all the photos, you can see on our blog and never use photo banks, we need to carry a camera with us all the time to create the content. We might say that this is our curse.

So, maybe one day, Kamand, maybe one day.

"There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow." - Aaron Lauritsen

This quote always reminds me of one of my university professors and brings me back down to earth. She never failed to mention during the classes that nothing is THAT important.

So whenever you feel like things are not going the way you want them to go, take a deep breath.

Yes, it's unfortunate that the immigration process took longer than we expected in Toronto, and we missed our connecting flight to Calgary .

We were really desperate at the moment, but now it's just one of those funny travel stories we like to share with our friends.

Well, and if the Sun doesn't rise tomorrow, we still have those extra eight minutes.

Travel Resources

Here you can find links to all the travel resources we use and which you might find helpful when planning your next holiday.

Accommodation : When looking for accommodation, we usually search hotels via Booking.com or Hostelworld .

Tours : Although we love to travel independently, some places are better to visit with a guided tour.

We prefer GetYourGuide for its easy-to-use interface and solid reputation. Another great alternative is Viator .

Rental Cars : When going on a road trip, we always use Rentalcars.com , a reliable site for booking a rental car in advance.

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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.

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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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10 Work Trip Instagram Captions

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You are traveling for work, and you are ready to show off the benefits from your job. Perhaps you are attending a unique conference, or you are visiting a large city for the first time and your team has the night off. You are ready to create a post on Instagram from your business trip, but what should your caption be?

If you are looking for an Instagram caption for the post about your work trip, check out these suggestions from travel bloggers and from famous individuals.

Work Trip Instagram Captions from Travel Bloggers

For your Instagram post, check out the following caption recommendations from travel bloggers.

Lee Scrivener from The Travel Scribes // “Don’t pick a job with great vacation time. Pick one that doesn’t need escaping from.” – Sukh Sandhu

Jennifer Ambrose from Passions and Places // “Work travel: when you fly halfway around the world to sit in a conference room that’s just like the one at home.”

Iris Veldwijk from Mind of a Hitchhiker // “Travel time on the boss’s dime!”

Kevin Pandore Mercier from Kevmrc // “Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. And when you travel for your job, you get the best of both worlds.”

Bella Falk from Passport and Pixels // ” Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

Travel Instagram Captions for Business Trips

If you are looking for additional travel Instagram captions, consider one of the famous quotes below.

Harold Genee // “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”

Steve Jobs // “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

Katharine Whitehorn // “Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.”

Dr. Seuss // “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”

Paul R. Linde,   Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist // “I love my job when I’m not there.”

Instagram Hashtags for Work Trips

If you are looking for Instagram hashtags to go along with your work trip, consider one of the options below:

#businesstrip #businesstravel #businesstraveller #businesstravellife #businesstravels #worktrip #worktravel #worktravellife #worktravelrepeat #worktravelperks #worktreat #workandtravel #worktripperks #travelforwork #travelday

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The best quotes about travel will inspire you to pack your bags, book that ticket, and start your journey in a new place. We’re always thinking about our next trip, and sometimes a saying or quote can remind us why we travel in the first place.

Traveling is a great opportunity to step out of your comfort zone, reflect on the bigger picture, and learn about the world and yourself. If you need some motivation, I’ve got a collection of inspirational travel quotes , quotes about traveling with friends , funny travel quotes , and more. With that and our step-by-step guide on planning a trip anywhere , you will have no excuses.

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Most inspiring travel quotes, best quotes about traveling with friends, travel quotes for couples, best quotes about traveling with family, quotes for traveling alone & solo travel quotes.

Spend some time reading through these adventure travel quotes and see which ones resonate with you most. Keep your favorites handy, so you can revisit them when you want some insight or something to inspire your wanderlust !

These short travel quotes are simple but can inspire lofty ideas for your next journey!

1. A change of latitude would help my attitude. – Unknown

As this short travel quote suggests, going to a new place can give you a total attitude adjustment!

2. Adventure is out there. – Charles Muntz

This travel quote from the animated film Up has inspired kids and adults alike. Adventure is out there; go find it!

3. Live your life by a compass, not a clock. – Erica Jong

I appreciate travel life quotes like this one. It’s not about how long you live, it’s whether you live it to the fullest. And for me, that means seeing the world!

4. Oh, the places you’ll go! – Dr. Seuss

This simple travel quote is a good one for life in general. Whether you’re moving to a new city or taking a trip around the world, oh, the places you’ll go!

5. Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle

This poignant travel quote is a reminder to treat our planet with respect, especially while traveling. Things like eco-tourism, carbon offsets, and environmental footprints need more attention!

6. The journey, not the arrival, matters. – T.S. Eliot

This is a quote about trips that can encourage you to slow down and enjoy the journey. Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in where we’re going, that we forget to appreciate all that’s around us.

7. There is a world elsewhere. – Shakespeare

This poetic travel quote is short and sweet. It’s easy to become distracted by daily life, but there is so much more out there.

8. To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen

This travel quote says it all: traveling truly is one of the best ways to experience life.

The best travel quotes will inspire you to take the leap and go on a new adventure! Check out these inspirational travel quotes for more insight and direction.

9. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

This inspiring travel quote applies to life, too. Step by step, we can reach new destinations, as well as our goals.

10. A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Gael Attal

Remember that you are the ship, and you’re meant to experience this beautiful, magical world while you’re here!

11. Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. – Asian proverb

No matter how many photos you see or stories you hear, nothing beats seeing a place in person!

12. Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled. – Mohammed

This travel saying reminds us that experiencing unfamiliar places and cultures is one of the best ways to learn.

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

This inspirational travel quote is about taking charge of your life and, as a traveler, getting off the beaten path to discover new places.

14. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten

A lot of people think about investing in their career or home, but the life experience you get through traveling is one of the greatest investments. The insight, perspective, and resilience you gain can help you in all facets of life.

15. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

This tried and true travel quote is another one that can inspire you to push past fears and embrace adventure! And remember, everyone’s comfort zone is different!

16. Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. – Paulo Coelho

While taking a trip requires money, this inspirational travel quote reminds us that you also need the courage to leave behind familiarity for adventure.

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

Frost was a poet who understood the importance of charting your own path rather than following the crowd. That principle applies to traveling too, as you can find all kinds of unique places when you venture away from the tourist traps.

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

This is one of the best travel quotes because it sums up why so many people pack their bags. When we’re traveling, we’re fully living !

Quotes about traveling the world

These quotes about traveling to new places will ignite your desire to pack up and go somewhere new!

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

Here is a famous travel quote that can spark wanderlust in anyone, especially travel junkies like us!

20. It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it. – J.D. Andrews

Even if you can only go to the next town over, it’s always worth it to visit a new place and see something different.

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

This is another travel quote that points out how you need to face some fears to travel to new destinations. Of course, it’s totally worth it!

22. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine

Here is a wonderful metaphor that can motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and go someplace new. Travel always reminds us that the world doesn’t revolve around us, and there are so many different ways of life.

23. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens

This simple travel quote truly needs no explanation. When you feel down or uninspired, the world is there in all its natural beauty.

24. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

This quote about traveling the world can shift our perspective to see the big picture.

25. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac

Some people live to travel, and they get bored when they’re in one place for too long. If that’s you, know that you’re not alone!

26. Travel because life is short, and the world is huge. – Anonymous

If you need an inspiring travel quote , here it is!

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

This travel quote is also about the big picture. If you’ve ever stood on the edge of a cliff or sailed in the middle of the ocean, you know that sensation of feeling ridiculously small in a big world.

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

A wonderful quote about traveling the world , this sentence captures the feeling of taking a piece of your travels with you while leaving a part of you behind .

Quotes about travel & adventure

These quotes are for travel lovers who crave their next adventure. If you’re ready to indulge your wanderlust, keep reading this adventure sayings !

29. Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi

This travel quote will resonate with many digital nomads and explorers. Waking up in a new place and experiencing a different culture may be jarring at first, but that kind of adventure is much better than doing the same thing every day.

30. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

Anyone who has traveled will agree that this wanderlust quote is 100% true.

31. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman

Life is full of adventures and things to see, and if you’re curious enough, you’ll experience them all!

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

Odds are, the most interesting and fulfilled people you’ve met have spent more time seeing the world than buying things.

33. If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Rachel Wolchin

This is one of the best travel quotes for a burst of inspiration.

34. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Unknown

While it’s pragmatic to have both, it’s true that you gain something when you travel that you don’t get anywhere else.

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

Helen Keller’s motivational travel quote applies to life in general, so whatever the word adventure means to you, go for it!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! After a trip, you always come home with a story or two to tell, and those tales stay with you for life.

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

This is a simple travel quote to motivate you. Have you ever met anyone who said they regretted traveling?

Some of the best trips are the ones you take with good friends. I’m sure these travel quotes will inspire you to hit the road with your best friends. These are my favorite quotes about traveling with friends .

38. A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you. – Unknown

Whoever said this trip quote knows what it’s like to have that best friend who will explore the world and navigate life with you.

39. Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown

Here is another fun quote about traveling with friends . Do you have that bestie that’s always ready for the next adventure?

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

I’m sure everyone can relate to this funny travel quote . When you take a trip with someone, you learn a lot about them, yourself, and your relationship!

41. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. – Unknown

As this travel quote suggests, one of the best parts of taking a trip isn’t the destination, but who you’re with.

42. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures. – Anonymous

I don’t think anyone can argue against the idea that adventure and friendship are two of the best things in life!

43. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas. – Thelma and Louise

This cute saying is the perfect travel quote to inspire your next road trip!

44. The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

This life travel quote is an excellent reminder of how people can connect across cultures, countries, and languages. One of the best things about traveling is that it introduces you to diverse ways of seeing the world and living life, and of course, new friends.

45. Travel is better with friends. – Unknown

This travel quote needs no explanation. While a solo trip can be fun now and then, traveling with friends is one of the best experiences in life.

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

Those who love to explore will understand the depth of this quote. Traveling is the best way to find yourself, others, and new insights about the world.

Traveling with friends is great, but if you have a significant other, it’s a unique experience. Let these couples’ travel quotes encourage you to take a journey with your partner!

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

This couples’ travel quote is an important one. As with life and relationships, there are many things out of our control, and the same goes for traveling. However, that doesn’t mean the trip isn’t worthwhile!

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

This excerpt from Alice in Wonderland makes for a wonderful travel quote . Money gets spent, clothes get tattered, and cars break down, but adventures give you memories that last forever.

49. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world. – Unknown

I love this quote about traveling together because you can share perspectives and gain even more from your trip.

50. In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schulz

Here is a beautiful quote about traveling with a partner or friend that I 100% agree with!

51. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. – Hemingway

Although it’s a funny travel quote , it’s quite true!

52. No road is long with good company. – Turkish proverb

I love this proverb about travel because no matter where you’re going, as long as you have a loved one beside you, it’ll be okay.

53. Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more. – Unknown

This is another great travel quote for couples or friends. A solo adventure can be fun, but it’s different from sharing travel experiences with someone you love.

54. Together is our favorite place to be. – Unknown

This quote about travel and love is so heartwarming. Having your partner by your side can make any trip more magical, although simply being in each other’s presence is often enough.

55. Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

This longer travel quote is an interesting analogy that frequent travelers might relate to. Visiting new lands and meeting new people is like flirting; as soon as you start to connect, you move onto a different location.

56. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault

Whether or not you believe in soulmates, it’s true that the best partner is the one we can go on adventures with.

Taking a trip as a family can be a bonding experience, as well as frustrating and memorable! These quotes about family vacations are funny and heartwarming, so they perfectly capture all facets of traveling with your kids.

57. A family that travels together stays together. – Unknown

Some travel quotes and sayings are cute and sweet, like this one. Family trips can be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together and strengthen bonds.

58. I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. – Caskie Stinnett

While it’s a funny travel quote , this saying can also correspond to family life. Sometimes families get tied into a routine and lose touch with each other. Taking a trip together disrupts the monotony and brings everyone closer.

59. Love is the food of life, travel is dessert. – Anonymous

If you ask any adventurous spirit, they’ll agree that love and travel is all you need!

60. Not all classrooms have 4 walls. – Unknown

I think this is one of the top travel quotes , and it’s especially pertinent to families. Sometimes, parents get nervous about letting their kids travel, but seeing a new place and a unique way of life is one of the most fulfilling ways to educate oneself.

61. Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. – Unknown

A contemplative quote about travel and life , this simple sentence encourages us to go on adventures while we can. After all, when we’re old, it’ll be easier to work than to hop on a plane!

62. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt

This is such a cute couples’ travel quote to remind us that home is the people we love, not a specific place.

63. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter

This is one of the sweetest travel quotes for families . While kids need stability, they also have vivid imaginations. Traveling with their parents can awaken their childlike wonder and instill in them a sense of adventure.

If you’ve ever taken a solo trip, you know that it’s one of the most life-changing experiences. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of traveling alone yet, hopefully, these quotes about solo trips can inspire you!

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

This is a beautiful travel quote about how you change as a person when you wake up in an unfamiliar environment. Going through daily life in a different place truly alters the way you view the bigger picture.

65. I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne du Maurier

If you’re thinking of going on a solo adventure and need a nudge, consider this quote about traveling alone . Sometimes, going on a trip with people we know can distract us from the full experience of discovering a new place.

66. Not until we are lost do, we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

Here is another simple travel quote that has a deeper meaning. Sometimes, we have to get lost and break away from what’s familiar in order to truly meet ourselves.

67. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

Something that digital nomads crave is the feeling of being lost or a stranger in a new land. For these people, there is no other feeling like it!

68. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was one of the most beloved world travelers, so his adventure travel quote resonates deeply. The best thing about traveling is that you sprinkle a bit of yourself everywhere you go, and you bring a bit of that place back with you.

69. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

Read between the lines of this travel quote , and it makes so much sense. The more you stray from what you know, the more you learn about yourself, and the world!

70. When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

I agree that taking a trip with friends or a partner is awesome, but when you travel alone, you have so much time to get to know yourself.

Funny travel quotes

The deep, motivational sayings are great, but sometimes a funny travel quote is all you need to inspire your next adventure!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! Where is your next adventure going to be?

72. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

This short and sweet saying is another reminder that it’s often the journey – not the destination – that matters most.

73. I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin

It could be Europe or a few miles from your house, but when you travel, you gain new insights into yourself – your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, everything.

74. I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! – Unknown

This silly travel quote is funny , but all too true!

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

Yes, stability is important, but adventure is fulfilling and just as essential.

76. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! – Unknown

Here’s another lighthearted travel quote to remind you to book that vacation!

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

This travel quote is funny yet wise. Even though we are more connected than ever, you truly don’t understand a place until you step foot there yourself.

78. You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… – Unknown

You can’t deny that this funny travel vacation quote is true !

Quotes about wanderlust

The best travel quotes plant a seed in your mind, a will in your heart, and a spark in your spirit. I’m sure these motivational quotes about traveling the world will awaken your inner wanderer!

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

This one is for the wanderers and frequent travelers. While there is a place for planning and preparation, some of the best trips are those with limited foresight.

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

One of the best quotes on traveling , this saying gets to the root of why so many people love to travel. Visiting a new destination opens us up to all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, people, and lessons.

81. People don’t take trips, trips take people. – John Steinbeck

This is another travel quote that’s funny and deep. You can plan your trip, but things never go 100% according to plan, and you often end up with experiences you didn’t expect!

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

Goodman’s quote about travel and happiness reminds us that the journey is more important than the destination.

83. Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world.

Does this definition of wanderlust resonate with you? Which part of the world do you want to see next?

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

Proust’s motivational quote about traveling rings true. The more you travel, the more you open your mind and heart.

85. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. – Unknown

Forget souvenirs; this travel quote reminds us that the best thing you gain from a trip is the richness of the experience.

86. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination. – Unknown

It doesn’t matter if that destination is near or far, as long as it’s someplace new .

Quotes about wandering

Similar to the wanderlust quotes , these sayings appeal to those with a nomadic spirit. Which one is your favorite?

87. It is better to travel than to arrive. – Buddha

The Buddha’s quote points out that the true treasure is the journey itself.

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

Tolkien’s words remain one of the most popular quotes about wandering . Some people are simply born to travel and visit different lands!

89. This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one. – Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, a destination can seem strange and intimidating, but it’s simply a new adventure waiting for you!

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

I think this travel quote about nature makes a good point. When we explore all the beautiful natural places in the world, we gain a deeper appreciation for this planet.

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

This travel quote is self-explanatory, but travel lovers will agree that the best moments of their lives were probably while they were exploring.

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

There is something to this quote about travel and life . It describes how we can wander, either by hopping from one place to another or by changing up certain aspects of our lives. However, these are usually distractions, and it’s when we travel wholeheartedly that we feel fulfilled .

Other travel quotes for Instagram

This last section of trip quotes is perfect for sharing on social media or keeping around the house.

93. Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! – Hostelgeeks

Would you rather see the world than have fancy things? Me too!

94. Measure life by countries, not years. – Unknown

If you love to travel, you’ll appreciate this one. It’s a quote for travel and life and says that it’s not about how long you live; it’s about how well you live!

95. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy. – Unknown

I bet you don’t need more convincing to take a tropical vacation, but this beachy travel quote is a good one!

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

When you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and get off the beaten path, you find yourself having experiences of which you wouldn’t even dream!

97. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. – Anonymous

This travel quote doesn’t need an explanation; there are so many gorgeous places to see in this world.

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

This short travel quote is straight to the point!

99. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. – Sandra Lake

This inspirational travel quote is definitely worth sharing. The more we travel, the more we learn about different people and ways of life. And that leads to more understanding and tolerance, which is a beautiful thing!

100. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer

Piggybacking off the previous travel quote , this sentence encapsulates the idea that adventuring requires an open mind.

I hope you loved these travel quotes and sayings! If they inspired you to go on an adventure or sparked your wanderlust, let me know. Also, what are some good travel quotes you’ve heard? Leave me a comment below to share your favorites!

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10 replies on “ 100 Quotes About Travel to Inspire Your Next Adventure ”

Traveling opens doors to new perspectives and unforgettable experiences. These quotes ignite my wanderlust and remind me of the endless adventures awaiting discovery. Let’s explore

Hi Tapu, Thanks so much! I 100% agree…travel is the best way to learn new things about the world and ourselves. Happy travelling 😉

I have liked the content because it really reveals to me that travelling is the therapy for peace of mind whenever it is practiced.

Hi Janane, Yes, I 100% agree! 🙂

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101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures

Written By: The Planet D

Inspiration

Updated On: April 7, 2024

We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.

101 Best Travel Quotes

Famous travel quotes, adventure travel quotes, funny travel quotes.

• Inspirational Travel Quotes
• Short Travel Quotes
• Meaningful Travel Quotes

Happy Travel Quotes

• Unique Travelling Quotes

Travel Quotes by Famous People

Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, we’ve been inspired to travel,  and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .

Favorite Travel Quotes

Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,

• “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles,” by Tim Cahill reminds us that experiences and connections matter more than distances traveled.
• Another stirring quote is “Life is short and the world is wide,” attributed to Simon Raven, emphasizing our limited time to explore a vast world.
• The wisdom in St. Augustine’s words, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” encourages us to broaden our horizons through travel.
• John Steinbeck’s famous saying, “People don’t take trips, trips take people,” reflects the transformative power of travel.
• “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, suggests that even in the absence of physical travel, we can journey through the pages of a good book.
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” ~ Lao Tzu

Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.

Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up these best travel quotes around your house for inspiration!

1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine

Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.

This is definitely one of the best travel quotes of all time, but it certainly reads true. One of our favorite travel quotes is “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

When you travel, the whole world opens up. Travel has helped us to understand the meaning of life and it has helped us become better people. Each time we travel, we see the world with new eyes. Just like reading a book, when you travel, you experience more than only one page of life. Make your life a novel, not a page.

2. “Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

This is one of our favorite travel quotes because it gets us. Throughout our lives, people have thought that because we keep traveling and searching for new things to do, we are not focused.

They have often thought we were flaky or unfocused. But travel helped us find our purpose and put focus into our lives. The more we got lost in our travels, the richer our lives became.

Seriously people, not all those who wander are lost. That’s a statement and a quote.

So when you think that the travelers in your life are flighty remember, “not all who wander are lost “

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

If Helen Keller can look at life as a great adventure, what excuse do the rest of us have? Take a chance and live life to the fullest. When we are at our most daring is when we feel the most fulfillment.

When we think of this travel quote, we live by it. Adventure is different for everyone, but we try to treat each day by doing something daring and adventurous, it keeps things exciting.

I wonder what she would think now knowing that she is quotes as having one of the most popular travel quotes in the world.

4. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle had many inspiring quotes, but this is probably the most famous of travel quotes, it is also a motto everyone should live by in life.

We need to give back to this world. People often feel they can take home a trophy, sneak a piece of stone from a historic site , or take something from nature.

Travel isn’t about taking, it is about absorbing the beauty of the world. So remember, sometimes only memories are all you need. They are your only private moments to enjoy. So try to take only memories.

5. “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain

Travel opens our minds and heart and makes us better people. One of our favorite travel quotes by Mark Twain.

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

When thinking about travel quotes, we often look to the most popular ones, but quote really make me think. Sure, we can set sail to different lands, but until you change your mind set, you’ll never really immerse in a voyage of discovery.

7. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

Traveling quotes often mention the fact of how travel makes you humble and how life experiences are more important than accumulating things.

8. “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.

This doesn’t necessarily need to be related to travel quotes it can work for life quotes too. It can be scary to try something new, take a chance, and step out of your comfort zone. But when looking back on life, it’s the chances you didn’t take that you’ll regret.

9. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway

As a travel couple, this is one of those travel quotes that is close to our hearts. We love traveling together and couldn’t imagine doing it alone.

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

This is one of those travel quotes that sum up a traveler perfectly. Over the years, our memories of our travels change and our stories become larger than life. Not only do we forget the bad and remember only the good, but the senses stick with us.

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

Before we started traveling in 2000, I only dreamed of writing for a living. But after our travels, I was so moved by many of our experiences I started writing stories to my friends and family.

When we first set off to begin our travel blog, a friend shared the works and travel quotes of Ibn Battuta with me it was through these early recommendations inspired me to become a storyteller.

No best travel quotes list would be complete without adventure quotes. Travel is an adventure and they go hand in hand. These are some of our favorite quotes about the adventure that we’ve collected over the years.

12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho

Travel quotes about adventure are our favorite because we are always pushing our boundaries and when we’re feeling a little afraid or lazy, we always think of this quote. Plus, I like this much better than his other quote: “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.”

13. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous

It’s true! Of all the travel quotes in this list, I really feel that it rings true to life. Even if you are not traveling, you need to step out of your comfort zone.

Be it taking on a new project, opening a business, or enrolling in a course. When you do something that scares you a little, you can do something great.

14. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou

When looking for travel quotes about adventure travel, this one really stuck out by Maya Angelou. It wasn’t until we started to live a life less ordinary that we understood how much control we had over our lives and just how amazing we could make it.

15. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman

This doesn’t only have to be one of those quotes on travel alone. Life itself has a lot of potholes. Whether you are traveling or at home working at your job, you should definitely enjoy the journey.

16. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”

Are you wanting to travel the world but are afraid to take the next step? The travel quote above says it all. Fear is only temporary , but if you don’t follow your dream, you may regret it forever.

We are not saying to follow travel quotes like this blindly. Don’t put yourself in dangerous situations, but don’t let being afraid of the unknown consume you either.

17. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

This is one of my favorite travel quotes on adventure travel. It’s scary to step out of your comfort zone, but if you do so with proper training and guidance, a whole new life will begin!

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

Well to me this quote means you have to leave your burdens, your stress, and your preconceived notions behind. To understand travel, you must be open to new possibilities and it will change your life.

19. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough

This is one of those quotes about travel that has never rung truer than in today’s society. Everyone is traveling to show off and brag or catch a selfie rather than to have an experience. But its the experience that you’ll remember, not the social share.

20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty

It’s true, we all have to do our job and have our careers. And that is important we need to make money to be able to live. But it is also important to take time to smell the roses and let go of work when you are not in the office.

We have always looked at our lives this way, jobs fill your pocket so that you can spend your down time having a great adventure. Be it travel or at home, life begins outside the office.

I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.

21. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

We all have worries every day and more than ever the state of the world is in question. But travel makes you forget your troubles and Charles Schulz couldn’t have said it better. It’s the funniest of travel quotes.

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

We have always given the advice that if you want to test to see if you are compatible in your relationship, go and travel together for a while.

Mark Twain could not be more correct. If you can travel with someone you’ll be friends for life! So put these travel quotes to the test and travel with someone right now!

23.  “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck

When traveling, things are often out of our control and we have found that it is better to relax and let go. And that is true for our marriage as well. We can’t always be in control and that is half the fun!

24. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

This is a rather funny travel quote by Anthony Bourdain, but it is also very true. Some of our best travel experiences have been when having a few drinks with the locals.

So when we are out late at night, we look to these types of travel quotes for justification. hah!

25. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman

This quote reminds me of my dad. He’s always telling silly jokes like this and I love it!

26. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa

For those of you who are afraid to fly, I am afraid that you are not going to find the humor in this travel quote, but I find it quite cheeky.

27. “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope

This one made me chuckle because we were just in Ottawa (Canada’s National Capital) and we made a point of saying “ Now we know where our taxes go, look at all the beautiful museums and buildings in this city! ”

And even though Bob Hope was talking about his home country of the USA, it certainly rings true anywhere. So, we put it in our best travel quotes list, because everyone can relate!

28. “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark

While I think it’s a funny travel quote, I tend to disagree with Dick Clark. It seems that the more I travel, the worse jet lag gets. But then I suck it up and think of him and then I say “Deal with it Deb, Jet Lag is for amateurs.” See, travel quotes can be motivating!

29. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux

I love this travel quote so much because it is very true. When we come home from our travels, we always forget the tough times and difficult experiences.

We only remember the beautiful things about our travels and the bad stuff fades away. But let me tell you, we’ve had some very unglamorous travels in our lives.

30. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.

I don’t know who said this travel quote, but it is straightforward and to the point. If you are looking for travel quotes that capture the feeling of travel, this is it!

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.

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

I am going to update this quote though and say Woman and Man Cannot discover new oceans until they lose sight of the shore.

When Dave and I first started our careers in travel, we kept one toe in our careers and one toe in travel. It wasn’t until we finally let go of our safe life in the film industry and took a chance to go all into our new adventure travel careers that everything changed.

32. “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha

33. “it is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ penelope riley.

We all make mistakes in life and travel. Travel quotes can be relatable in life as well. And it really is the mishaps and adventures you have along the road of life and travel that make for everlasting memories.

34. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein

35. “travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”.

Okay so maybe it isn’t exactly the truest of travel quotes because if you buy a house, it may grow in value and if you buy stocks, you may get lucky and hit the jackpot, but you can never go wrong with travel.

But travel brings riches in life with experiences, learning, and making new friends.

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

Quotes about traveling often have a message of being free from possessions and things, and instead of having life experiences instead. It think this travel quote says it the best.

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

When we saw the Taj Mahal for the first time, we had heard about it many times. We had read about it and people had told us all about it. But it wasn’t until we saw it that we really understand its beauty and meaning.

38. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow

We agree with this travel quote indeed. Travel changes a person and it is because of the people you meet and the experiences you have. It is true that you take a piece of a place home with you.

39. “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous

We have found that travel gives us the courage to try new things. When we are home in our routine, we become comfortable. But when we travel, we are inspired by others and inspired by the destination.

40. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”

Before we started traveling full time we felt trapped. When we started putting our minds to living a life of travel, we felt the barriers break and soon we were living our dream. This quote is very close to our hearts.

41. “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon

Travel brings people together. It helps people understand other cultures and religions. What we think we know about other places is thrown out the window, once we land on their soil.

So get out there, meet other people and you’ll soon see that people around the world are just like you and me.

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

42. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde

For life and travel, we all must follow our path without making excuses and we should never live with regrets.

43. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

Many people think traveling quotes are all about people escaping and dreaming. But to us, this quote captures exactly the essence of travel. We never traveled to escape life, we always traveled to find ourselves.

44. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck

We all take trips, but most of the time the trip ends up taking a life of its own.

45. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb

Perhaps people tell you not to go to a place because they think it is awful when it is really beautiful. Or perhaps someone constantly tells you how wonderful a destination is.

Go and see for yourself and make up your own mind. That’s what this says to me.

46. “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”

One of my favorite quotes about wanderlust. One of the things Dave and I are most thankful for is the fact that we never stopped dreaming.

If we settled (like we were supposed to in life) we’d still be working at our jobs thinking we weren’t allowed to have dreams once we reached a certain age. Never stop dreaming.

47. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”

Isn’t this just the dream? I love it when I take a trip and clearly do not have a plan. That is when the real adventures happened in our travels.

48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss

It’s a short one, but oh it’s a good one. Whenever we meet someone that is starting to travel or is thinking of traveling, we always think of this quote by Dr. Suess.

These words make us think of adventure. Oh the Places You’ll Go! Doesn’t this make you excited to get out and explore thw world?

49. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

50. “life’s a journey, not a destination” ~aerosmith.

Okay so maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson deserves the credit for Life is a journey, not a destination, but we heard it first through Aerosmith, so I’m giving it to Aerosmith. Because I couldn’t find the proof anyway.

I’ll never forget being in Vietnam in 2003 and while sitting in a bar, they encouraged travelers to write their favorite quotes on its wall.

What did Dave choose? Life’s a journey, not a destination naturally. We have always lived by this motto and of course adventure is for everyone.

51. “Where to next?”

“Where will you travel next? How will travel change you and how will you change the world?”

52. “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson

Why does this travel quote resonate so much with us? Before we traveled, we felt that we never truly lived. The more we worked, the more exhausted and disconnected we felt. When we introduced travel into our lives, we felt alive again.

53. “I want to make memories all over the world”

To us, memories mean more than things. When we are out with friends, we have so much to talk about. It’s way more meaningful to have a memory to share than to show off a “thing.”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

54. “whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ mark twain.

Mark Twain is one of the greats when it comes to creating famous quotes about travel. We have always tried to live a life less ordinary and think outside the box. I do believe this has helped us have success in our business and our relationship.

55. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho

I think in today’s society this travel quote couldn’t be truer. Many people are quick to attack others through social media and everyone has an opinion.

But what about “being the change?” Positive leadership can be powerful.

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

We often have preconceived notions of what other countries are like. But once we visit a destination, we realize that we have it all wrong.

Travel helps us to understand and learn about different cultures and ways of life. We always encourage people to visit other countries to understand the people and cultures around the world.

It’s impossible to truly understand a place until you have met the people, and immersed in the culture.

57. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

Travel often opens our eyes to different ways of thinking and understanding the world. We as travel bloggers love to preach what we have learned to the world, but we also need to live by example.

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

59. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

I’ll never forget saying to Dave “I need meaning to my travels” when we first started traveling. It was by creating this blog, creating our videos, and creating our purpose to share our experience that I finally created myself.

60. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters

This is certainly one of the best motivational quotes that have to do with travel.

I often hear people complaining that they can never catch a break. But you know what? You can’t wait for things to happen, you have to make them happen.

61. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”

Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!

62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Don’t get lost in the crowd. Be an individual. Think big and be brave. Stand out and live life to the fullest.

63. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

All my life, I worked hard and dreamed of what I might do one day when I retire. Once I learned that doing what you love is happiness. We don’t have to dream about what might be one day.

64. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

Do you ever just stop and take a breath and look around? I am amazed at the little things. Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and start living today. From home!

65. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”

Dave and I feel that our hearts were truly made to travel the world. Even when we worked in the film industry, we were always planning our next trip.

66. “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”

It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.

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

Do you get lost when you travel? Or are you a planner? Here, the anonymous traveler quotes an idea to go with the flow, just the way we like it.

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

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

71. “The journey is my home.”

Dave and I were on the road for seven solid years. We didn’t have a home. People often said to us that they couldn’t imagine not having a home base, but we felt at home on the road. We actually felt more at home on the road than at home.

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

71. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”

We got this traveling quote from our friend JD of EarthXplorer. Well said JD! There is no better piece of advice. I wish my niece and nephews listened to me when I told them this.

72. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”

Whenever I read this quotation on travel, I always think of the singer Dido. Do you know that song ? “I’ve still got sand in my shoes and I can’t shake the thought of you.” When traveling to islands and beaches , this one always pops into my mind.

73. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous

Over the years we have had many people ask us, “how did we have the courage to do what we do.” Truthfully, we never thought too much about what could go wrong.

When we knew we wanted to cycle Africa or climb a mountain, we didn’t focus on what could go wrong, instead, we focused on the excitement and challenges ahead. So we recommend using this travel quote to help you overcome the “what ifs in life.”

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

When we first started traveling, people thought we were running away from things. But in truth, we were finding ourselves and we ran right toward our purpose in life. We have never felt so fulfilled as when we do when we’re traveling.

75. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

We love traveling together and this is our favorite of all couple travel quotes. While we admire solo travelers we are so grateful to having someone to share special moments together.

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

People often say to us “Oh, you must be such great travelers!” and we say, It’s not about being good at something, it is about enjoying what you do. If you enjoyed your travels and if you have a good time, you did a good job!

77. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

As we get older, we have developed a deeper appreciation of the time we have on earth. After spending many years doing something we did NOT love, we realized that time goes by quickly and we have to make the most of our time.

Now that we have a passion for our careers and adventures, we understand even more how true this quote is.

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

Dave and I often get lost when traveling and it is usually the times that we take a wrong turn that we have our greatest adventures.

Getting lost is part of the fun of travel, so don’t over plan too much when planning your travels.

79. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”

When we started traveling we discovered so many new things about ourselves and each other.

By stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things, travel helped us become better people and this quote is definitely true for us.

80. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw

Travel expands the mind and without having to study or read books or take a course. We learn and grow without even trying when we travel.

81. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France

Wow, this is certainly one of those deep travel quotes. But it is true! Humans are connected to the universe, when we get out and really travel, we feel that connection stronger.

82. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

How many times have you gone traveling and thought that you have it all planned out? But it’s the surprises and secret destinations along the way that really stick with you for the rest of your life.

83. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill

People really do make the journey. We may only meet someone for a fleeting moment, but they often stay in our memories forever.

84. “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Each day we are grateful that we get to live in this beautiful world.

Not only is the earth’s scenery awe-inspiring, but there is a beauty in the people, culture, and wildlife that we have experienced.

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

85. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We just love to travel. It doesn’t matter where. No matter where we go, we always learn something new.

86. “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

87. “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.

We have our tasks and chores to do each day, but it is the unique challenges that come with an adventure that we will remember at the end of our lives. I want to be able to say “I climbed the mountain and I lived well.”

88. Paris is Always a Good Idea ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

90. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ mae west.

Ah, Mae West. I can just hear her saying this quote in that fabulous accent. I am sure she wasn’t talking about travel, but we can make anything related to travel quotes.

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

Robert Frost said it best, if you take the road less traveled in life, you will probably see success. And when it comes to travel, you can find something amazing if you go off the beaten path.

92. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer

93. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ dalai lama.

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

95. “the only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ henry david thoreau.

96. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner

My favorite part of traveling is the anticipation. This captures that perfectly.

97.  “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

98. “keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ walt whitman.

I have found that travel has helped me become an optimist. The more experiences I have, the more positive my life becomes.

99. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

100. “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, 101. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams” ~ oprah winfrey.

It was Oprah Winfrey that got us hooked on inspiring quotes so how could we not finish off our best travel quotes list with words of wisdom by the Grand Dame of Show Biz, inspiration, and philanthropy? And it is definitely a great way to end.

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”  – Susan Heller .

Not truer words have been said about packing. The best way to travel is to travel light. You can always buy something if you forgot it or need it, but seriously, chances are you probably won’t.

You’ll be surprised just how few clothes and accessories you’ll need to travel. So when packing for your next trip remember… When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. ~ Sir Richard Burton

It’s getting more difficult to find unknown lands as the world shrinks in the age of Instagram and TikTok. But it is still possible so, start searching for those unknown lands today.

And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

All images belong to The Planet D and are from our travels around the world to seven continents and 110 countries.

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145 thoughts on “101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures”

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂

It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/

It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure.

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “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.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“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 iv) “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

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “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” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

Lovely collection of travel quotes, but you miss something in this. So, i share the new collection of Travel Quotes and Sayings. Please check and share your reviews.

Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

thank you for giving me wonderful information

Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.

Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

Business Trip Wishes, Messages and Quotes

Business Trip Wishes : Business trips are quite common these days, and if you are a job holder, you definitely know this. Business trips can be inside the country also overseas. And for some people, it can be their first business trip; again, maybe it’s not their first time yet an important one. If any of your close persons is going on a business trip, you should wish them good luck and a safe journey. Send them these business trip messages and wish them a successful trip.

Business Trip Wishes

Have a safe and sound journey. I hope your business trip be smooth and pleasant. May you be blessed with success.

May God gives you all the success you deserve. Have a happy business trip.

Hope you have a successful business trip. Travel safely and relish your trip days. Wishing you the most amazing time.

Hope you have an amazing business trip. May your business getaway provide you with the utmost enjoyment and accomplishments. Travel safely.

I am so proud to hear that you are going on your first business trip. Best of luck! Have a nice business trip.

I heard you are going on a business trip again! Have a safe journey and best wishes for your business trip.

I pray to God for your good health and success. I hope you enjoy your business trip!

Enjoy your splendid business trip, sir. My prayers are with you for your safety. May your travels be safe and satisfying.

Do you work for a travel agency? You are always on a business trip. Jokes apart! Have a safe trip.

Make the best use of your business trip. Explore the business world and learn about different business practices. I wish you a safe and fruitful trip! Come back home safely!

Sir, I hope you have a safe and sound business trip. I wish you all the best on your travels. I hope it goes astoundingly well.

I always knew someday you would be a great business magnate. This trip marks the first milestone for you in this journey of becoming a business guru. Many good wishes to you!

It’s an amazing opportunity for both our buyers and companies to interact. Seal the deal perfectly and don’t forget to visit the most interesting cities nearby the meeting ground.

You better seal the deal this time around. Knock their socks off, buddy. Bon voyage and best wishes for business trip.

Things might not work out as you planned for now, but I know something for sure: it is not over until you say it is over. Be strong dear. Have a successful business trip!

I’m really happy for you because of this trip. Come back safely with a lot of experience and of course a lot of gifts. Your success will be measured in terms of the gifts you bring from me.

Successful Business Trip Message

Hope you’re traveling safely for your business trip. I sincerely vouch for a smooth and efficient work getaway. Best of luck.

Don’t forget to take care of yourself. I pray to God for your successful business trip.

Have a splendid trip, {PUT NAME}. I hope your trip goes successfully and you experience it to the fullest. Safe travels.

Have a good business trip. I hope you spend your time enjoying and exploring to the fullest.

I hope you have a safe and sound business trip, and may it provide you with motivation and jubilation that you can cherish.

Enjoy your business trip. My prayers are with you for your safety and security. I hope you can enjoy and experience the trip with ease.

Good luck on your business trip. I hope you have an amazing time and experience the best the trip can offer. Travel safely.

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Business Trip Wishes for Husband

Dear husband, I hope you have a fun and exciting business trip. Stay safe and come back soon.

Don’t get too hyped and mess up your presentation. Have a great business trip!

My dear husband, good luck on your business trip. I hope you travel safely and have an amazing time on your trip. My love is always with you.

May God bless you and protect you from every evil eye. I wish you a good business trip, love.

Sweetheart, I will miss you a lot. Don’t forget to bring gifts for me. I wish you a happy business trip.

I am so jealous that your business meeting is in that beautiful place. Have fun, honey, but be a good husband and focus on your work. Don’t stare at the beautiful women! Bon voyage.

Have a great business trip, dear. Take care of yourself and try to eat timely.

Business Trip Wishes for Colleague

I hope you have a safe journey. Have a great business trip, dear.

Wish you an enjoyable and exciting business trip. I hope your trip become successful too.

Don’t forget that you are going to work, not for fun. Best wishes for business trip.

It seems like you finally found your dream job cause you keep going on business trips. Have a healthy trip.

We are so sure that you are going to bag the contract on this trip. Victory and success are written all over your power suit! Bon voyage.

You are one of the few employees being sent for all the business trips because you are our star performer, a reliable player and the face of our company. Have a good professional tour.

It is a pity that you’re going to such a beautiful place only to attend meetings. But while you are at it, make sure you have some fun too. Have a good trip.

You got a promotion and an overseas business trip. How much more luck could you possibly need? Nevertheless, good luck with your journey. You deserve it.

Business Trip Wishes for Boss

We are really proud of you, boss. God bless you. Have a safe trip!

Boss, Have a great business. May you get success in what you are going for.

Good luck on your business trip, sir. I hope you travel safely. I hope you have the best time and enjoy every part of the trip.

Dear boss, I wish you good health. I hope you have a nice business trip.

I hope everyone will like your proposal. Have a safe flight. Happy business trip.

Sir, May God bless you and save you from every danger. Wishing you a great business trip.

May God make your trip successful. Have a good time with your clients.

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Business Trip Quotes

A business trip abroad is a small reward for your dedication and hard work. Many big rewards are on the way. I hope you have a great time there as you continue mesmerizing the world with your vision.

It’s a great opportunity to share your ideas with the world. You have already proved your ability to revolutionize the local business. It’s time to bring it to the world.

The company takes pride in having employees like you represent the brand overseas. All the best, and make the most of this trip. Bon voyage.

Pack your best suit, carry your sharpest attitude, and show them what we are really made of. All the best for your presentation and overseas trip.

As you set sail for your business trip may you have success and improvement on the great meeting all along! Have a safe and successful business trip!

For you, this is a great chance to see what business opportunities in Europe has to offer. I wish you will get the best chance from those, have a successful business tour!

Oh! dear, through this overseas business journey you got the opportunity to meet world-class companies at their headquarters, I think it will be a great and successful trip for you where you get to learn lots of things, best of luck!

Whether you were always interested in a business meeting abroad or just want to inspire our company’s effort, it will be an amazing tour that you do not want to miss. Bon voyage my dear!

Like slow and steady wins the race as they say, fearless and believing safely end the tour well. You are safe on this journey. Take care.

The road is rough, and the journey seems long? It’s just a matter of time and you will be at your destination. Just don’t lose focus. You should succeed on the business tour!

Don’t conclude just yet! Your desires can still be met in this journey. Remember, the end still justifies the means. All will be well. Just make the deal success!

Bon voyage for this important business trip, mate. While you’re bagging all the deals, don’t forget to bring back some great wines and beers to stock up the office fridge.

Can’t believe that the company is paying for you to go and have a meeting or two on the sunny beaches of California. You lucky dog, make the most of it.

Business is like sex. When it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s not so good, it’s still good. So, don’t worry whatever the situation where you should focus on your proposal and make a good presentation! Bon voyage!

Our business is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves – to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. It’s time to represent our brand overseas, make it happen!

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Nowadays most often people have to travel overseas for business purposes. Traveling and visiting new places is an opportunity to learn about different people, learn different traditions and obviously gain better experience about foreign business trends. If you have someone packing up to travel overseas for business purposes, then you should congratulate them and wish for a successful business trip and a safe journey. These are the best wordings ideas for successful business trip wishes and messages. You can wish your loved ones a safe journey during their business trip.

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365 awesome trip quotes for a year full of wanderlust

October 10, 2021 | Posted in: Random

Don't you just love a good quote? Especially, when they're about travel. Awesome trip quotes can really motivate you and inspire you to chase your dreams.

Unfortunately, when it comes to travel quotes, I always kept bumping into the same ones. I swear, if I have someone tell me one more time that not all those who wander are lost, I'm going to need more than a cup of tea to regain my calm.

But you can't whine if you don't take action, right? So I went in search of the 100 best travel quotes out there to help you stay motivated on your adventures, eager to keep on exploring and grateful for all the opportunities out there.

I admit, these aren't all the most unique travel quotes out there, but they'll surely make you want to see the world!

Not enough time to go through them all? This video shows you some of the best:

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365 awesome trip quotes

2. “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

3. “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

4. “One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” – André Gide, The Counterfeiters

5. “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

6. “Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature’s darlings. 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, John Muir. His life letters and other writings

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

8. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “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

10. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

12. “The bold adventurer succeeds the best.” – Ovid, Metamorphoses

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

14. “Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.” – Tom Robbins, Still life with woodpecker

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

16. “We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” – Henry David Thoreau

17. “Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.” – Robin Leach

18. “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

19. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, The way of Lao Tzu

20. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Bashō

21. “Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.” – Deborah Cater, City chronicles

22. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde, The importance of being ernest

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

24. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

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

26. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller, The story of my life

27. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton, The temple of silence & other stories

28. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

29. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

30. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – Wilfred Peterson

31. “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, Realism in romantic Japan

32. “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.” – Jason Mraz

33. “Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.” – Paul Theroux

34. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gidé

35. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

36. “He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

37. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese or Glenn Clark

38. “Definition of ‘adventure': extreme circumstances recalled in tranquility.” – Jules the Kiwi

39. “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

40. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.” – Claire Fontaine, Comeback

41. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

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

43. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd, Salt from my attic

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

45. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

46. “We will not cease from our 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. Elliot

47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

48. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

49. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling – though careful research leads this quote back to T.S. Eliot

50. “Walking 10 thousand miles of world is better than reading 10 thousand scrolls of books.” — Chinese Proverb

51. “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

52. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela

53. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

54. “You might be poor on money, but rich on life.” – Kasper Raunholst

55. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

56. “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, > Blue highways. A journey into America

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

58. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel

63. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

64. “Make voyages! Attempt them… there's nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

65. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

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

68. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

69. “My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.” – Diana Ross

70. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin, The diary of Anais Nin

72. “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

73. “Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.” – Antonio Machado

74. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

75. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

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

77. “Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – Ella Maillart

78. “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, Tremendous Trifles

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

80. “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe

81. “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

82. “Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.” – Milton Glaser

83. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

84. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes

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

86. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

87. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

88. “The journey is my home.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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

90. “To travel is to possess the world.” – Burton Holmes

91. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

92. “Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you'll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you're away…One's little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.” – Gail Rubin Bereny

93. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

94. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” – Sir Richard Burton

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

96. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

97. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado squatters

98. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson, To hellholes and back

99. “Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Mohammed

100. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

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

102. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

103. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

104. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

105. “Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.” – Will Rogers

106. “There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the road

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

108. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

109. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

110. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

111. “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

112. “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

113. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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

115. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battutah, The travels of Ibn Battutah

116. “Admire beauty” ― Josephwedler

117. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

118. “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

119. “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 Lyer

120. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

121. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charlie in search of America

122. “Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.” – Winna Efendi

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

124. “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

125. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen, The fairy tale of my life

126. “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess

127. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang, The importance of living

128. “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

129. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill, Jaguars ripped my flesh

130. “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

131. “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, Around the world in 80 days

132. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

133. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

134. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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

136. “I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

137. “I'm in love with countries I've never been to and fascinated by people I've never met.” – Paul Edwards

138. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

139. “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

140. “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller

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

142. “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, The Lord of the Rings

143. “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci

144. “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

145. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau, >Walden or Life if the woods

146. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

147. “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

148. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

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

150. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins

151. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust, In search of lost time

152. “Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.” – Chinese Proverb

153. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

154. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

155. “If you can’t live longer, live deeper.” – Italian Proverb

156. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

157. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin

158. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber, The legend of Baal-Shem

159. “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

160. “To shut your eyes is to travel.” ― Emily Dickinson

161. “Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love

162. “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – Rolf Potts

163. “For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite, and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.” — Alex Garland, The Beach

164. “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” – Charles Bukowski

165. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou

166. “How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.” – Sarah Reijonen

167. “One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.” – Jimmy Buffett, A pirate looks at fifty

168. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” — Gayle Forman

169. “Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.” – Saadi

170. “Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.” – Lavinia Spalding

171. “…life is short and the world is wide.” — Simon Raven

172. “But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryan

173. “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

174. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” — Edward Abbey, Desert solitaire

175. “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” – Vera Nazarian

176. “Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, bit it is always invigorating.” — Michael Crichton

177. “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” — Cheryl Strayed, Wild

178. “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” – Tahir Shah

179. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” — Mother Teresa

180. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” — Nora Roberts

181. “… adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.” – Josh Gates, Destination truth

182. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi

183. “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the unforgettable thread of wasted time.” — Donald Miller, A million miles in a thousand years

184. “The best way to know a city is to eat it.” – Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

185. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and beyond. A life-changing journey

186. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” — Margot Fonteyn

187. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict

188. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather

189. “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, Fahrenheit 451

190. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told.” – Alan Keightley, The gates of Janus

191. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

192. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

193. “It is better to travel than to arrive.” – Buddha

194. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Uzbek proberb

195. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

196. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous

197. “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – W. Somerset Maugham

198. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

199. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

200. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “Your true traveler 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

205. “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

206. “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

207. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

208. “How safe do we want to be? How much of ourselves are we willing to give up for it?” – Sarah Hepola

209. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

210. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

211. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

212. “There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, ‘Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.’ Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.” – Emma Bombeck

213. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

214. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

215. “The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself.” –Andrew McCarthy

216. “People don’t take trips; trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

217. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

218. “Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” – John Steinbeck.

219. “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” – Henry Boye

220. “Uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” – Ken Hundert

221. “Borders…? I have never seen one… But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people…” – Thor Heyerdahl

222. “Heroes takes journeys, confront dragons, and discovers the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson

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

224. “As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” – John Green

225. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

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

227. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

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

229. “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

230. “By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.” — Tawny Lara

231. “Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

232. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” — Shane Koyczan

233. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” — J.K. Rowling

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

235. “Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” — Debasish Mridha

236. “Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.” — Gustave Flaubert

237. “Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.” — Katie Grissom

238. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” — Susan Magsamen

239. “The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.” — Bruce Chitin

240. “I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.” — Carew Papritz

241. “I tramp a perpetual journey.” — Walt Whitman

242. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

243. “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” — Ken Poirot

244. “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

245. “By traveling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever-changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.” — Andrew James Pritchard

246. “You can travel the world but if you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.” — Gerald Freeman

247. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

248. “How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?” — Socrates

249. “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

250. “Two great talkers will not travel far together.” – Spanish Proverb

251. “It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.” — Anatole France

252. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson

253. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone

254. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” — Carew Papritz

255. “You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.” — Paul Theroux

256. “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

257. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

258. “I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.” — Christopher Fry

259. “There ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” — David Mitchell

260. “Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It’s when you can’t settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that…it’s a compulsion. It’s the difference between lust and love.” — Kirsten Hubbard

261. “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

262. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” — Paolo Coehlo

263. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” — Jack Kerouac

264. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

265. “I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.” — Charles Finch

266. “The road never ends…only our vision does.” — Amit Reddy

267. “The best tourist is one without a camera.” — Kamand Kojouri

268. “Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.” — Orhan Pamuk

269. “You have to taste a culture to understand it.” — Deborah Cater

270. “There are no tips for life neither for travelling.” — Guido Colombo

271. “Everybody has a unique path to travel.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

272. “Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” — Janna Graber

273. “See it, learn it, do it ALL.” — Jamie McCall

274. “The Wanderlust has got me…by the belly-aching fire.” — Robert W. Service

275. “Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go.” — Marty Rubin

276. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.” — Alain de Botton

277. “I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It’s as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.” — Christopher Hitchens

278. “One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life.” — Evelyn Waugh

279. “Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

280. “You have not traveled enough,” she said. “Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.” ― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

281. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” — Nancy Petralia

282. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” — Marty Rubin

283. “There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.” — Colum McCann

284. “Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experience is not.” — Dave Levant

285. “Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.” — Eugene Linden

286. “The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” — Rick Ridgeway

287. “To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” — T.L Rese

288. “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.

289. “For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that—try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn’t the right country for you—just won’t leave you in peace.” — Eric Weiner

290. “Do you think it’s so snobbish, to want to see something besides one’s fellow citizens abroad?” — Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis

291. “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

292. “They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.” — Horace

293. “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

294. “Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” — Libya Bray

295. “Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they … return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.” – Charles Caleb Colton

296. “If you travel, it must be to seek difference.” – Kathleen Lee

297. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

298. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra

299. “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” – Frantz Fanon

300. “Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – Emile Zola

301. “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf

302. “Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

303. “The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.” – Charles Kuralt

304. “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

305. “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, A Hat Full of Sky

306. “I read; I travel; I become” ― Derek Walcott

307. “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

308. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

309. “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

310. “Every hundred feet the world changes.” ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

311. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.” ― Anderson Cooper

312. “I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.” ― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

313. “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” ― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

314. “A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

315. “You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

316. “But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” ― Gwyn Thomas

317. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

318. “Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.” ― Elias Canetti, The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

319. “Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” ― Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World

320. “I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.” ― Norman Lewis

321. “I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb…” ― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

322. “I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.” ― Shaun Hick

323. “Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.” ― Albert Camus

324. “I travel, always arriving in the same place.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

325. “A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.” ― Stefanos Livos

326. “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” ― Jodi Picoult

327. “Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice.” ― Pico Iyer

328. “Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.” ― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

329. “That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

330. “You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.” ― Colin Wright, My Exile Lifestyle

331. “Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.” ― Rashedur Ryan Rahman

332. “A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation.” ― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

333. “She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.” ― Jodi Hills

334. “Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant facto.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

335. “Adventure rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.” ― Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

336. “Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life!” ― Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!

337. “I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.” ― Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea

338. “If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

339. “Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.” ― Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life

340. “To create abundance in life, travel and touch everyone you meet with your infinite love.” ― Debasish Mridha

341. “It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.” ― Paul Howard, Vagrants in Paradise: a travel-humor essay

342. “Loveyoubye.” ― Jen Malone, Wanderlost

343. “Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.” ― Andrew Solomon, Far & Away: Places on the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years

344. “For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.” ― James A. Michener, Iberia

345. “No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.” ― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

346. “The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it.” ― Randy Ross, God Bless Cambodia

347. “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

348. “Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.” ― Michael John Carley, Asperger's From the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome

349. “But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route.” ― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

350. “I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.” ― Gloria Steinem

351. “Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.” ― Kiara Maharaj

352. “I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.” ― Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine

353. “Where the fog is thickest, begin.” ― Marty Rubin

354. “To reduce your age,increase your experiences.” ― Subbu Peteti, Anti-Aging Secrets on the Highway

355. “When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.” ― Lauren Klarfeld

356. “And I keep wandering in search of a nothingness…” ― Avijeet Das

357. “Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.” ― Rita Golden Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

358. “Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.” ― Liezi, The Book of Master Lie

359. “We take to the breeze, we go as we please.” ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

360. “A girl who travels has learned how to dance barefoot. She’s learned to place her toes in the sand and dance through rhythm, not through rehearsed footwork. She’s learned to follow what she likes, not what she needs to like.” ― lauren klarfeld

361. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting' our inner-self.” ― Sorrab Singha

362. “For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

363. “What we glean from travelers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.” ― Alexander von Humboldt

364. “What matter it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied. “There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.” ― Lewis Carroll

And for our last quote about traveling:

365. “The map? I will first make it.” ― Patrick White, Voss &nbsp,

And that's it! I hope at least one of these quotes for traveling endlessly has motivated you. Tell me, which one is your favorite?

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Agness of eTramping says

Each quote will be good for each day in a year of travel. This post is so cool, Sofie.

Exactly! Glad you like it :)

Shanawar Abbasi says

Waow. Nice quotes,

Thanks, just gathered them :)

Avijeet Das says

Thank you for liking and posting my quote. My quote is at 356. Loved reading all the quotes.

Wow so awesome that you found this! :)

Guido Colombo says

Thrilled and humbled that my phrase made it to your blog. Thank you!

I thank you :-)

Awesome post!! I’ll be using some on a website I’m developing/designing. The first one has a slight typo though. Says “babance”. Awesome read.

Thanks for letting me know!

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Excellent quotes which give us good lesson in our lives

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90 Road Trip Quotes to inspire you to hit the road

There are few experiences quite like taking a long road trip and venturing somewhere you’ve never been before! It’s one of the few forms of travel where it’s all about the journey: the people, the stories, those moments which are hard to describe to someone who wasn’t there.

We’ve put together over 90 of the best road trip quotes to help really convey what is it that makes this form of slow travel so special. We’ve also included a few funny ones and some that encapsulate what it’s like to take a road trip with a group of friends.

So here are our favourite road trip quotes. Feel free to let us know your favourite ones in the comments below!

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Beautiful road trip quotes, funny road trip quotes, road trip with friends quotes, 1 - “it’s not the destination, it's the journey.” .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 - “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” 

Jack Kerouac

3 - “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” 

4 - “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” 

5 - “people don’t take trips, trips take people.” .

John Steinbeck

6 - “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” 

Amit Kalantri

7 - “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” 

Rebecca Solnit

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8 - “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” .

Izaak Walton

9 - “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.” 

Tom lichtenheld, 10 - “i may not have ended up where i intended to go, but i think i have ended up where i intended to be.” .

Douglas Adams

11 - “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 

12 - “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” 

William Least Heat Moon

13. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.”

Lukhman Pambra

14 - “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” 

Lewis Carroll

15 - “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.” 

Tom Stoppard

16 - “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.”

-Edgar Wright

17 - “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

William Hazlitt

18 - “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”

Tony Robbins 

19 - “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.”

Anthony Joshua

20  - “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” 

Brad Paisley

21 - “I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.”  

Walt Whitman

22 - “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.”  

Byrd Baggett

23 - “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.”

Helen Keller

24 - “Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.”

25 - “the open road is there, it will always be there. you just have to decide when to take it.” .

Chris Humphrey

26 - “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make.” 

Angela N Blount 

27 - “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”

28 - “you can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.”, 29 - “the gladdest moment in human life, me thinks,  is a departure into unknown lands.” .

Sir Richard Burton

30 - “I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.”

31 - “if you come to a fork in the road, take it.”.

Scott Myers

32 - “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

33 - “discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”.

Marcel Proust

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34 - “the freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating” .

Aaron Lauritsen

35 - “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.” 

36 - “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

37 - “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.”  

Quotes on a long drive, 38 - “sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” .

Stacy Westfall

39 - “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

40 - “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

41 - “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” 

Isak Dinesen

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 - “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

44 - “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.” , 45 - “look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. there are no wrong turns.” .

Susan Magsamen

46 - “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” 

47 - “now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”.

Elizabeth Berg

48 - “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

49 - “I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” 

Corinne Hofmann

50 - “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” 

Babs Hoffman

51 - “Road trips require a couple of things: a well balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes - oh, and directions.” 

Jenn McKinlay

52 - “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”  

Robert Louis Stevenson

53 - “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” 

J. R. R. Tolkien

54 - “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”   

Robert Frost

55 - “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” 

Henry Miller

56 - “My favourite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”.

Diane Arbus

57 - “Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirty.”

58 - “a passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.”.

Romesh Gunesekera

59 - “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, any one. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the 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

60 - “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. 

You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”  .

Freya Stark

61 - “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” 

Miriam Toews

62 - “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” 

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 - “When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” 

Steve Rushin

65 - “Nothing Behind Me, Everything Ahead Of Me, As Is Ever So On The Road.”

66 - “i can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” .

Paulo Coelho

67 - “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.”

68 - “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.”.

Anthony Bourdain

69 - “Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres.”

George Carlin

70 - “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

71 - “if you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.”.

John Perry Barlow

72 - “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” 

Bill Engvall

73 - “We all have that one friend who is either on a roadtrip or planning a roadtrip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a roadtrip or posting quotes about a roadtrip.” 

Crestless Wave

74 - “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” 

Emile Ganest

75 - “Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.” 

Jerry Seinfeld

76 - “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”

77 -  “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”, 78 - “a journey is measured in friends, rather than miles.”, 79 - “one of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” .

Edith Wharton

80 - “No road is long with good company.” 

Turkish proverb

81 - “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

82 - “in life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” .

Charles M. Schulz

83 -  “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.”

84 - “never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” .

Ernest Hemingway

85 - “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.”

Leonardo DiCaprio

86 - “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” 

 Thelma and Louise

87 - “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.”

Kristen Sarah

88 - “The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.”

Kari Martindale

89 - “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.”

Robert Earl Keen

90 - “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” 

Wilfred Peterson

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100 Sweet "Happy Anniversary" Quotes to Write in a Card

Wish your husband or wife — or another special couple — all the best with these sentimental messages.

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Cute anniversary quotes for couples and friends, famous anniversary quotes, anniversary quotes for parents, anniversary wishes for milestones.

These anniversary quotes, wishes and messages encompass all that and more, and are inspirational enough for when you need a sweet message to write inside an anniversary card or something thoughtful to share face-to-face with the couple ringing in another year together. And if you’re one half of the couple celebrating said anniversary, share one of these sentiments with a more personalized touch by including personal anecdote about the night you met, a funny story that’ll make you both laugh or even reflect on a hard time that really tested the both of you but inevitably showed how strong your bond really is.

Romantic Anniversary Quotes for Husband or Wife

• "You're my best friend, my partner in crime, my better half, my everything. Happy anniversary, my love."
• "Even after all of these years, my love for you grows more and more each day."
• "Thank you for picking me. I don't know how I got so lucky."
• "You're my sun and moon, and all of my stars. I love you so much. Happy anniversary!"
• "You're everything I've ever wanted and needed in a partner. Thank you for loving me. Happy anniversary."
• "I’m pretty confident that no one on earth is as lucky as me. Why? Because I get to wake up to you every day. Happy anniversary, baby!"
• "You can read my mind without me uttering a single word. We’re soulmates, and I’m eternally grateful that the universe brought us together. Cheers to a lifetime together. Happy anniversary."
• "Our deep, unbreakable connection is something I’ve always dreamed of. I’ll never take our bond for granted. Wishing us a blissful lifetime together. Happy anniversary!"
• "You’re the person who I can count on unconditionally. Without your unwavering love and support, I don’t think I’d be the person I am today. Happy anniversary, honey."
• "Walking alongside you is the greatest journey of my life. I’ll cherish you always. Happy anniversary."
• "Your face brings a smile to my face every day and for that I’m forever grateful. Happy anniversary to the person who makes my heart sing."
• "It’s a privilege to be in your presence. You’re not only a loving partner, but you’re also just an overall amazing person. Happy anniversary!"
• “I am so blessed that I get to spend the rest of my life with you. Happy anniversary, baby!”
• “I couldn’t survive a day without you. I’m so glad we’ve lived to see another year together.”
• “Marrying you was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
• “Our wedding day may not have been perfect, but it was the happiest day of my life. Thank you for being by my side for all these years.”
• “This is our first year together, but we have an eternity to go!”
• “Happy anniversary, honey. You make my life sweeter.”
• “I can’t believe that I’m married to my best friend. Thank you for making each year together better than the last.”
• “Nothing on earth compares to my love for you. Happy anniversary to my better half.”
• “You’re the most wonderful person I’ve ever met. I can’t believe I get to be by your side for the rest of my life.”
• “Saying ‘I do’ was the best decision of my life. After all these years, I’m so grateful that you said it too!”
• “When I wake up to you every day, I’m reminded of hitting the love jackpot. You’re the best. Happy anniversary, sweetheart.”
• “When I think of all the blessings in my life, you’re the first to come to mind. Thank you for being my person. I love you.”
• “You’re my air and I can’t imagine life without you. I love you today and forever. Happy anniversary.”
• “My love for you is everlasting. Cheers to another year with my favorite person.”
• “I’ll always be your #1 fan. No matter what we’re going through, I’ll always cheer you on. Wishing us a lifetime together.”
• “When I look into your eyes, I see the most wonderful person in the world.”
• “Still in this together. Thanks for going on this lifetime journey with me. Love you forever.”
• “I never dreamed that I would find a love like yours. I’m the luckiest person in the world.”

• "We’ve made another trip around the sun together, and I still can’t believe you’re still willing to take these trips with me!"
• "We’re on the crazy journey of life together, and I can’t think of a wackier co-pilot. Thanks for always being you in all your wacky glory. Happy anniversary, sweetie."
• "You’re the cream to my coffee — I’ll always have the hots for you! Happy anniversary, babe!"
• "At times, we may be like fire and ice, it’s a wonder we haven’t combusted!'
• "We go together like peanut butter and jelly. With your big belly, you’re clearly the jelly! Happy anniversary, sweetie."
• "Nobody understands me the way that you do. I wonder why? Maybe we’re really the same person just in two very different bodies! Happy birthday, my handsome better half!"
• "As we grow old together, just remember that I’ll always be the young, hot one! To many more years together. I love you!"
• “Happy anniversary. You’re the perfect choice for my first spouse!”
• “A wedding band is the smallest handcuff ever made. I’m glad I chose my cellmate wisely.”
• “Thank you for growing old with me. It’s a good thing I find wrinkles adorable!”
• “Happy anniversary – I can’t believe you’re still with me!”
• “I’ve always wanted the best for you – which is obviously me!”
• “A good marriage is like a casserole—only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.”
• “Morning breath and all, you’re still the one I want to wake up to. Happy anniversary, my love.”
• “A marriage anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”

• "I’ve never seen a couple so right for each other. You two are a beautiful example of what it means to be happily married. Wishing you many more years together!"
• "Separately you’re both powerful individuals, but together as a pair — you’re unstoppable! Happy anniversary to one of my favorite couples!"
• "You’re such a beautiful couple who complement each other in enviable ways. Stay true to one another and you’ll be together for a lifetime! Happy anniversary."
• "You do a remarkable job of making marriage look easy. You should teach a class! Happy anniversary to a special couple."
• "May God continue to cover and bless you as a couple. Happy anniversary!"
• "Cheers to a couple who exemplify a good and healthy partnership. Happy anniversary."
• “I admire your union. Happy anniversary.”
• “What a beautiful and loving couple. Wishing you a lifetime of wedded bliss.”
• “Family gatherings wouldn’t be the same without you guys. Happy anniversary to one of my favorite couples!”
• “You two are so great to know and be around. Can you adopt me?”
• “I couldn’t ask for a better brother-in-law. Thank you for taking my sister off of my hands! Just kidding, happy anniversary!”
• “You two are the most adorable love birds I’ve ever known. Wishing you a lifetime of love.”
• “No other couple complements each other the way that you do. Happy anniversary to the beautiful pair who makes marriage look so easy!”
• “Spending time with you guys is one of my favorite pastimes. You make life more enjoyable. Happy anniversary!”
• “No marriage is perfect, but you guys come really close. Happy anniversary.”
• “May God continue to cover and bless you in your union.”
• “Who said marriage was hard? Not you guys because you make it seem absolutely effortless. Happy anniversary.”
• “I marvel at the wonderful life you’ve built together. You guys could teach a class on how to do marriage right. Congratulations!”
• “Wow, another year in the books! You guys work so well together. Happy anniversary.”

• “A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Paul Sweeney
• “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
• “I wouldn't change a thing, as happiness you bring. You are my soulmate. A marriage made by fate.” — Catherine Pulsifer
• “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert Heinlein
• "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." — Simone Signoret
• “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”— Maya Angelou
• “You know you are in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
• “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim
• “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child
• “Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”— Zane Grey
• “All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” — Ed Sheeran
• “You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” — Lee Christopher
• “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — Nicholas Sparks
• “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”— Barnette R. Brickner

• "You two were made for each other. I'm living proof! Happy anniversary, mom and dad."
• "To the couple whose love I get to watch grow stronger and stronger everyday, happy anniversary."
• "You two are the reason I know what love is. Happy anniversary to the best parents."
• "The best thing to come out of your relationship? Me, of course! I mean, the best, most loving parents."
• "You’re the parents all kids hope to have, and I’m so lucky to call you my role models. Happy anniversary!"
• "I’ve grown up watching what it meant to be a loving and caring couple. Thank you for being the blueprint for a healthy marriage. Happy anniversary!"
• "You both show me what real love looks like. To the imperfectly perfect couple I call my parents, happy anniversary!"
• "Love isn’t easy, but loving you two is. Happy anniversary to the best parents!"
• "To my best friends, role models and most importantly, parents, happy anniversary!"
• "Your love is what keeps this family rooted. Celebrating you two today and every day. Happy anniversary!"
• "It’s the perfect day to celebrate the most special people. Happy anniversary, parents!"

• "Hope the next [10] years are even happier than your [first decade] together!"
• "It started with a dream of a life together, and the dream only gets better. Cheers to [insert number] year of marriage!"
• "High-five to your [insert number]-year milestone."
• "Five years, 60 months, 260 weeks, or 1,825 days—however you count it, it all adds up to love."
• "One decade down; forever to go."
• "A quarter may not sound like a lot in money, but in marriage centuries, you two prove it's worth a fortune."
• "For your 25th year in marriage, may you receive more silver gifts than you have silver in your hair."
• "Even though the years continue to pass, my love for you only grows stronger. Happy [30th] anniversary!"
• "Fifty years later and all that glitters is still gold."
• "Congratulations on a love story that has stood the test of time — 70 years and counting!"

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Mayor Adams said that his comment, which drew criticism from the right and the left, was based on numerous conversations he has had with migrants.

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays

When Mayor Eric Adams was asked about New York City’s lifeguard shortage at his weekly news conference, he seized the moment to make a point about potential migrant workers.

Imagine if the city could quickly hire migrants for jobs that urgently needed to be filled, he wondered aloud, before asking: “How do we have a large body of people that are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers, and at the same time we need lifeguards?”

His remarks on Tuesday drew criticism from all sides. Immigrant rights groups called the comments “racist and divisive.” Conservative leaders viewed them as an attempt to legitimize the hiring of noncitizens.

Mr. Adams, unsurprisingly, saw things differently.

On Wednesday, the mayor explained that he had visited migrant centers in the city and asked people there if they knew how to swim. He was “blown away” by the number of those who raised their hands.

“We have these capable people who know how to swim — from West Africa, from Ecuador, from South and Central America, from Mexico — and we have a shortage of lifeguards,” Mr. Adams said in response to a question from a reporter from the news outlet The City as he walked into City Hall. “If we start planning out now, we could be prepared next year.”

As nearly 200,000 migrants have arrived in New York City over the last two years, Mr. Adams, a Democrat, has repeatedly called for them to be able to work so they can support themselves. In his remarks on Tuesday, he also suggested that migrants fill key jobs such as food service workers and nurses.

“This hasn’t been new — I’ve been saying this over and over again: Let people work,” Mr. Adams said on Wednesday.

Mr. Adams has previously mentioned hiring migrants as lifeguards, including in February when he was asked about using police drones to help people who are drowning. (A city official noted on Tuesday that New York had made progress in hiring more lifeguards and that 560 people had passed the city’s lifeguard test this year, compared with 364 last year.)

Kayla Mamelak, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said on Wednesday that Mr. Adams had repeatedly argued that migrants who are living in the city’s shelter system should be able to fill vacant jobs and that “anyone who is trying to make more out of the mayor continuing to make that point today is missing the forest for the trees.”

Still, Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, rejected Mr. Adams’s implication that migrants would make good lifeguards “because some immigrants had to swim or wade across water on their dangerous journeys to seek safety in the United States.”

“This comment is racist, and the mayor should not be making light of the perilous and often life-threatening journeys people are forced to make to escape violence and persecution,” he said.

It was not the first time immigrant groups have criticized Mr. Adams’s rhetoric. They have argued that his comments that the migrant crisis could “destroy” New York City and that some migrants were creating a crime wave are dangerous.

Alexa Avilés, a councilwoman representing Brooklyn and the chairwoman of the Committee on Immigration, called the mayor’s comments “appalling.”

“What won’t he blame immigrants for?” she said. “First it was budget cuts and now it’s lifeguard shortages.”

Melissa Mark-Viverito, a former City Council speaker, called the mayor’s comments “insane” on social media .

“ He is just constantly putting out these comments that are very stereotypical, very prejudicial, very just ugly,” she said, adding, “There’s no reflection, there’s no acknowledgment that what I said actually may be hurtful to folks.”

Conservative voices have also criticized Mr. Adams’s response to the migrants, arguing that he has been too accommodating by offering them housing and services, including debit cards for food.

Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, posted a video of the mayor’s comments on social media on Wednesday and asked whether Mr. Adams and other Democrats such as President Biden thought that breaking the law by entering the country was “qualification for employment in our country?”

Mr. Adams has been prone to making off-the-cuff remarks perceived by some as odd, inflammatory or, at times, seemingly untrue — with some examples chronicled in a video on “The Daily Show” this week . He has compared himself to the spiritual leader Gandhi, urged gentrifiers to “go back to Iowa” and joked that he understood angry New Yorkers because he sometimes gave himself the middle finger.

But Marvin Carbajal, a New York City physical education teacher and the head coach for the boys’ swimming team at Bushwick Campus, said there was a germ of truth behind the mayor’s comment. He said he knew of at least seven students on the swim team who could have become city lifeguards, were they not undocumented.

Two of those students, he said, passed the lifeguard test, only to discover that their immigration status precluded them from working.

“It did sound a little bit offensive,” Mr. Carbajal said of the mayor’s remarks, adding, “I kind of understand what he was trying to say.”

Dana Rubinstein contributed reporting.

Emma G. Fitzsimmons is the City Hall Bureau Chief for The Times, covering Mayor Eric Adams and his administration. More about Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Jeffery C. Mays is a Times reporter covering politics with a focus on New York City Hall. More about Jeffery C. Mays

Explore Our Coverage of the Adams Administration

Trip to Rome : Mayor Eric Adams’s three-day trip to the Italian capital, where he met Pope Francis at the Vatican  and visited a welcome center for migrants , was a brief respite from varied troubles at home.

A ‘Hidden’ Tax: Adams is resurrecting a budget gimmick  and charging New York City’s own Water Board more than $1.4 billion in rent, which will pass on the costs to ratepayers.

Cracking Down on Campus Protests: Adams defended the arrests of nearly 300 protesters  and said he would not allow the protests to disrupt the city.

An Aggressive and Expensive Legal Team: With Adams and his top aides facing several investigations, he is amassing a team of high-powered lawyers  paid by his donors and city taxpayers.

Walking Back Budget Cuts: Adams released a revised $111.6 billion budget, which included $2.3 billion that would restore  some funding for schools and cultural institutions.