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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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155 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to journey around the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 155 of the best travel quotes, including some famous quotes from figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find them inspirational!

Table of Contents show 155 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

155 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

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

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

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

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

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

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

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

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

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

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

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

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

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

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

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

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

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

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

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

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

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

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

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

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

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

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

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

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

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

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

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

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

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

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

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

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

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

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

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I’ve been. I’ve learned for sure only what I don’t know — and how much I have to learn.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.

I have seen firsthand that things can turn on a dime. Tremendously awful, evil things happen to nice people all the time. I have seen people, again and again, relentlessly grinding under the wheel of poverty or oppression. At the same time, I see random acts of kindness and pride in the most outrageous and most unexpected circumstances. I am grateful. I understand that I am very privileged to see what I am seeing, even when it hurts. I think that people, particularly Americans, need to be more inspired to travel and be adventurous with the things they eat. And if they are curious about the world and willing to walk in somebody else’s shoes—that is surely a good thing.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

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

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

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

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

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

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

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

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

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

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

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

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

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

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

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

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

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

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

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

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

37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

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

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

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

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

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

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

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

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

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

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

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

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

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

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

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

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

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

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

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

60. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

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

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

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

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

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

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

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

88. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –  Jack Kerouac

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

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

95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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There are so many quotes that inspire wanderlust and travel that I wanted a place to put all my favorites. This will be updated regularly as I come across new quotes (or as you tell me your favs!) This is an ongoing updated this to create the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire you – to book the ticket, take the adventure, and to check off that bucket list (so I’ve tried to avoid cliche’s as much as possible).

There’s a mix of short travel quotes, long travel quotes, travel quotes by famous travelers (like Anthony Bourdain) and some lesser-known. Some are funny travel quotes while others are a bit more serious travel quotes. Some are quotes about traveling with friends or traveling with family, and others are about solo travel – you can do both! I hope this list inspires you to get out and explore the wonderful world we live in.

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100+ Inspirational Travel Quotes:

• “You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ~ Miriam Adeney This is my ultimate favorite quote – I even got it tattooed on my back! I have pieces of my heart all over the world!

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2. Live your life by a compass, not a clock ~ unknown There is something about travel that destroys our routine – and it’s amazing. It’s something I try to do once in a while even when I’m not traveling.

3. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey ~ Babs Hoffman There are always potholes, but trying to enjoy the journey despite them is important.

4. “ I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro I’ve come to accept that I’ll get lost wherever I am, so I just have to keep going!

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

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

7. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~ Omar Khayyam

8. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Unknown

9. Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. ~Anonymous

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

11. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~ Anita Desai

12. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ~ Samuel Johnson

13. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. ~ Unknown

14. A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. ~Tim Cayhill

15. Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind. ~ Unknown

16. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller

17. It’s a big world out there, would be a shame not to experience ~ JD Andrews

18. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. ~ MelodyTwong

19. Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time. ~Breanna Smith

20. We travel, some of us forever, to see other places, other lives, other souls. ~ Anais Nin

21. Fill your life with adventures, not thing. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. ~ Unknown

22. It’s a big and beautiful world. Most of us live & die in the same corner where we were born & never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. ~Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones

24. I want to make memories all over the world – Unknown

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

27. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love – Hemingway

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

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

30. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life – Agnes Repplier

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

32. The journey is my home – Unknown

33. It’s not the destination where you end up… but the mishaps and memories you create along the way – Unknown

34. Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view – Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

35. Great things never came from comfort zones – Anonymous

37. You can shake the sand from your shoes, but you can’t shake it from your soul. – Anonymous

38. Don’t quite your day dream – Unknown

39. Fear is only temporary. Regret lasts forever. – Anonymous

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

42. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

43. Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Unknown

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

45. Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. – Unknown

46. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years. – Unknown

47. The ‘traveler’ rush that hits you upon arrival to a new place is like a drug. And like a drug, the more you expose yourself to it, the more you want it. – Clayton B. Cornell

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

49. We travel, some of forever, to see other places, other lives, other soulds – Anais Nin

51. The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself – Andrew McCarthy

52. Stop dreaming about your bucket list, and start living it! – Annette White

53. Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell. – Paula Bendfelt

54. The ideal is to feel at home, anywhere – everywhere – Geoff Dyer

56. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot

57. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain

58. You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ~ Eugene Fodor

59. Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. ~ Jennifer Lee

60. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. ~ Muhammed Ali

61. You need not even listen, just wait .. the world will offer itself freely to you, unmaking itself. ~ Frankz Kafka

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

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

64. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. – William Least Heat Moon.

65. Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – Gayland Anderson

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

67. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharp – WB Yeats

68. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor

69. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown

70. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

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

72. It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Way and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while, you fumble for words, trying to vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it. – Anthony Bourdain.

73. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper – WB Yeats

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

75. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Erick Widman

76. Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Anthony Bourdain

77. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves, we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown

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

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

80. When a man is a traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family. – Peter Hoeg

81. Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt

82. Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman

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

84. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. An in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain

85. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton

86. Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – Peter Hoeg

87. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – Secret Life of Walter Mitty

88. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

89. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson

90. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

92. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life – Marcel Proust

93. How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? – Ernesto Che Guevara

94. Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has a very little to do with the food itself. – Anthony Bourdain

95. Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. – Michael Palin

96. Travel, not to escape life, but so life does not escape you. – Unknown

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

98. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

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

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

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

102. Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

103.  I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

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

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

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

107. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot

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

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

110.   I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breathe in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood

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

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

113. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

114. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell

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

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

117. We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. – Ray Bradbury

118. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. – A. A. Milne

119. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

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

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

122. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell

123. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

127. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman.

128. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

129. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton

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

131. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: This is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.” – Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules.

132. The World is a Book, and those who do not Travel, Read only one page. – Agustine of Hippo

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

134. The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty wallet. – English proverb

135. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

136. Better to travel hopefully than to arrive. – English Proverb

137. The Journey itself is my home. – Bash ō Matsuo

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

139. In the desert of life, the wise travel by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone. – Arab Proverb

139. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo

140. So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac

141. The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. – Don Williams, Jr.

142. Arriving there is what you are destined for. Ithaka gave you the Marvellous Journey – C.P. Cavafy

143. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo

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

145. We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parentheses in eternity. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

146. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot

147. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. – Diane Von Furstenberg.

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

149. The life you have led does not need to be the only life you have. – Anna Quindlen

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

151. The true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. it’s the symbol of his liberty- his excessive

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

153. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: The desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. – Paul Theroux

154. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. – Pascal Mercier

155. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. – Paul Theroux

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

157. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – Unknown

158. Plane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore

159. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. – Brian Chesky

160. He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook. – African Proverb

161. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. – Thomas Jefferson

162. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies du voyage: Perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. – Gustave Flaubert

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

1 64. Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time. – Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye

165. If you are planning to travel where corn grows, you should take a sickle with you. – Ethiopian Proverb

166. You go away for a long time and return a different person – You never come all the way back – Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari

167. The traveler sees the world in its true proportions: Small enough to hold within his arms, yet large enough to encompass him. He feels himself part of the universe, instead of separate and apart from it – James Michener

So there you have it – 167 incredibly inspirational travel quotes (so far) to get you to live your best life.

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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow is my favourite. It’s so true

I love travel quotes. They are so inspirational. Since I’m a solo traveller, #35 really resonates with me.

This is a hard one! Which would my favorite be…? I’m between my compatriot Rosalia de Castro and the unknown “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, quote number one hit differently! Pieces of my heart have been left in nearly every place I’ve ever visited, any place I’ve ever made a memory with new or old friends.

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” I think that pretty much sums up why I’m driven to travel 😀 Great list!

Thanks for sharing these quotes! “Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” is one that resonates with me most strongly. It is such an important reminder that sometimes when we’re traveling we need to put down our tour book and busy agenda and just stop to appreciate the new and exciting surroundings around us. Thanks for the reminder!

Absolutely! It’s easy to get swept up in all the “must sees” instead of what the destination is trying to show us!

Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view is my favorite. Cant wait to travel again. Hope this pandemic ends soon

I completely love the first quote you mentioned!! I can see why you got it tattooed. After reading them all, the other one which stands out to me the most is the one about us being the foreigners!

So many beautiful quotes! I can’t wait to be able to travel again

Oh I just loved these quotes. Thanks for the great post!! I miss traveling so much!

Same here! Glad you enjoy them!

I love these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

This is so inspirational! Love it!

Love these inspirational travel quotes! My favourite is number 11. It’s so true that a destination stays with you long after you leave it whether it’s a smell, a dish etc.

So many beautiful quotes! Love the positivity and inspiration during this crazy time we are in 🙂

So many great quotes, thanks for sharing. It reminds me of travel days.

This is a fantastic list of inspiring travel quotes! I’ve heard of most of them but also there a few that are new to me, so I really appreciate this! This one is one of my all time favorites –“Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living” – Anthony Bourdain

Thanks for including that one on this ultimate list!

Haha that’s my favorite reminder that work is just work. – Which (at least in America) is often forgotten.

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100 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire you in 2024 (with photos)

Inspiring travel quotes were always something I loved. Even before I travelled the world, I wrote many of the meaningful travel quotes I came across in my diary.

And today, they resonate with me as much as they did back then.

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There are many awesome travel quotes listed in this blog.

Also, my favourite ones in recent years are Anthony Bourdain travel quotes. That man was a huge travel inspiration.

How come so many of us look for travel quotes? They are the perfect way to daydream about travel or reflect on our past adventures.

Choosing your favourite travel quote is a hard task, but I have compiled 100 of the best travel quotes of all time right here with photos as well.

So feel free to share them with your friends or family or just pin them for later. 

100 Inspiring Travel Quotes that you’ll love!

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Best Travel Quotes of all times

1. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

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

3. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” – Tony Robbins

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

5. “He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

7. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anonymous

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

9. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

10. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous

Short Travelling Quotes

• “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen  
• “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever” – Anonymous
• “Travel teaches toleration”– Benjamin Disraeli
• “Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “People don’t take trips — trips take people”- John Steinbeck
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• ”Eat Well, Travel Often.”- Anonymous
• “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”– Chinese Proverb
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”- Anonymous

Inspirational Travel Quotes

• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide 
• “Travel is my therapy.” – Dalai Lama
• “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by”- Robert Frost
• “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou 
• “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”- Matthew Karsten  
• “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan!” – Dr. Zelana Montminy
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

Funny Travel Quotes

• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
• “It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!“ – Anonymous
• “I love my job, only when I’m on vacation.” – Anonymous
• “You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license!“ -Anonymous
• “My favourite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.“ – Anonymous
• Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
• “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.“ – Anonymous
• “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.“- Anonymous
• “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous

Quotes For Travelling The World

• “Open your heart to the world. It’ll dazzle you in ways you never thought possible.” – Anonymous
• “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.“ – Wallace Stevens
• “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion” – Paulo Coelho
• “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro
• “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• ”Life is short and the world is wide” – Simon Raven
• “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”  – Anonymous
• “Let’s get lost.” – Adi Alsaid
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

Travelling Quotes With Friends

• “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”- Anonymous
• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
• “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”- Anonymous
• “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”- Anonymous
• “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
• “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Terry Allison
• “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”- William Butler Yeats
• “Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
• “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable…it’s being separated and knowing nothing will change.” – Anonymous
•  “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” –  Tim Cahill

Adventure Travel Quotes

• “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
• “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.“ – Marty Rubin
• “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
• “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
• “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Irving Wallace
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
• “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn 
• “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis

Solo Travel Quotes

• “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
• “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
• “Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” – Ragnar Lothbrok
• “Table for one, food for two, please.” – Anonymous
• “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”- Anonymous
• “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”- Anonymous
• “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”- Anonymous
• “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
• “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”- Anonymous
• “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Anonymous

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

1. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.” 

2. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald’s? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

3. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

4. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

5. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

6. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

7. “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.”

8. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”

9. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

10. “When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.”

Wanderlust Travel Quotes that Inspire to Travel

• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Anonymous
• “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer 
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber 
• “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” –Randy Komisar

These are my 100 quotes for travelling the world that inspire to travel. Do you have any favourite travelling quotes? Let us know in the comments.

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Top 100 Best Travel Quotes of All Time To Inspire You To Hit The Road

• March 29, 2023
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We all do love travel quotes! They let us dream, plan those long desired adventures, they remind us what we‘re passionate about, and many times they help us to face our fears .

In this article, we’ve put together a list of the best travel quotes of all times, told by inspiring humans who certainly know what a powerful thing it is to grab your backpack and explore the world with open heart and mind.

Get inspired, get motivated, and hit the road!

The best travel quotes of all time

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

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

3 – “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

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

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

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

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

8 – “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

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

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11 – “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

12 – “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

13 – “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

14 – “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23 – “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

24 – “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard

25 – “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

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

27 – “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

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

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

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

31 – “A true traveler’s journey is never complete” ~ jda

32 – “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

33 – “Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road

34 – “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

35 – “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

46 – “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

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

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

49 – “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

50 – “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

51 – “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller

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

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

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

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

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

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

58 – “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

59 – “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi

60 – “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

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

62 – “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

63 – “Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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

65 – “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

66 – “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” – Walt Whitman

67 – “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

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

69 – “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

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

71 – Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

72 – Wherever you look, there you will fly – Thai Proverb

73 – “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” – Shane Koyczan

74 – “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

75 – “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot

76 – “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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

78 – ‘‘Where curious and curiosity keep leading us down new paths” – Walt Disney

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

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

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81 – “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” – Ross Morley

82 – “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” – Thomas Jefferson

84 – “Travel is like knowledge, the more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen” – Mark Hertsgaad

85 – “Life isn’t about the number of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.”- Maya Angelou

86 – “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

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

88 – “One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” – Charles Dickens

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

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

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

92 – “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

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93 – “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt

94 – “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

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

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

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

98 – “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

100 – “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake

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Best Travel Quotes: The 55 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

Posted on Last updated: November 10, 2021

As cheesy as it may sound, I love inspirational travel quotes!

Whether you’re planning a trip, battling post-trip blues, or just aimlessly scrolling through your phone, you can be sure there is a quote about travelling somewhere out there that will hit the spot for you.

There are travel quotes about finding yourself, travel quotes to inspire your next trip, great travel quotes that push you to live your best life and more.

We can all relate to inspiring travel quotes, which is what makes them so fun to read. In this post I’ve put together some of the most famous travel quotes (and my personal favourites).

I hope you will find these awesome travel quotes inspiring and they will make you want to head out and see some more of the world!

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Famous travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –   Anthony Bourdain

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

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

Short travel quotes

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” –  Anonymous

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

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

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

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

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

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” –   Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” –   Lovelle Drachman

Travel the world quotes

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” —  Hilaire Belloc

22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” –   Robert Louis Stevenson

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ―  Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” –   Paulo Coelho

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

26. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” –  Michael Palin

27. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

28. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” –   Ray Bradbury

Adventure travel quotes

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

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

31. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” –   Paulo Coelho

32. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” –   Paulo Coelho

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

34. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” –   Carew Papritz

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

36. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” –   Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi

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

Quotes about travelling & coming home

38. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” –   Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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

43. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” –   Lao Tzu

Inspirational travel quotes

44. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”  – Caroline Myss

45. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” –   Anonymous

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

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

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

49. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” –   Oscar Wilde

My personal favourite travel quotes

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

51. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

52. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

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

54. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown

55. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –  J.R.R. Tolkien

Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel

I hope you’ve enjoyed these awesome travel quotes and you’re feeling inspired and full of wanderlust after reading them!

This is just a compilation of my own personal favourite quotes about travel, if you’re still looking for more awesome travel quotes, check out these  111 travel quotes  and 100+ quotes perfect for Instagram  by other awesome content creators.

What are your favourite inspirational travel quotes? Let me know in the comments below!

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Wednesday 22nd of May 2019

Waving a big hello to you, friend! My favourite: 9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” Looking forward to hearing from you more :)

Tuesday 28th of May 2019

Hi Steve! That one is one of my favourites too :)

Saturday 18th of May 2019

What a wonderful list of travel quotes. My personal favourite is “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen. i just want to travel more and more

Monday 27th of May 2019

That's one of my favourites too :)

Marc Deschamps

Wednesday 17th of October 2018

My favourite: 27. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Thank you very much for this inspirational post. Living this life, too... Marc and Sylvia

Monday 22nd of October 2018

One of my favourite quotes too :)

Brian & Noelle

Thursday 30th of August 2018

We absolutely love number 36 and 41! Travel quotes are so good for a little inspiration!

Those are amongst my favourite too! :)

Tuesday 7th of August 2018

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

Saturday 24th of November 2018

That a good one. So true. Plans are made on the go. It might extend

Saturday 18th of August 2018

Another beautiful travel quote!

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• Updated November 1, 2023

Traveling is not just about moving from one place to another; it’s an exploration of the world and yourself. It opens doors to new cultures, perspectives, and experiences, and forms memories and valuable lessons that last a lifetime. In the following collection of best travel quotes, we’ll delve into the inspiring words of explorers, adventurers, and writers who remind us of the magic that lies beyond our comfort zones.

So, let’s embark on this literary expedition and leave you with an unquenchable thirst for exploration!

These travel quotes will ignite your wanderlust and inspire you to pack your bags and set forth on a new adventure. They capture the essence of travel—the exhilarating journey of self-discovery and the discovery of the world.

The Best Travel Quotes

Get inspired by these 85 quotes about traveling:

• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
• “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
• “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
• “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
• “Collect moments, not things.” – Anonymous
• “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” ― Sudha Murty
• “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” – Anonymous
• “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” – Anonymous
• “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” – Anonymous
• “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
• “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
• “Go where you feel most alive.” – Anonymous
• “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” – Anonymous
• “Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” – Anonymous
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take” –  Lewis Carroll
• “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
• “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”
• “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
• “I want to make memories all over the world” – Anonymous
• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
• “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
• “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” ― Jaime Lyn Beatty
• “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.” ― Aliyyah Eniath
• “Let’s get lost.” – Anonymous
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
• “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” – Anonymous
• “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Anonymous
• “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous
• “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
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
• “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
• “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
• “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
• “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
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey.
• “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
• “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” – Anonymous
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
• “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
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
• “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “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
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “Travel is an investment in yourself.” – Anonymous
• “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
• “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
• “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” – Anonymous
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
• “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
• “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
• “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
• “Work, save, travel, repeat.” – Anonymous
• “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
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54 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Pack Your Bags

From funny to inspirational, these quotes will fuel your wanderlust.

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Whether you're an avid traveler or dreaming of your first big trip, these travel quotes reflect the spirit of travel, offering insights and motivations for your next journey from authors, poets, and philosophers.

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• "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai
• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• "Travel brings power and love back into your life." — Rumi Jalalud-Din
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
• "I read; I travel; I become." ― Derek Walcott
• "Adventure is worthwhile." — Aesop
• "To travel is to evolve." — Pierre Bernardo
• "Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien
• "Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets." — Oscar Wilde
• "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." — G.K. Chesterton
• "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." — Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Suess 
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Erica Jong
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai

Inspirational Travel Quotes 

• "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell
• "I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." — Anna Louise Strong
• "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens
• "One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." — Henry Miller
• "Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest." — Freya Stark
• "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. “We strain to renew our capacity to wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." — Shana Alexander
• "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
• "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." —Anaïs Nin
• “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

Vacation Quotes 

• “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” ― Elbert Hubbard
• “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” ― Kenneth Grahame 
• “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ― Betty Williams
• “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
• “Here's to a vacation of no regrets!” ― Joan Rylen
• "I can lie around and relax at home. A vacation is a chance for doing.”― Tessa Bailey
• “Well, I think every day’s a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you’re working on, it’s like always being on vacation.” ― Andy Warhol
• “Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over.” ― J.S. Wik
• “What I needed in the moment was a family vacation.” ― Deena Kastor

Funny Travel Quotes 

• "Jet lag is for amateurs." — Dick Clark
• "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." — Mark Twain
• “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
• “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
• “There is nothing safer than flying—it’s crashing that is dangerous.” –Theo Cowan
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho
• “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” –Robin S. Sharma
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
• “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” –Steve Martin
• “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” –Mercedes Lackey
• “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
• “Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

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Travel has played a crucial role in human lives for millennia. These travel quotes show it can play a role in yours too.

Though we see travel through the lens of our own experiences and the world around us, the desire to spend time in a place far from home is not new. People have been traveling across countries and continents for generations.

Travel is an exciting adventure . Though some of us travel for business, many of us are motivated by vacations, which give us the opportunity to recharge, reconnect, and understand our place in the world.

Whether you’re going to a new place for a week, embarking on a gap year before college, or making a big move, we’ve got the best travel quotes to inspire you to get there.

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Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. Peter Hoeg

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

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

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

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

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. Tony Robbins

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

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

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. Anthony Bourdain

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

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

Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi

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

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Why We Travel

We know that the urge to travel, explore, and see new things is not a new one for humankind, but what encourages us to pack our bags and leave home?

Whether you go by car, on foot, by rail, or air, these travel quotes are all about the forces that drive us to go new places and seek new experiences.

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

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

The journey itself is my home . Matsuo Basho

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

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

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave. Charlotte Erikkson

To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

Focus on the journey, not the destination, joy is found not in finishing the activity, but in doing. Greg Anderson

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

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered. Kahlil Gibran

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. Isabelle Eberhardt

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Christopher McCandless

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

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

Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home. Anatole France

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed pope-mobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. Anthony Bourdain

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful , receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. Pico Iyer

Solo Journey Quotes

Traveling alone is one of the scariest and most rewarding things you can do. Going where you want, when you want, without having to account for someone else… it sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Well, yes and no.

Taking a solo trip is liberating and reminds us how responsible and accountable we can be for our actions. We get to enjoy the journey, as well as the amazement of going somewhere we’ve never been before, with no distractions or drama.

Although traveling alone can be a little lonely, it’s also a great way to build confidence . It’s worth remembering that a solo trip might also introduce us to new friends, family we didn’t know we had, or even a significant other.

Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime. Jacqueline Boone

Some journeys can be only traveled alone. Ken Poirot

Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. John Mayer

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much committed to movement as committed to transformation. Pico Iyer

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

The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude . Paul Theroux

When preparing to travel, let out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller

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

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before. Anonymous

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to new influences, to change . Katharine Butler Hathaway

To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown. Freya Stark

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. Margaret Storm Jameson

Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating thing of your life, try it at least once. Anonymous

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. Hannah Arendt

Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone. Chinese Proverb

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

Business Travel Quotes

Some of us travel more than others, and for some travel is more about obligation than enjoyment. For businesspeople who have to travel from place to place, it doesn’t seem like much of a privilege at all.

However much of an obligation traveling for work may seem, there are always ways to make it more enjoyable, fulfilling, and rewarding.

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

One thing I love about traveling for work is growing and learning out of my comfort zone. Anonymous

But my sense in speaking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. Steven Soderbergh

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… adventure is a state of mind and spirit. Jacqueline Cochran

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. David Randi

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

No one traveling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. Thorstein Veblen

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success . John D. Rockefeller

Road Trip Quotes

Taking a road trip is a quintessential American dream for many, how many of us are brave enough to jump in the car, turn on the music, and drive for thousands of miles?

If this sounds like your idea of a perfect vacation, or something you’ve always wanted to do, make this the year that you plan it and do it!

Take the time to plan out a rough guideline for your adventure. Include must-see sights, places to stay, and experiences you just can’t live without. Making space for spontaneity is important, too, for some of the best times of our lives happen when we least expect them.

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

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it. Grace Jones

I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. Walt Whitman

I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. Corinne Hoffman

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

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

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Isak Dineson

If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music. Edgar Wright

Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. Emma Chase

Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things. Victoria Erikson

Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions. Jenn McKinlay

What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip. Crestless Wave

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. Romesh Gunesekera

Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. Jon Bon Jovi

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. Miriam Toews

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Jerry Seinfeld

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place. Caleb Johnson

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. Steve Rushin

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. Aaron Lauritsen

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

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

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. Jack Kerouac

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra

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

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. Susan Magsamen

When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. Charles de Lint

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

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

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt

The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Jack Kerouac

Wherever your next trip takes you, we hope you found a quote to inspire you on your journey! And if you’ve just returned home, now may be the perfect time to start planning your next adventure.

Travel has always been a transformative experience for those who dare to do it. Visiting different places, cultures, and lands can introduce us to parts of ourself we otherwise may never know.

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There are many reasons why humans have loved to travel over the centuries. From discovering new lands to interacting with different peoples, travel really does broaden the mind. But just don’t take our word for it. We’ve pulled together 50 of the best travel quotes, from some of the greatest thinkers and explorers, which are bound to give you a serious case of wanderlust.

• Gustave Flaubert
• Henry Miller
• D.H. Lawrence
• George Bernard Shaw
• Dagobert D. Runes
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Henry David Thoreau
• Aldous Huxley
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Oscar Wilde
• Marcel Proust
• Martin Buber
• Robert Frost
• Thomas Fuller
• Paul Theroux
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• John Steinbeck
• Albert Einstein
• Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
• Cesare Pavese
• Hilaire Belloc
• Caskie Stinnett
• Charles Horton Cooley
• Herman Melville
• Elizabeth Drew
• J.R.R. Tolkein
• G.K. Chesterton
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Anatole France
• Ray Bradbury
• St Augustine
• Jack Kerouac
• Freya Stark

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

A 19th-century French novelist from Rouen, Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was considered a leading mover in realism within French literature. He's best known for his 1857 novel Madame Bovary , a portrayal of bourgeois life, which was tried by the French government on the grounds of alleged immorality – Flaubert narrowly escaped conviction.

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

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (that's right, Mark Twain was a pseudonym) was a novelist, journalist, humourist and lecturer born in Florida, Missouri, USA on November 30, 1835 (and died April 21, 1910, Redding, Connecticut). He became famous for his travel narratives such as The Innocents Abroad (1869) and for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and follow-up, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In Hartford, Connecticut, the Mark Twain House awaits your visit to learn more about the author.

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

Henry Miller was a 20th-century American writer (December 26, 1891 – June 9, 1980) who spent a large portion of his career in Paris, France. His works are based on his own life and experiences which later became characterised as fictionalised autobiography, and include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939) and Black Spring (1936). His books often had explicit and obscene content which led the way for other American writers, but also resulted in both Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn getting banned in the US for nearly three decades.

D.H. Lawrence 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.

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. He's most famous for his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), a reflection of the state of modern society under relentless industrialisation, which faced years of criticism and legal pushback for its explicit sexual content when such language was still considered taboo. D.H. Lawrence also wrote poems, plays, essays, travel books and more, making him one of the most distinguished writers of his day.

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

Born in Dublin, George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, literary critic, comic dramatist and political activist for socialism. So impressive were his contributions that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, but he refused the prize money (he had no desire for public honours). He was highly influential across generations for his wit and intelligent critiques.

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

Dagobert David Runes (January 6, 1902 – September 24, 1982) was a philosopher and author born in Zastavna, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary (now in Ukraine), emigrating to the USA in 1926. He spoke at least nine languages fluently and was friends with Albert Einstein. His most significant legacy is arguably the founding of the Philosophical Library in 1941, a US publisher specialising in philosophy, psychology, religion and history.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was an influential and highly acclaimed Austrian musical composer of the classical era. Some of his most famous compositions include the Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 41 and Requiem, among many, many others. The Mozart House in Vienna is the only former home of Mozart in Vienna that has been preserved and today serves as a museum.

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

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher and naturalist, who started his career writing nature poetry under the mentorship and friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He's one of America's most famous writers, most known for his book Walden (1854), which he wrote during a two-year stay on Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, living a simple life in a home he built for himself.

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

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English author, critic and philosopher famous for writing one of the most highly acclaimed novels of all time, Brave New World (1932), which became a base for dystopian science fiction for future writers.

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

Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister (twice) and novelist who played a central role in the formation of the modern Conservative Party. He was known as being a compelling speaker and in his second stint as Prime Minister focused on social reform, including passing laws to recognise trade unions and prevent labour exploitation.

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

Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author from Atlanta, Georgia. Two of his most highly acclaimed books were made into Oscar-nominated films: The Prince of Tides (1986) and The Great Santini (1976).

Mohamed Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.

The Prophet Mohamed (570-632) was a central figure to Islam and is considered the last prophet sent to mankind by God to present and uphold the teachings previously preached by Moses, Adam, Abraham and other prophets.

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

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an essayist, poet, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic. He was born in the US but moved to the UK when he was 25 and spent the rest of his life there. He was considered one of the best poets of the 20th century, and a leader of the Modernist poetry movement.

Kurt Vonnegut Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 — April 11, 2007) was an American writer whose career spanned 50 years and was most famous for his dark, satirical novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). His writing became known for its use of postmodern techniques, mixed with science fiction and fantasy in order to highlight the ironies of modern society.

Mark Twain 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.

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

Arguably one of the most famous literary figures of all time and known for his witty humour, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet and critic. While his most famous work is The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), he mostly wrote plays, which include The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He's just one of many famous artists, writers, and musicians, having found his final resting place on the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris , one of the city's top attractions.

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

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), was a French novelist, essayist and critic. He was influenced by the works of Gustave Flaubert (who we met earlier) and his most prominent writing was In Search of Lost Time, a seven-volume psychological and allegorical novel based on Proust's life.

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Seneca Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.

Seneca the Younger, or Seneca, full name Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and orator. He was the leading intellectual figure in the mid-1st century in Rome.

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

Martin Buber (8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was a German-Israeli religious philosopher and biblical translator. His philosophy centred on man's dialogue with other men and God, most notably expressed in his book Ich und Du or I and Thou (1923).

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

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet most admired for his depictions of life in New England. Having been unsuccessful in getting his poetry published in the US, he moved to London in the UK, where he finally gained acclaim. One of his most notable poems is The Road Not Taken , which is where our travel quote pick comes from.

Thomas Fuller If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come home a horse.

Thomas Fuller (baptized 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English scholar, preacher and prolific author, often considered extremely witty. He is most well known for History of the Worthies of England (published posthumously in 1662) and Holy State and the Profane State (1642).

Paul Theroux Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.

Paul Edward Theroux (April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, with some of his books being made into feature films. His best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), and he wrote many others, including The Old Patagonian Express (1978).

Lao Tzu A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Very little is known about Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer (who died in 533 BC in the Zhou dynasty). He was renowned for being the philosophical founder of Taoism and is said to be the writer of sacred text, Tao Te Ching . Taoism is intertwined with other schools of thought like Buddhism and Confucianism.

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

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books. He's most well known for his hugely popular books, Treasure Island (1881) and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), the latter one being loosely based on a local criminal in Edinburgh, as explained on this guided walking tour .

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

John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 — December 20, 1968) was an American author, most famous for his novel Of Mice and Men (1937). He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."

Albert Einstein I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 — April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, whose name has now become synonymous with "genius". This is due to his high intellect, having developed the theory of relativity, won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics and written more than 300 scientific papers (and more than 150 non-scientific).

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

Lisa St. Aubin de Teran 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 Terán (2 October 1953) is an English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist. She left England at age 16 and travelled before moving to her husband's home in the Andes, which influenced her award-winning first novel, Keepers of the House (1982). Now, she splits her time between the Netherlands and Mozambique where she runs the Terán Foundation, a not-for-profit working in underdeveloped villages in the country.

John Steinbeck People don't take trips... trips take people.

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

Cesare Pavese (9 September 1908 — 27 August 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He was heavily influenced by the authors whose work he translated, such as Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. His work was significant in introducing British and American writers to Italy, such as The Moon and the Bonfires (1950), and a Pavese Prize of Literature was established after his death in 1957.

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

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, known as Hilaire Belloc, (July 27, 1870 — July 16, 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian, most known for his poetry and essays. He worked as a journalist before his books Verses and Sonnets (1895) and The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (1896) launched his literary career.

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

Caskie Stinnett was an American travel editor, writer and humorist. His best known work is One Man's Island: Reflections on Maine Life from Slightly Offshore (1984).

Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association.

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

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet most famous for his classic, Moby Dick published in 1851.

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

Elizabeth Drew is an American political journalist and author, born in Ohio in 1935. She has written multiple books on politicians and the newspaper media.

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

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) – or J.R.R Tolkein as we more commonly know him – was an English writer, poet and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic book series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit , which have been made into successful feature films. Today, you can even visit the Hobbit set in New Zealand .

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

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was one of the dominating figures of the London literary scene in the early twentieth century and known for his exuberant personality. He was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator and literary critic.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Benjamin Disraeli Travel teaches toleration

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

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

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

Tim Cahill is a travel writer (born 1944) who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an "Editor at Large" for the magazine.

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

Anatole France (April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a French poet, journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers and was known for his satirical tone.

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

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction and was most famous for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

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

Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 AD – 28 August 430 AD) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.

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

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. His most well known novel is On The Road (1957), but also wrote other well-received novels such as Dharma Bums (1958) and Big Sur (1962).

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

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993), was a Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.

Pico Iyer 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.

Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer (born 11 February 1957), is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu (1988), The Lady and the Monk (1991) and The Global Soul (2000).

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Travel Quotes for Travel Inspiration

Sometimes a few simple travel quotes or phrase is all it takes to spark action in our lives.

We always welcome inspirational words, so we thought it would be fun to share some quotes that have inspired us in the past. Hopefully one or two of them give you the push you need to plan that next adventure. Enjoy!

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes 

“a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” –  john a. shedd.

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

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.” – Zig Ziglar

“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.” – Orison Swett Marden

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

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” – Anthony Bourdain

“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

“Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven

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

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

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford

“Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better” –  Simon Raven

“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.”  – Tim Cahill

More famous travel quotes to inspire you 

“to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – aldous huxley.

“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

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

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” – A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

“It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” – Buddha

“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

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

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

“Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

“When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.” – Anthony Bourdain

“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

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

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“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

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

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” – Gloria Gaither

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Gandhi

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

“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

“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

“A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person.” – Mongolian Proverb

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne  Gretzky

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

“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen

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

“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

“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain

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

What is your favourite travel quotes?

Share your favourite travel quotes in the comments section below., related posts:.

05/15/2012 at 6:21 pm

The following is from the first paragraph of Moby Dick. There are times when “normal” life no longer cuts it, when I have to go somewhere far away where the language, food, people and sights and smells are different. This quote describes the feeling that spurs me to travel…

“… Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

06/16/2012 at 1:28 pm

Thanks for sharing Jane!

05/15/2012 at 8:02 pm

Great quotes, I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

06/16/2012 at 1:29 pm

You’re welcome Kim! Good luck on your future travels – you have quite the adventure in front of you!

05/16/2012 at 3:54 am

Thanks for the great tips! I just hope a lot of people would benefit from these tips.. Anyway, thanks a lot for the thoughts!

06/16/2012 at 1:32 pm

You’re welcome Jenny! I hope 1 or 2 of these quotes inspires you to take on a new adventure

10/02/2019 at 2:25 am

Thanks jeny

05/16/2012 at 10:27 am

Great collection of inspirational quotes. Thanks for posting! Here’s one of our favorites: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ― Dorothy Parker

I like that Marla – thanks for sharing! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 10:37 am

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

06/16/2012 at 1:33 pm

Hah! That’s a good one Donna

05/16/2012 at 11:35 am

Great selection! Here’s my fav:

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

08/01/2012 at 5:12 pm

Great contribution Micki – thanks! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 11:44 am

Great quotes! I have a few that inspire me:

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. -Jane Austin

“To move, to breath, 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

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” — Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)”

“Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live…in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.” – Anatole Broyard

08/01/2012 at 5:13 pm

Awesome quotes Stacey – thanks for contributing!

05/16/2012 at 2:34 pm

Other great quotes:

“The earth is round, we shall meet” – African Proverb

“If a diploma can famously be a passport, a passport can be a diploma” – Pico Iyer. Read the rest of his wonderful essay on travel here: http://www.cmi-gear.com/tim/travels/chapter12-travel.asp

Thanks Sarah – we appreciate the contributions! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 3:02 pm

These are wonderful quotes. I like this one the best: “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya”

It reminds me of some silly movie I once saw where the actress said she loved finding herself in a city or town where she couldn’t speak the language, knew nobody, and didn’t know where she was. That defined what a good day for her was.

I liked that quote. I feel the same way.

08/01/2012 at 5:14 pm

Thanks for sharing Barbara!

05/17/2012 at 9:45 am

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

love all of these!

Thanks Britany! 🙂

05/18/2012 at 4:57 am

I love the Barbara Hoffman quote. Anyone who has driven in Kazakhstan or Senegal knows this to be so true!

Love the blog, kind regards, Si

08/01/2012 at 5:15 pm

Cheers Si! Appreciate the kind words 🙂

05/18/2012 at 9:36 am

When I think of the word travel, I don’t always associate it with exploring and being active geographically speaking but more a state of mind – a curiosity for people, life and culture.

One of the things I enjoyed whilst on the road was collecting memorable quotes from people I met in each Country. It doubled as a great trigger to remind me of the moments and people I connected with also.

05/18/2012 at 9:43 pm

Number four is my favourite. I try to remember that all the time

05/18/2012 at 10:21 pm

Great list. I love travel inspiration quotes and there’s quite a few here that are new to me. This is one I’ll have to come back to. thanks

05/19/2012 at 8:12 am

My favorite: “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free” from The Shawshank Redemption.

05/21/2012 at 1:39 pm

Love quotes! My favorite one is the Mark Twain – Explore, Dream, Discover. I’m also a huge fan of “Not all of those who wander are lost.” 🙂

Thanks for sharing!

05/21/2012 at 8:54 pm

I love this post. Some of these are quotes that I live by, while others were completely new. One of my favorite quotes (not exclusive to travel) is by Oscar Wilde, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” I truly feel the most alive when I’m traveling.

05/22/2012 at 5:28 pm

These are great quotes — I like the Zig Ziglar one, you seldom get lucky just sitting down. So true.

05/22/2012 at 8:03 pm

I love collecting travel quotes. There was a Banana Republic store in Boulder with five of the most famous travel quotes. Every time I’d walk by I’d linger and dream.

05/25/2012 at 7:27 am

Great list of quotes! Sometimes all you need is something simple and inspirational to give you a push and keep going. Thanks for sharing these!

05/25/2012 at 8:20 pm

Great collection of quotes, but that photo stole the show…incredible…

05/26/2012 at 5:02 am

These are rather nice .. Truly this are inspiring .. i travel a lot but the problem is i don’t find people who are free to go alone ..

05/26/2012 at 10:52 am

I love reading travel quotes. Thanks for introducing me to a few new ones. I like this one, “We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

05/28/2012 at 8:51 am

Great quotes! Reading these is getting me excited for my summer travel plans.

06/01/2012 at 1:21 pm

I do agree with Mark Twain in the first quote above. And I like this post generally. I actually had a really great time reading this. What’s your favorite travel quote? Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing this.

06/03/2012 at 2:44 pm

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. (Tim Cahill in the book Road Fever)

06/12/2012 at 6:11 am

Everybody would be inspired to travel reading this collection of travel quotes.

07/05/2012 at 1:15 am

That is true Christina…. For sure everyone will definitely inspire to travel after reading these travel quotes.

06/16/2012 at 1:57 pm

Love all your choices!

Another one:

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world: cut adrift from every connection; uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it.” – Jane Eyre

06/22/2012 at 1:38 am

I love reading travel quotes. Truly this are inspiring … i travel a lot but the problem is i don’t find people who are free to go alone …

06/29/2012 at 8:05 am

I love traveling and those wonderful quotes make me excited to go somewhere beautiful place 🙂 Thnx for the delightful quotes!

07/04/2012 at 8:57 am

Thanks for sharing this! Loved reading the quotes… makes us excited for our travels! Happy travel and we hope to read more great content from you guys.

07/18/2012 at 6:49 am

May I add a couple of more from Mark Twain?

Mark Twain wrote:

…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

– Letter to San Francisco Alta California newspaper, dated May 18th, 1867; published June 23, 1867

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.

– Innocents Abroad

07/18/2012 at 7:32 am

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Hope, one feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood. . . . A journey, in fact, appeals to the Imagination, to Memory, to Hope,—the three sister Graces of our moral being.

—Sir Richard Burton, Zanzibar (London, 1872), vol. 1, pp. 16-17

08/13/2012 at 6:32 pm

Great quotes! Very inspiring.

08/16/2012 at 12:26 pm

“A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person.” Old Mongolian Proverb

09/20/2012 at 12:18 pm

Actually, #27 is my favorite travel quote! 🙂

09/15/2013 at 10:12 am

My favourite quotes are from an Italian Travel writer: Tiziano Terzani. If you get the chance to read one of his books you’ll love him!

10/12/2013 at 9:32 pm

Thanks for sharing! My favorite: Though we tavel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

03/27/2014 at 5:07 am

I love the quote from St. Augustine : “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

04/09/2015 at 6:28 pm

I am so inspired to travel! I love number 2, its so blunt but so very true.

04/19/2017 at 1:36 pm

Mark Twain has always been a writer I’ve thoroughly enjoy and aspire to become like. His thoughts are timelines. His stories are thought provoking. And most of all he lived a life well-lived. So, out of this list his quote is the one that I find the best when it comes to living not just traveling.

04/30/2019 at 12:53 am

Really inspirational and motivational. Specially like “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”.

05/11/2019 at 11:46 pm

Thanks for the great tips! I just hope a lot of people would benefit from these tips. I appreciate your effort.

06/12/2019 at 8:31 am

A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is by – Simon Raven “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” Looking forward to hearing from you more

04/28/2020 at 2:42 am

A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is by – Simon Raven “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” Looking forward to hearing from you more

07/15/2020 at 1:35 am

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Its my favourite one. I have it on my profile on worldee.com. Thank you for article.

08/06/2020 at 1:48 am

Great post there had fun reading it. anyway my favourite is It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end

09/30/2022 at 10:07 am

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 It’s my favorite quotation. I always try to follow it. It gives me a lot of inspiration.

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Hey, you know what's great about travel quotes? They're the perfect addition to a travel agent's social media content. So if you are tired of the same old "pack your bags and go" travel quotes on your social media feed? Let's mix it up, shall we?

As a travel agent, your social media presence is a reflection of your brand, and what better way to show off your passion for adventure than with some seriously inspiring travel quotes?

Another reason to consider adding inspiring travel quotes to your marketing mix... Inspiration gets engagement! People absolutely love them... it's a social media marketing fact that is no longer a secret, so get to using them! If you're looking for more details on how to market yourself and grow your travel business, be sure to check out this blog too:  The Ultimate Guide to Social Media Content for Travel Agents

That's why we've rounded up 50 of the best, most awe-inspiring quotes to add some pep to your posts and show the world just how much wanderlust is in your heart.

So sit back, grab a notepad, and get ready to sprinkle some wanderlust magic all over your feed!

50 inspiring travel quotes every travel agent should be using

• "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine
• "Jet lag is for amateurs." - Dick Clark
• "The best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end." - Kate Spade
• "Travel far, travel wide, and travel often." - Unknown
• "Life is short and the world is wide." - Unknown
• "Adventure awaits." - Unknown
• "Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer." - Unknown
• "I travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape me." - Anonymous
• "Travel is the only thing you can buy that is worth its weight in memories." - Unknown
• "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius
• "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
• "The world is a canvas, and travel is the paintbrush." - Unknown
• "The journey, not the destination, matters." - T.S. Eliot
• "Life is an adventure, embrace it." - Unknown
• "Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you happier." - Unknown
• "Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure." - Unknown
• "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag
• "The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands." - Sir Richard Burton
• "The world is your playground." - Unknown
• "Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell." - Unknown
• "Take only memories, leave only footprints." - Chief Seattle
• "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it's too late." - John Muir
• "I travel for the memories I can't put into words." - Unknown
• "We travel to find ourselves." - Unknown
• "I travel for the experience, not just the destination." - Unknown
• "Travel is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "To travel is to live." - Hans Christian Andersen
• "Let's wander where the wifi is weak." - Unknown
• "Travel brings power and love back into your life." - Rumi
• "Go where the wifi is weak, and the heart is strong." - Unknown
• "Traveling is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer." - Unknown
• "Life is a journey, make the most of it." - Unknown
• "Travel is the only way to see the world from a different perspective." - Unknown
• "Let's wander where the wifi is nonexistent, and life is rich." - Unknown
• "Travel far, travel well." - Unknown
• "The world is a big place, go explore it." - Unknown
• "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light." - Yoga Mantra
• "Let's explore the world and leave a little bit of sparkle everywhere we go." - Unknown
• "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." - Tim Cahill
• "Travel is the only thing you can do that makes you feel young again." - Dick Clark
• "The journey is the reward." - Unknown
• "The world is a big place, full of adventures waiting to happen." - Unknown

"The world is a collection of stories, go out and create yours." - Unknown

"One of the great joys of travel is discovering new and beautiful things." - Rick Steves

  "Travel is the best education." - Rick Steves

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

  "The memories you make while traveling last a lifetime." - Unknown

  "Travel is the only thing you can do that makes you feel truly alive." - Unknown

  "Life is short, travel often." - Unknown

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

Alright, so to wrap it all up - by adding some travel quote magic to your social media content, you're basically giving your brand that extra spark of inspiration and personality. These quotes can really resonate with your audience and draw in even more wanderlust-filled followers.

And let's be real, the world is a pretty rad place, and these 50 quotes we shared just scratch the surface of capturing all that adventure-filled awesomeness. So go ahead, choose your faves and share away! Who knows, you might just inspire someone to book their next adventure with you.

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Most travelers trying to keep frugality in mind when planning summer travel: Experian

Travelers plan to use credit cards most often when booking travel.

High inflation is causing travelers to stick to a budget when planning road trips.  ( iStock )

Summer travel is heating up with the weather, but consumers are weary about spending too much. Nearly 71% of consumers blame inflation for impacting their road trip plans, an Experian survey found .

A majority of survey respondents planned to spend an average of $1,000 on their trips this summer. Road trippers plan to spend the most on gas and accommodations.

Auto insurance rates are also impacting travelers. Three out of four respondents to Experian’s survey are worried their rates will increase in the next year. This concern that rates will rise is causing a third of respondents to shop around for auto insurance.

States with higher insurance rates have the highest percentage of drivers looking to switch. About 14% of drivers looking to switch live in Texas and 11% live in Florida.

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CONSUMERS DISCOURAGED BY HIGH INTEREST RATES AND DETERIORATING FINANCIAL HEALTH: STUDY

Many consumers plan to use their credit cards to pay for travel this summer

Most travelers don’t plan to use cash to pay for their traveling this summer. Credit cards are the most preferred method of payment, according to a PYMNTS study .

About 69% of those planning to travel will use their credit cards for at least part of their accommodations. The rewards and cash back programs offered through their credit cards are the most popular reason consumers choose credit cards over other payment methods. Cash flow management and accessibility are two other major reasons travelers opt for credit cards.

While a majority of travelers choose credit cards, 59% use debit cards and 57% choose cash to pay for their travels.

PYMNT’s data also focused on the financial picture of travelers. Higher credit scores indicate a higher inclination to travel. About 57% of high credit borrowers have summer travel plans, slightly higher than the 51% of those with mid-level scores or low credit scores. 

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CREDIT CARD USAGE IS UP AS INFLATION CONTINUES TO RISE

Younger generations are willing to travel and spend more on live events

Travelers from all generations are attempting to be more frugal with their travel plans this summer, but millennials and Gen Z are more willing to spend in one area: live events. Gen Zers in particular are willing to splurge on concerts, sporting events and other live events, a AAA and Bread Financial report found .

About 65% of Gen Zers and 58% of millennials have or plan to travel within the next 12 months for in-person entertainment that is at least 50 miles from home, signaling a willingness to spend extra on travel. Just 43% of Gen X and 27% of baby boomers are willing to do the same.

Many Gen Zers are even willing to travel more than 1,500 miles to attend these events. Twice as many Gen Zers in the study said that they’d be willing to travel this far, compared to just 9% of baby boomers.

"Younger generations are leading the charge when it comes to a shift in consumer spending habits surrounding live event travel," Paula Twidale, senior vice president of AAA Travel explained. "Gen Z and Millennial travelers are taking their trips to the next level by going farther and spending more than other generations for live events. They don’t want to miss out and will do what it takes to see their favorite artist, sports team, or other live event in person," said Twidale.

Not only are younger generations willing to shell out more money for travel, but also for the tickets themselves. About two in five Gen Zers and millennial travelers paid between $500 and $5,000+ for just tickets. Dipping into savings is no problem for these generations when it comes to live events in particular. Some would even consider taking on a side hustle to pay for any concerts or shows they’re interested in.

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MORE THAN A THIRD OF GEN Z, MILLENNIALS SEEK HELP FROM THEIR PARENTS TO AFFORD A HOUSE DOWN PAYMENT

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