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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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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

It’s not a matter of where, but when. Time is precious and my time spent living and experience the cultures of this world is what I lust for. This is why I created this website, to share true, genuine experiences and not just typical touristy info. Travel, the love of coffee , and food!

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Every Travel Quote Ever

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

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

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adventure Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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157 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 157 of the best travel quotes, including some famous ones 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 motivating!

Table of Contents show 157 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  

157 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 think when you travel as much as I have, I don’t want to say I’m more humble, but I think you become aware of how other people live, how hard their lives are, how big the world is.

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.

Who wouldn’t travel, if they could? It’s unthinkable to me. Who wouldn’t want to enjoy different, new sensations, especially when the world is filled with so much great stuff? I like new things. I like to feel good. I like learning about stuff. It makes me happy. I like being wrong about stuff.

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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150 Best & Inspirational Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Last Updated on: Sep 16, 2018  

Are you looking for travel quotes and travel captions for Instagram? You have come to the right place. Everyone needs a bit of motivation and inspiration now and then. Words have the power to make changes and shift perspectives. A wonderful travel quote is sometimes the best way to get inspired. We love to read travel quotes! The explorers and adventurers of yore have given us much food for thought in the form of best travel quotes, Instagram captions and inspirational travel quotes!

Here are some inspirational travel quotes about journey, adventure, friends and destinations and some famous travel quotes from movies. From explorers of the past to modern-day gurus, we have tried to cover a few of our favourite and best travel quotes.  It might make you pack your bags and set out to see the world around you. For those who have already been bitten by the travel bug, some extra stimulation doesn’t hurt! Finally, even if not travel, these sayings might inspire you to come out of your comfort zone and do something that you are born to do!

And yes, you can use these awesome travel captions for Instagram as well!

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Inspirational Travel Quotes & Captions for Instagram

1. When was the last time you did something for the first time. – John C. Maxwell

This travel quote inspires us to do all the crazy stuffs we have done. I am very scared of water. Agni simply inspires me with this quote before I go all out for any water sports. Before doing the scuba diving at Andaman , I was out of my wits. But I did it. Be it playing with the snow at Tsomgo Lake near Gangtok or shouting at top of our lungs at the Rupin Pass summit, we try to do things that we have not done before.

2. 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

Travel for the simple joy of it. Not for the reasons like peer pressure, getting the best social media posts or simply because everyone is doing so. There is a subtle joy in the journey. Travel without prejudice and without being judgmental .

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

Only when you see the mighty mountains, the vastness of the seas and the magnanimity of nature, only then you can truly understand our place in the world. Travel has made us grow, it has made us grateful and humble – something no other thing could have done.

5. 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

This is perhaps one of the best quotes by Bourdain . It portrays all that is true about travelling without glorifying the glamour that is associated with travel these days. Travel is not about the perfect Instagram pictures where ladies sway around in their beautiful looking dresses and men looks perfect in with their six-pack abs. Travel is not only about taking the perfect sunset photos. Travel is not about glamour and fashion. Travel is anything but all these.

The photographs that you see everywhere are the best ones. Even this blog puts up only the best ones. But there are moments in travel that are not that great. There are long queues, missed flights, no sleep, dirty toilets and other mishaps. But whatever the experience is, good or bad, it shapes us into the person we are .

6. 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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.― Mark Twain

Yes, I had been waiting long for the perfect moment to do what I loved to. That moment actually never came until I realized that each moment is perfect for doing the thing I love. You just have to start off, begin the journey. Rest all will fall into place. This happens to be one of my favourite travel quotes.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. – Ernest Hemingway

12. All men dream, but no 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. -T.E. Lawrence

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

14. Travelling is 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

15. 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

You cannot really sit at a corner and learn about the world and its people. Mark Twain has such great insight into travel and it shows in his quotes.

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

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

18. 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

Do not lose you sense of wonder. Marvel in the little joys of life. Not only it will mak you travel better, but also your life. Nothing can beat the thrill of travelling for us. We are happiest when we are travelling and exploring the world.

19. 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

20. There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson

21. The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

22. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The quote by Erick Widman is directed to all those who have forgotten the simple joys of travelling while trying to capture and document the destinations. Once in a while, put away the camera or phone, stop taking down notes, and simply soak in the place.

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

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

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

Best Travel Quotes Showing the Importance of Travel

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

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

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

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

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

We totally agree with Michener. If we do not meet new people, reject their customs and traditions, we better remain at home. If e choose to live in our own castle, then it is no point in travelling to a new place. You can simply do that by a flick of a channel nowadays. We travel to meet new people, experience a new culture and taste various cuisine. And of course, in all our explorations, respect the people and their traditions .

Short Travel Quotes & Travel Captions for Instagram

32. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

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

The famous Moroccan scholar and explorer had widely travelled the medieval. His thirty years of journey has been chronicled in A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling.

While travelling, we are often wonderstruck at the beauty of the nature or cultural heritage of the place. There are times we think that that we can neither express these feelings by words, nor can capture the marvel on camera. But travelling has its own way of expression. It finds its way through the words of the traveller and we, ordinary people become extraordinary storytellers .

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

35. The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. – Wallace Stevens

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

37. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. To travel isto take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye

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

40. The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.

41. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson

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

43. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. – Frank Borman

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

45. Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. – Robert Orben

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

47. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. – Izaak Walton

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

49. All you need to know is that it’s possible. – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

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

51. Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. – Anonymous

52. The goal is to die with memories not dreams

53. Live your life by a compass not a clock. – Stephen Covey

54. Collect moments, not things. – Anonymous

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

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

57. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. – T. S. Eliott

58. What is life but one grand adventure? – Unknown

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

We love this quote by Coelho. Well, money does make things easier and we need it to visit places. But even with all the money in the world we will not be able to travel if don’t have the courage to go out of our comfort zone.

59. It is better to travel well than to arrive. – Buddha

60. Backpacking is money spent on Education.

61. Veni Vidi Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved. – Roman proverb.

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

63. There are seven days in a week and “someday” isn’t one of them. – Benny Lewis

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

65. Spontaneity is what travel is all about. – Zach Anner

66. Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde has summarized life and travel so well in this small line.

67. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

68. Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. – Bob Bitchin

69. I’m in love. Again. How on earth do people pick a favourite travel spot? – Jen Malone.

70. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – W.B. Yeats

71. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

Funny Travel Quotes

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

This is perhaps one of the most appropriate quote of current times. With so much political confusion and religious hatred all around, it is very easy to form an opinion about a place and its people. Travel, because it is by visiting the place, you will come to know how wrong an opinion you had of that country!

73. I always want to wear flip flops, but my boss doesn’t like it…guess, I’ve to travel then!

74. Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.

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

76. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. – Robert Benchley

77. I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal! – Jarod Kintz

78. You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux

79. All you need is love a passport.

80. There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous. – Theo Cowan

81. Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place and very little different from becoming a parcel. – John Ruskin

82. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. – Ed Viesturs

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

Top Journey Quotes – Life is a journey after all!

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

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

This is the motto that we follow while travelling. We do have a rough plan in mind, but we are always flexible. Who knows that there might be one more beauty just round the corner that is not written in the guidebooks? When we travelled to Nepal, we completely overhauled our travel itinerary only to see the BistekJatra and SindurJatra at Bhakatpur. And believe me, it was an amazing experience.

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

87. A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. – Pico Iyer

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

89. 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

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

If we had to worry about the mishaps that might happen on road, then we probably could never have travelled. Even when we started travelling together, I never used to worry much about what might happen on the road. The joy of discovering the new path, crazier experiences always made me excited before a trip. Hoffman has just hit the nail on head with this quote.

91. 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

93. Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing. – Gayle Foreman

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

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

The quote by Seattle holds true even more nowadays. This one should be followed by all. Travelling is about making memories and not throwing your trash; Clean and green environment always helps

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

Though we do not believe in lists, but we totally agree with Susan Sontag. We do not know whether we will be ever able to complete our list in this lifetime, but we do not lose hope. Given a chance, we will visit everywhere!

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

John Green just resonates my feeling. Agni and I totally love to meet new people, talk to them and share life stories with each other.

98. 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

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

Travel Quotes from Movies

100. Carpe Diem. Seize the Days boys. Make your lives extraordinary. – Dead Poets Society

101. Live moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

102. So, do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone. – Saito, Inception

103. You get only one life. Its actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. – Will Traynor, Me Before You

104. The core of man’s spirit comes from new experiences. – Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild

105. I think if you wanted to you could board the train. And where it would take me? On. – Dumbledore and Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

106. I didn’t know where I was going until I got there. – Cheryl Strayed, Wild

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

108. I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And most surprising of all, that I could carry it. – Wild

109. I would rather have 30 minutes of “wonderful” than a lifetime of nothing special. – Shelby, Steel Magnolias

110. Life is about courage and going into the unknown. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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

Winnie the Pooh just steals my heart with this quote. And I always keep telling this to Agni while reminiscing the first time we met!

112. I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. – Jack Dawson, Titanic

Some Other Famous Travel Quotes

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

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

115. Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. – Mercedes Lackey

116. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

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

118. Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you. – Ewan McGregor

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

120. 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

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

122. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. – Mark Twain

123. 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

124. 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

125. A wise traveller never despises his own country. – William Hazlitt

126. I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. – Laurel Clark

127. 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

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

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

130. Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels. – Nikos Kazantzakis

131. You get educated by travelling. – Solange Knowles

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

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

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

135. 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

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

137. The more we travelled, the more we learnt new things. More boundaries were broken, horizons broaden. Once you have travelled, you cannot go back to the confined cubicle of yours.

138. The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

139. 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

140. Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. – Rick Steves

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

142. Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. – Santosh Kalvar

143. 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

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

145. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber

146. TRAVEL!! Before you run out of time…

147. Travel far enough to meet yourself – David Mitchell

148. An investment in travel is an investment into yourself – Matthew Karsten

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

150. Cover the earth before it covers you. – Dagobert D. Runes

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117 Best Travel Quotes in History

Travel quotes can best be described by Isaac D’Israeli, who noted that, “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

In no more than a sentence, a quote can capture much of spirit and desire which makes so many people want to go out and explore.

In addition to the best travel quotes below, I’ve also provided my own commentary on some of the quotes, offering my perspective after 11 years of traveling around the world. I hope you find these travel quotes inspiring and use them to help further traveling the world for the rest of your life!

1. “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

Author Robert Louis Stevenson practiced what he preached. Born in Scotland , he died in Samoa and I had the honor of visiting his tomb. He traveled halfway around the world to live on an island that few people at the time, or even today, have even heard of.

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

Frey Stark was a travel writer who traveled extensively in the Middle East and wrote several books about her adventures. She lived to the age of 100 and lived an incredible life. Only someone as well traveled as she can know the freedom and exhilaration of waking up someplace you have never been before.

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

This quote comes from the 1928 book, “Salt from My Attic.” Fear is the single greatest thing stopping people from traveling more. Even if staying at home can reduce your risk, that doesn’t mean you should stay home. Humans are explorers and we have the spirit of exploration inside all of us. Staying at home your whole life makes you as useful as a ship that goes nowhere.

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

If you haven’t traveled before, you will not understand the truth of this quote. There are certain cities which have a unique smell and the moment I smell it, I know I am there. Bangkok has a unique smell. Many European cities do as well. It might come from many sources including street food, sewage, pollution, flowers, and people. Stories and images can easily be shared, but smells are something which is only for those who actually travel.

5. “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

When I hear people who complain or object to people in other countries, my first question is always “when were you last there?”. Almost always, their answer is “I’ve never been there”. It is easy to develop prejudices from afar, but it is difficult to do when you have met these people and have looked them in the eye.

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

Aldous Huxley, the author of a Brave New World, knew that to truly understand something, you need to see it for yourself. All of the books and experts in the world are no substitute for actually going somewhere and seeing it for yourself.

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

Francis Bacon was a philosopher who lived in the 15th and 16th Century in England . He was influential in the development of the Scientific Revolution. I’ve met people in their 20’s who have been traveling and I have met people in their 90s. Even though they might get different things out of travel, travel has something for everyone.

8. “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

After traveling around the world for 3 years, I returned to my home country and I was a very different experience. After seeing so many different places, it made my look at my own country in a totally different light. It is a perspective I never would have had if it wasn’t for travel.

9. “I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” – David Attenborough

At the end of the day, we travel to go places. Few people truly wander aimlessly. They travel to a destination and for a purpose. Airports and hotels are not the purposes of traveling. They are simply the means to the end of being able to see the rest of the world.

10. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

The ideas of acceptance and toleration are a common theme in travel quotations. Benjamin Disraeli was the British Prime Minister in the 19th Century who understood that the only way to tolerate other ideas and beliefs is to encounter them in the course of traveling. If you never go anywhere, it is hard to understand why other people behave and believe what they do.

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

Samuel Johnson was an 18th Century British writer. I can confirm what he says first hand. I’ve seen small things in my travels, from light switches to toilets, which I’ve often wondered “why don’t we do that?” Humanity has advanced through the millennia by exchanging goods and most importantly, ideas. As good ideas flow from culture to culture, everyone’s life improves.

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

I’ve had plan journeys which have taken more than 2 days to get from place to place when you include all the flights and layovers. While I hate it at the time, I often look back on them and realize it was the difficulty in getting somewhere which made the end all that much better.

13. “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

This is one of the popular and widely cited travel quotes in history. Saint Augustine lived in the 4th and 5th Century and lived in northern Africa and Italy. In an age when few people traveled more than a few kilometers from where they were born, Augustine saw more of the world than all but a few people during his life.

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

In Tolkien’s Middle Earth universe, the Hobbits were quiet people who shunned any sort of travel. That made the characters of Bilbo and Frodo that much more heroic given the culture which they came from. Likewise, I came from a family which never traveled much. I never left North American until I was 29 years old and I never even saw salt water until I was 21! Just because you come from a place where people don’t travel much, doesn’t mean you have to as well.

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

Proust was a French novelist in the 19th Century. He knew that the transformative changes which travel brings are the greatest gift of travel.

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

Even though Lao Tzu lived 2,500 years before me, I found out learned what he meant. Early in my travels, I learned to keep my plans flexible and to not keep too rigid of a schedule. You never know what you will encounter when you are on the road, and keeping things flexible allows you to discover things you might never have.

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

Without getting into a discussion of tourists vs travelers, there is certainly a difference in how people can view the world when they travel. Many people will only see what they want to see and will try to make their experiences conform to their worldview. Others will be open to experiencing and learning what the world has to offer and shape their worldview around it.

18. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

Euripides was an ancient Greek playwright. Even more than 2,000 years ago he knew that travel was the greatest school in the world. I have learned more in the years I have been traveling than I have in the rest of my life combined. Every day you are traveling, you are learning something new.

19. “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

John Hope Franklin was a 20th Century historian. Like Euripides, he knew that learning wasn’t confined to textbooks and classrooms.

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

This is a quote from a well-known poem, but most people don’t consider the travel implications of it. There are a small number of places which tend to get all of the visitors. A few major cities and resort areas get the vast majority of tourists. However, the best experiences I’ve had traveling were in places which hardly anyone ever visits.

21. “Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” – W. H. Auden

Traveling is all about stories and storytelling. That is why so much of travel throughout history has been conveyed through writing. Travel photography is certainly a popular art form, you are usually capturing the place or destination, not the actual act of traveling.

22. “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor” – Seneca

Writers often go somewhere new to get inspiration. Being somewhere new invigorates you in a way that being a home cannot. Even though I’ve been to over 130 countries, I still feel energized when I visit someplace new.

23. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel

Daranna Gidel is an author whose novels often contain a travel component. She knew that when we travel, we tend to focus on what matters and lose the distractions which otherwise rob of us focus in our lives.

24. “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

25. “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany

26. “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

27. “Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.” – Yogi Berra

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

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

30. “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller

31. “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

32. “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

33. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

34. “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

35. “After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.” – Jim Harrison

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

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

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

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

40. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

41. “Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour

42. “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

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

44. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

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

46. “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

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

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

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

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

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

52. “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

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

54. “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

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

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

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

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

59. “Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine

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

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

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

63. “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

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

65. “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

66. “Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.” — Howard Gardner

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

68. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

69. “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” – Britney Spears

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

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

72. “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

73. “There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!” – Brähmann

74. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” – Richard Burton

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

76. “He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” – Sinclair Lewis

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

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

79. “I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.” – Philip Glass

80. “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Andre Gide

81. “Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections.” – Augustus Hare

82. “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” – Martin Yan

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

84. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there”. – Yogi Berra

85. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Genest

86. “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

87. “Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” – Sargent Shriver

88. “To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.” – Philip Andrew Adams

89. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide

90. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

91. “In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.” – Ivanka Trump

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

93. “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

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

95. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Pamela Goldoni

96. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

97. “Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.” – Robin Leach

98. “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

99. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” – Norma Shearer

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

101. “If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport”. – George Winters

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

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

104. “No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzi

105. “While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.” – Anne Tyler

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

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

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

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

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

111. “There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.” – Thomas Wolfe

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

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

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

115. “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

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

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

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes to Ignite the Wanderlust in You

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As a child gazing at a world map, I would daydream about exploring every exotic shore on the horizon. However, embarking on my first transatlantic journey revealed how challenging travel can also be. From navigating unforeseen obstacles to trying new foods, each foray away from home transforms us.

Travel expands perspectives, unravels preconceived notions, and illuminates the rich tapestry of global cultures. These inspirational travel quotes capture the allure of discovering new places, overcoming adversity, and the personal growth inspired by our journeys. May the words ignite your own wanderlust spirit and send you voyaging to far-flung realms!

Key Takeaways:

The call of distant shores: travel quotes about new destinations, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tzu.

The Chinese philosopher highlights how even vast undertakings like world travel start small, with courage and intention. His wisdom inspired me to take my first solo trip to Asia . Though daunting, those initial steps created a path to the most rewarding experience of my life.

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

After hiking through jaw-dropping Yosemite Valley , I understood what Flaubert meant. Surrounded by towering granite cliffs and sequoia trees, I felt small yet connected to the grandeur of nature. Travel humbles and exhilarates us.

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Publilius Syrus

The ancient writer cautions that travel alone does not guarantee growth. We must approach our journeys with open minds, curiosity to learn, and critical thinking. Travel reveals our true natures.

“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

Twain’s humor gets at a truth – sharing transport and living quarters reveals a travel companion’s character. Challenging situations will expose their integrity, patience, and problem-solving. Choose wisely for smooth journeys.

Embracing the Path Less Trodden: Quotes on Travel and Adventure

“life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller.

Despite blindness and deafness, travel gave Keller fascinating insights into human nature, heightened her remaining senses, and broadened her worldview. She encourages us not to let fear limit our adventurous sides.

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

Many associate wandering with aimlessness. But as Bilbo Baggins of The Hobbit discovered, sometimes finding your way requires getting intentionally lost and following where the road takes you.

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

No description or photo can ever match being enveloped by the damp heat of the Borneo jungle or deafened by the volcanic eruption in Tonga I witnessed. Some moments must be lived firsthand – so get out there!

“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous

While trying new foods could cause belly issues and hiking the Inca Trail knee aches, staying within our comfort zones can actually shrink our worlds. When we stop challenging ourselves, we stop living and learning.

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

This line from On the Road captures the restless spirit of adventure – to throw caution to the wind and risk it all for the freedom of the open road, come what may. It’s a siren call that tugs at every true wanderer’s soul.

The Gifts of the Journey: Quotes on the Benefits of Travel

“the more i traveled, the more i realized that fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” – shirley maclaine.

MacLaine aptly expresses how travel breaks down the barriers between us, laying bare our common humanity. Prejudices seem to fade when we actually connect with people .

“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage

This quote perfectly captures the sense of returning from a journey feeling more full as a person, with a bank of indelible memories and learnings to enrich daily life. Travel indeed widens our mental horizons.

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustinus Sanctus

By staying home, we deprive ourselves of the fuller story and limit our knowledge of history, cultures, geographies, cuisines, languages, and more. Travel lets us read every chapter.

“Untouched by the customs and complexities of man, nature patiently waits to unleash her wonders on those who seek adventure.” – Pippa de Bruyn

De Bruyn inspires us to venture into remote corners where, free from human influence, nature surprises and rejuvenates the spirit. My trans-Siberian train journey through the stark Mongolian wilderness quenched my thirst for the rawness of the elements.

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Through constantly navigating new cultures, terrains, people, and languages, travel expands our competence and knowledge. Tackling each unfamiliar situation shapes us through experience. We return home as expanded versions of ourselves.

Unveiling the World’s Secrets: Quotes About Exploring New Places

“a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – oliver wendell holmes, jr..

Holmes reveals how the insights gained through travel permanently change our psychology and worldview. After living in Mumbai , the poverty sharpened my gratitude and showed me how joy transcends wealth. My perspective forever transformed.

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

This quote by the great naturalist makes me think of one of the joys of map-gazing as a child – imagining how much was out there to discover. Muir inspires us to seize the daylight and set off on the ultimate adventure – exploring the planet.

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

The ancient Taoist master understood the magic that happens when travelers remain open to evolving journeys. Chance encounters, spontaneity and newfound freedom await those who let the journey unfold organically.

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

This reminder to tread lightly and respectfully should guide all travels. We take home cherished memories that enrich the soul. What we leave behind is our responsibility. From picking up trash to supporting local businesses, we vote with our actions to protect destinations.

The Tapestry of Global Traditions: Quotes About Different Cultures

“when we reject the single story, when we realize there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.” – chimamanda ngozi adichie.

Nigerian writer Adichie warns about the danger of a “single story” stereotype dominating perceptions of a people or place. By listening directly to locals’ multidimensional stories with empathy, we gain a nuanced cross-cultural understanding.

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

Twain perfectly expresses how living within diverse cultures expands minds and dissolves ingrained biases. Experiential learning fills gaps left by classroom lessons alone. This quote serves as my ongoing anthem for cultivating empathy through travel.

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

Here the author highlights the out-of-body experience of observing one’s own culture from afar for the first time. In a loose sense, travel introduces you to yourself within the tapestry of global diversity. These reflections foster personal growth.

Triumphs on the Trail: Quotes About Overcoming Travel Challenges

“the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.

The French novelist illuminates that transformative travel is not just about seeing sights but gaining new perspectives. Visiting the pyramids shifted my perception of “old” from a negative to a sense of awe about human endurance.

Journeys That Shape Us: Quotes About Travel’s Transformative Power

“travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – anonymous.

This quote elegantly captures how travel enriches us far beyond a monetary value. The memories, knowledge, confidence, friendships, and personal growth sparked by travel develop the spirit in priceless ways.

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

Such a profound distinction – travel engages us far beyond the fleeting pleasures of a vacation. When we open ourselves to unfamiliar people and places, we open doors to transformation.

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

By testing ourselves in unfamiliar environments, the grit of travel reveals our true natures and we gain clearer self-knowledge. My solo backpacking trip helped me shed limiting beliefs about my introversion and capabilities.

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

Beyond sites seen, travel reveals humanity’s connective tissue. The shared joy and tribulations forge fast friendships. I still visit those I met on my very first hostel trip decades ago – they feel like old souls.

Timeless Travel Tales: Quotes on Creating Lasting Memories

“to travel is to live.” – hans christian andersen.

This pithy quote sums it up – immersing ourselves in new places and cultures makes us feel truly alive. Vibrant sights, sounds, and connections create indelible memories that enrich life after the journey ends.

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

Quindlen’s quote reflects how travel allows us to reinvent ourselves and craft new narratives. Career woman becomes nomad. Homebody tastes street food. Daily routines give way to unexpected adventures and discovery.

“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground.” – Paul Bowles

Eloquently put – there is no substitute for personally experiencing the textures and flavors of a place. Travel transforms foreign lands from abstractions into cherished memories that forge human connections.

Lessons Learned on the Road: Quotes About Personal Growth from Travel

“traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – peter hoeg.

The heightened novelty and stress of navigating new places often intensify reactions. Trips reveal the deepest aspects of relationships and force personal evolution at an accelerated pace.

“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

Keightley describes the awakening – travel liberates us from cultural conditioning and societal expectations. We relinquish roles to rediscover our authentic selves and what truly matters.

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

T.S. Eliot reminds us that the magic happens along the open road, with each twist and turn expanding our horizons – not just upon reaching the destination. Travel is about embracing the process, not the outcome.

The Essential Expedition: Quotes About Why Travel Matters

“travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – paulo coehlo.

While finances impact possibilities, at its core, travel demands the courage to venture beyond the familiar and comfortable. As Coehlo says, daring to explore opens our lives and selves.

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

Michener makes clear that keeping an open mind and embracing cultural differences are prerequisites for meaningful travel that fosters human kinship.

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

By absorbing the diversity of life in unfamiliar realms, we enrich our perspectives and grayscale turns technicolor. Staying put closes the book while travel turns every page.

May these quotes ignite your lifelong quest to boldly venture beyond horizons, open minds to humanity’s mosaic, and discover more authentic selves. Keep collecting inspiring passages to reflect upon while lacing up your boots before the next journey that calls you.

Which travel quote resonates most deeply with your own wanderlust spirit? Share your favorites to keep motivating fellow travelers and explorers.

I know what it's like to go from being a crazy backpacker without a care in the world, via being a vaguely sensible parent to being an adventurer once more. In other words, evolving into a Grown-up Traveller.

Like everyone else, I love to travel, have visited a lot of countries and all that but my big thing is Africa.

I also own and run The Grown-up Travel Company as a travel designer creating personalised African itineraries for experienced adventurers

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Best Travel Quotes – 127 Inspirational Travel Quotes For Your Next Trip

Are you looking for some travel inspiration? You’re in luck. Here are 127 of the most inspirational (and) best travel quotes, complete with numerous detailed explanations. 

I've hand-selected each of these for my list of best travel quotes because in the past they've either inspired me to hit the road or helped me to see the world anew. And they can do the same for you. All you've got to do is scroll down and start reading (you can use this handy Table of Contents to make this list a bit easier to explore).

127 of the Best Travel Quotes Table of Contents

The Best Short Travel Quotes The Best Funny Travel Quotes The Best Inspirational Travel Quotes The Best Travel Quotes About Overcoming Fear The Best Wise Travel Quotes

Best Short Travel Quotes

1.)   " Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. " - Jaime Lyn Beatty

Making the decision to seek adventure and feed your soul is not always easy.  Some people will tell you to save your money while others will tell you to stop messing around. Ignore them; you’re the one that has to live your life, after all.  The satisfaction you get from knowing you’ve invested in experiences that help you grow will make everything worth it. Read more...

2.) " I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. " - George Bernard Shaw

3.) " Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. " - Erol Ozan

Whatever the circumstances, I’ve learned through personal experience that difficult travel moments—however uncomfortable they initially may be—are almost always beneficial. In fact, I now go out of my way to place myself in settings that force me to rethink how I live, what I believe, and how I act. Next time you have the opportunity to stray from your ordinary path in life, do it. You never know what wonderful things lay outside the borders of the everyday until you explore for yourself. Read more...

4.) " Remember that happiness is a way of travel—not a destination. " - Roy M. Goodman

5.) " A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. " - Tim Cahill

The number of miles covered on a trip measures your physical journey, not your emotional one. It tells you nothing about the people you’ve encountered, the thoughts you’ve had, and the moments you've shared.  Thinking back on past adventures, it’s the friends I made that stick out. Memories of lonesome highways fade but the embrace at the end of the night from a newly-found companion lingers. We are, after all, social beings by nature; we were meant to share our experiences with others.  Reaching the top of a mountain after a long hike is more rewarding when there’s someone with which to celebrate. Read more...

6.) " People don’t take trips…trips take people. " - John Steinbeck

It’s human nature to want to control every aspect of our lives. I, myself, fight against this tendency on a daily basis.  Travel is a fantastic opportunity to combat our will to control—to allow yourself to escape the banality of everyday life and place yourself on the edge of multiple realities.  In Steinbeck’s words, we see the wisdom of a man who has tried in vain to control his journeys, only to realize the inevitable; a trip takes us. I urge you to heed this message. You won’t regret it.  Read more...

7.) " Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change. " - Walter Dyer

8.) " The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. " - Saint Augustine

The idea that one needs to explore the world to understand it is nothing new, dating back at least to the Ancient Greeks. Yet I think the concept has taken on new importance in our modern age, where you can virtually travel almost anywhere thanks to technology. It’s tempting to just lay on the couch—60 inch flatscreen TV in front of you—living vicariously through the Travel Channel or Nat Geo. After all, real travel can be hard. It requires time, patience, money, and—occasionally—the use of your legs.  But YouTube videos (no matter  how good they are ) or TV specials cannot replicate what it’s like to physically be somewhere.  Read more...

If you ask the average person today if you have to be rich to travel well, they will say no. After all, budget airlines and services like CouchSurfing have decreased the cost of travel immensely in the past 10-15 years.  Yet, there still seems to be a pseudo-financially-inspired reluctance to leave home among many would-be globetrotters. 

I regularly ask people who earn good money what their dream vacation would be. Often their response is something along the lines of ‘Hiking through Asia’ or ‘Seeing South America’. Then I ask why they haven’t yet done this. The number one answer—by far—is money (the second is time). Even when I point out that such a trip would cost much, much less than some of the trips they’ve already taken, they still remain hesitant, as if some invisible force was compelling them to avoid reaching for their dreams. 

This isn’t intended as an attack on those who wish to be financially responsible—far from it. I’m all for saving money. Rather, I’m pointing out an artificial barrier that is preventing people from living their lives to the fullest.  Chances are it would take much less money and time than you think to see and feel the things that are atop your bucket list.   Read more...

10.) " The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. " - Walter Baghot

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

While living in California, Henry Miller observed how visitors were affected by the coast. Some were moved to tears by the incredible natural beauty, whereas others complained about the lack of modern amenities. This led him to the realization that  one’s experiences were largely determined by outlook rather than reality . To Miller, travel was a mental exercise rather than a physical one.If you think about it, your personal experiences probably support Miller’s hypothesis.

Does a weekend at Disney World really feel like traveling? It’s more a vacation than a journey. And this makes sense; after all, it’s hard to learn something new when you’re in a place that revolves around childhood memories and comfort. Just as thunder only happens when it’s raining [OK, not really, but who doesn’t love Fleetwood Mac lyrics?],  travel only happens when you’re growing. And growth only appears when we push ourselves into the unknown.  Read more...

12.) " We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. " - Hilaire Belloc

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

Many of us are haunted by the past. Memories skew our view of the present, creating a reality colored by previous events.  But it doesn’t have to be this way.  You have the power to live today however you want.   This means it’s never too late to begin salsa dancing; it’s never to late to learn Spanish; it’s never too late to fall in love; it’s never too late to see Paris. Read more...

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

15.) " Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. " - Greg Anderson

16.) " The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer, but rather what we miss. " - Thomas Carlyle

18.) " A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for ." - John A. Shedd

19.) " A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. " - Saadi Shirazi

20.) " To travel is to live ." - Hans Christian Andersen

21.) " The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. " - Sir Richard Burton

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

While he wrote over 2500 years ago, Lao-Tzu's wisdom still holds true today.  Unforeseen things can and do happen when you are on the road; it's your response that dictates whether or not you can salvage something positive from it.  Once you separate your enjoyment of a trip from the accomplishment of a fixed goal, then you allow yourself to enjoy the entirety of the experience, whether or not certain objectives are completed.  Read more...

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

24.) " Dream big and dare to fail ." - Norman Vaughan

25.) " Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey ." - Babs Hoffman

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

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

Paradoxically, nothing makes you reflect on where you come from quite like leaving home. Exposing oneself to different ways of thinking and living promotes introspection and reflection.  The greater the culture shock, the better the opportunity for growth.  Read more...

28.) " Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. " - Hellen Keller

29.) " Life begins at the end of your comfort zone ." - Neale Donald Walsch

Walsch’s words express a paradox; we feel most alive when our very being is jeopardized, either by outside threats or internal strife.  For most people, it’s rare to experience deeply intense emotions—the kind that remind you that you are indeed alive—in daily life. After all, modern society allows us to mostly avoid physical danger while limiting self exploration to specific stages in life like college.

Thankfully, traveling can be a relatively safe and fun way to escape the routine of daily life and interject humanity into your existence, all while growing stronger in the process.  Read more...

30.) " The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it ." - Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's words highlight a fundamental truth about travel; namely, that our  senses play an incredibly important role in our experiences.  Photos and video can capture the physical properties of exotic locations—the shapes, the colors, the dimensions, some of the sounds—but you'll never know what it's like to be there without the use of the rest of your senses.  You need to smell the scent of salt water to understand Venice and you need to feel the mountain top breeze against your skin to comprehend Machu Picchu.   Trips can be so full distractions and worries that it's easy to look past the basic qualities that make each and every place unique. By starting with your senses, you can take the first step towards having more fulfilling and relaxing travel experiences.  Read more...

31.) " Life is short and the world is wide ." - Simon Raven

32.) " Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. " - Matthew Karsten

33.) " Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. " - Gustave Flauber t

Just as no one cares who was popular in high school twenty years after graduation, no one in a faraway land cares that you have 10,000 Facebook friends or belong to a fancy country club.    Cultural identifiers like these—which we so often use to define our existence—are relatively meaningless outside of the communities we live in.

To some, this might sound humiliating, but I’ve always found it empowering (and why I considering this one of the best travel quotes).  Knowing what does and doesn’t matter on a global scale allows me to concentrate on the things that really should matter to me—family, health, friends—rather than the superficial things I’ve thought were important in the past.  It helps me to live my life on my terms rather than on those given by popular society. 

Think about Flaubert’s words. Do the things you worry about on a daily basis really matter?    Read more...

34.)   " Build your own dreams…or someone else will hire you to build theirs. " - Farrah Gray

Best Funny Travel Quotes

35.) " Drink heavily with locals whenever possible ." - Anthony Bourdain

36.) " If you come to a fork in the road, take it. " - Yogi Berra

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

38.) " Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror ." - Al Boliska

39.) " Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God ." - Kurt Vonnegut

40.) " Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. " - Old Haitian Proverb

41.) " You can find your way across [America] using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. " - Charles Kuralt

42.) " There is nothing safer than flying—it’s crashing that is dangerous ." - Theo Cowan

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

44.) " Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers ." - George Carlin

45.) " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. " - Alton Brown

46.) " Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia ." - Charles M. Schulz

47.) " You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. " - Paul Theroux

48.) " A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours ." - J.B. Priestley

49.) " Jet lag is for amateurs. " - Dick Clark

50.) " A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car ." - Emile Ganest

51.) " Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. " - Charles Kuralt

52.) " The worst thing about being a tourist is having the tourists recognize you as a tourist ." - Russell Baker

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

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

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

56.) " Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo ." - Al Gore

57.) " The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see ." - G.K. Chesterton

58.) " Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. " - Mercedes Lackey

59.) " My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I’m thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport ." - Dennis Miller

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

Most people want to visit exotic places and have life-changing experiences, but few actually bother trying.  Don’t be like most people. You have the power to fulfill your wildest travel dreams. You have the power to life your life to the fullest.  Figure out what’s preventing you from going on that journey—Is it self-doubt? Fear of the unknown? Unnecessary commitments?—and promise that you will no longer let it have control.  In twenty years, whatever was holding you back will seem trivial. But the memories you make on the road; those will last a lifetime. Read more...

61.) " Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone ." - Pablo Picasso

I love traveling in part because it forces you to overcome difficult situations. To travel is to be resilient.  And for the rest of your life you’ll have a rolodex of past successes to look back on whenever you begin questioning your ability to move achieve.

Hopefully you never experience anything close to the suffering that Dostoyevsky endured while in a Russian prison. I do hope you face adversity, however.  I hope you get the opportunity to challenge your mind, body, and spirit, and prove to yourself that you have what it takes to thrive.  Read more...

63.) " The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile ." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

64.) " On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use ." - Epictetus

Whether at home or on the road, bad things will happen in life. Injuries, financial losses, terrorism, death—they are all a normal part of existence. But Epictetus tells us is that  our lives don’t have to be defined by negative events outside our control. Instead, we should focus on our ability to adapt to misfortune, perhaps using it to our advantage.

Of course, every misstep can turn out to be a blessing.  But no matter what happens in the outside world, you always have the power to dictate your emotions.  Your reality is nothing more than what you say it is. You have the power to create your future; how will you use it?  Read more...

65.) " 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

66.) " The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home ." - Rolf Potts

The things that I travel for—the life-altering encounters, the exposure to new ideas, the personal growth opportunities—don't occur at the border crossing, but in the streets, cafes, and countryside . One should not try to collect passport stamps like Pokemon with the idea that it will somehow automatically make you more cultured or well-rounded. Not only does this increase your desire to rush from place to place, but it also gives you an excuse not to engage with locals, as you've already decided that physically being going is the most important thing about your trip.  Read more...

67.) " If you are going through hell, keep going ." - Winston Churchill

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

69.) " Too often…I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. " - Louis L’Amour

The physical distance one travels only affects your body insomuch as it can tire you; what you see—what you TRULY experience—affects your mind, and ultimately imparts change.

So many people only care to visit a place to say that they’ve been there. They discuss passport stamps as though it was a currency that could automatically be cashed in for knowledge. Of course, we know better than this. You have to put effort into your travels to get something in return. The quantity of the miles don’t matter; it’s the quality that counts.  Read more...

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

71.) " I came to realize that I traveled best when I traveled no faster than a dog could trot ." - Gardner McKay

We can all learn from McKay's insight here. The hectic nature of modern life often makes us rush from place to place, a habit that we unfortunately often bring with us when we travel.  Slowing down not only helps us to feel at ease, but it also allows us to better appreciate the special aspects of our surroundings. After all, isn't that what travel is all about?  Read more...

72.) " May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home ." - Trenton Lee Stewart

I believe that the type of travel experiences that make you a strong person only happen if you’re willing to endure some sort of mental or physical discomfort.  Whether you’re facing your fear of the unknown in a faraway land or pushing your body’s limits to hike a high-altitude mountain, pain and distress are part of the story. 

Personal growth comes from doing things that are hard.  And once you succeed, you get confident. True, earned confidence.  Read more...

74.) " At sunrise, it’s not necessary, or even desirable, to know where you are going to be at sunset. " - Dervla Murphy

75.) " Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.' " - Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

76.) " He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all ."- Sinclair Lewis

77.) " Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it ." - Eudora Wely

78.) " We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same ." - Carlos Castenada

79.) " Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your life, they’ll catch up ." - Mandy Hale

80.) " We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. " - Pico Iyer

81.) " Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new thing, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in ." - Andrew Zimmern

Too often to travelers spend their whole trip taking selfies, updating their Snapchat, and checking 'must-see' locales off of their list. They fail to truly connect to the people and places around them.

Engagement is one of the keys to escaping the disappointment-laden experiences by which most tourists seem to be plagued.  Engage the locals in conversations, try new foods and drinks, and explore streets and squares not included in your guidebook. You won't regret it.  Read more...

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

As Barr points out, the primary thing that differentiates one journey from another is the character of the people with which you surround yourself.  Whether they are a travel partner or a chance encounter on the road, the people around you greatly affect how you view your surroundings and how you think about your experiences. 

With this in mind, pay special attention to whom you surround yourself with while traveling.  Pick your travel partners carefully, go out of your way to encounter interesting people (I will write more on this soon), and don't be afraid to open up to those you meet on your journeys.  Read more...

83.) " 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

84.) " A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. " - Pico Iyer

85.) " Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest ." - Paul Theroux

86.) " 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 ." - Anthony Bourdain

87.) " Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret ." - Max Lucado

I’m sure you’ve heard someone bemoan the fact that they didn’t travel when they were younger, or that they haven’t yet done many of the things on their bucket list. But these people often don’t realize that they’ve had plenty of opportunities to do these very things throughout their lives—they just haven’t recognized it.

When you make something such as travel a priority, it has a strange way of becoming real.  Suddenly, you find  simple ways to save money to travel  and more time to fit trips into your schedule.  Read more...

Best Travel Quotes About Overcoming Fear

88.) " Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out ." - Karl A. Menninger

So many of the fear-inducing narratives we’re told these days are at best exaggerations and at worse complete falsehoods directing us away from the true dangers in life.  And so it’s our choice as to whether or not we chose to absorb these lies and live in fear or proactively seek the truth.

Travel is by no means the only way out of this trap. Advances in technology have made it easier than ever before to connect with others and learn about the world.  Still, nothing quite compares to the act of literally facing the people and places you’ve been told to fear.  Read more...

89.) " If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal ." - Paulo Coelho

90.) " Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy ." - Dale Carnegie

91.) " Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. " - George Addair

92.) " Always do what you are a afraid to do ." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

93.) " Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. " - Marie Curie

Despite what you may read on the internet or hear on the evening news, the world is not an evil place filled with bad guys who are out to get you.  The more you travel, the more you realize that people around the world are just like you; they have the similar wants and dreams . By overcoming our fears of the unknown, we move away from our tribalistic roots and towards a better, more understood, world.

Since we can learn about almost anywhere with a simple Google search, it can be tempting to dismiss the act of engaging with other peoples to learn as unnecessary. Don’t make this mistake.  Nothing can substitute the lessons you gain from meeting face-to-face with someone whose lifestyle you know little or nothing about.  I encourage you to seek out such people and places on your next trip. As Curie said, now is as good a time as ever.  Read more...

94.) " The more I traveled the more I realized that fear make strangers of people who should be friends ." - Shirley MacLaine

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

96.) " Fear is like fire. It can cook for you. It can heat your house. Or it can burn you down ." - Cus D’Amato

As D’Amato’s words illustrate, fear is a potent thing.  Whether we’re afraid to fly, to be alone, or commit to a relationship, fear affects almost every decision we make.

While traveling, we regularly find ourselves in circumstances that make us afraid.  Fortunately, our subconscious minds have an incredible ability to learn.  Through regular exposure to misplaced fears, we can start to change how our minds and body react . Much like in a boxing match, well-placed jabs—AKA conscious efforts to seek out the things we’re afraid of—will weaken our inner bully and give us a jolt of confidence.  Read more...

97.) " Fear is only as deep as the mind allows ." - Japanese Proverb

98.) " Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will ." - W. Clement Stone

If you’re like me, you’ve had times in your life where fear has controlled you; where you were unable to live the way you wanted because you were afraid of what could happen if you ventured outside of your comfort zone. And you’ve also probably tried to think your way through these fears. After all, it’s easier to rationalize why it’s OK for you to avoid fears than to face them.

This is a mistake.  As long as your fears have any say on what you do and don’t do in life, you are not in control of your life. And if you’re not in control of your life, you cannot achieve your dreams.  Read more...

99.) " We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action ." - Henry Link

100.) " Who wants a life imprisoned in safety? " - Amelia Earhart

101.) " It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave ." - Mandy Hale

102.) " Only those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. " - Robert F. Kennedy

Thinking back on my own experiences, Kennedy’s worlds fit. Doing the easy task has never brought me real happiness or wisdom. Rather, it’s been the difficult but principled things that have helped me to grow.

And I think the same principle applies to travel.  Unless you’re willing to risk something—your time, your comfort, or your pride—you are by nature avoiding the people, places, and activities that create unforgettable memories and bring about life-changing epiphanies.  Read more...

Best Wise Travel Quotes 

103.) " The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask ." - Rich Ridgeway

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

105.) "To travel is to take a journey into yourself." - Danny Kaye

106.) " See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security ." - Ray Bradbury

107.) " Let your memory be your travel bag ." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

108.) " I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. Travel for travel’s sake. The greatest affair is to move ." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

While initially tihs quote seems to be about possessing a diary, the underlying message is really about the diary’s content. According to Wilde, one should live the type of life that would make for a good read; one should strive to have a sensational life diary.  Today, you can travel almost anywhere in the world, collecting adventures to fill the pages of your diary. All you have to do is make it a priority.  Read more...

110.) " The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps depends more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to ." - Alain de Botton

111.) " It is better to travel well than to arrive ." - The Buddha

112.) " 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

113.) " The man who goes alone can start today. But he who travels with another out wait till that other is ready ." - Henry David Thoreau

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

115.) " The journey is my home ." - Muriel Rukeyser

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

117.) " You lose sight of things…and when you travel, it balances out ." - Daranna Gidel

118.) " 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

119.) " Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves ." - Euripides

120.) " What good is living the life you’ve been given if all you do is stand in one place? " - Lord Huron

121.) " Two great talkers will not travel far together ." - Spanish Proverb

122.) " 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 K. Chesterton

123.) " Unexpected adventure makes for a better story ." - Lynn O’Rourke

124.) " Don’t listen to what they say. Go see ." - Chinese Proverb

125.) " To travel is to possess the world ." - Burton Holmes

126.) " Travel far enough, you meet yourself ." - David Mitchell

And finally, I'd like to leave you with one of my favorite travel quotes.

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

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200 Travel Quotes To Feed Your Wanderlust

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

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

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

Getting lost is sometimes the best way to find yourself. Maxime Lagacé

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

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J.R.R. Tolkien

Collect moments. Not things. Unknown

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

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Jack Kerouac

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

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in eddies and whirlpools in 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 parenthesis in eternity. Paulo Coelho

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

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

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more. Ibn Battuta

The best dreams happen when you’re awake. Cherie Gilderbloom

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

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The Best Travel Quotes

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

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

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. Walt Whitman

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant. Victor Hugo

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain

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

People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

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

A tourist sees what he came to see; a traveler sees what he sees. Thibaut

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

Vagabonding is about time – our only real commodity – and how we choose to use it. Rolf Potts

The slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. Rolf Potts (Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World)

It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. Paul Theroux

Traveling hopefully into the unknown with a little information: dead reckoning is the way most people live their lives, and the phrase itself seems to sum up human existenec. Paul Theroux

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. Voltaire

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

Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. Antonio Machado

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

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

Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves. Albert Camus

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

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

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

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Michael Crichton

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 K. Chesterton

Traveling – it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. Ibn Battuta

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

Part 2. Travel Quotes That Are…

The most famous (jack kerouac, marcel proust, helen keller, etc.).

Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves. Euripides

Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho

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

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

Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn

He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. Kurt Vonnegut

It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha

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

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

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. Elizabeth Gilbert ( Eat, Pray, Love , Amazon book)

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? Stephen Hawking

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. George Harrison (The Beatles, Any Road)

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on. Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

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

The world is a book and he who don’t travel only read one page. St. Augustine

I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy. Ernest Hemingway

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

I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin (First human to journey into outer space)

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. Christopher Columbus

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

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

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

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

Short Travel Quotes

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To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Rolf Potts

Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli

The journey is the destination. Dan Eldon

Everywhere you travel to, be fully there. Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody has a unique path to travel. Lailah Gifty Akita

The road never ends… only our vision does. Amit Reddy

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

What is life, without a little risk? Sirius Black (Harry Potter)

Risk is the salt and sugar of life. Freya Stark

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Unknown

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

It feels good to be lost in the right direction. Unknown

If not now, when? Unknown

Life is short and the world is wide. Unknown

Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure. Unknown

Work, travel, save, repeat. Unknown

Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world. Unknown

Don’t listen to what they say, go see. Chinese proverb

Adventure is worthwhile. Aristotle

Oh, the places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss

The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser

Make voyages! Attempt them. There’s nothing else. Tennessee Williams

Inspirational Travel Quotes

The goal is to die with memories not dreams. Unknown

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

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho ( The Alchemist quotes )

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

Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience, and presumably to become more whole as a human being. Ed Buryn

Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. Rolf Potts

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

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

Part 1. A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea. Tim Cahill

Part 2. Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely. Tim Cahill

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you’re not in a hurry. Paul Theroux

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

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. Jack Kerouac

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

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place. Rick Steves

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

Travel is a creative act – not simply loafing and inviting your soul, but feeding on the imagination, accounting for each fresh wonder, memorizing, and moving on… and the best landscapes, apparently dense or featureless, hold surprises if they are studied patiently, in the kind of discomfort one can savor afterward. Paul Theroux

Related : The 10 Lessons to Learn From Traveling (huffpost.com)

We travel initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspaper will accommodate. Pico Iyer

Part 1. What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. Albert Camus

Part 2. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. Albert Camus

Leaving home is a kind of forgiveness, and when you get among strangers, you’re amazed at how decent they seem. Nobody smirks at you or gossips about you, nobody resents your successes or relishes your defeats. You get to start over, a sort of redemption. Garrison Keilor

Part 1. Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Victoria Erickson

Part 2. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, content to be spent and consumed. Victoria Erickson

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

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone. Tawny Lara

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. John Steinbeck

Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul. Jaime Lyn

Funny And Surprising Travel Quotes

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. Bruce Chatwin

Two great talkers will not travel far together. Spanish proverb

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

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

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. Bruce Chatwin

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is about to happen. Winnie The Pooh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jet lag is for amateurs. Dick Clark

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

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

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

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. Jack Kerouac

The best tourist is one without a camera. Kamand Kojouri

Let your memory be your travel bag. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Deep Travel Sayings

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson Click to tweet

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things. Kahlil Gibran

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home. Carl Burns

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle. Paul Auster

This is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. Rosita Forbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. Katherine Mansfield

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

The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life; the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Phil Cousineau

My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world. Marcus Aurelius

Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you. Benjamin Rush

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

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau

Wise Travel Sayings

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Travelling is discovering. Discovering is learning. Learning is living. Maxime Lagacé

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

To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself. Marty Rubin

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

I 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

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Sinclair Lewis

Travel’s greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. William Hazlitt

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home. Rolf Potts

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. Rolf Potts

Travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: on the road, we often live more simple, with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance. This is what Camus meant he said that “what gives value to travel is fear” – disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behing which we hide. Pico Iyer

Related : 20 Unforgettable Lessons You Can Learn From Traveling The World (lifehack.org)

Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. Phil Cousineau

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

It’s not where you are today that counts. It’s where you are headed. Arthur F. Lenehan

Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experience is not. Dave Levant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. Anatole France

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Thomas Fuller

Wherever you go, go with all your heart! Confucius

Part 3. Conclusion

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

Further Readings

• Topic: Education and Culture
• 100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing
• 100 Learning Quotes To Inspire You To Learn (Forever)
• 100 Knowledge Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective
• 100 Reading Quotes Every Book Lover Can Relate To
• 100 Curiosity Quotes To Increase Your Desire To Learn
• 100 Music Quotes From The Best Musicians In The World
• 17 Easy Steps for Planning Your Next Trip (nomadicmatt.com)

Do you travel often? What’s your favorite travel quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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Part 2 Travel Quotes That ARE Famous Short Inspirational Funny Deep Wise

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When you’re planning a trip, in the middle of a journey, or reflecting on an amazing experience or daring adventure, it’s always helpful to have some words of wisdom and motivation to keep you inspired. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the most inspirational travel quotes for you to reference when the travel bug bites.

These quotes come from a variety of sources, including famous explorers, writers, and celebrities. If you’re looking for travel quotes for your journal, an Instagram caption, or some DIY home decor, you’ll find plenty of options below.

If you’re going to spend your time traveling around other countries (or even your own!), you might as well spend it with the best inspirational travel quotes.

Best Travel Quotes (Personal Favorites)

These are the best travel quotes that continue to provide travel inspiration for me. No matter if I’ve had a long flight, a travel fail, or I’m just simply tired, I read these travel quotes to get that second wind to explore this wonderful world we call home.

1. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

Starting off our list of travel quotes with one that I can really relate to – if I’m stuck doing the same thing day in and day out, I get depressed and lose sight of my love for exploration. While a good adventure can be full of risks, that’s the sort of fun that I’m after.

2. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Liz Carlson

Sure, I spend all my paychecks on travel, but each travel experience truly leaves me feeling happier, luckier, and full of intangible riches.

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

Thinking about booking that last-minute flight to a spot you’ve never been? Wondering if you should try a solo trip to your dream destination if you can’t rally a group? Go for it – you won’t regret it.

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

Trying new things – and traveling to new places – can be scary. But… is only by working through our anxieties and pushing ourselves that we can grow. It’s okay to lose sight of the shore because you never know what’s waiting on the other side of the sea.

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

This is one of those quotes that’s always resonated with me. If we aren’t out there discovering – what is it that we are doing?

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

Our worldview is shaped by the things we do. You’ve got to get out and see how others live, experience different cultures, and try new things in order to really experience and understand this wonderful world.

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7. “Happiness is having a large, loving caring close-knit family…in another city.” – George Burns

This one cracks me up, and those of us with big families can certainly relate to the feeling of freedom you get from flying a bit farther from the nest.

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

This is one of the best inspirational travel quotes on our list. After all, don’t you feel inspired to write about your travels, to share your photos, to shout from the rooftops about the best meal you’ve ever had in a little BBQ hut on the side of the road in New Jersey ? Or is that just me?

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

Steinbeck was one of the greatest American travel writers, and he penned one of my favorite travel quotes on a trip from Maine to California, as documented in Travels With Charlie: In Search Of America .

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

This Tolkien line is one of the most famous travel quotes of all time. This was originally part of a poem from the Fellowship of the Ring, about how things aren’t always quite what they seem. It was quickly adopted by those who live life by the seat of their pants and prefer to travel without much planning, going as the wind blows.

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11. “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – mark twain.

This is a core belief of mine – that when you experience other cultures, meet people of various backgrounds, and experience things beyond your own upbringing, you’ll find yourself more accepting, more empathetic, and a more well-rounded global citizen. To me, life begins with the decision to empathize with others, and traveling helps develop a local worldview.

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

For me, living a life where I’m able to travel is the life of my dreams. Of course, though, building the life you want to live doesn’t come easy. It takes sacrifice, planning, and a big leap of faith to escape life as you know it, and start a real voyage of discovery.

13. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Did you know that Hans Christian Anderson spent a good bit of his career writing travel literature? It was a true passion of his – wanderlust and fairytales do seem to go hand-in-hand, and his words resonate as one of our favorite travel quotes.

14. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

Many get wrapped up in the tragedy of this famous aviator’s disappearance, but the truth is, she was an adventurer through and through, and she was doing what she loved most until the very end.

Anonymous Quotes About Travel

15. “every two years travel somewhere that’s been forgotten.” – anonymous.

This anonymous travel quote just seems like a bit of a challenge. Sure, spend your vacations hitting all the standard bucket-list spots , but why not make it a point to mix it up and find hidden gems along the way? You never know what strange town you may encounter.

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16. “Travel will only make you wealthy” – Anonymous

What we gain from a life filled with travel cannot be measured – after all, this is our only life, and we might as well fill it with memories as we travel happily around.

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

Here’s a bit of travel inspiration – get out and go! Stop flipping through guidebooks or waiting for the perfect timing to set off on a trip – hit the road, and figure it out on the way because you’ll never get to see the world from behind a desk. Whether you’re traveling to a foreign country or a town a few states over, you’re sure to find it worth the trip.

18. “Work, travel, save, repeat.” – Anonymous

Relatable. Is this the best way to live your life? We’re going to find out.

19. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Anonymous

This is one of the best travel quotes for anyone apprehensive about solo travel. It gets easier the more you do it – so start small, and soon you’ll be a globetrotter blazing your own path.

20. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – Anonymous

I’m sure a lot of us can relate to the meditative qualities of travel. Spend enough time in different situations and you’re sure to find out what grounds you, what makes you happy, what makes you sad, and what you love best.

21. “Collect moments, not things.” – Anonymous

By nature, many a good traveler is a minimalist . We believe in experiences over possessions – unless, of course, you’re asking us about our favorite backpacks or luggage.

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

Do you travel without much of a plan? If so, you know what it’s like to be lost in the right direction.

23. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” – Anonymous

You might not remember every tiny detail of your trip ten years ago, but chances are you remember the people, the cultures, the food, the feelings, and the experience.

24. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” – Anonymous

This is one of those travel quotes that we can all relate to; after all, if you’re halfway through a list of 50 travel quotes, you must be someone who loves an unusual adventure.

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

As John Lennon once said, life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. Don’t let life escape you, and don’t miss out on memories and adventures while you’re sitting at home scrolling. Get out there, see the world, and experience life the way it’s meant to be lived.

26. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Anonymous

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Nobody sits around reflecting on how good of a choice it was to not book the flight , or to not take the zipline tour.

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27. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Anonymous

This one is a bit deeper than most of our other travel quotes because I like to think of it as a bit of a nod to a moral compass, as well. Live the way you want to live, don’t count the minutes, days, and years until it all adds up to nothing.

28. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Anonymous

Happiness isn’t a place, it’s often the road you take and who you choose to walk it with. Don’t spend your life chasing happiness as a destination, but instead, take time to enjoy what it takes to get through.

29. “Travel. See the world.” – Anonymous

It’s as simple as that! Get out. Go. Travel. See the things you’ve been dreaming about.

Travel Adventure Quotes

30. “ask me “where have you been” i don’t know, i don’t know, because i don’t know where to begin” – barry privett.

When you make travel and adventure a tenet of your life, it’s hard to answer the question “well, where have you been?” because our experiences shape our entire lives. This particular quote comes from the song “One Prairie Outpost” by a band called Carbon Leaf that’s been on the road touring consistently for about 25 years.

31. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Louis L’Amour

You’ll find that all the places you see, and all the people you meet, leave lasting impressions on who you become.

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

You don’t have to travel far from home to find yourself immersed in new cultures, new cuisines, and new scenery. Oftentimes, it’s the friends you make along the way that make your travels truly life-changing.

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

One of my favorite books is the Lonely Planet travel anthology called “ The Kindness of Strangers ,” which tells more than two dozen tales of strangers helping strangers along in their travels just out of the kindness of their hearts.

I take the lessons I learned from this book with me in my journeys – we’re so built up to fear each other that we often miss the sort of memorable interactions that make a trip something you remember for life.

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

If you’re going to travel, travel with an open mind! It truly makes all the difference – you’ll miss out if you only order comfort food, and you should always take the time to learn some local customs.

35. “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

We’re all guilty of daydreaming when we’re “supposed” to be working – but why stop there? Get out and see the places your imagination dreams of, and bring a dose of reality to your visions.

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

You can read all of the books in the world, and you can gather degree after degree, but until you see the world and meet people from all walks of life, you’re truly not a student of the Earth.

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

Travel is one thing that breaks prejudices and paints true pictures in the minds of those who visit.

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

Some people plan out their travel days hour-by-hour, book tours, and make a point to hit all of the biggest landmarks and must-see spots. While there’s nothing wrong with that sort of tourism, many travelers go with the wind, floating along to see whatever happens to come up as they wander.

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

This is a way of thinking that’s crucial to traveling with an open mind. Be willing to let the places you visit shape your experience, rather than the other way around.

40. “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.” – Mark Twain

This goes back to what we’ve said about travel exposing stereotypes and squashing prejudice. You can only get to know a place, or a culture, by experiencing it yourself.

Inspirational Travel Quotes

41. “all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – martin buber.

You can plan out every minute of your next trip, but you’re sure to discover plenty of things that you never expected along the way.

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

Even he places you’ve visited time and time again can look brand new, if you travel with an open mind and open heart.

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43. “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

Bill Bryson is quite the traveler, and reading through his books you’ll find plenty of travel quotes. It’s the truth, too, that everyday things look different when you’re experiencing them in an new place.

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

It’s also true that sometimes we miss out on the things we love about our own homes by romanticizing the places we travel to see. Be sure to find space in your heart and your imagination for your hometown or city and you’ll find the joys of travel in your everyday life.

45. “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

Maya Angelou hit the nail on the head in this quote, sort of a counter to Mark Twain’s famous quote about travel being fatal to prejudice. While experience does shape worldview, it’s not an automatic occurrence, and there has to be a bit of effort to realize how new cultures and new people can affect our own minds.

46. “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

I can relate to this one – I love the act of traveling itself. Put me on a plane, a train, or a car for hours at a time and I’ll find a way to make it an adventure on its own.

47. “I’ve driven across deserts driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free” – Frank Turner

Another relatable quote from a musician that seems to always be on tour. This travel lyric is from Frank Turner’s song “ The Road ,” and it’s one of the best travel anthems I’ve ever heard.

48.  “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

Some people choose to stay at home, surrounded by familiar faces and places, and there’s nothing wrong with that. If you are a traveler, though, chances are it’s in your blood to get out and explore, and you aren’t satisfied unless you’re on an adventure.

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

Sure, it’s easy to plan a trip every year to see some sort of crowded attraction , but those build up and up, and soon you don’t know where you’ve been or what you’ve seen. If you choose to live the life of a traveler, you’re always thinking ahead, trying to decide your next move, or letting the wind take you wherever it’s supposed to.

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

You can learn so much by noticing the differences between your home and the places you visit!

Why Are Travel Quotes So Inspirational?

There are many reasons why these quotes are so motivating. Simply put, they emphasize the importance of travel and exploration. They remind us that there is so much to see and do in the world and that we should take advantage of every opportunity to explore.

They also emphasize the personal growth that can come from travel. We learn new things about other cultures and ourselves when we step outside our comfort zones and venture into the unknown.

These quotes remind us that travel is a great way to connect with people from all over the world. In today’s increasingly digital world, it’s easy to forget that there is so much to learn from face-to-face interactions.

How Should You Use These Travel Quotes?

These quotes can be used to inspire travelers in a number of ways. Print out a few and keep them on your desk or by the bed as a daily reminder to stay motivated and excited about travel. Save a few to keep as inspiration when planning future trips. Scroll through, reflect on past experiences, and remember all the amazing places you have seen and people you have met.

And, of course, pick a few travel quotes for Instagram captions or Pinterest boards and you’ll capture the emotions you find in your photos and videos.

I hope you feel inspired to travel by this collection of travel quotes. If you haven’t been on an adventure lately, it’s time to get out there. Find motivation in the words of these famous travelers and hit the road. We hope these quotes have inspired you to get out there and explore the world.

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101+ Best Travel Quotes in the World To Inspire You

Written By: The Planet D

Inspiration

Published On: August 26, 2024

We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can, so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.

Table of Contents

101 Best Travel Quotes

Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, inspired to travel  and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .

Favorite Travel Quotes

Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,

• “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” ~ Tim Cahill
• “Life is short, and the world is wide,” ~ Simon Raven.
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page” – Saint Augustine
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people” ~ John Steinbeck’s
• “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving ” ~ Lao Tzu

Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.

Famous Travel Quotes

Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up around your house for inspiration!

Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine
• “Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” ~ Helen Keller
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle
• “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain
• ” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
• “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
• “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway
• “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” Lao-Tzu Chinese Philosopher
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ? Dame Freya Madeline Stark
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

Adventure Travel Quotes

• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho
• “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous
• “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman
• “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
• “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind”
• “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough
• 20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty

Funny Travel Quotes

I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.

• “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate people than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
•  “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck
• “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
• “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman
• “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa
• “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope
• “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark
• “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux
• “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide
• “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha
• “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ Penelope Riley
• “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
• “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler
• “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow”
• “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous
• “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”
• “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

• “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde
• “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck
• “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb
• “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”
• “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”
• “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss
• “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
• “Life’s a journey, not a destination” ~AEROSMITH/Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Where to next?”
• “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson
• “I want to make memories all over the world”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

• “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain
• “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley
• “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
• “There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
• “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters
• “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”
• “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Happy Travel Quotes

• “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”
• “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”
• “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”
• “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”
• “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”
• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ~ John Green
• “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith
• “The journey is my home.”

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

• “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”
• “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”
• “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous
• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
• “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”
• “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” ~ Gayle Foreman
• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”
• “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”
• “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw
• “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
• “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill
• “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Travel Quotes by Famous People

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

• “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• “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
• “Because In The End, You Won’t Remember The Time You Spent Working In An Office Or Mowing Your Lawn. Climb That Damn Mountain.” ~ Jack Kerouak
• “Paris is Always a Good Idea” ~ Audrey Hepburn
• “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back” ~ Paul Theroux
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” ~ Robert Frost
• “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ Dalai Lama
• 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 only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
• “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Walt Whitman
• “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
• “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
• “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine 

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”  – Susan Heller .
• “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” ~ Sir Richard Burton
• “And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World” – Louis Armstrong
• 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
• “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ? Michael Palin

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

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146 thoughts on “101+ Best Travel Quotes in the World To Inspire You”

Your quotes are very helpful for travelers thank you for sharing this article.

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂

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It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

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

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

Lovely collection of travel quotes, but you miss something in this. So, i share the new collection of Travel Quotes and Sayings. Please check and share your reviews.

Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

thank you for giving me wonderful information

Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.

Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

15 Mar 100 Inspirational Travel Quotes To Brighten Your Day

I have a love hate relationship with inspirational travel quotes. Sometimes I wonder why inspiration has given way to cliche. 

Sometimes they make me all teary-eyed and uplifted, but there are days when I just want to roll my eyes and scream: “Enough!”

If you try to have a conversation about travel online you’ll notice certain travel quotes pop up on an hourly basis. You know the ones I mean.

The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only a page. Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

While there’s nothing inherently wrong with these, I’ve decided to feature slightly lesser known inspirational travel quotes… and one hundred of them while I’m at it! Go big or go home, am I right?

If you follow me on Instagram  ( do it! do it! ) you may have already read a few of these, but the majority are all as new to me as they will hopefully be to you.

Inspirational travel quotes

• “If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.” -Alex Garland, The Beach
• “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
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustave Flaubert
• “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 of one’s lifetime.” -Mark Twain
• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” -Hilaire Belloc
• “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -Aldous Huxley
• “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” -Clint Borgen

• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller
• “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” -Caskie Stinnett
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” -Neale Donald Walsch
• “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
• “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excited 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 a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” -Bill Bryson
• “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -John A. Shedd
• “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
• “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
• “Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -JRR Tolkien
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust

• “The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” -G.K. Chesterton
• “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” -John Hope Franklin
• “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing’.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
• “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
• “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
• “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” -Anatole France
• “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
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener
• “Too often … I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” -Louis L’Amour
• “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” -James Baldwin

• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” -Paulo Coelho
• “While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.” -Anne Tyler
• “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” -Charles Kuralt
• “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
• “Adventure is worthwhile.” -Aristotle
• “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” -Lawrence Block
• “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac
• “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
• “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” -Dagobert D. Runes
• “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” -Aldous Huxley

• “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” -Moslih Eddin Saadi
• “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
• “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
• “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” -Edward Abbey
• “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” -Gayle Forman
• “Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, bit it is always invigorating.” -Michael Crichton
• “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” -Paulo Coelho
• “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” -Nora Roberts
• “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” -Margot Fonteyn
• “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the unforgettable thread of wasted time.” -Donald Miller

• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
• “Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, “A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.” -John Muir
• “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” -Diane Ackerman
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” -Freya Stark
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” -Charles Dudley Warner
• “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” -Pat Conroy
• “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
• “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” -Elizabeth Drew

• “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” -Paul Theroux
• “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
• “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” -Rudyard Kipling
• “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” -Carlo Goldoni
• “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
• “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
• “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” -Kurt Vonnegut
• “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
• “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
• “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Dutch Proverb

• “…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
• “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
• “He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” -Sinclair Lewis
• “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” -George Bernard Shaw
• “It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.” -Cheryl Strayed
• “A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home.” -Carl Burns
• “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” -Pico Iyer
• “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” -John Steinbeck
• “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” -Margaret Mead
• “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” -Harun Yahya

• “I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” -Seneca
• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharal Nehru
• “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
• “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” -Anita Septimus
• “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” -Daranna Gidel
• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -Tim Cahill
• “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” -D. H. Lawrence
• “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” -Isabelle Eberhardt
• “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” -Agnes Repplier
• “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

• “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” -Mahatma Gandhi
• “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
• “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” -Ralph Crawshaw
• “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
• “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” -Glenn Clark
• “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -Yogi Berra
• “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
• “There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.” -Chuck Palahniuk
• “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” -Pico Iyer
• “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. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, ‘Ohhhh.’ And the lightbulb goes on.” -Henry Rollins

Did you like these inspirational travel quotes? Which one was your favourite? Are there any others you’d like to add?

100 Quotes About Travel to Inspire Your Next Adventure

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

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

Short travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

2. Adventure is out there. – Charles Muntz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. There is a world elsewhere. – Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This tried and true travel quote is another one that can inspire you to push past fears and embrace adventure! And remember, everyone’s comfort zone is different!

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

While taking a trip requires money, this inspirational travel quote reminds us that you also need the courage to leave behind familiarity for adventure.

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

Frost was a poet who understood the importance of charting your own path rather than following the crowd. That principle applies to traveling too, as you can find all kinds of unique places when you venture away from the tourist traps.

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

This is one of the best travel quotes because it sums up why so many people pack their bags. When we’re traveling, we’re fully living !

Quotes about traveling the world

These quotes about traveling to new places will ignite your desire to pack up and go somewhere new!

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

Here is a famous travel quote that can spark wanderlust in anyone, especially travel junkies like us!

20. It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it. – J.D. Andrews

Even if you can only go to the next town over, it’s always worth it to visit a new place and see something different.

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

This is another travel quote that points out how you need to face some fears to travel to new destinations. Of course, it’s totally worth it!

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

Here is a wonderful metaphor that can motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and go someplace new. Travel always reminds us that the world doesn’t revolve around us, and there are so many different ways of life.

23. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens

This simple travel quote truly needs no explanation. When you feel down or uninspired, the world is there in all its natural beauty.

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

This quote about traveling the world can shift our perspective to see the big picture.

25. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac

Some people live to travel, and they get bored when they’re in one place for too long. If that’s you, know that you’re not alone!

26. Travel because life is short, and the world is huge. – Anonymous

If you need an inspiring travel quote , here it is!

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

This travel quote is also about the big picture. If you’ve ever stood on the edge of a cliff or sailed in the middle of the ocean, you know that sensation of feeling ridiculously small in a big world.

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

A wonderful quote about traveling the world , this sentence captures the feeling of taking a piece of your travels with you while leaving a part of you behind .

Quotes about travel & adventure

These quotes are for travel lovers who crave their next adventure. If you’re ready to indulge your wanderlust, keep reading this adventure sayings !

29. Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi

This travel quote will resonate with many digital nomads and explorers. Waking up in a new place and experiencing a different culture may be jarring at first, but that kind of adventure is much better than doing the same thing every day.

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

Anyone who has traveled will agree that this wanderlust quote is 100% true.

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

Life is full of adventures and things to see, and if you’re curious enough, you’ll experience them all!

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

Odds are, the most interesting and fulfilled people you’ve met have spent more time seeing the world than buying things.

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

This is one of the best travel quotes for a burst of inspiration.

34. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Unknown

While it’s pragmatic to have both, it’s true that you gain something when you travel that you don’t get anywhere else.

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

Helen Keller’s motivational travel quote applies to life in general, so whatever the word adventure means to you, go for it!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! After a trip, you always come home with a story or two to tell, and those tales stay with you for life.

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

This is a simple travel quote to motivate you. Have you ever met anyone who said they regretted traveling?

Some of the best trips are the ones you take with good friends. I’m sure these travel quotes will inspire you to hit the road with your best friends. These are my favorite quotes about traveling with friends .

38. A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you. – Unknown

Whoever said this trip quote knows what it’s like to have that best friend who will explore the world and navigate life with you.

39. Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown

Here is another fun quote about traveling with friends . Do you have that bestie that’s always ready for the next adventure?

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

I’m sure everyone can relate to this funny travel quote . When you take a trip with someone, you learn a lot about them, yourself, and your relationship!

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

As this travel quote suggests, one of the best parts of taking a trip isn’t the destination, but who you’re with.

42. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures. – Anonymous

I don’t think anyone can argue against the idea that adventure and friendship are two of the best things in life!

43. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas. – Thelma and Louise

This cute saying is the perfect travel quote to inspire your next road trip!

44. The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

This life travel quote is an excellent reminder of how people can connect across cultures, countries, and languages. One of the best things about traveling is that it introduces you to diverse ways of seeing the world and living life, and of course, new friends.

45. Travel is better with friends. – Unknown

This travel quote needs no explanation. While a solo trip can be fun now and then, traveling with friends is one of the best experiences in life.

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

Those who love to explore will understand the depth of this quote. Traveling is the best way to find yourself, others, and new insights about the world.

Traveling with friends is great, but if you have a significant other, it’s a unique experience. Let these couples’ travel quotes encourage you to take a journey with your partner!

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

This couples’ travel quote is an important one. As with life and relationships, there are many things out of our control, and the same goes for traveling. However, that doesn’t mean the trip isn’t worthwhile!

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

This excerpt from Alice in Wonderland makes for a wonderful travel quote . Money gets spent, clothes get tattered, and cars break down, but adventures give you memories that last forever.

49. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world. – Unknown

I love this quote about traveling together because you can share perspectives and gain even more from your trip.

50. In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schulz

Here is a beautiful quote about traveling with a partner or friend that I 100% agree with!

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

Although it’s a funny travel quote , it’s quite true!

52. No road is long with good company. – Turkish proverb

I love this proverb about travel because no matter where you’re going, as long as you have a loved one beside you, it’ll be okay.

53. Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more. – Unknown

This is another great travel quote for couples or friends. A solo adventure can be fun, but it’s different from sharing travel experiences with someone you love.

54. Together is our favorite place to be. – Unknown

This quote about travel and love is so heartwarming. Having your partner by your side can make any trip more magical, although simply being in each other’s presence is often enough.

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

This longer travel quote is an interesting analogy that frequent travelers might relate to. Visiting new lands and meeting new people is like flirting; as soon as you start to connect, you move onto a different location.

56. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault

Whether or not you believe in soulmates, it’s true that the best partner is the one we can go on adventures with.

Taking a trip as a family can be a bonding experience, as well as frustrating and memorable! These quotes about family vacations are funny and heartwarming, so they perfectly capture all facets of traveling with your kids.

57. A family that travels together stays together. – Unknown

Some travel quotes and sayings are cute and sweet, like this one. Family trips can be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together and strengthen bonds.

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

While it’s a funny travel quote , this saying can also correspond to family life. Sometimes families get tied into a routine and lose touch with each other. Taking a trip together disrupts the monotony and brings everyone closer.

59. Love is the food of life, travel is dessert. – Anonymous

If you ask any adventurous spirit, they’ll agree that love and travel is all you need!

60. Not all classrooms have 4 walls. – Unknown

I think this is one of the top travel quotes , and it’s especially pertinent to families. Sometimes, parents get nervous about letting their kids travel, but seeing a new place and a unique way of life is one of the most fulfilling ways to educate oneself.

61. Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. – Unknown

A contemplative quote about travel and life , this simple sentence encourages us to go on adventures while we can. After all, when we’re old, it’ll be easier to work than to hop on a plane!

62. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt

This is such a cute couples’ travel quote to remind us that home is the people we love, not a specific place.

63. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter

This is one of the sweetest travel quotes for families . While kids need stability, they also have vivid imaginations. Traveling with their parents can awaken their childlike wonder and instill in them a sense of adventure.

If you’ve ever taken a solo trip, you know that it’s one of the most life-changing experiences. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of traveling alone yet, hopefully, these quotes about solo trips can inspire you!

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

This is a beautiful travel quote about how you change as a person when you wake up in an unfamiliar environment. Going through daily life in a different place truly alters the way you view the bigger picture.

65. I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne du Maurier

If you’re thinking of going on a solo adventure and need a nudge, consider this quote about traveling alone . Sometimes, going on a trip with people we know can distract us from the full experience of discovering a new place.

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

Here is another simple travel quote that has a deeper meaning. Sometimes, we have to get lost and break away from what’s familiar in order to truly meet ourselves.

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

Something that digital nomads crave is the feeling of being lost or a stranger in a new land. For these people, there is no other feeling like it!

68. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was one of the most beloved world travelers, so his adventure travel quote resonates deeply. The best thing about traveling is that you sprinkle a bit of yourself everywhere you go, and you bring a bit of that place back with you.

69. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

Read between the lines of this travel quote , and it makes so much sense. The more you stray from what you know, the more you learn about yourself, and the world!

70. When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

I agree that taking a trip with friends or a partner is awesome, but when you travel alone, you have so much time to get to know yourself.

Funny travel quotes

The deep, motivational sayings are great, but sometimes a funny travel quote is all you need to inspire your next adventure!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! Where is your next adventure going to be?

72. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

This short and sweet saying is another reminder that it’s often the journey – not the destination – that matters most.

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

It could be Europe or a few miles from your house, but when you travel, you gain new insights into yourself – your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, everything.

74. I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! – Unknown

This silly travel quote is funny , but all too true!

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

Yes, stability is important, but adventure is fulfilling and just as essential.

76. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! – Unknown

Here’s another lighthearted travel quote to remind you to book that vacation!

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

This travel quote is funny yet wise. Even though we are more connected than ever, you truly don’t understand a place until you step foot there yourself.

78. You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… – Unknown

You can’t deny that this funny travel vacation quote is true !

Quotes about wanderlust

The best travel quotes plant a seed in your mind, a will in your heart, and a spark in your spirit. I’m sure these motivational quotes about traveling the world will awaken your inner wanderer!

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

This one is for the wanderers and frequent travelers. While there is a place for planning and preparation, some of the best trips are those with limited foresight.

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

One of the best quotes on traveling , this saying gets to the root of why so many people love to travel. Visiting a new destination opens us up to all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, people, and lessons.

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

This is another travel quote that’s funny and deep. You can plan your trip, but things never go 100% according to plan, and you often end up with experiences you didn’t expect!

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

Goodman’s quote about travel and happiness reminds us that the journey is more important than the destination.

83. Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world.

Does this definition of wanderlust resonate with you? Which part of the world do you want to see next?

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

Proust’s motivational quote about traveling rings true. The more you travel, the more you open your mind and heart.

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

Forget souvenirs; this travel quote reminds us that the best thing you gain from a trip is the richness of the experience.

86. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination. – Unknown

It doesn’t matter if that destination is near or far, as long as it’s someplace new .

Quotes about wandering

Similar to the wanderlust quotes , these sayings appeal to those with a nomadic spirit. Which one is your favorite?

87. It is better to travel than to arrive. – Buddha

The Buddha’s quote points out that the true treasure is the journey itself.

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

Tolkien’s words remain one of the most popular quotes about wandering . Some people are simply born to travel and visit different lands!

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

Sometimes, a destination can seem strange and intimidating, but it’s simply a new adventure waiting for you!

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

I think this travel quote about nature makes a good point. When we explore all the beautiful natural places in the world, we gain a deeper appreciation for this planet.

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

This travel quote is self-explanatory, but travel lovers will agree that the best moments of their lives were probably while they were exploring.

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

There is something to this quote about travel and life . It describes how we can wander, either by hopping from one place to another or by changing up certain aspects of our lives. However, these are usually distractions, and it’s when we travel wholeheartedly that we feel fulfilled .

Other travel quotes for Instagram

This last section of trip quotes is perfect for sharing on social media or keeping around the house.

93. Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! – Hostelgeeks

Would you rather see the world than have fancy things? Me too!

94. Measure life by countries, not years. – Unknown

If you love to travel, you’ll appreciate this one. It’s a quote for travel and life and says that it’s not about how long you live; it’s about how well you live!

95. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy. – Unknown

I bet you don’t need more convincing to take a tropical vacation, but this beachy travel quote is a good one!

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

When you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and get off the beaten path, you find yourself having experiences of which you wouldn’t even dream!

97. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. – Anonymous

This travel quote doesn’t need an explanation; there are so many gorgeous places to see in this world.

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

This short travel quote is straight to the point!

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

This inspirational travel quote is definitely worth sharing. The more we travel, the more we learn about different people and ways of life. And that leads to more understanding and tolerance, which is a beautiful thing!

100. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer

Piggybacking off the previous travel quote , this sentence encapsulates the idea that adventuring requires an open mind.

I hope you loved these travel quotes and sayings! If they inspired you to go on an adventure or sparked your wanderlust, let me know. Also, what are some good travel quotes you’ve heard? Leave me a comment below to share your favorites!

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Reading through these quotes about travel has ignited a flame of wanderlust within me. Each quote speaks to the essence of exploration, the beauty of discovery, and the transformative power of journeying into the unknown. As I soak in the wisdom shared by these wordsmiths, I’m reminded that the world is a vast tapestry of experiences waiting to be unravelled, and I feel inspired to embark on my next adventure with an open heart and a curious spirit.

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73 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Next Vacation

These inspirational travel quotes will make you want to book your next trip as soon as possible.

Elizabeth Rhodes is a special projects editor at Travel + Leisure , covering everything from luxury hotels to theme parks to must-pack travel products. Originally from South Carolina, Elizabeth moved to New York City from London, where she started her career as a travel blogger and writer.

It's hard to put into words just how transformational travel can be. Thankfully, artists, authors, philosophers, and world travelers have captured the essence with inspirational travel quotes that remind us of our past journeys and serve as fuel for future trips.

We've rounded up some of the best travel quotes from the likes of Anthony Bourdain, J. R. R. Tolkien, and other literary greats to help you get excited about your next big adventure. These beautiful quotes also make great travel captions for Instagram, so add them to your next post to encourage your followers to get out and see the world.

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

"You lose sight of things … and when you travel, everything balances out." — Daranna Gidel

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." — Moslih Eddin Saadi

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

"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn." — Anthony Bourdain

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

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

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." — Andre Gide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes That Make Perfect Travel Captions for Instagram

"Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour." — Eckhart Tolle

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

"Robert Frost was right. To take the 'road less traveled by' does make all the difference." — Samantha Brown

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

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." — Michael Altshuler

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

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

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

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

“Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.” — Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

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

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

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

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

Best Travel Quotes About the Journey

"I don't know where I am going, but I'm on my way." — Carl Sagan

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

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." — Seneca

"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting." — Sargent Shriver

"Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints." — Chief Seattle

"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror." — Orson Welles

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

"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” — Harvey Lloyd

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

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

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

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

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

Best Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

"The Wanderlust has got me ... by the belly-aching fire." — Robert W. Service

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

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

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

"For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Travel Quotes for After Your Trip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Buttuta

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

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

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

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100+ short travel quotes to rev up your wanderlust.

Nothing like some short quotes on travel to spark that good ol’ wanderlust. Whether I’m planning my next adventure  or reminiscing about past journeys, travel sayings have a way of stirring my soul and fueling my passion for exploration.

These short travel quotes are not only perfect for sprucing up Instagram captions; they also serve as reminders of the transformative power of travel.

So, fasten your seat belt, dear fellow adventurer, and immerse yourself in these quotes (there are over a 100!) that succinctly capture the essence of travel.

FAMOUS SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES

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

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

3. “Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

4. “To travel is to live.” ― Hans Christian Andersen

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

I especially love this quote. So often we get caught up in the glamor and glitz of Instagram influencers jet-setting around the globe, giving us serious travel FOMO . Yet we forget to appreciate the beauty in our own backyard. Travel isn’t just about distant destinations; it’s about embracing the adventure right outside our door. 

After all, as Lao Tzu said, every journey begins with that first step. So, tell me, when was the last time you played tourist in your own city? When did you last wander through its streets with the eyes of a traveler?

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

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

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

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

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

11. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” ― Anthony Bourdain

12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” ― T.S. Eliot

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

14. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ― Chief Seattle

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

INSPIRATIONAL SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES

16. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” ― Stephen Covey

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

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

19. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” ―  Gayle Foreman

20. “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 experiences.” ―  Eleanor Roosevelt

21. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” ―  Simon Raven

22. “Travel is like knowledge: the more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.” ―  Mark Hertsgaard

23. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” ―  Chinese Proverb

24. “The journey is the destination.” ―  Dan Eldon

25 .”Traveling is not a race; it’s a dance. Enjoy every step, and let the world be your partner.” ― Unknown

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

This timeless travel quote by Mark Twain hits home. It is the experiences we pass up that linger as regrets. The quote is a fierce reminder to seize each moment, to explore, to dare, and to live fully, for in the end, it’s the memories of our courageous leaps that color the canvas of our existence.

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

28. “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

29. “The world is too big to stay in one place and life is too short to do just one thing.” ― Unknown

30. “Travel far, travel wide, and never lose your sense of wonder.” ― Unknown

FUNNY SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES

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

32. “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” ― Unknown

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

34. “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” ― Eckhart Tolle

35. “I’ve got 99 problems, but a vacation would solve all of them.” ― Unknown

36. “I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m on the road to the airport.” ― Unknown

37. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” ― Russell Baker

38. “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

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

40. “The greatest achievement of modern civilization is not indoor plumbing or air travel, but rather the ability to complain about them endlessly.” ― Bill Bryson

In my opinion, Bill Bryson is the funniest travel writer there ever was. His wit is sharper than a well-packed suitcase and his humor more infectious than a bout of traveler’s diarrhea. 😉

Bryson’s travel quotes are worthy of being jotted down in a journal, to revisit on rainy days or during long layovers. I highly recommend reading some of his funniest travel books for a hearty dose of laughter and wanderlust.

41. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ― Paul Theroux

UNIQUE SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES

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

Why this quote is relatable is because it encapsulates the perspective that comes with travel. Exploring foreign lands often serves as a mirror, reflecting both the beauty and the imperfections of our own homeland. Being immersed in a different environment forces us to step outside our comfort zones and see our country through new eyes. We not only discover the world but also develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of our own culture.

43. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” ― Danny Kaye

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

45. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.” ― Cesare Pavese

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

47. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” ― Peter Hoeg

48. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.” ― Unknown

49. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” ― Hilaire Belloc

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

51. “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

52. “The best souvenirs from your travels are not the trinkets you bring back home, but the memories you carry in your heart.” ― Unknown

53. Every once in a while, I hope you remember to let life blow you away a bit. ― Tanya Bindra

Took the liberty of throwing in a quote by yours truly as well 😉 I hope this short quote on travel (and life, too) resonates with you as much as it does with me!

54. “Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind.” ― Jan Myrdal

55. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.” ― Anthony Bourdain

Renowned for his fearless exploration of diverse cultures and cuisines, Bourdain’s profound insights and candid narratives have inspired countless adventurers worldwide. This short travel quote captures that zest for unequivocally embracing the journey. Travel is a lot of things, some good and some bad. What makes it worthwhile is taking what it throws our way and running with it.

56. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” ― Paulo Coelho

57. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” ― Agnes Repplier

SHORT TRAVEL ADVENTURE QUOTES

58. “Adventure is worthwhile.” ― Aesop

59. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” ― Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

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

62. “Oh, the places you’ll go!” ― Dr. Seuss

63. “Adventure awaits at the edge of your comfort zone.” ― Unknown

64. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” ― Tom Stoppard

65. “Adventure is calling, and I must go.” ― Unknown

While this quote may border on cliché, its timeless allure resounds deeply within the restless soul. Even in the mundane routines of daily life, endless possibilities for adventure are waiting to be embraced. Whether it’s trying a new cuisine, exploring a nearby hiking trail, or striking up a conversation with a stranger, there are plenty of everyday adventure ideas  beckoning you to seek the thrill in the ordinary.

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

67. “How wild it was, to let it be.” ― Cheryl Strayed

68. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” ― Sue Fitzmaurice

HAPPY SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES

69. “There are no happy endings in travel, because nothing ends.” ― Bill Bryson

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

71. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats

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

This is something I realized recently while visiting Paris solo . The kindness and empathy complete strangers showed me is hard to describe in words, especially for a city whose people get a bad rap for being ‘rude’.

73. “To travel is to live with intention, to explore with curiosity, and to embrace every moment with gratitude.” ― Unknown

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

75. “Happiness is the sound of waves crashing and the feeling of sand between your toes.” ― Unknown

Oh, what I would give to be at the beach right now! If happiness had a soundtrack, it would surely be the rhythmic ebb and flow of the ocean and the melting of sand underfoot. From the sun-kissed shores of  Phuket to the tranquil coastlines of the  Caribbean , nothing compares to a good ol’ beach vacation!

SHORT SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

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

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

78. “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

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

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

81. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” ― Isabelle Eberhardt

82. “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.” ― Cheryl Strayed

Fear is often rooted in the narratives we construct about ourselves and the world around us. This travel quote emphasizes how we can consciously choose to rewrite those narratives. Solo travel, especially as a woman, is daunting. Yet, if we trust the process and tell ourselves a different story—one of safety, strength, and bravery— it can unlock the door to remarkable self-discovery.

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

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

SHORT QUOTES ON TRAVEL WITH FRIENDS

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

86. “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” ― Unknown

87. “There are three things you can never get enough of in life: chocolate, friends, and the theatre.” ― Bill Bryson

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

89. “There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” ―  Jim Henson

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

SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES FOR COUPLES

91. “Together, we write a story of love in the pages of the world.” ― Victor Hugo

92. “Love and travel go hand in hand.” ― Unknown

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

94. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” ― A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

95. “Together is a beautiful place to be.” ― Unknown

96. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” – Unknown

SHORT FAMILY TRAVEL QUOTES

97. “Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ― Christian Morgenstern

98. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” ― Leigh Hunt

99. “Family is where the journey begins and love never ends.” ― Unknown

100. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” ― Og Mandino

101. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years, especially when spent with family.” ― Abraham Lincoln

SHORT TRAVEL CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

102. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” ― Unknown

103. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” ― Cherie Gilderbloom

104. “The journey itself is my home.” ― Matsuo Basho

105. “The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” ― Unknown

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

107. “Let’s wander where the Wi-Fi is weak.” ― Unknown

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

109. “Wanderlust: A desire to travel, to understand one’s very existence.” ― Unknown

110. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver

Which of these short travel quotes resonated the most with you?

I hope the quotes on this list did a solid job scratching that wanderlust itch.

That’s the thing about travel quotes – like snapshots of inspiration, they linger in our minds, fueling our ‘fernweh’ and beckoning us to embark on new adventures, one word at a time.

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84 Travel quotes for anyone with a case of wanderlust.

Quotes about travel describe everything from an impromptu day trip to the globetrotting adventure of a lifetime.

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The best travel quotes in the world are of the world.

Whether your idea of travel is a weekend road trip or a months-long Homeric adventure, the journey holds purpose for you.

Some of us travel to relax, and others to enjoy specific activities like snorkeling or hiking. Others travel to see new worlds or learn new languages. We have different names for types of travel, too—like sightseeing, tourism, and globetrotting.

You can learn more about what travel means to you with these memorable quotes about travel. Travel quotes also serve as inspiration to push you out the door when you need it.

Wanderlust is like hunger. It starts with a rumble of curiosity, and if left unattended, it turns into an all-consuming force that will drive you wild until you satisfy it. Get inspired now with the best travel quotes, then let Adobe Express help you use them in fun Instagram posts , posters , and flyers before, during, and after your journey.

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Inspirational travel quotes to fill your sails.

There are key phrases you pass through when planning a trip. First, your wanderlust grows into a pang you can’t ignore. You put a budget together and decide it’s finally time to get going. You start planning, and excitement builds … but then, you look over the crest of your euphoria and see the downward plunge of the roller coaster pre-departure loose ends.

If you’re traveling to a different country and don’t speak the language, for example, you suddenly wonder, how well will you navigate signs? You also start asking, will your budget be enough? Have you thought of every plan B for missed flights, buses, and trains? Will you get all your work done before you leave?

The best travel quotes are the inspirational ones that remind you why you set sail in the first place. Choose your favorite quotes to use as a regular reminder of your “why.”

Henry Miller

Are you excited about going to a new place, or more excited about specific experiences you’ll have there?

Use this educational Seneca quote on a poster for a classroom or on a flyer for something like a language learning course.

Travel takes courage, especially when flying solo or going to new places with a change of language. The only way to experience something great, though, is to push outside your comfort zone.

Alexander Sattler

We all have friends who spend entire paychecks on trips. Where we travel, how often, and at what cost all tell us something about our priorities.

Asian Proverb

No number of photos of a famous place will ever satisfy the desire you have to see it.

Clint Borgen

You can also learn more about yourself when you venture outside of your daily routine. This quote can make for an interesting opener in a letter you write to friends while abroad.

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Travel quotes for Instagram that you’ll want to share.

The vibe of your Instagram feed might be just for friends and family, or you might be a maestro of hashtags who shares content with a growing community of followers. Travel quotes for Instagram cover the gambit from inspiring “live out of a suitcase” influencers to people taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip they’ve planned for ages. How do you find the right Instagram travel quote for you?

Instagram travel quotes are short by necessity, but they pack incredible meaning in a few words. Peruse this curated list of the most inspiring, shortest, and most Instagrammable travel quotes to find the one that instantly clicks. Then, let Adobe Express help you make Instagram posts or stories of all the photos you’re about to share, because there’s no better place for your favorite vacation photos than Instagram.

Henry David Thoreau

What better quote than this one to use in a collage or carousel of colorful photos from multiple destinations?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel is a lesson in humility for a lot of us. What does it feel like to be the foreigner when you travel?

Oscar Wilde

Share this in an Instagram story with photo evidence of one of the most outlandish things you’ve done while traveling. No regrets, right?

Ibn Battuta

There are so many stories to tell after a major trip. If you write cards or letters during or after the trip, watch how you turn into a storyteller with each incredible experience.

Jacques Cousteau

If you took one trip that turned you into a travel addict, and haven’t stopped traveling since, this Instagram travel quote is perfect for you.

The friendships you make while traveling have a unique energy to them. Can you tag some of your travel friends in an Instagram post with this quote?

Funny travel quotes that rouse a knowing laugh.

Travel is inspiring and some of the best social media content in your feed comes from the trips your friends and family take. You love browsing the photos and dreaming of the destinations, don’t you?

Once it’s your turn to travel, though, there are always some unglamorous hiccups. Funny quotes about travel tease out the tougher parts of a trip, like overspending a budget or traveling with people who aren’t the best travel buddies.

Travel has so much magic to it that even these funny travel quotes rouse smiles. Choose your favorites from this list and share them in cards to family or in social posts you share.

Quit vegetating and go travel somewhere.

Babs Hoffman

This cute travel quote is helpful to remember the next time you have flight delays.

Jack Kerouac

Use this quote on a poster and it can be a constant reminder to never let yourself idle in your comfort zone.

Audrey Hepburn

This short, cute travel quote is great for a banner at a bon voyage party. Even if the destination isn’t Paris, the message is clear: Taking a trip is always worthwhile.

Travel is like the insecticide to an infestation of lazy thinking. Travel more and see how it expands your mind in ways you never imagined.

Gustave Flaubert

This memorable travel quote works perfectly on a poster with a graphic or photo of the globe.

Family travel quotes—from touching to “touché.”

Traveling with family conjures a special kind of magic. There are few people in the world who can annoy us so much, and yet we still adore them. That makes traveling together a seesaw of going nuts and having the time of our lives.

Your role on a family trip changes over time, from the backseat of the car on family trips as a kid to the adult who treats Mom and Dad to a flight somewhere fantastic. There are elements of family travel that never change, though. There’s always a moment when you’re begrudgingly awake but together at the crack of dawn. There are evenings when no one realizes it’s time to call it a night. There are photo-ops galore, and always more memories made than you could count.

Family travel quotes bottle that magic into something you can use in a card or letter , post on Instagram , or to keep in your head—just like the memories you make.

Hodding Carter

If you have kids and take vacations as a family, thinking about what each trip does for a young person’s frame of mind is a huge part of planning.

Rick Steves

This travel quote can be as meaningful for a child on a poster as it can be in a collage of memories of major adventures taken as an adult.

Rachel Hartman

This family travel quote works for families with small kids and for those traveling together as adults. What a sweet sentiment to put in a letter or card , don’t you think?

Bill Bryson

Put this into context. What activities that are “normal” at home change for you when you experience them away from home? What small details, when altered, make something feel totally new?

Fred Connors

Not every trip has to be exotic or flashy for Instagram. Often, it’s more important just to be together and have fun.

Donna Hedges

Having family to travel with is also the best reason to never say never to a dream trip or destination.

Travel quotes for couples with a shared sense of adventure.

Would you take a trip with a new partner to get to know one another? Would you take a trip to shake things up after years of daily routines? Maybe you already travel with your partner, and these famous citations are the travel love quotes that define your chemistry.

Whatever your case, traveling as a couple creates shared experiences that are unforgettable.

Go catch the sun with these superb travel quotes for couples. Pick your favorites to use as social media banners , Instagram posts , and cards or letters to family and friends. You’ll want to document the next adventure every way you can.

Ernest Hemingway

Travel is wonderful, but it’s also stressful. Travel is insightful for couples as well as individually, because your partner will see you in every state.

Samuel Johnson

This thought-provoking travel quote is also true of your romantic relationship. Use travel to anchor the reality of your relationship—because it will expose how things really are.

If you’re in a long-term relationship and haven’t felt excited about life at home recently, travel as a couple can act as a defibrillator of excitement.

Make this a rule for a romantic relationship, and the benefits will compound year-over-year.

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

When you meet that special someone and discover you both love travel, the future before you glows with exciting possibilities.

Anita Desai

Wherever you go together becomes part of your relationship, too. Reflect on that together after a trip as a couple.

Travel with a partner can be scary, but that can also mean it’s something to try.

Travel with friends quotes to caption photos, fill collages, and inspire more trips.

Road trips after graduation, backpacking to learn a language, and trips to find yourself alongside your best friend can become the stuff of legends.

It’s fun to jump on the bandwagon, too, when a friend is going somewhere and you want to tag along. Travel with friends is that easy—if you share a passion for adventure, taking a trip together gives you a sense of familiarity that contrasts in an unforgettable way with the new places you experience together.

Choose your favorites of these quotes about traveling with friends, and they can serve as the perfect captions for your Instagram stories along the way.

Shirley MacLaine

Travel with friends makes better friends of those you travel with, and offers the opportunity to make new friends in unlikely places, too.

Leonardo DiCaprio

One of the best parts about traveling with friends is the time together without other distractions.

Crestless Wave

Are you “that friend?” If you aren’t, you should become that friend’s co-pilot.

Turkish proverb

Another benefit to traveling with friends is having company during the pleasant and the tough parts of a trip. No airport layover feels quite as long with a good friend by your side.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes, it’s hardly about the destination. It’s about the time spent together and the memories made.

The next time any friend of yours says “travel,” you should say, “let’s go.” Put this on a poster and keep it in sight as a reminder.

Marcel Proust

Experiencing and discovering places through your friends’ eyes opens yours to new perspectives, too.

Travel alone quotes for the bona fide adventurers.

Traveling alone is for true adventurers. Not only do those who travel alone often choose destinations off the beaten path, they also venture into new aspects of themselves on the way.

Travel alone quotes highlight the value of spending time solo and they celebrate the full control over every aspect of a trip when it’s yours. They send us off with affirming “safe travel” quotes, and they’re perfect for banners and flyers at a bon voyage party, too.

Choose your favorite travel quotes about solo journeys, then make them your own. They’ll quickly inspire your next adventure.

When you travel alone, you don’t have to wait for anyone. Use this travel quote on a poster to encourage you to take any adventure you dream up.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all who wander are lonely, either. Traveling alone is the favorite way to travel for some people.

David Mitchell

Consider journaling or writing letters to friends and family while you travel so you can capture things you learn about yourself along the way.

William Langewiesche

Some places and some trips we have to experience solo for them to form us the way they ought to.

Antoine de St. Exupery

Sometimes, that means traveling light on company, too.

Neale Donald Walsch

If traveling alone seems like a stretch for you, that’s more reason to do it.

Matthew Karsten

This is a great message to put on a flyer for any kind of travel offer, especially if it supports solo travelers.

Tips when using quotes about travel.

Where can you use travel quotes? The short answer is “anywhere.” For the travel quotes that are so good you just have to share them, think about:

• Cards — use travel quotes in cards to send quick messages packed with feeling.
• Letters — when you write letters to friends and family during a trip, travel quotes act as a view into the adventure you’re living.
• Posters — use travel quotes on posters for a constant source of inspiration.
• Banners — string your favorite travel quotes on banners to hang for a bon voyage party.
• Collages — one perfect travel quote in the center of a collage of vacation photos is always fun.
• Flyers — use travel quotes on flyers that promote different kinds of travel, upcoming trips, or travel resources.
• Instagram posts — for photos, reels, and carousels, a travel quote in an Instagram post can add context.
• Instagram stories — for the fleeting moments on a trip you just have to share, Instagram stories are always improved with a good travel quote.

Exercise: Find your travel style.

Take this quiz to discover what travel style you have. This will help choose the best travel quotes for your brand of adventure.

Ask yourself:

Total your points. Then see which is your type of travel:

• 4-7 points: Cultural Explorer
• 8-11 points: Leisure Traveler
• 12-15 points: Adventure Seeker
• 16-20 points: Sightseeing Enthusiast

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite travel quotes to work. If you want to use travel quotes in cards , letters , posters , banners , collages , flyers , Instagram posts , Instagram stories , or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.