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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

• Quotes , Travel Tips
• November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
• 12 min read

If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.

Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.

In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.

Famous travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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

94. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.”   -Eric Weiner

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

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

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

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

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

100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

inspirational travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 156 of the best travel quotes, including some famous quotes from figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

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

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• famous travel quotes.

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

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

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

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

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

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

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

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

• Funny Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Short Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

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

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

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

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

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

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

• Misc Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Travel With Friends Quotes

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

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

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

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Solo Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World

Whether you are an experienced world traveler or merely just a dreamer with a case of wanderlust, these are the best travel quotes to inspire you. Everything from short to long, to sayings about love, couples, friendship and family. And of course the ever so popular Mark Twain travel quotes! Plus, it just wouldn’t be right for me to not include the top bucket list quotes in the bunch.

Whether they are spoken, or a taken from a book or poem, travel quotes continue to engage our imagination and lift our spirits. They make us re-evaluate our corner of the world, and inspire us to defy our boundaries. Let these quotes on travel inspire you to start packing your bags!

Best Travel Quotes: 200 Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World

Travel Quotes by Mark Twain Short Travel Quotes Funny Travel Quotes Travel Quotes About Love, Couples & Marriage Quotes on Travel with Friends Quotes About Fear & Goals Bucket List Quotes Most Inspiring Travel Quotes

Best Travel Quotes by Mark Twain

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

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

3. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” — Mark Twain

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

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

Top Short Travel Quotes

6. “You lose sight of things…and when you travel everything balances out.”

7. “If not now, when?”

8. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.”

9. “Travelers never think they are the foreigners.” — Mason Cooley

10. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

11. “Learn to travel. Travel to learn.”

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

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

14. “Travel is my therapy.”

15. “Wander often, wonder always.”

16. “Fill your life with adventure, not things.”

17. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

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

19. “Embrace the detours.” — Kevin Charbonneau

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

21. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berr a

22. “Adventure is out there.”

23. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventure fills your soul.”

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

25. “Everyone smiles in the same language.”

26. “Eat well, travel often.”

27. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hillaire Belloc

28. “Put a ding in the universe.” — Steve Jobs

29. “Dream without limits.”

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

31. “Die with memories, not with dreams.”

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

33. “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”  —Ray Bradbury

34. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”  —Paul Theroux

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

36. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.”

37. “Travel is an investment in yourself .” —The Cultureur

38. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.”

39. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” —H elen Keller

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

41. “Design a life you are inspired to live.” — Annette White

42. “Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.”

43. “Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.”

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

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

46. “Wherever you go…go with all your heart.”  Confucius

47. “I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer.”

Best Funny Travel Quotes

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

49. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

50. “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Martin Buber

51. “Vacation calories don’t count.”

52. “Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.” — Terry Hanson

53. “In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.” — Robert Benchleyl

54. “You want to know what it’s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.” — Lewis Black

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

56. “ Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.” — Anthony Bourdain

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

58. “Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” — Regina Nadelson

59. “One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.” — Erma Bombeck

60. “[Airline food] is the tiniest food I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get — chicken, steak, anything — has grill marks on each side, like somehow we’ll actually believe there’s an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.” — Ellen deGeneres

“Stop making excuses for why you can’t do epic shit and start making plans for how you can.”

— Annette White

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

62. “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” — Charles Kuralt

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

64. “If traveling was free, you’d never see me again.”

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

66. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” — Russel Baker

67. “Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.” —Charles Kuralt

68. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” —George Carlin

69. “Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.” — Al Boliska

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

71. “There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous.” — Theo Cowan

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

Travel Quotes About Couples, Love & Marriage

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

74. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”

75. “I’ve got a crush on the world.”

76. “All you need is love & a passport.”

77. “Relationship status: In a relationship with my passport.”

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

79. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.”

80. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —Winnie the Pooh

81. “Together is our favorite place to be.”

Quotes on Travel with Friends

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

83. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”

84. “A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

85. “In life it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.”

86. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”— Izaak Walton

87. “Be careful who you make your memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze

88. “I just want to eat good food, make good love, travel near and far, and surround myself with good people who get me. Happiness over everything. Anything less than that is irrelevant.” — Alex Elle

89. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”

90. “Everyone needs someone who calls and says, “get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.”

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

92. “I want to travel and meet beautiful souls. I want friends in every city.”

Quotes About Fear & Goals

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

94. “Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” — Athena Singh

95. “Don’t let fear make your decisions for you.” — Annette White

96. “Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain

97. “The toughest challenge may be overcoming the damage our own fears have created.” — Annette White

98. “What if fearful thoughts were a habit like overspending, avoiding eye contact, or saying “umm” when you speak?” — Annette White

99. “To escape fear you have to go through it, not around it.” — Richie Norton

100. “Each time you try something for the first time you will grow—a little piece of the fear of the unknown is removed and replaced with a sense of empowerment.” — Annette White

101. “Fear does not stop death, it stops life.”

102. “Put the fear aside and focus on the endless possibilities the world had to offer.” — Annette White

103. “Instead of listing the thousands of reasons that I can’t do something, I find the half dozen reasons to believe why I can. I find solutions instead of making excuses.” — Annette White

104. “What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

105. “Only take advice from someone who has achieved what you desire.” — Annette White

106. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

107. “Whatever you have accomplished was because you decided it was a priority in your life and something else was not as important.” — Annette White

108. “Great things never came from comfort zones.”

109. “The key is to make your goals a priority, by eliminating the words “I don’t have time” when referring to them. We all have time for what we choose to have time for and you need to make yourself a priority.” — Annette  White

110. “Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”

Bucket List Quotes

111. “The very words “bucket list” can stir up some pretty heavy-duty fears. It can be a reminder of our own mortality, and death is typically something we would rather not think about. But, the reminder that our time is limited is actually one of the best gifts we can be given. It is one that can guide us to achieve what is most important to us before it is too late.” — Annette White

112. “Make a bucket list and fill it with dreams that have no boundaries.” — Annette White

113. “The first thing on my bucket list is to fill the bucket with wine.”

114. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

115. “For too many people it takes a terrifying illness, hit- ting retirement age, or some other life altering event to honestly begin thinking about the things they want to experience in their lifetime. In many of these cases, it will then be too late to turn these dreams into a reality.” — Annette White

116. “Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.” — Annette White

117. “Whatever you want, there are benefits to turning them into a bucket list, and a well-crafted one can push you to lead your version of an ideal life.” — Annette White

118. “One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it’s worth watching.”

119. “It is never too early to begin a bucket list, don’t wait for that someday that may never come.” — Annette White

120. “Facing uncertainties every day and being able to over- come them on my own opened up more possibilities to achieving my bucket list goals.” — Annette White

121. “We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.” — The Bucket List Movie

122. “Creating a bucket list is only one small piece of the passionate life puzzle—actually living the bucket list lifestyle is the whole shebang.” — Annette White

123. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

125. “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

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

127. “Be the girl who decided to go for it.”

128. ‘Travel has the ability to enrich your life in some way, shape, or form—you return a different person than when you arrived.” — Annette White

129. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps, than a house full of stuff.”

130. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket.”

131. “I’m no the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher

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

133. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”  —Freya Stark

134. “Don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s not worth even beginning if you are only able to make a small start.” — Annette White

135. “Better to see something once than to hear about it hundred times.”

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

137. “Discover your passion, then take one step every day to live it.” — Annette White

138. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —H enry Miller

139. “Stop defining travel by the distance the destination is from your departure or the length of time you will be away from home. Instead characterize it as a journey of exploration, relaxation, adventure, and learning.” — Annette White

140. “I may not be rich, I don’t wear designer clothing or drive a luxury sports car, but bathing elephants in Thailand doesn’t require Louis Vuitton, just a passport and a desire.” — Annette White

141. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.”  —Game of Thrones

142. “Without a plan, aspirations are nothing more than hollow ideas floating around in your head.” — Annette White

143. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” — Carson McCullers

144. “You know all those things you always wanted to do? You should go do them.”

145. “There is a false perception that you need to be rich to travel, which simply is not true.” — Annette White

146. “Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

148. “There are seven days in the week and someday isn’t one of them”

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

150. “Leave the comfort of your resort hotel and be engulfed into the world around you.” — Annette White

151. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”

152. “Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” — Rick Steves

153. “Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ” — Kevin Kelly

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

155. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

158. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only the first page.” — St. Augustine

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

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

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

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

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

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

165. “The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.”

166. “Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibu Battuta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

175. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”  —John Hope Franklin

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

177. “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.”  —Roy Chapman Andrews

178. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — J.S. Eliot

179. “Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone…It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?” — Donald Miller

180. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”  —Roman Payne

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

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

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

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

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

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

187. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun drenched elsewhere.”  —Isabelle Ebehardt

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

189. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau

190. “Some people live more in twenty years than others do in forty. It’s not the time, it’s the person .” —Doctor Who

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

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

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

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

195. “Live with no excuses, travel with no regrets.”

196. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

197. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”

198. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

199. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

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

For many of these travel quotes, their style, humor and clarity of expression have inspired dreamers, and travelers for generations and continue to comfort kindred spirits today. Read them when you’re stuck in a rut or need to fuel your wanderlust… that is… if it’s possible to add any more fuel to that fire!

Do you have any travel, adventure or bucket list quotes to add to the list?

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49 thoughts on “200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World”

I feel like I've seen this list before?  If not then I've definitely read most of the quotes before.  I'm such a sucker for quotes, I even have a quote app on my phone.

There’s lots of travel quote lists out there, these are just my favorite ones ;)

I've not come across a lot of these quotes before like Elle has. My favourite one from the list is "5. Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson"

Oh Yea, that’s a good one :)

These are good quotes,  I like 6, 18, 34, 40 and 42.

So glad you read and picked your favorites!

2 is my favorite and one that I live by. 

I love these, especially 18 and 31. Also ha ha to number 16. I always think of Uncle Traveling Matt's song from Fraggle Rock as inspirational for travelers. "Every sunrise shows me more and more/ So much to explore/ Come and follow me", etc.

So funny, I used to watch Fraggle Rock all the time!

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Wow! What a comprehensive list! I love food and especially travel, and I find those things often bring you to a point of poignant reflection. Thanks for sharing these!

loved the list… So Inspiring…

I am glad that I am not the only one who has a huge urge to travel the world. I hope someday my dreams wont be dreams anymore!

Wow…This is a most amazing list and becomes more inspiring.

It really inspire me to travel even though I’m alone :)

It’s true! Travel is Therapy. Nice blog dude.

Enjoyed reading all the travel quotes! Each one is better than another. Some of them have really forced me to look at life from a different perspective and also sparked the interest for traveling in me. Thank you for posting such a wonderful conglomeration of travel quotes.

I love the 79th quote about friend and adventure other were also good but it was deep. I too have my own quote ” If you love surprises then Nature will never disappoint you” . Hope you like my quote too

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I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in their mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way, I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure!

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too :)

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

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60 Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Trip

Home | Travel | 60 Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Trip

Short quotes about travel are the easiest way to get travel inspiration since they pack a lot of meaning into very few words. Sometimes, all you need is a short and sweet simple travel quote to start thinking about your next adventure.

This collection of short travel sayings has something for just about every travel lover. You’ll find some of the best short travel phrases , of course, but I’ve also included some short travel quotes with friends , short travel quotes for couples , short adventure quotes , and more. Get ready to be inspired by these incredible short travel quotes !

• Best short travel quotes
• Short adventure quotes
• Short solo travel quotes
• Short travel quotes for couples
• Short travel quotes with friends
• Short family travel quotes

As you’re reading through this list of short vacation quotes , don’t forget to save your favorites and share them with your friends and family to pass the inspiration along. If you’re interested in checking out some longer travel sayings, our collection of the top 100 quotes about travel has exactly what you’re looking for .

Best Short Travel Quotes

The best short quotes on travel exemplify the idea of quality over quantity: you’ll get tons of inspiration from just a few words!

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

As this short holiday quote points out, you don’t have to be rich to travel. You can have a fantastic trip on a budget as long as you’re brave enough to get out there!

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

This short travel saying is a fantastic reminder of how impactful exploring can be on our lives.

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

This simple travel quote shows that attitude is everything. The way we approach life, especially when it comes to travel, can make the difference between having a decent trip and having the trip of a lifetime.

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

These wise words from the famous Irish writer are the perfect inspiration for an adventure. Ready to start planning your next getaway?

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

As this quick trip quote wisely points out, travel enriches our lives in many ways: culturally, gastronomically, emotionally, and more.

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

This adventure short quote reminds us that we travel for many different reasons. Whether you travel because you’re curious about the world or because you want to find yourself, any and all travel reasons are valid!

7. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.” – Michael Palin

Anyone who loves travel will relate to this wanderlust short travel quote . I know we do!

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

This short quote on travel is simple but effective: travel really is a key part of truly living life to its fullest.

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

This famous short travel saying is well-known for a reason. The metaphor of the world being a book works so well for expressing the idea that travel expands our minds.

10. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb

This short travel caption provides the ultimate travel inspiration. It’s great to hear other people’s travel stories, but if you’re curious about what’s out there, why not go see it for yourself ?

Short Adventure Quotes

These incredible adventure quotes will inspire you to see the world and keep exploring!

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

This short travel saying reminds us that we don’t always need to go looking for adventure to find it.

12. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot

As this short travel quote argues, we all have the spirit of adventure within us. We just have to embrace it!

13. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

This short vacation quote makes it clear that a positive attitude can turn a mishap into a grand adventure. Try it the next time you’re traveling!

14. “Adventure is out there!” – Up

This short and simple travel quote from the beloved Pixar movie is the perfect inspiration for your next big getaway. Go find that adventure!

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

This short adventure saying will resonate if you feel like exploring is in your DNA.

16. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” – Christopher McCandless

This short trip quote encourages us to see adventure as an important part of being alive. Maybe, deep down, we’re all explorers.

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

As this famous short quote about travel reminds us, it’s so exciting that there are tons of amazing places in the world to see. Why not get started on seeing them all?

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

This simple travel quote has one basic message: adventures equal happiness. If you have an incurable case of wanderlust, this saying will probably resonate with you.

19. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

Travel can be crucial for helping us understand more about ourselves. Let your adventures be your guide!

20. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

As this life is short travel quote shows, adventures fulfill us in ways that money simply cannot.

Short Solo Travel Quotes

If you’re planning a solo adventure and need some motivation, these short travel alone quotes are just what you need!

21. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

If you’re a frequent solo traveler, you’ll probably relate to the idea that places seem more beautiful when you’re by yourself. After all, solo travel gives you the chance to fully appreciate the sights around you.

22. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

I love this short vacation quote because I really relate to it. To me, travel is absolutely priceless and always worth it.

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

As this travel short caption points out, sometimes travel has to get put on the back burner, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop dreaming about or planning where we’ll go next!

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

Anyone who likes to stay in motion and keep exploring will relate to this short quote about adventure . Routines definitely aren’t for everyone!

25. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

This short quote on travel is all about discovering the beauty of the world for ourselves.

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

As this short travel phrase shows, travel can and should change us forever. Enjoy the unforgettable memories you make along your journey!

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

This short solo travel quote points out the pleasures of traveling alone, including having a whole bed to yourself!

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

The best thing about traveling solo is that you can easily make friends along the way. Take the opportunity to spend time with new people so you can turn strangers into friends!

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

This short trip quote reminds us that one huge advantage of traveling alone is the chance to be introspective and think deeply about your trip. It might even be helpful to keep a journal or jot down some notes to keep track of your thoughts.

30. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

This quick trip caption is a great reminder that not everyone travels well together. The best travel buddy will always be yourself!

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

These short travel quotes for couples will help set the mood for a romantic getaway. After all, love and travel make the perfect pair!

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

This romantic short travel quote makes a great point that traveling with loved ones can turn any place into somewhere that feels like home.

32. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne

If you’ve ever looked at someone and known you were in for a lifetime of adventures together, then this short travel saying is for you. It doesn’t get any better than having a partner who’s also a fantastic travel buddy – take it from us!

33. “A couple who travels together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

Travel is not only an incredible way to achieve personal growth, but also a fantastic way to grow as a couple. Spending day after day together in an unfamiliar place can really bring you closer together.

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

Trust one of the world’s most famous poets to have written a beautiful short travel phrase about love. Be sure to share this romantic quote with your travel soulmate!

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

As this short quote for travel reminds us, our travel companions can make all the difference in how we feel about our journey. Traveling with a loved one is sure to make your trip that much more fun!

36. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – An African Proverb

This short holiday quote shows that love and support can take us far, both in life and as travelers.

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

This short holiday quote is great advice for anyone planning a vacation. Traveling involves spending a lot of time together, so it’s always best to go on a trip with someone you already know you like!

38. “I would go everywhere and anywhere with you.” – Cassandra Clare

This short travel saying perfectly captures the excitement of exploring the world with the person you love.

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

I love this short trip quote because it’s so beautiful and poetic. These lines would make perfect wedding vows for a travel-loving couple!

40. “It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another.” – Roger Moore

This simple travel quote is a straightforward expression of the joy and beauty that come from traveling with your partner.

Short Travel Quotes with Friends

Good friends will always have your back, so it makes sense to bring them along on your biggest adventures. These short travel quotes with friends capture all the highs of traveling with your best pals.

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

As this short vacation saying expresses, in addition to the friends you bring with you, you’ll often make friends along the way as you travel.

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

Share this short trip quote with a best friend you’ll be traveling with soon, and get ready to have the time of your life together!

43. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah

As this short adventure saying points out, traveling together is a great way to strengthen a friendship and grow even closer. After all, every night will be like a sleepover!

44. “It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.” – Anonymous

Sometimes, you don’t realize how far you’ve come until you look back and see all the friends you’ve made along the way.

45. “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

In other words, time flies when you’re having fun! This short travel phrase shows how much joy friends can add to an adventure.

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

This short quote for travel reminds us that good friends will always make a trip better.

47. “Good friends follow you anywhere.” – A.A. Milne

This short travel saying offers some great advice about friendship: quality friends will always support you, no matter what.

48. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – Unknown

This short unique travel quote is all about priorities. If you love going on trips with your closest friends, this saying will definitely resonate with you.

49. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma & Louise

As this short road trip quote points out, it doesn’t take much to go on an adventure. Grabbing your best friend and hopping in the car is all you need.

50. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou

This short quote about travel offers a beautiful way of looking at the world: seeing everyone as a potential friend rather than as a stranger or enemy.

Short Family Travel Quotes

These short family vacation quotes are just what you need to get the whole family excited for some time away together.

51. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Anonymous

This short travel quote with family reminds us that traveling is the best way for kids to learn more about the world around them. Exploring is a valuable part of any child’s education.

52. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams

This short, simple travel quote is a very sweet way of expressing your appreciation for traveling with family. Share this with your family so they know how much you enjoy exploring together!

53. “Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

This travel short caption applies not only to family, but also to any traveler looking to expand their worldview.

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

This iconic quick trip quote shows how travel and learning more about the world can make us all better human beings. Traveling allows us to make the world our classroom.

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

As this short journey quote expresses, children and parents can experience travel a little differently. After all, seeing a place for the very first time is very different from a repeat visit.

56. “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson

This short unique travel quote is a great reminder that your kids will cherish the wonderful memories of family vacations.

57. “Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.” – Unknown

There’s no better feeling than sharing an incredible view or new experience with the people you love the most. Luckily, family vacations are the perfect time to create new memories together.

58. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

As this short travel caption points out, children are so curious and excited about the world around them that anything new will seem wonderful.

59. “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.” – Steve Harvey

This short trip quote sums up the best reasons to plan a trip as a family.

60. “Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.” – Anonymous

I love this short vacation quote because it captures the many facets of going on an adventure as a family. The crazy and the loud moments are all part of the fun, too!

I hope these short travel quotes have sparked your wanderlust and gotten you ready to start planning your next trip! Whether you’re a solo traveler who’s just found inspiration or one half of a couple trying to find the perfect caption for a vacation photo, be sure to save and/or share your favorite short unique travel quotes .

Let me know in the comments which short travel sayings resonated with you the most. Happy travels!

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101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures

Written By: The Planet D

Inspiration

Updated On: May 22, 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.

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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 .

Famous Travel Quotes

Adventure travel quotes, funny travel quotes.

• Inspirational Travel Quotes
• Short Travel Quotes
• Meaningful Travel Quotes

Happy Travel Quotes

• Unique Travelling Quotes

Travel Quotes by Famous People

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 reminds us that experiences and connections matter more than distances traveled.
• Another stirring quote is “Life is short, and the world is wide,” attributed to Simon Raven. It emphasizes our limited time to explore a vast world.
• The wisdom in St. Augustine’s words, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” encourages us to broaden our horizons through travel.
• John Steinbeck’s famous saying, “People don’t take trips, trips take people,” reflects the transformative power of travel.
• “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, suggests that even in the absence of physical travel, we can journey through the pages of a good book.
• “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving ” ~ Lao Tzu

Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.

Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up these best travel quotes around your house for inspiration!

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

Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.

This is definitely one of the best travel quotes of all time, but it certainly reads true. One of our favorite travel quotes is “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

When you travel, the whole world opens up. Travel has helped us to understand the meaning of life and it has helped us become better people. Each time we travel, we see the world with new eyes. Just like reading a book, when you travel, you experience more than only one page of life. Make your life a novel, not a page.

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

This is one of our favorite travel quotes because it gets us. Throughout our lives, people have thought that because we keep traveling and searching for new things to do, we are not focused.

They have often thought we were flaky or unfocused. But travel helped us find our purpose and put focus into our lives. The more we got lost in our travels, the richer our lives became.

Seriously people, not all those who wander are lost. That’s a statement and a quote.

So when you think that the travelers in your life are flighty, remember, “not all who wander are lost “

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

If Helen Keller can see life as a great adventure, what excuse do the rest of us have? Take a chance and live life to the fullest. When we are at our most daring, we feel the most fulfillment.

When we think of this travel quote, we live by it. Adventure is different for everyone, but we try to treat each day by doing something daring and adventurous; it keeps things exciting.

I wonder what she would think now, knowing that she is quoted as having one of the most popular travel quotes in the world.

4. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle had many inspiring quotes, but this is probably the most famous of all travel quotes, it is also a motto everyone should live by in life.

We need to give back to this world. People often feel they can take home a trophy, sneak a piece of stone from a historic site , or take something from nature.

Travel isn’t about taking, it is about absorbing the beauty of the world. So remember, sometimes only memories are all you need. They are your only private moments to enjoy. So try to take only memories.

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

Travel opens our minds and heart and makes us better people—one of our favorite travel quotes by Mark Twain.

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

When thinking about travel quotes, we often look to the most popular ones, but these quotes really make me think. Sure, we can set sail to different lands, but until you change your mindset, you’ll never really immerse yourself in a voyage of discovery.

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

Traveling quotes often mention the fact of how travel makes you humble and how life experiences are more important than accumulating things.

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

This doesn’t necessarily need to be related to travel quotes it can work for life quotes too. It can be scary to try something new, take a chance, and step out of your comfort zone. But when looking back on life, it’s the chances you didn’t take that you’ll regret.

9. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway

As a travel couple, this is one of those travel quotes that is close to our hearts. We love traveling together and couldn’t imagine doing it alone.

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

This is one of those travel quotes that sum up a traveler perfectly. Over the years, our memories of our travels change and our stories become larger than life. Not only do we forget the bad and remember only the good, but the senses stick with us.

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

Before we started traveling in 2000, I only dreamed of writing for a living. But after our travels, I was so moved by many of our experiences I started writing stories to my friends and family.

When we first set off to begin our travel blog, a friend shared the works and travel quotes of Ibn Battuta with me it was through these early recommendations inspired me to become a storyteller.

No best travel quotes list would be complete without adventure quotes. Travel is an adventure and they go hand in hand. These are some of our favorite quotes about the adventure that we’ve collected over the years.

12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho

Travel quotes about adventure are our favorite because we are always pushing our boundaries and when we’re feeling a little afraid or lazy, we always think of this quote. Plus, I like this much better than his other quote: “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

13. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous

It’s true! Of all the travel quotes in this list, I really feel that this one rings true to life. Even if you are not traveling, you need to step out of your comfort zone.

Whether you’re taking on a new project, opening a business, or enrolling in a course, when you do something that scares you a little, you can do something great.

14. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou

When looking for travel quotes about adventure travel, this one really stuck out by Maya Angelou. It wasn’t until we started to live a life less ordinary that we understood how much control we had over our lives and just how amazing we could make it.

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

This doesn’t have to a quote on travel alone. Life itself has a lot of potholes. Whether you are traveling or at home working at your job, you should definitely enjoy the journey.

16. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”

Are you wanting to travel the world but are afraid to take the next step? The travel quote above says it all. Fear is only temporary , but if you don’t follow your dream, you may regret it forever.

We are not saying to follow travel quotes like this blindly. Don’t put yourself in dangerous situations, but don’t let being afraid of the unknown consume you either.

17. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

This is one of my favorite travel quotes on adventure travel. It’s scary to step out of your comfort zone, but if you do so with proper training and guidance, a whole new life will begin!

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

Well to me this quote means you have to leave your burdens, your stress, and your preconceived notions behind. To understand travel, you must be open to new possibilities and it will change your life.

19. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough

This is one of those quotes about travel that has never rung truer than in today’s society. Everyone is traveling to show off and brag or catch a selfie rather than to have an experience. But its the experience that you’ll remember, not the social share.

20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty

It’s true, we all have to do our job and have our careers. And that is important we need to make money to be able to live. But it is also important to take time to smell the roses and let go of work when you are not in the office.

We have always looked at our lives this way, jobs fill your pocket so that you can spend your down time having a great adventure. Be it travel or at home, life begins outside the office.

I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.

21. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

We all have worries every day and more than ever the state of the world is in question. But travel makes you forget your troubles and Charles Schulz couldn’t have said it better. It’s the funniest of travel quotes.

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

We have always given the advice that if you want to test to see if you are compatible in your relationship, go and travel together for a while.

Mark Twain could not be more correct. If you can travel with someone you’ll be friends for life! So put these travel quotes to the test and travel with someone right now!

23.  “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck

When traveling, things are often out of our control and we have found that it is better to relax and let go. And that is true for our marriage as well. We can’t always be in control and that is half the fun!

24. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

This is a rather funny travel quote by Anthony Bourdain, but it is also very true. Some of our best travel experiences have been when having a few drinks with the locals.

So when we are out late at night, we look to these types of travel quotes for justification. hah!

25. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman

This quote reminds me of my dad. He’s always telling silly jokes like this and I love it!

26. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa

For those of you who are afraid to fly, I am afraid that you are not going to find the humor in this travel quote, but I find it quite cheeky.

27. “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope

This one made me chuckle because we were just in Ottawa (Canada’s National Capital) and we made a point of saying “ Now we know where our taxes go, look at all the beautiful museums and buildings in this city! ”

And even though Bob Hope was talking about his home country of the USA, it certainly rings true anywhere. So, we put it in our best travel quotes list, because everyone can relate!

28. “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark

While I think it’s a funny travel quote, I tend to disagree with Dick Clark. It seems that the more I travel, the worse jet lag gets. But then I suck it up and think of him and then I say “Deal with it Deb, Jet Lag is for amateurs.” See, travel quotes can be motivating!

29. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux

I love this travel quote so much because it is very true. When we come home from our travels, we always forget the tough times and difficult experiences.

We only remember the beautiful things about our travels and the bad stuff fades away. But let me tell you, we’ve had some very unglamorous travels in our lives.

30. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.

I don’t know who said this travel quote, but it is straightforward and to the point. If you are looking for travel quotes that capture the feeling of travel, this is it!

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.

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

I am going to update this quote though and say Woman and Man Cannot discover new oceans until they lose sight of the shore.

When Dave and I first started our careers in travel, we kept one toe in our careers and one toe in travel. It wasn’t until we finally let go of our safe life in the film industry and took a chance to go all into our new adventure travel careers that everything changed.

32. “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha

33. “it is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ penelope riley.

We all make mistakes in life and travel. Travel quotes can be relatable in life as well. And it really is the mishaps and adventures you have along the road of life and travel that make for everlasting memories.

34. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein

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

Okay so maybe it isn’t exactly the truest of travel quotes because if you buy a house, it may grow in value and if you buy stocks, you may get lucky and hit the jackpot, but you can never go wrong with travel.

But travel brings riches in life with experiences, learning, and making new friends.

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

Quotes about traveling often have a message of being free from possessions and things, and instead of having life experiences instead. It think this travel quote says it the best.

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

When we saw the Taj Mahal for the first time, we had heard about it many times. We had read about it and people had told us all about it. But it wasn’t until we saw it that we really understand its beauty and meaning.

38. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow

We agree with this travel quote indeed. Travel changes a person and it is because of the people you meet and the experiences you have. It is true that you take a piece of a place home with you.

39. “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous

We have found that travel gives us the courage to try new things. When we are home in our routine, we become comfortable. But when we travel, we are inspired by others and inspired by the destination.

40. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”

Before we started traveling full time we felt trapped. When we started putting our minds to living a life of travel, we felt the barriers break and soon we were living our dream. This quote is very close to our hearts.

41. “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon

Travel brings people together. It helps people understand other cultures and religions. What we think we know about other places is thrown out the window, once we land on their soil.

So get out there, meet other people and you’ll soon see that people around the world are just like you and me.

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

42. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde

For life and travel, we all must follow our path without making excuses and we should never live with regrets.

43. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

Many people think traveling quotes are all about people escaping and dreaming. But to us, this quote captures exactly the essence of travel. We never traveled to escape life, we always traveled to find ourselves.

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

We all take trips, but most of the time the trip ends up taking a life of its own.

45. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb

Perhaps people tell you not to go to a place because they think it is awful when it is really beautiful. Or perhaps someone constantly tells you how wonderful a destination is.

Go and see for yourself and make up your own mind. That’s what this says to me.

46. “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”

One of my favorite quotes about wanderlust. One of the things Dave and I are most thankful for is the fact that we never stopped dreaming.

If we settled (like we were supposed to in life) we’d still be working at our jobs thinking we weren’t allowed to have dreams once we reached a certain age. Never stop dreaming.

47. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”

Isn’t this just the dream? I love it when I take a trip and clearly do not have a plan. That is when the real adventures happened in our travels.

48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss

It’s a short one, but oh it’s a good one. Whenever we meet someone that is starting to travel or is thinking of traveling, we always think of this quote by Dr. Suess.

These words make us think of adventure. Oh the Places You’ll Go! Doesn’t this make you excited to get out and explore thw world?

49. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

50. “life’s a journey, not a destination” ~aerosmith.

Okay so maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson deserves the credit for Life is a journey, not a destination, but we heard it first through Aerosmith, so I’m giving it to Aerosmith. Because I couldn’t find the proof anyway.

I’ll never forget being in Vietnam in 2003 and while sitting in a bar, they encouraged travelers to write their favorite quotes on its wall.

What did Dave choose? Life’s a journey, not a destination naturally. We have always lived by this motto and of course adventure is for everyone.

51. “Where to next?”

“Where will you travel next? How will travel change you and how will you change the world?”

52. “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson

Why does this travel quote resonate so much with us? Before we traveled, we felt that we never truly lived. The more we worked, the more exhausted and disconnected we felt. When we introduced travel into our lives, we felt alive again.

53. “I want to make memories all over the world”

To us, memories mean more than things. When we are out with friends, we have so much to talk about. It’s way more meaningful to have a memory to share than to show off a “thing.”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

54. “whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ mark twain.

Mark Twain is one of the greats when it comes to creating famous quotes about travel. We have always tried to live a life less ordinary and think outside the box. I do believe this has helped us have success in our business and our relationship.

55. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho

I think in today’s society this travel quote couldn’t be truer. Many people are quick to attack others through social media and everyone has an opinion.

But what about “being the change?” Positive leadership can be powerful.

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

We often have preconceived notions of what other countries are like. But once we visit a destination, we realize that we have it all wrong.

Travel helps us to understand and learn about different cultures and ways of life. We always encourage people to visit other countries to understand the people and cultures around the world.

It’s impossible to truly understand a place until you have met the people, and immersed in the culture.

57. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

Travel often opens our eyes to different ways of thinking and understanding the world. We as travel bloggers love to preach what we have learned to the world, but we also need to live by example.

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

59. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

I’ll never forget saying to Dave “I need meaning to my travels” when we first started traveling. It was by creating this blog, creating our videos, and creating our purpose to share our experience that I finally created myself.

60. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters

This is certainly one of the best motivational quotes that have to do with travel.

I often hear people complaining that they can never catch a break. But you know what? You can’t wait for things to happen, you have to make them happen.

61. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”

Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!

62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Don’t get lost in the crowd. Be an individual. Think big and be brave. Stand out and live life to the fullest.

63. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

All my life, I worked hard and dreamed of what I might do one day when I retire. Once I learned that doing what you love is happiness. We don’t have to dream about what might be one day.

64. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

Do you ever just stop and take a breath and look around? I am amazed at the little things. Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and start living today. From home!

65. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”

Dave and I feel that our hearts were truly made to travel the world. Even when we worked in the film industry, we were always planning our next trip.

66. “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”

It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.

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

Do you get lost when you travel? Or are you a planner? Here, the anonymous traveler quotes an idea to go with the flow, just the way we like it.

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

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

71. “The journey is my home.”

Dave and I were on the road for seven solid years. We didn’t have a home. People often said to us that they couldn’t imagine not having a home base, but we felt at home on the road. We actually felt more at home on the road than at home.

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

71. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”

We got this traveling quote from our friend JD of EarthXplorer. Well said JD! There is no better piece of advice. I wish my niece and nephews listened to me when I told them this.

72. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”

Whenever I read this quotation on travel, I always think of the singer Dido. Do you know that song ? “I’ve still got sand in my shoes and I can’t shake the thought of you.” When traveling to islands and beaches , this one always pops into my mind.

73. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous

Over the years we have had many people ask us, “how did we have the courage to do what we do.” Truthfully, we never thought too much about what could go wrong.

When we knew we wanted to cycle Africa or climb a mountain, we didn’t focus on what could go wrong, instead, we focused on the excitement and challenges ahead. So we recommend using this travel quote to help you overcome the “what ifs in life.”

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

When we first started traveling, people thought we were running away from things. But in truth, we were finding ourselves and we ran right toward our purpose in life. We have never felt so fulfilled as when we do when we’re traveling.

75. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

We love traveling together and this is our favorite of all couple travel quotes. While we admire solo travelers we are so grateful to having someone to share special moments together.

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

People often say to us “Oh, you must be such great travelers!” and we say, It’s not about being good at something, it is about enjoying what you do. If you enjoyed your travels and if you have a good time, you did a good job!

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

As we get older, we have developed a deeper appreciation of the time we have on earth. After spending many years doing something we did NOT love, we realized that time goes by quickly and we have to make the most of our time.

Now that we have a passion for our careers and adventures, we understand even more how true this quote is.

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

Dave and I often get lost when traveling and it is usually the times that we take a wrong turn that we have our greatest adventures.

Getting lost is part of the fun of travel, so don’t over plan too much when planning your travels.

79. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”

When we started traveling we discovered so many new things about ourselves and each other.

By stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things, travel helped us become better people and this quote is definitely true for us.

80. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw

Travel expands the mind and without having to study or read books or take a course. We learn and grow without even trying when we travel.

81. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France

Wow, this is certainly one of those deep travel quotes. But it is true! Humans are connected to the universe, when we get out and really travel, we feel that connection stronger.

82. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

How many times have you gone traveling and thought that you have it all planned out? But it’s the surprises and secret destinations along the way that really stick with you for the rest of your life.

83. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill

People really do make the journey. We may only meet someone for a fleeting moment, but they often stay in our memories forever.

84. “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Each day we are grateful that we get to live in this beautiful world.

Not only is the earth’s scenery awe-inspiring, but there is a beauty in the people, culture, and wildlife that we have experienced.

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

85. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We just love to travel. It doesn’t matter where. No matter where we go, we always learn something new.

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

87. “because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. climb that damn mountain.” ~ jack kerouak.

We have our tasks and chores to do each day, but it is the unique challenges that come with an adventure that we will remember at the end of our lives. I want to be able to say “I climbed the mountain and I lived well.”

88. Paris is Always a Good Idea ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

90. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ mae west.

Ah, Mae West. I can just hear her saying this quote in that fabulous accent. I am sure she wasn’t talking about travel, but we can make anything related to travel quotes.

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

Robert Frost said it best, if you take the road less traveled in life, you will probably see success. And when it comes to travel, you can find something amazing if you go off the beaten path.

92. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer

93. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ dalai lama.

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

95. “the only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ henry david thoreau.

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

My favorite part of traveling is the anticipation. This captures that perfectly.

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

98. “keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ walt whitman.

I have found that travel has helped me become an optimist. The more experiences I have, the more positive my life becomes.

99. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

100. “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ~ maya angelou, 101. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~ oprah winfrey.

It was Oprah Winfrey that got us hooked on inspiring quotes so how could we not finish off our best travel quotes list with words of wisdom by the Grand Dame of Show Biz, inspiration, and philanthropy? And it is definitely a great way to end.

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

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

Not truer words have been said about packing. The best way to travel is to travel light. You can always buy something if you forgot it or need it, but seriously, chances are you probably won’t.

You’ll be surprised just how few clothes and accessories you’ll need to travel. So when packing for your next trip remember… When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. ~ Sir Richard Burton

It’s becoming more difficult to find unknown lands as the world shrinks in the age of Instagram and TikTok. But it is still possible, so start searching for those unknown lands today.

And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

All images belong to The Planet D and are from our travels around the world to seven continents and 110 countries.

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145 thoughts on “101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures”

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂

It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/

It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

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

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

Lovely collection of travel quotes, but you miss something in this. So, i share the new collection of Travel Quotes and Sayings. Please check and share your reviews.

Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

thank you for giving me wonderful information

Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.

Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

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120 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Journey

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

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

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

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

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Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. Peter Hoeg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi

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

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

Why We Travel

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

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

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

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

The journey itself is my home . Matsuo Basho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Solo Journey Quotes

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

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

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

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

Some journeys can be only traveled alone. Ken Poirot

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

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Road Trip Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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130 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

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

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

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100+ Inspirational Travel Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. The journey is my home – Unknown

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

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

35. Great things never came from comfort zones – Anonymous

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

38. Don’t quite your day dream – Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Same here! Glad you enjoy them!

I love these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

This is so inspirational! Love it!

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

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

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

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

Thanks for including that one on this ultimate list!

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

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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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Whenever I am in between trips or just need some travel inspiration, I love reading travel quotes.  Reading quotes about travel fuels my wanderlust and motivates me to plan a new trip.  If you are looking for inspiration to explore the world or just plan your next vacation, I have put together 65+ of the best travel quotes  of all time, including famous travel quotes,  short travel quotes , funny travel quotes,  road trip quotes ,  adventure quotes , journey quotes  and more inspirational quotes about traveling and exploring that will make you pack you bags and go!

Famous Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. “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 Travel Quotes

9. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho

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

11. “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Anonymous

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

13. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ― Chief Seattle

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

15. “Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.” – Anonymous

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

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

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

19. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Anonymous

20. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” —Buddha

21. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”

Funny Travel Quotes

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

23. “Vacation calories don’t count.” – Anonymous

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

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

26. “Travel is my therapy.” – Anonymous

Travel With Friends Quotes

27. “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

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

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

30. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton (this is a great traveling together quote )

Road Trip Quotes

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

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

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

34. “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman

Travel and Adventure Quotes

35. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

36. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” -Sue Fitzmaurice

37. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – Wilfred Peterson

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

44. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” -T.S Eliot

45. “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

46. “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 (this is one of my favorite exploring quotes )

Best Quotes about Travelling in General

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

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

49. “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

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

51. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” — Paolo Coehlo

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

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

54. “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – Rolf Potts

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

56. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

Journey Travel Quotes

57. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”― Danny Kaye

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

59. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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

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

62. “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

63. “Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

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

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

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

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I love quotes and especially travel quotes. I post a travel quote for inspiration or as a reason to travel every week on my FB page. I’m saving this to pull from in future weeks.

I love the Dalai Lama’s quote. I would take it up a notch, and advise folks to go someplace new monthly. A different county or state, if need be. Broaden your horizons. Loving these quotes.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” is my favourite! Susan Sontag is one of my heroes… You gave me a lot of inspiration, thank you for this list!

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Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but 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 ( more Mark Twain quotes )

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. HELEN KELLER ( more Helen Keller quotes )

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ( more Gustave Flaubert quotes )

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

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. CONFUCIUS ( more Confucius quotes )

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. WALLACE STEVENS

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY ( more Ernest Hemingway quotes )

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 (More Maya Angelou quotes )

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

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it Is lethal. PAULO COELHO (More Paulo Coelho quotes )

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. BABS HOFFMAN

Travel. The best way to be lost… and found… at the same time. BRENNA SMITH

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

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it. ALEXANDER SATTLER

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ANAÏS NIN (More Anais Nin quotes )

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. HILAIRE BELLOC

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Pamela Anderson has it all: beauty, fame and success. So why can’t the most famous blonde find her fairytale ending? Why is Pamela so unlucky in love and what dark secrets lie behind her seemingly glamorous life?

The Many Marriages of Pamela Anderson

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Pamela Anderson had a fairytale look at weddings from a young age. "I'd meet somebody, fall in love, and it would just be very romantic and it would be love at first sight."

But sadly, none of her nine weddings led to that dream relationship for the 56 year old actress.

While she looks to have found peace and calm in her later years, Anderson's previous relationships were fraught with abuse, drugs, and fear.

How many husbands did Pamela have over the years?

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee (1995-1998, 2008-2010)

The bad-boy of rock, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, was the first man to sweep Anderson off her feet. The two stars had a whirlwind relationship that resulted in sons Brandon and Dylan. But what was once a fairytale marriage was also incredibly 'tragic,' ending in Tommy Lee being charged with spousal and child abuse.

While the Baywatch babe refers to Tommy Leed as "the only man I ever really loved was Tommy Lee," the two were not able to make it work.

Anderson and Kid Rock (2001-2003, 2006)

Anderson married the controversial rapper and musician a total of four times, though she knew it was a mistake, "right when I got married."

It looks like there was no love lost, as both have confirmed they never spoke again after the split.

Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon (2007, 2013-2015)

Rick Salomon made a name for himself as a sometimes actor and poker player. Salomon turned out to have a serious drug addiction which Anderson only discovered when she found his crack pipe in the Christmas tree. Their marraige was annulled but they reconciled in 2013, thought the second marriage was short-lived.

Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters (2020) Kind of...

While it turned out the two never had an official marriage certificate, Anderson did announce her marraige to movie producer Jon Peters. Husband number five didn't last long, just a mere 12 days before the two split.

Pamela Anderson and Dan Hayhurst (2020-2022)

Anderson met her last husband, Dan Hayhurst, when he was the contractor for her house. The marriage survived two years before they went their separate ways.

"You know, it was more like trying to put a family unit back together. But I wasn't really in love. I just was going through the motions and then realizing, I have nothing in common with this person. Like I was putting people in my life to kind of numb some of the pain or be with someone, companionship, but nothing nothing healthy."

Stranger Comes Across Artist On the Street - Gives Him Way More Than a Commission

Man Gives Artist More Than a Commission With Act of Kindness

Sometimes, all we really need is to be seen. It can be lonely living without any kind of recognition or feeling valued by others. So when one man stopped by a stall with a talented artist and offered him more than a commission, it was a life-changing moment.

A Random Surprise

In Calgary, Alberta, a young man named Riley sells art on the sidewalk across from a shopping plaza. He spray paints canvases and asks buyers to offer whatever they feel the paintings are worth.

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A Life-Changing Moment

@rongives Making A Strangers Day! 🥹🥰

“Thank you, you’re the best. This means a lot to me,” Riley said in a raspy voice, taking off his sunglasses upon Ron’s return. “You don’t know what you’ve done for me.”

Ron simply asked for a handshake and a hug in return, which Riley quickly gave him in the heartfelt video .

“What you’ve done, you've changed my life,” Riley explained. “You made my year. You made me feel so good; you made me feel like I have value.”

“You do, Brother,” Ron replied. “Look what you’re doing, man. You’re very talented.”

Riley went in for another handshake and called Ron the best human he’d ever met.

“I love you. You make me want to love myself,” he said.

Feeling Seen

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So often, we go about our busy lives without really considering our fellow humans and what they might be going through. But much of the time, people are going through things we cannot see. Stopping to speak to someone on the street, chatting with a vendor selling their fare, or spending time with a senior can make a big difference in their day.

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Elderly Man Brings Over Cake and a Note to His New Neighbor

Moving into a new neighborhood can be an exciting experience. But it can also be pretty daunting. After all, you can pick the house but you can't pick your neighbors.

Last month, Kelly McDuff and her fiancé Garrison bought their first home in Richardson, Texas.

Understandably she was feeling "a little nervous" about the move. Not only was it in an unfamiliar area, but it was in a completely new town.

Turns out, she needn't have worried. Because when it comes to neighbors? She hit the jackpot.

An Unexpected Visitor

@kellyann2339 I love it here

Two weeks after moving in, Kelly had just gotten home when her doorbell rang. She opened the front door and was shocked to find her 98-year-old neighbor standing on the step, holding a beautiful chocolate cake and a handwritten note.

He had come to welcome her to the neighborhood.

She was so moved by her elderly neighbor's sweet gesture, she posted a video about it on TikTok , simply captioning it, "I love it here."

The clip is short and "sweet," only 11 seconds long. But whew, it packs a punch.

The video opens with Kelly, 27, on the verge of tears, her hand over her mouth, and a text overlay that reads:

"We just moved into a house and my 98-year-old neighbor just dropped off a cake to welcome us to the neighborhood."

She then shows the elderly gentleman slowly hobbling back to his house before panning the camera to the chocolate bundt cake drizzled in vanilla icing.

"He's lived here for 52 years and 'hopes we love it as much as he has,''" she writes.

More than 14 MILLION people have viewed the man's touching gesture and almost all of us are thinking the same thing, "Man, they don't make neighbors like this anymore. Also, invite this man to dinner!"

"This is what neighbors used to do for each other, that was normal."

"The walk 🥹🥹🥹 I would’ve criiiiiiied."

"Please make sure you invite him over for dinner! That would make his whole life! 💗"

"This is the side of tiktok I adore. We’re gonna need updates on this budding friendship. ❤️"

Spreading the Love

@kellyann2339 Replying to @Bethany Handler Mill a lil lemon pie update! 🥰 he loved it!

The following day, Kelly returned the favor. She baked him a lemon meringue pie and hand-delivered it along with her own note containing her contact information so they could stay in touch.

"I'm excited to go see him again and get to know him more," she said before taking it over.

The man, who lives with his stepdaughter, was thrilled to see her.

"Bless your sweet heart," he told her when she explained why she was there.

"I love lemon pie. You didn't have to do that, but I'm just delighted you did."

Once she was back home, Kelly shared how much the interaction had impacted her. “I have no words. I am on cloud nine and will be recovering the rest of the week.”

And now? Kelly's making a habit of paying it forward and spreading the neighborly love.

In a subsequent TikTok , she revealed that she was taking flowers to her 86-year-old next-door neighbor who was recently widowed.

"She gave us her contact information the other day with her kids' information on it and her hobbies which are golf and dance. So cute," Kelly shared on the video.

The Importance of Social Connection

It's no secret that social connectedness is vital to our overall health and well-being. Numerous studies and decades of research prove that people who are socially connected live longer, healthier, happier lives.

And yet, according to a survey done in 2018 by the Pew Research Center, only 24% of Americans know all or most of their neighbors.

Kelly hopes that by sharing her own sweet experience it will inspire others to reach out to their neighbors.

"Go meet your neighbor. Go knock on their door, bring them some cookies. Everybody loves cookies."

Kelly McDuff via TikTok

You never know — it might just lead to a lifelong friendship and a healthier, happier community AND you.

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Best Travel Quotes: 35 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

August 30, 2023

Powerful words can ignite passion in people.

And traveling is something humans are already drawn towards.

You don’t need to work too hard to convince yourself to go on a trip. Just a small pep talk and you’re rummaging through your drawers for your passport.

In case, you’re one of those who can’t, here are the best 35 travel quotes to inspire you to travel .

Adventure Travel Quotes

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

Napoleon Hill once said, “There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”

If you desire to travel, then you’ll make it happen. And a list reminds you of doing what’s needed to be done in order to cross off every place from your bucket list. 2.

Adventure Is Worthwhile. Aesop

It’s as succinct as it gets. In just three words, Aesop has summed up the essence of traveling. Adventure brings the unknown, the hidden and presents it in front of you to unfold it and peel its layers away. And that is nothing but worthwhile.

Every penny you spend, every joule of energy you exhaust, every ache you feel in your bones and every other effort you put in for traveling together form an adventure that educates you. 3.

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

The most precious treasures are never documented. Similarly, destinations truly worth visiting are not on maps. The best of experiences are those which come unexpectedly. Same is the case with places. The best of places are those which are not listed and you find them by chance.

Make sure you don’t just stick to the map! 4.

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

Well, isn’t that the truth?

The vastness of this world is incomprehensible. You can’t take it in all at once. But you can uncover it piece by piece, place by place. In the short span of time, that is life, you can only see so much. It’s better to start your quest to go around the globe as young as possible. 5.

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

Stumbling upon something that we were not seeking is a delight. And for a tourist, it’s ecstasy.

When you don’t know that beyond the expanse of a massive forest you’re exploring lies a mesmerizing waterfall, coming across it would make your journey 10 times exhilarating.

The best experiences are formed when you find something or someone without even looking for them. Enjoy the unexpected delight that traveling has to offer. 6.

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

Life is not a routine affair; instead it’s a spontaneous string of events that you truly live. Enjoy the spontaneity life has to offer and don’t settle for monotony.

That’s why I love going to other places many times per year. Alone, or with my significant other, or with friends. From Paris to Tokyo, I prefer to live my life on the road rather than in a cubicle 24/24, 365 days a year.

Getting up early, going to work every day shouldn’t be how you define life. Life should be full of adrenaline and adventure. Make sure you don’t miss out on it because you had the wrong idea about what really life is.

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. Matthew Karsten

Travel teaches you more about yourself than you ever can never find out otherwise. You find yourself through traveling.

When you take on challenges, you are testing yourself. And they lead you to yourself. Traveling is also like a challenge that tells you how resilient and determined you are to not settle.

Invest in yourself by investing in experiences, moments, and traveling. 8.

You don’t have to be rich to travel well. Eugene Fodor

The 19th century traveler gave the world a valuable gnome at a time when traveling was a luxury for the elites. Eugene himself traveled the world on a budget and proved that even when times are tough you can squeeze in a trip in your meager wealth. And his statement has never been truer than it is now. 9.

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. Paulo Coelho

Just like Peter Hoeg, Paulho Coelho also believes that travel is not about having money; it’s about having the courage to face the unknown. Only daring beings can enjoy the mystical experience of traveling, people who are willing to step out of their safe place.

It’s like reading a suspense thriller, where you don’t know what is going to come next. If you brace yourself for the unknown and get out into the world, you reap the fruits till the end of time. 10.

He who travels happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This one is a great travel tip in itself.

Don’t just reduce the size of the baggage you carry when you travel, also reduce the size of the baggage your heart and mind carry. To fully enjoy the world, letting go of your demons is essential. When you plunge into the bottomless pit of traveling, rid yourself of worries to truly recharge your soul.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. Peter Hoeg

Going out in the world presents you with unfamiliar situations which stir up all of kinds of emotions. You get to experience, excitement, love, fear, nervousness, anticipation and the list goes on.

Excite your senses with the love of traveling. You cannot fathom the versatile mix of emotion a traveler feels until you, yourself take the plunge and experience the rush. 12.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

It’s easy to learn but impossible to unlearn. Once a mind is exposed to new ways of thinking, it is never going back to its old ways. And that’s evolution.

Traveling evolves your mind. Once you evolve into a ‘woke’ person, you would never think like you used to. Give yourself the chance to evolve and step on a plane. 13.

Traveling, it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta

In the words of the traveling master, the ever wandering soul, Ibn Battuta, traveling leaves you dazed. The medieval traveler describes the ubiquitous impression traveling leaves on every traveler. The oxymoronic tendency of it first makes you awestruck, leaving you without words over the magnificence of the world. This then turns you into a colorful raconteur .

And this power of traveling has bequeathed timeless stories to the world which ignite the passion of exploring in every one of us. 14.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert

Where do we stand in this world? What is our place? Do we even matter? These questions are often answered when a person embarks on a journey. We realize how insignificant we are in this world. How negligible our being is in the grand scheme of things?

When a soul unearths the wonders of this mysterious world, and realizes there’s so much more to life than just their trivial existence, they become humble. 15.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip. Babs Hoffman

A journey is meant to have unforeseen glitches, but that doesn’t mean you don’t embark on it. Having the motto of ‘come what may’ will take you to faraway places.

Don’t let petty blips stop you from exploring. And isn’t that how you take on life, you don’t stop living if you’re faced with an unexpected challenge. If traveling comes with some pitfalls, why should you take it any different? 16.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin

The wanderer in all of us seeks adventures and journeys to satisfy the hunger for exploration. Whatever maybe the reason behind going on a trip, but we all wish to travel to either explore or to resettle, to seek companionship or just to learn. The driving force may be different but the outcome remains the same. 17.

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary Anne Radmacher

Traveling is truly a life-changing journey. It teaches you more than any book or classroom ever could. The obstacles you face, the places you come across, the people you encounter enlighten you. Once you have seen the world from outside the lens of your home, you will never see it the old way.

Traveling opens up new directions for you to think in. It makes you better and wiser. 18.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide

Courage is all you need to explore the world. Getting out of the familiar, secure walls of your comfort zone and stepping out on the land of the unknown can be scary. But only with the unwavering resolve can you achieve greatness.

Dare to wander and leave familiarity of your safe place to see new horizons. 19.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. Sandra Lake

Age might bring wisdom but traveling brings true meaning to wisdom. When you begin the process of taking a trip, it starts from packing your bag to returning home. And this entire process brings revelations that help you understand the world better. 20.

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. Anonymous

Material possessions fade away but traveling leaves a perennial mark on your existence. Everything you buy will depreciate and at some point stop existing. But the invigorating experience of traveling stays with you till your last breath.

So in essence, travel is indeed the only thing that truly makes you rich. 21.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. Anita Desai

Whatever trace of a place you take away with yourself, becomes a part of your being. What you get from traveling stays with you till your last breath.

It’s not about souvenirs or presents that you get, it’s the everlasting impression of an experience that gets engraved on your soul. 22.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

A traveler always finds themselves in the plains of a foreign land. As we have already established that traveling is the best investment in yourself because it helps you find yourself. This quote just reinforces that idea.

In the unfamiliarity of a place you find the unknown realities of your being as well. So it’s not just about finding places and people, it is also about finding yourself.

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. Tim Cahill

A social animal lives in all of us. It may not define us but it is still present somewhere, deep down. And that being expects us to connect. Traveling can lead us to lifelong friends, and sometimes even to our better halves.

The fruitfulness of an experience is not always measured in the miles you travel or the number of places you discover; sometimes meeting other wandering souls can be the fruit of your trek. 24.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. James Michener

Having an open mind is a pre-requisite of traveling. If you carry your biases, beliefs and uninformed opinions with you to other places, you’d never welcome new ideas. Holding on to your perspectives can turn you into a bigot. And a bigot can never get the true essence of traveling, so it’s better if they don’t travel at all. 25.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine

Humans are the same fundamentally; we share same emotions, same fears and same desires. When you meet new people, that reality is reinforced. And you realize that we are one, made of similar ingredients, only our complexes make us feel different.

Globetrotting gives you the opportunity to meet new people and connect with your own kind. 26.

Take only memories, leave only footprints. Chief Seattle

Don’t take away pieces from a place, just lock their impression in your mind and take that with you. Don’t disrupt the order of things when you’re just a guest there. Leave just an innocuous trace of your presence behind.

Nobody likes it when outsiders change their arrangement of things. Places are the same way, don’t chip them away with the thought that you’ll leave them behind. 27.

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

Traveling pops your bubble. It acclimatizes you with reality and makes you realize that things are different than how you thought them to be. It’s important to know the truth of things for than to rely on your uninformed ideas. It makes you wise and knowledgeable.

Travel to learn the truth, to find the reality of the world.

To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark

The rush of adrenaline that comes from stepping on a foreign land is intoxicating. Being a stranger in an unknown space makes you powerful and vulnerable simultaneously. It gives you the liberty to be whoever you want to be. And at the same time it leaves you at the mercy of your own device to navigate through the unfamiliar surroundings.

But the heady feeling of being on your own trumps almost every other sensation of life. 29.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine

In the metaphorical words of Saint Augustine, we get the plainest yet pithy analogy of the world. When you read a book, you must finish it or at-least get through most of it to form an informed opinion. You cannot understand the truth of it if you are not fully aware of its matter.

Just like the world. If you stay within your comfort zone, within the bounds of your own culture, you will never know about the diversity the world has to offer. 30.

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. Wallace Stevens

Everything about the world is worth exploring. It has so much to offer. It basically offers its entire sphere for you to look at and revel. Then why be so picky? Every new place has something to offer, whether you realize it or not.

Just go out in the world and marvel at its wonders and even at its shortcomings. 31.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart! Confucius

Traveling without heart is like a life without love. Doing anything half heartedly would never give you the best results. And when it comes to traveling, it’s even more important to put your heart into it. Because if done with love and care and excitement, traveling can elevate your soul. 32.

To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

Life is not in the confinements of daily routine. It’s in the treat of traveling. As Caskie Skinnett expressed beautifully that routine life disrupts it. And this quote by Hans Christian Anderson rephrases it as succinctly as possible. Life is not in routine, it’s actually in the hustle of traveling.

If you truly want to live, then travel! 33.

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. Asian Proverb

Listening is not as satisfying as looking. What you experience by looking cannot even come close to hearing about something. If you truly wish to witness the wonders of life then use your eyes instead of your ears.

Go out; embark on a journey to explore the Earth. Don’t rely on others to fill you in on the wonders of the world. 34.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

Every new destination is fraught with new ideas and values. A traveler doesn’t just look at a place, they also absorb it.

When you go in a garden teeming with hypnotizing flowers, you don’t just look at them, you feel their essence. You learn their fragrance you memorize their texture to truly enjoy their presence. Exploring places should also be like that. 35.

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

It should never be about the destination!

The best part about traveling is exploring. Going out to see a place that you already know exists is nice but not as delightful as traveling itself. Move, start a journey and don’t fret over the destination. Every journey brings destinations, expected or unexpected. Once you start the journey you are bound to find something.

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101 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

Travel quotes inspire me to remember why it was all worth it it in the first place.

Travel can seem like this glamorous adventure filled with perfect Kodak moments without a care in the world.

Any real traveler knows that this could not be further from the truth.

Traveling involves money, planning, creativity, energy, and a willingness to be uncomfortable.

To be a clean slate and allow the realities of the world to teach you something you cannot learn in a book.

I hope that these travel quotes inspire your wanderlust, and ignite your passion to see the world.

I scoured the internet and handpicked 101 travel quotes that spoke to me the most!

• “Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
• “ Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
• “ Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”  –Unknown
• “ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustav Flaubert
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “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
• “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “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
• “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

• “Paris is always a good idea.” ―  Audrey Hepburn
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
• “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― Agustine of Hippo
• “A person susceptible to “ wanderlust ” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
• “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
• “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “ Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

• “The journey is the destination.” ― Dan Eldon
• “ Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
• “Oh the places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
• “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
• “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
• “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― K. Chesterton
• “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
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “ Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

• “But that’s the glory of foreign travel , as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” ― Bill Bryson
• “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
• “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
• “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
• “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
• “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
• “The journey itself is my home.” ― Matsuo Basho
• “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? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.” ― Anthony Bourdain

• “Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” ― Thor Heyerdahl
• “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel , change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” ― Kenneth Grahame
• “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” ― Jodi Picoult
• “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” ― Tahir Shah
• “Most travel , and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.” ― Paul Theroux
• “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.” ― Elizabeth Bishop
• “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” ― Pico Iyer
• “You thought too hard. Same with travel . You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” ― Gayle Forman
• “The best traveler is one without a camera.” ― Kamand Kojouri

• “He who would travel happily must travel light.”  ― Antoine de St. Exupery
• One’s destination is never a place. It’s a new way of seeing things. ― Henry Miller
• You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. ― Dr. Suess
• There’s the whole world at your feet. ― Mary Poppins
• “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
• “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” ― Agnes Repplier
• “We travel , some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
• “ 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

• “ Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”  ― Saint Augustine
• “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
• “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by”  — Robert Frost
• “The best education I have ever received was through travel .” ― Lisa Ling
• “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.”  — Hilaire Belloc
• “I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.”  —  Karamo Brown
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled .” – Mohammed
• “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” ―  Hypatia
• “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
• “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
• “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

• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” ― Chris Humphrey
• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
• “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”  ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ― Matthew Karsten
• “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
• “Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it’s actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.” ― Meghan Markle
• “ Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
• “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

• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
• “ Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”  – Paulo Coelho
• “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
• “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
• “There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel . I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.” ― Emilio Estevez
• “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
• “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”  – Unknown
• “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.”  ― Anthony Bourdain
• Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.” ― Virginia Postrel
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” ― Unknown
• “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

What was your favorite quote from this list? Have any other travel and wanderlust quotes that you love? Let me know in the comments below!

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51 comments.

What a wonderful list of quotes! My favorite is probably the first one!

Thank you for reading!

As a fellow world traveler, I simply adore travel quotes! Thank you for posting!! 🙂

You’re very welcome!

Great quotes! I am saving this for later!

I just love your blog! Your picture with the elephants made me smile!! This post really makes you think about traveling; the quotes from so many travelers! loved it!!

Wow thank you for your very kind words!

I liked, “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” My fiance and I are new full-time RVers who are hoping to embrace the travel life without having to worry about a 9-5 office job.

Wow, that’s very exciting!

Jennifer Morrison

I agree with the Hans Christian Andersen quote! Sadly, I put myself on a travel moratorium for two years. UGH. But, it is going to mean Italy in 2020, so it is totally worth it!

I can’t wait to go to Italy one day. I’m excited for you!

Lie reading about travel

So many beautiful words and so many places to see!

Thank you for visiting!

I love quotes and I love travel, so this post is perfect! I can’t wait for my next big trip.

Thank you so much!

Tricia Snow

I never knew there were so many travel quotes! Thank you for sharing!

You’re welcome!

Traveling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer!! 100% agree. We try to be frugal to save for our kids and retirement but spend money every year on vacation. Great to see other cultures, relax, and try new foods.

A good vacation, when done right, can be priceless!

Your post makes me want to leave for a trip right now! Soon very soon.

I highly encourage it!

OH MY GOODNESS! What a great list! I love this blog! I am a wanderlust! will be coming back to these quotes on a regular basis!

Thank you so much! I would love if you came back 🙂

These are so great! There are so many that I loved!

Kathryn at QuestFor47

Well now I just want to pack my bags and get out there! Too bad I have to be at work in a couple hours! Thanks for sharing!

Tonya @ the Writer Mom

That’s a lot of travel quotes! Very inspiring.

Kathy Phillips

I love these quotes. Especially the one about seeing things and people with new eyes. That is so true.

Great list! This must have taken you a while to compile!

Thanks! And yes, it took me 2 or 3 days!

Clarissa Miller

All of these quotes are so inspiring! Now I want to take a trip!

Arianny Rodriguez

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” is my favorite!

I love all of these quotes! I especially love the I e that says travelling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer 🙂

Im always looking for new quotes for my IG Page. Thanks so much.

What an amazing list of fantastic quotes!!! I love the one about travel instilling a sense of modesty because it shows us the tiny place we occupy in this world. Sooo true.

I love that one too!

I love the quote that says that the road will always be there, you have to choose to take it. It reminds me of Glinda the good witch in the Wizard of Oz, when she tells Dorothy that she’s always had the power. It is within us.

That’s a great comparison!

Love these quotes! I travel to experience new adventures. Travel for sake of traveling sounds like me.

Thanks for visiting!

Where is your next destination, Dominique?

Hopefully, I’ll be traveling to Italy, France, and England next month!

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101 BEST Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

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As Dorothy L. Sayers says, “I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.” Quotes come in handy when you’re out of words. For travel-loving families like ours, travel quotes inspire wanderlust when not traveling.

As cheesy as it may sound, I love quotes. As a kid, I would write down quotes about travel, quotes about life, quotes about family , quotes about kids , quotes about adventure, quotes about love, quotes about nature , quotes about dreams…well, basically quotes about everything and anything else that inspired me in some or the other way in a journal . I still save quotes on Pinterest . Mini-me has an inspirational corkboard she uses to write and pin quotes she loves. Like mom, like daughter! Having said that, travel quotes are a great way to inspire the love of travel. Here, I’m sharing some of the best travel quotes to fuel wanderlust in you and your kids.

It’s bad manners to let travel wait!

and so let the adventure begin…

We always say yes to new adventures. You?

If you love inspirational quotes , you’d love this list of beautiful words for sure.

Best Travel Quotes

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#1 Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.

This has to be one of our best trip quotes. We absolutely live by these words! Our mantra for life, in fact. We introduced our daughter to the world of travel when she was just 2-months old. She has blossomed into a great storyteller now 🙂

#2 Kids don’t remember their best day of television.

But they do remember their first trek !

#3 Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.

The idea of exploring this big, beautiful world with kids is a learning experience for parents. Seeing the world through your children’s eyes is unmatched. Travel the world with kids , no matter how young they are. Because…

#4 Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading to them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.

The bottom line is, it’s never too early to begin exploring the world.

And, let the kids nurture their love for traveling by reading these best travel books for kids .

#5 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain

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#6 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

#7 what child has not traveled by spinning the globe, #8 oh, the places you’ll go. ~ dr. seuss..

My daughter loves the quotes by Dr. Seuss .

#9 You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so…Get on your way! ~ Dr. Seuss

#10 because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. ~ dr. seuss.

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#11 And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity, and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. ~ Pico Iyer

#12 two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. ~ hodding carter, #13 i want to travel across the world and breathe the air of new places., #14 a road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places. ~ tom lichtenheld.

Ah! Family road trips. They are the best way to bond. After road-tripping in the USA , Europe , and Asia – we have compiled a list of ultimate road trip hacks for families who love road trips.

#15 Road trips aren’t measured by miles but by moments.

Our list of the best road trips in the world will definitely give you some serious road trip goals.

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#16 One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ~ Henry Miller

#17 of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. ~ john muir, #18 when in doubt, travel..

This is one of our favorite short travel quotes. I’d love to remain in doubt 🙂

#19 Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. ~ Dalai Lama

or better yet, 20 places 🙂

#20 To travel is to possess the world. ~ Burton Holmes

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#21 Never go too long without watching a sunset ~ Atticus

This is so true. It is just magical to watch the orange-hued sky casting a spell on you. We have memories of sunsets witnessed at Outer Banks , Acadia , the southern tip of India – Kanyakumari , and many more destinations.

#22 The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. ~ Og Mandino

This one remains one of our favorite family travel quotes !

#23 In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

#24 live your life by a compass, not a clock. ~ stephen covey, #25 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.

#26 Just Go. Life is short and the world is wide.

#27 we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~ hilaire belloc, #28 travel is the healthiest addiction., #29 an open road and your favorite song is sometimes all the therapy you need..

Ummm…What about beach therapy? Who doesn’t love sandy toes and sunkissed nose! Because…

#30 A day at the beach restores the soul.

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#31 Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. ~ Erol Ozan

#32 if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. ~ rachel wolchin, #33 holidays with young kids isn’t about the holiday, (because let’s face it, that’s just exhausting), it’s about making memories., #34 when you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life. ~ t. chandler, #35 live for the moments you can’t put into words. ~ clo mailen.

#36 Enjoy the little things in life, or one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.

#37 we have nothing to lose and a world to see., #38 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., #39 not all classrooms have four walls..

I can vouch for this. Supplementing our daughter’s classroom education with travel around the world has helped her grow in magical ways.

#40 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

#41 Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn. ~ Nyssa P. Chopra

#42 do more things that make you forget to check your phone..

Like travel to the beautiful places that take your breath away!

#43 There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.

#44 travel isn’t a reward for working, it’s education for living. ~ anthony bourdain, #45 there are only two ways to live your life. one is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ albert einstein.

Everything is a miracle in life – no second thoughts!

#46 Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. ~ Asian Proverb

Asia has endless beautiful places to see that a lifetime isn’t enough! Don’t just read or listen about them…visit!

#47 Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

#48 jobs fill your pocket. adventures fill your soul. ~ jamie lyn beatty, #49 of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport., #50 the world is big and i want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. ~ john muir.

#51 Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ~ Kevin Kelly

#52 your feet will bring you to where your heart is. ~ irish proverb, #53 traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~ ibn battuta, #54 i haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. ~ susan sontag, #55 you’ll never know until you go. ~ your passport.

#56 Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. ~ Leigh Hunt

#57 wonder. wander. repeat, #58 wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~ anita desai, #59 design a life that you are inspired to live. ~ annette white, #60 “i met a lot of people in europe . i even encountered myself.” ~ james baldwin.

#61 Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.

#62 if you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal. ~ paulo coelho, #63 life’s either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ hellen keller, #64 to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. ~ freya stark.

Best feeling ever!

#65 Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.

We can definitely vouch that visiting places with weak WiFi networks makes your family network stronger. Try it and see for yourself. We have experienced the same at Ocracoke, USA , and Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India .

#66 Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common. ~ Deborah Lloyd

#67 i don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer., #68 make a bucket list and fill it with dreams that have no boundaries. ~ annette white, #69 don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. ~ prophet mohammad, #70 you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket..

#71 You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.

#72 up in the clouds on my way to unknown things., #73 to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~ aldous huxley, #74 a mind that’s stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~ oliver wendell holmes, #75 own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. let your memory be your travel bag. ~ aleksandr solzhenitsyn.

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#76 Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius

#77 don’t count the days. make the days count. ~ muhammad ali, #78 sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. ~ angela n. blount, #79 our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had a long way to go. but no matter, the road is life. ~ jack kerouac, #80 to travel is to live. ~ hans christian andersen.

This is one of the most unique travel quotes as it captures the essence of travel, perfectly!

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#81 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

#88 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., #89 travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~ gustave flaubert, #90 when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. cool, unlying life will rush in. ~ david herbert lawrence.

#91 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

#92 bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from god. ~ kurt vonnegut, #93 travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~ seneca, #94 a good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ~ lao tzu, #95 a journey is like marriage. the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ~ john steinbeck.

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#96 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

#97 people don’t take trips…trips take people. ~ john steinbeck, #98 if you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. ~ cesare pavese, #99 the best dreams happen when you’re awake. ~ cherie gilderbloom, #100 i wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance..

If you’re looking for funny travel quotes, this one’s the answer 😉

#101 What’s on my bucket list? Everywhere.

It has to be one of the most perfect travel captions for Instagram, indeed!

#102 It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville

And let’s conclude with one of the most famous travel quotes of all time.

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#103 Paris is always a good idea. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Paris, undoubtedly, is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe .

#104 Travel far enough to meet yourself.

This is one of the best inspirational quotes about solo travel !

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Keep Your Wanderlust Alive With This List of Short Inspiring Travel Quotes

Discover the true meaning behind wanderlust as you read through these short travel quotes. get inspired for your next tropical vacation.

Travel is inspirational and experiential. The Extraordinary Moments that you make on vacation can open up your mind to new possibilities, create unforgettable memories, immerse you in new experiences, and change your outlook on the world. But what inspires us to travel?

Join me as I take you on a journey through a list of short travel quotes from creative individuals that will leave you wanting to try new things and visit new places . Get ready to feel inspired!

Short quotes that inspire you to travel

•  “Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.”
• “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” 
• “Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.”
• “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
• “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.”
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
• “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”
• “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’s taken for granted.” 
• “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.”
• “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”
• “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.”
• “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.”
• “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.”
• “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”
• “Traveling: it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
• “Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories.”
• “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.”

Travel quotes that encourage new experiences

• “Take only memories. Leave only footprints”
• “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”
• “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.”
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
• “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, and sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
• “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” 
• ”A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”

Quick travel quotes to help you to relax

• "Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax".
• "The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do". 
• "As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep." 
• "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…Including you".
• “Exploring new places is a great way to relax and clear your mind."
• "Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within." 
• “We need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity".
• "There is no wisdom without leisure." 
• "A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!" 
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10 Motivational Quotes for the Low Budget Traveler

While scrolling through our Instagram & Facebook accounts, we come across an overwhelming number of inspirational quotes. Midst that downpour of posts, there are one or two quotations that capture our eyes and grip our hearts.

Quotes that we personally relate to and quotes that drive us towards our purpose. We certainly save and like these and set them as social media ‘status’ or ‘stories’. Ever happened to you?

We’re sure it has.

For all the wander-lust hit people, here’s a roundup of 10 triggering quotes that inspire like magic. If you are a low budget traveler, you’ll relate to these even more. These 10 Quotes Will Change Your Mind and Inspire You to Travel Low Budget

A low budget may act as an impediment to traveling. To not fall in that puddle, here are 10 doses of inspiration to boost you. Ready for a wanderlust-stirring pickup? Of course you are!

1. You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Travel Well. – Eugene Fodor

You may frown upon this, but it’s true. All you need is to find a place to crash with a limited budget. And we bet there are many. For instance, South Africa, Chile, Morocco, India, etc .

2. I Would Rather Own a Little and See the World Than Own the World and See a Little of It. – Anonymous

Saving for the future is great. However, if you’re only thinking of the future, then dear, halt . Splurge a bit and see the world because it’s no fun if there are no travelogues to share with your future self or memories to look back at and smile.

3. To Travel Is to Discover That Everyone Is Wrong about Other Countries. – Aldous Huxley

We often have predetermined notions about what other places are like. By all means, we believe what our friends or acquaintances have told us. Traveling to those places helps us create unbiased opinions.

4. Stop Worrying about the Potholes in the Road and Enjoy the Journey. – Babs Hoffman

Undoubtedly, low budget travel plans may have many loopholes, but continue anyway. The difficulties in journey will earn you a bag full of memories and experiences to cherish forever.

5. I Go to Nature to Be Soothed and Healed and to Have My Senses Put in Tune Once More. – John Burroughs

Make the most of your time while you’re young and restless. If you’re low on budget, ride your bike to the nearest getaway and enjoy every bit of it.

6. Man Cannot Discover New Oceans Unless He Has the Courage to Lose Sight of the Shore. – Andre Gide

Only thinking about traveling to foreign destinations won’t take you there. This time, pack your bag and march ahead. You can travel to beautiful locations without burning a hole in your pocket.

7. There’s a Sunrise and Sunset Every Single Day, and They’re Absolutely Free. Don’t Miss So Many of them. – Jo Watson

Most of us wait to appreciate life and nature until we travel. Sometimes, even your nearest city holds the best of the amusements. Get there now and start living today, right from neighborhood.

8. If You’re Twenty-Plus, 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

See, this is how you lock that jar of memories and experiences. Money is just a small part of the big travel plan.

9. 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

What if there’s no tomorrow? Your big-big savings will be of no use then, right? So, why not ditch buying the latest gadgets or spending money on monthly shopping for a while? Buy travel; it’ll only make you richer.

10. All You Need to Know Is That It’s Possible. – Wolf, a Trail Hiker

It’s only you who can deprive oneself from exploring aesthetic possibilities and dream-like experiences. Just open your mind and plan short-trips. You will be amazed by your self .

Where to Next?

Isn’t it just the right thing to ask now? Where will you travel next? Mark the place that pops up first in your mind and start planning for it.

Low-budget is just an excuse. You need to let go of it NOW. Assemble your travel gear and visit new places to experience the inexplicable pleasure of life.

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Very good collection and the most inspiring one is “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” gonna steal this one for my website, hope you don’t mind. Keep posting… Thank You!

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1. Understanding your finances

2. effective budgeting strategies, 3. reducing everyday expenses, 4. smart financial habits, 5. making extra money, 6. utilizing savings tools, how to save money effectively: 6 smart savings strategies.

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• To save money, evaluate your expenses and see if there are areas where you can limit spending.
• Consider whether your money is in the right place and review interest-earning bank account options.
• If you're saving for a specific purpose, set practical guidelines for goals.

Whether you're beginning to put away money for an emergency fund or ready to save for a down payment on a house , reviewing your savings habits can be integral to reaching your financial goals. 

There are several key steps and strategies to use when saving. You need to understand your finances, create a budgeting plan, start reducing spending, build an emergency fund , and practice other smart financial habits. You should also understand what tools are available to you, from investing, budgeting, and banking tools to side hustles and other ways of making additional money.

Here are six steps and strategies to saving money.

Assessing your income and expenses

To start saving money, you first have to look at where your money is going. 

"Oftentimes, people find it difficult to save because they try to do that after they take care of a lot of spending — after they pay their mortgage , rent, car payment, their groceries, etc. They find that they may have nothing left. I always suggest tracking your spending because that helps you identify money that can be saved," says Patrina Dixon, CFEI and founder of It'$ My Money .

Evaluate your spending to see if there are any specific categories where you can make some monthly adjustments.

Setting realistic financial goals

Maybe you want to save for particular savings goals , like a vacation or new car.

To help make your goal more tangible, Scott Stanley, CFP and founder of Pharos Wealth , says you can estimate expenses for your goal and set a timeframe. Then, you can review your budget and see how much you can save each month to make the goal more tangible. 

If you realize it's becoming challenging to save for your goal, consider resetting your expectations by extending your timeline or selecting something with a more practical cost.

The role of budgeting in saving money

Budgeting can help you identify how much money you have to spend, as well as what expenses you should spend that money on. Some expenses will be necessary to cover every month, like rent or utility bills; these are considered essential expenses .

Nonessential expenses are things you don't necessarily need to pay every month and are dependent on your wants, like entertainment and eating out. Your budget will help you determine what nonessential expenses you can afford, and which ones you need to cut back on or get rid of entirely.

Creating a monthly budget

There are a few common budgeting tips you can use to structure your spending when you're learning how to budget .

One example is the 50/30/20 budget rule . In this budgeting strategy, you spend 50% of your income on your necessities, like housing, transportation, and utilities, 30% on nonessentials, and 20% on savings, investments, and debt repayments. This is a flexible rule you can tweak to fit your situation, but it might not work for every circumstance, especially if you live in an area with high cost of living.

Another common budgeting strategy is the 70/20/10 budget rule . With this strategy, you'll spend 70% of your income on essential and nonessential expenses, 20% on savings and investments, and 10% on debt payments or donations. Like the 50/30/20 rule, this is a flexible rule that doesn't require you to keep careful track of every expense. If you want to focus on debt repayment, or if donating part of your income each paycheck is important to you, this might be a good strategy for you.

If you've kept up with a consistent budget, check in on your progress. If something doesn't go to plan, you can always modify it. You'll also want to make adjustments if you recently received a raise or bonus. 

Identifying areas to cut costs

Once you've decided on a budgeting strategy, you can identify places you might be overspending.

Reducing non-essential expenses doesn't necessarily mean you have to eliminate things that bring you joy. Instead, Dixon recommends reducing how frequently you're making that particular purchase.

For example, let's say you are a gourmet coffee aficionado. If you buy gourmet coffee from a cafe every day, you could alternatively go once or twice a week and contribute more to your savings.

Budgeting tools and apps

There are lots of budgeting tools, such as money saving apps and personal finance software programs , that can help you build your budget. If you don't want to use online apps or software, you can always use a notebook to track your expenses.

Using a budgeting app can help you keep track of your expenses without having to do it all manually. Budgeting apps can also help show you areas where you might be overspending. Depending on what app you use, you might also have access to other features, like monthly bill reminders, savings goals planning, and more.

If you would like to track your progress toward a specific financial goal, you might like a savings account with budgeting tools . Some high-yield savings accounts let you label and track progress for goals. Another option is to open a secondary savings account to track your progress.

Saving on groceries

If you're looking for ways to curb your spending on groceries, Dixon suggests planning out shopping trips beforehand to make you get everything you need all at once. This could also be helpful with saving gas if you would normally make frequent grocery trips or don't live near grocery stores.

Cutting utility costs

There are several ways to cut utility costs, although some of them require upfront expenses. 

One way to cut utility costs is to bump your heat down a few degrees in the winter, or raise your thermostat by a few degrees in the summer. You can also consider turning your heater or air conditioner off or down at night, if the temperatures in your area permit it. 

If you're interested in saving money long-term and don't mind spending some money, consider investing in energy-efficient appliances or solar panels.

Lowering transportation expenses

If your area offers public transit, using that might be less expensive than paying for the gas you would use to get somewhere — especially if your city's public transit system is robust enough to get rid of your car entirely. If your city is bikeable, replacing your car with a bike might provide similar savings.

While this option definitely isn't possible for everyone, being able to avoid car payments, expensive maintenance fees, and gas costs can save you a lot over time. Using public transit or biking might also help you avoid using ridesharing apps, which can get very expensive over time. 

The benefits of an emergency fund

Having an emergency fund is vital for financial security. If you lose your job or have a surprise medical bill , an emergency fund can keep you from going into debt or having to dip into money you were saving for something else. It can also help ease money-related stress, since you know you have funds to fall back on.

You should keep roughly three to six months' worth of expenses in your emergency fund. You might want to keep more than that saved to budget for healthcare costs or other emergencies if you're more likely to run into them.

Putting your emergency fund in a high-yield savings account can also help you earn extra money off of your emergency fund.

Prioritizing high-interest debt repayment

Debt, especially debt with a high interest rate like credit card debt, can build up over time. If you're not paying off your debt fast ,  you could end up just paying the debt's interest without touching the principal, or the original money you borrowed. If this happens, you won't make any progress towards being debt-free. Make sure to budget enough money for debt repayment to avoid this, and try to pay off debts as fast as you can to avoid paying too much in interest.

If you have several debts, consider prioritizing repaying the ones with the highest interest first. This is a debt repayment strategy called the "avalanche method," and it can help you save money in the long run. You could also use the "snowball method," where you pay off your smallest debts first. Analyze your debts to decide whether the avalanche method or the snowball method is the better choice for you.

Investing in your future

It's important to start saving for retirement as soon as possible, and investing can be a great way to do that. Contributing regularly to something like a Roth IRA can ensure that you have money to depend on later in life. Not only will you have the money you put into the Roth IRA, but you'll also have whatever money you made off of investing, too.

You can also use investing to pay for long-term financial goals, like buying a house. Just be aware that investing comes with risk, and it's possible that you'll lose money.

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Side hustles

Finding ways to make money outside of your job can help make sure you always have some money coming in. There are several ways to find fast cash , including money-making apps, freelancing, or using gig economy apps.

While you're unlikely to earn lots of money from them, money-making apps can help you earn some money, and the tasks they offer don't usually require much from you except for time.

Freelancing is more likely to provide a strong extra income stream, but can be inconsistent and might require more investment from you. There are several online freelancing platforms you can use to get started, like Fivver and Upwork. Similarly, gig economy apps like Uber or TaskRabbit could provide an extra income stream, but also frequently require you to provide your own equipment.

Selling unused items

You can use apps like Depop, Poshmark, or Facebook Marketplace to sell things you already have but don't need. Keep in mind that apps like this sometimes charge a fee to use them.

If selling your stuff online doesn't appeal to you, you could throw a garage sale to get rid of things you don't need anymore.

High-yield savings accounts

High-yield savings accounts are similar to regular savings accounts that you'd find at brick-and-mortar banks, but they offer more competitive interest rates. Putting your money in a high-yield savings account is a great way to make money off of your savings without risk.

The best savings account option for you will likely depend on when you'll need to access your money. Savings accounts typically have a cap on how many times you can withdraw your cash per month, although some don't. While it can be inconvenient to not have access to your money at any time, this can also be a perk if you don't want to be tempted to dip into your savings.

For money you need access to more regularly, a checking account is a better choice. You probably won't get as good an interest rate — most checking accounts don't earn interest at all — but you'll have much easier access to your money.

"The majority of your direct deposits may go into there so that you can pay your car payment, rent, mortgage, whatever the various bills that you need to pay," explains Dixon. 

• Certificates of deposit

Like high-yield savings accounts, CDs are all interest-earning bank accounts that can help grow your money.

CDs are different from high-yield savings accounts in two key ways. First, you generally can't withdraw money from your CD after you put it in. CDs last for a specific length of time, referred to as its "term length," and you generally only get access to your money again at the end of that term length. Second, while savings accounts have a variable interest rate that can change at any time, CD rates are generally fixed, and will stay the same for however long your term length is.

Certificates of deposit are great for saving for specific long-term goals, especially if you know how long you want to save for. They're also good for ensuring you keep a good interest rate for a long time. However, if interest rates rise after you open a CD, you might be stuck with a worse interest rate than you would have with a savings account.

Automated savings plans

Automating your savings can be a great way to ensure you're always making progress on your savings goals. Stanley recommends setting up an automatic transfer from your checking account to a high-yield savings account after each paycheck. That way, you won't forget and accidentally overspend money you were planning on saving.

By assessing your income and expenses, making and sticking to budget, and making use of different financial tools, you'll be able to save money and start building towards your financial goals. If you follow these tips, you can start saving for the future, even if you don't think you have much money to set aside.

Saving money tips FAQs

The amount you should save will vary based on your income, expenses, and financial goals. One common budgeting strategy is the 50/30/20 rule, where 20% of your income goes to savings and debt repayment. This number can be adjusted to fit your needs; the goal is to start with a manageable amount and increase it when you can.

Start by reviewing your expenses and identifying any nonessential items that can be reduced or eliminated, as even small cuts can add up over time. If you can, consider treating savings as a non-negotiable expense by automating a small money transfer to a savings account each payday.

Look for an account with a high interest rate, low fees, and good customer service. Online banks often offer higher interest rates than brick-and-mortar banks. Also consider whether you want your money to be easily accessible, or whether you want it to be a little harder to get access to.

Yes, investing can be a form of saving, especially concerning retirement plans or other long-term financial goals. Investing often earns you a higher return than a savings account, but comes with a higher risk. 

Making clear, specific financial goals can help you stay motivated to save money. Examples of clear goals are saving to buy a house, go on vacation, or build an emergency fund. Make sure to track your progress and celebrate milestones along the way.

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GoFundMe for Corey Comperatore, Trump rally shooting victims raises over $4M

A high-profile fundraiser for the victims in Saturday's assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania political rally has raised over $4 million, with top donors including Dana White and Kid Rock.

The GoFundMe, which says it is "President Trump authorized" is organized by Meredith O'Rourke , who is also Trump's top finance person, and is raising money for those "wounded or killed" from the shooting at the Trump rally in Butler on Saturday.

The GoFundMe's initial goal was to raise $1 million, but it has far surpassed that goal, raising over $4 million from over 54,000 donations as of Monday afternoon.

Firefighter Corey Comperatore killed, 2 others injured in rally shooting

One spectator, Corey Comperatore , was killed and two others were critically injured during the assassination attempt. Trump is recovering after he was injured in the right ear when a gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle on a rooftop about 400 feet outside the rally.

The gunman, identified Sunday by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks , was killed by law enforcement officials moments after he opened fire.

Comperatore, a firefighter from Sarver, Pennsylvania, had two daughters and was an avid Trump supporter.

"Yesterday time stopped," Allyson Comperatore, his daughter, said on Facebook. "And when it started again my family and I started living a real-life nightmare."

Two men injured in the shooting – a 57-year-old New Kensington, Pennsylvania, resident and a 74-year-old resident of Moon Township – were in stable condition on Sunday, according to an update from Pennsylvania State Police.

GoFundMe organized for Corey Comperatore's daughter, family

A GoFundMe aiming to raise $7,000 for Caomperatore's daughter, Allyson and his family after his death was launched Sunday.

It has since raised over $950,000 from more than 17,000 donations.

Who are the top donors to the O'Rourke GoFundMe?

Top donations so far for the O'Rourke GoFundMe include $50,000 from the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, $50,000 from American Hartford Gold, $50,000 from UFC CEO White and $50,000 from the singer Kid Rock.

Other large, notable donations to the fundraiser include $30,000 from former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy , $25,000 from the Scaramucci family and $15,000 from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro.

Who is Meredith O'Rourke, the GoFundMe organizer?

From Florida, O'Rourke has been a top political fundraiser for Republicans for decades, including for current U.S. Sen. Rick Scott's and former Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam's campaigns for governor. She also did a  short stint  in 2015 for former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie's run for president.

Her LinkedIn profile lists her currently as "National Finance Director and Senior Advisor to Donald J. Trump For President 2024, Inc."

Contributing: Jim Rosica, USA TODAY NETWORK.