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152 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

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

What follows is a complete collection of 152 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 152 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

152 Best Travel Quotes

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

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

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

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

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

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

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

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

• Funny Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Short Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

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

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

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

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

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

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

• Misc Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Travel With Friends Quotes

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

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

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

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Solo Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Every Travel Quote Ever

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

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

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

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

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Best Travel Quotes by Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

Top Short Travel Quotes

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

7. “If not now, when?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. “Travel is my therapy.”

15. “Wander often, wonder always.”

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

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

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

19. “Embrace the detours.” — Kevin Charbonneau

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

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

22. “Adventure is out there.”

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

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

25. “Everyone smiles in the same language.”

26. “Eat well, travel often.”

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

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

29. “Dream without limits.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. “Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.”

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

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

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

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

Best Funny Travel Quotes

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

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

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

51. “Vacation calories don’t count.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Annette White

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel Quotes About Couples, Love & Marriage

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

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

75. “I’ve got a crush on the world.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes on Travel with Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes About Fear & Goals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bucket List Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh Yea, that’s a good one :)

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

So glad you read and picked your favorites!

2 is my favorite and one that I live by. 

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

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

Loved the list.. so inspiring ?

You’re amazing and inspiring.. Glad to read his post. Thank you so much for sharing a great information!!

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

loved the list… So Inspiring…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I agree with every factor that you have pointed out. Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts on this.

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

That’s a good one. Will take note of this!

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

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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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The 100 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Spark Your Next Adventure

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I was a voracious reader when I was growing up, typically reading two books a week on average.

My lower-middle class family didn’t have the money to do much in the way of traveling, outside of the occasional camping trip in North Georgia . Both my parents worked, and my dad worked multiple jobs to support his family of five.

The furthest we ever traveled was a trip to visit my godparents in Virginia when I was 14. So instead I read books about travel and adventure long before I had the financial means to start taking adventures of my own.

It was the written word that originally fueled my travel dreams, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island  and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books  to Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea .

It was through Henry David Thoreau’s Walden , John Muir’s Our National Parks ,  and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature  that I developed a passion for the environment. Without them, who knows if I would’ve become the advocate for ecotourism and wildlife conservation I am today. 

And when I finally started traveling, the work of travel writers such as Jon Krakauer , Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux greatly influenced the way I did it.

But the first classic quote I remember having a significant impact on me came in the form of a Robert Frost poem: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” This idea influenced many of my choices, setting me on the path to becoming a full-time professional writer in my twenties.

For me, these inspirational travel quotes aren’t just words: They are the distillation of a philosophy that continues to drive my life and work today. I hope they will prove equally influential for you…   –Bret Love; photos by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett

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Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

• Inspirational Travel Quotes (General Inspiration)
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Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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Quotes About Adventure Travel

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

12. “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

13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.

14. “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

15. “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

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

17. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain . Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles in life.’’ –John Amatt

18.  “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” –Ray Bradbury

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

20.  “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still;

So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.

They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest;

Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.”  —Robert W. Service

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21. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” –Anonymous

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

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

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

25.  “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” –Norwegian Proverb

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26. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu

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

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

29.  “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” – Irish proverb

30. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” –Roy T. Bennett

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31.  “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch , or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed better because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

33. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”  –Mark Paterson

34.  “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” –Harvey Lloyd

35. “If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” –Alex Day

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36. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle

37. “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

38. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –Hodding Carter

39. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life.” –Pamela T. Chandler

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

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

42. “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

43 “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious wherever you stand.” –Shannon L. Alder

44.  “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

45. “How will I know who I can become if I don’t give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?” ― Eileen Cook, With Malice

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

47. “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

48. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty

49. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada

50.  “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money, or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In Search For The Great Perhaps

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Couples Travel Quotes

51. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

52.  “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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

54.  “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

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

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

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

58. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” — Robert Brault

59.  “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Anonymous

60.  “To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” — Rebecca Solnit ( A Field Guide to Getting Lost )

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61. “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

62.  “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 ( The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 )

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

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. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all the 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

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66. “ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

67. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult

68. “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

69. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen

70. “Be spontaneous, never be afraid to try new things or find new ways. Don’t let overplanning and routine poison your life.” ― Mouloud Benzadi

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71. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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76.  “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

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

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

79. “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.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in P.S. I Love You

80.  “I find the great thing in this world is not so much about where we stand, as in what direction we are moving… We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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81.  “Stop creating a life that you need a vacation from. Instead, move to where you want to live, do what you want to do, start what you want to start, and create the life you want today. This isn’t rehearsal, people. This is YOUR life.” –Dale Partridge

82. “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

83. “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

84.  “Travel is the antidote to fear. It makes you see the similarities and differences that exist around the world, and it opens your eyes– and mind– to new and different approaches.” –Julia Cosgrove

85. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

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

87. 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

88.  “Travel while you are young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” — Anonymous

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

90. “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

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91. “Look deeper into nature , and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein

92. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.” –Sylvia Plath

93. “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” –Schopenhauer

94. “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 away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir, The Mountains of California

95.  “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you– it is YOU who belongs to this land.” –Native American proverb

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96.  “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” –Cree Indian Proverb

97. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” –Henry David Thoreau

98. “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep , and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar

I love not man the less, but nature more.” –Lord Byron

100. “We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” ―David Attenborough

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50 Inspirational Travel Quotes to Ignite the Wanderlust in You

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

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

Key Takeaways:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing the Path Less Trodden: Quotes on Travel and Adventure

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Tapestry of Global Traditions: Quotes About Different Cultures

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

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

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

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

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

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

Triumphs on the Trail: Quotes About Overcoming Travel Challenges

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timeless Travel Tales: Quotes on Creating Lasting Memories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Essential Expedition: Quotes About Why Travel Matters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted on Last updated: November 10, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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Famous travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

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

Travel the world quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adventure travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes about travelling & coming home

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

My personal favourite travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel

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

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

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

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Enjoyed reading the best inspirational travel quotes? Pin it!

Wednesday 22nd of May 2019

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

Tuesday 28th of May 2019

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

Saturday 18th of May 2019

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

Monday 27th of May 2019

That's one of my favourites too :)

Marc Deschamps

Wednesday 17th of October 2018

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

Monday 22nd of October 2018

One of my favourite quotes too :)

Brian & Noelle

Thursday 30th of August 2018

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

Those are amongst my favourite too! :)

Tuesday 7th of August 2018

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

Saturday 24th of November 2018

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

Saturday 18th of August 2018

Another beautiful travel quote!

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

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

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

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There are many awesome travel quotes listed in this blog.

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

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

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

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

100 Inspiring Travel Quotes that you’ll love!

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Best Travel Quotes of all times

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Travelling Quotes

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

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

Funny Travel Quotes

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

Quotes For Travelling The World

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

Travelling Quotes With Friends

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

Adventure Travel Quotes

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

Solo Travel Quotes

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

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanderlust Travel Quotes that Inspire to Travel

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

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

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Travel is something that can fuel your life. It’s a passion, a deep desire to adventure and explore. Some people live every day without travel in their lives, and others can’t go too long without.

If you’re a lover of travel, these travel quotes are for you!

Short Travel Quotes

“travel far enough, you meet yourself.”.

― David Mitchell

“Never go too long without watching a sunset”

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

— Herman Melville

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

—Stephen Covey

“Adventure is worthwhile.”

“it’s better to travel well than to arrive.”, “oh the places you’ll go.”, “take only memories, leave only footprints.”.

—Chief Seattle

“I read; I travel; I become.”

― Derek Walcott

“The journey not the arrival matters.”

—T.S. Eliot

“All you need to know is that it’s possible.”

—Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

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

— Eugene Fodor

“Travel is glamorous in retrospect.”

—Paul Theroux

“The journey itself is my home.”

― Matsuo Bash

“To travel is to live.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”

“i decided that adventure was the best way to learn.”.

—Lloyd Alexander

“Jet lag is for amateurs.”

—Dick Clark 

“Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”

”travel teaches toleration.”.

—Benjamin Disraeli

“Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” 

Famous travel quotes, “man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”.

— Andre Gide

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”

“a ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.”.

—John A. Shedd

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

“do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

—Robert Frost

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Ibn Battuta

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret”

—Oscar Wilde

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

― St. Augustine

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”

—Jamie Lyn Beatty

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”

-Albert Einstein

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

—Mark Twain 

Best Travel Quotes

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

—Helen Keller

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

— Caskie Stinnett

“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”

— Jennifer Lee

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.”

— Sandra Lake

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

― Henry Miller

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

—Maya Angelou

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

—Shirley MacLaine

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.”

—Hans Christian Andersen

“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.”

— Gayle Foreman

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment”

— Hilaire Belloc

“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.”

— Wallace Stevens

“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

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”

— Lovelle Drachman

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

—Francis Bacon

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

— Pico Iyer

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

— Gustav Flaubert

“Travel does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport, the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

-Rolf Potts

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

—Rosalie de Castro 

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. climb that g*ddamn mountain.”.

— Jack Kerouac

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

—Paul Coelho

“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.”

— Karen Gibbs

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

“once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”.

– Dalai Lama

“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 – Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.”

— Oscar Wilde

“You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your own wings on the way down.”

-Ray Bradbury

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

“climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”.

— David McCullough

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

― Anita Desai

“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times”

— Asian Proverb

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

— Paolo Coelho

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

― Erol Ozan

“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

“I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.”

— Nyssa P. Chopra

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

—Jawaharlal Nehru

“The trouble with traveling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.” 

—Michael Palin

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

—Christopher McCandless

“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 take for granted.”

—Bill Bryson 

“I think a major element of jet lag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.”

—David Attenborough

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” 

—Martin Buber

“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.”

“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 

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.”

—Aldous Huxley

Travel The World Quotes

“i am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

“drink heavily with locals whenever possible.”.

— Anthony Bourdain

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

—Susan Heller

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

― James A. Michener

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”

― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“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

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

—Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”

—Henry Rollins

“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 Eriksson

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”

― Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty

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

—Anatole France

“Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”

—Andrew Zimmern

Travel Quotes

“wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”.

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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

— Lin Yutang

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

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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

― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“He who would travel happily must travel light.”

—Antoine de St. Exupery

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

“there is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.”.

— Theo Cowan

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.”

—Charles M. Schulz

“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

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson

“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”

― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

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

— Anna Quindlen

“Do you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”

—Erma Bombeck

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

—William Hazlitt

“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

Solo Travel Quotes

“i think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.”.

— Thomas Jefferson

“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, A Place on Earth

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

— James Baldwin

“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.”

“i think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”.

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Freya Stark

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

—George Bernard Shaw

“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

— Tim Cahill

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

Travel Love Quotes

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

― Pico Iyer

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

— John Green

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

—Charles M. Schultz 

“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 light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.”

“travel brings power and love back into your life.”.

― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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

—John Steinbeck

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

— Ray Bradbury

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“why, i’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.”.

-Aristophanes

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”

—Isabelle Eberhardt

Disney Movie Travel Quotes 

“i want adventure in the great wide somewhere. i want it more than i can tell.”.

— Beauty and the Beast 

“To infinity and beyond.”

— Toy Story

“Venture outside your comfort zone. The rewards are worth it.”

“Adventure is out there.”

“a whole new world. a dazzling place i never knew, but when i’m way up here, it’s crystal clear that now i’m in a whole new world with you.”, “if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.”.

— Pocahontas

“To live would be an awfully Big Adventure!”

— Peter Pan

“Now, I’m here blinking in the starlight. Now, I’m here suddenly I see. Standing here, it’s all so clear. I’m where I’m meant to be.”

“there’s no mountain too great.”.

— The Lion King

“The wilderness must be explored.”

“There’s the whole world at your feet.”

— Mary Poppins

“Just keep swimming!”

— Finding Nemo

“When’s it my turn? Wouldn’t I love, love to explore that shore above? Out of the sea, wish I could be, part of that world.”

— The Little Mermaid

“You will always be my greatest adventure.”

“when i get home i shall write a book about this place… if i ever do get home.”.

— Alice in Wonderland

“There ain’t nothing gonna stop me now ’cause I’m almost there.”

— The Princess and the Frog

“Like a shooting star, I will go the distance.”

“second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.”, “it’s you who’ll climb the mountain, it’s you who’ll reach the peak.”, movie travel quotes, “fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car”.

—Transformers

“Paris is always a good idea”

—Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”

—Dead Poets Society 

“I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s going to happen or who I’m going to meet…where I’m going to wind up.”

“life moves pretty fast, if you don’y stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”.

— Ferris Buller’s Day Off

“The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— The Hobbit

“Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.”

—Braveheart

“Now bring me that Horizon”

— Pirates of the Caribbean

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

“life is about courage and going into the unknown.”.

—The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“I didn’t know where I was going until I got there.”

—Cheryl Strayed, Wild

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Between vacations, many daydream about what adventures the next trip holds. You can spend your days switching back and forth from looking at your favorite travel photos to trying to go about your day to day life. But a few friendly reminders that the next adventure is closer than you think can help you put your wanderlust to rest. And one of the best distractions comes with this list of travel quotes. Pick your favorite from the collection below and use it to inspire your next trip!

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These travel quotes are as hilarious as they are true. Pick your favorite to send to a friend or to use in your next Instagram caption.

• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” – Unknown
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
• “Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown
• “Vacation calories don’t count. Right?” – Unknown
• “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown
• “I need six months of vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown
• “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
• “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope
• “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” – Susan Sontag

These inspirational travel quotes will remind you of the transformational experience traveling can be. They also look great on a travel mug .

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
• The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “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
• “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
• “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
• “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

They’re short, they’re sweet, and they’re oh-so-true. These short travel quotes will have you wanting to be back on a beach in no time.

• “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
• “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
• “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Unknown
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

These famous minds knew exactly how addicting travel can be, and we want to share their insights with you.

• “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
• “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
• “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

Mark Twain Travel Quotes

• “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
• “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
• “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
• “It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” – Mark Twain

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

• “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
• “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
• “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

Do you love solo travel? If so, these adventure quotes were made just for you. And don’t be afraid to share them with other fellow travelers who don’t mind the occasional solo adventure.

• “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins
• “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – The Dhammapada

Whether it’s with your Dad, your sister, your friend, or your significant other– these travel together quotes are sure to remind you of all the wonderful memories you shared together.

Couple Travel Quotes

• “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” – Anonymous
• “It doesn’t matter where you are going. It matters who is beside you.” – Anonymous
• “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman
• “What we find in a soul mate is not something to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault
• “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” – Anonymous
• “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we ‘ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – Anonymous

Family Travel Quotes

• “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes
• “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
• “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll
• “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories” – Og Mandino

Travel With Friends Quotes

• “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
• “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
• “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Anonymous
• “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Anonymous

If you want to document your travel experiences on social media, we have the Instagram captions for you. Use these short and fun travel captions for Instagram to share how you spent your vacation.

• An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.
• Left my heart in [insert city here].
• Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
• I have not been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list.
• The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever.
• “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
• I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.
• Life is not meant to be lived in one place.
• Always say yes to new adventures.
• BBN: Be back never.
• Always take the scenic route.
• Eating my way through [or insert city or country here]
• “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. Adventure is out there. – Charles Muntz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. There is a world elsewhere. – Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This tried and true travel quote is another one that can inspire you to push past fears and embrace adventure! And remember, everyone’s comfort zone is different!

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

While taking a trip requires money, this inspirational travel quote reminds us that you also need the courage to leave behind familiarity for adventure.

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

Frost was a poet who understood the importance of charting your own path rather than following the crowd. That principle applies to traveling too, as you can find all kinds of unique places when you venture away from the tourist traps.

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

This is one of the best travel quotes because it sums up why so many people pack their bags. When we’re traveling, we’re fully living !

Quotes about traveling the world

These quotes about traveling to new places will ignite your desire to pack up and go somewhere new!

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

Here is a famous travel quote that can spark wanderlust in anyone, especially travel junkies like us!

20. It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it. – J.D. Andrews

Even if you can only go to the next town over, it’s always worth it to visit a new place and see something different.

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

This is another travel quote that points out how you need to face some fears to travel to new destinations. Of course, it’s totally worth it!

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

Here is a wonderful metaphor that can motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and go someplace new. Travel always reminds us that the world doesn’t revolve around us, and there are so many different ways of life.

23. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens

This simple travel quote truly needs no explanation. When you feel down or uninspired, the world is there in all its natural beauty.

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

This quote about traveling the world can shift our perspective to see the big picture.

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

Some people live to travel, and they get bored when they’re in one place for too long. If that’s you, know that you’re not alone!

26. Travel because life is short, and the world is huge. – Anonymous

If you need an inspiring travel quote , here it is!

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

This travel quote is also about the big picture. If you’ve ever stood on the edge of a cliff or sailed in the middle of the ocean, you know that sensation of feeling ridiculously small in a big world.

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

A wonderful quote about traveling the world , this sentence captures the feeling of taking a piece of your travels with you while leaving a part of you behind .

Quotes about travel & adventure

These quotes are for travel lovers who crave their next adventure. If you’re ready to indulge your wanderlust, keep reading this adventure sayings !

29. Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi

This travel quote will resonate with many digital nomads and explorers. Waking up in a new place and experiencing a different culture may be jarring at first, but that kind of adventure is much better than doing the same thing every day.

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

Anyone who has traveled will agree that this wanderlust quote is 100% true.

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

Life is full of adventures and things to see, and if you’re curious enough, you’ll experience them all!

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

Odds are, the most interesting and fulfilled people you’ve met have spent more time seeing the world than buying things.

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

This is one of the best travel quotes for a burst of inspiration.

34. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Unknown

While it’s pragmatic to have both, it’s true that you gain something when you travel that you don’t get anywhere else.

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

Helen Keller’s motivational travel quote applies to life in general, so whatever the word adventure means to you, go for it!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! After a trip, you always come home with a story or two to tell, and those tales stay with you for life.

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

This is a simple travel quote to motivate you. Have you ever met anyone who said they regretted traveling?

Some of the best trips are the ones you take with good friends. I’m sure these travel quotes will inspire you to hit the road with your best friends. These are my favorite quotes about traveling with friends .

38. A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you. – Unknown

Whoever said this trip quote knows what it’s like to have that best friend who will explore the world and navigate life with you.

39. Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown

Here is another fun quote about traveling with friends . Do you have that bestie that’s always ready for the next adventure?

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

I’m sure everyone can relate to this funny travel quote . When you take a trip with someone, you learn a lot about them, yourself, and your relationship!

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

As this travel quote suggests, one of the best parts of taking a trip isn’t the destination, but who you’re with.

42. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures. – Anonymous

I don’t think anyone can argue against the idea that adventure and friendship are two of the best things in life!

43. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas. – Thelma and Louise

This cute saying is the perfect travel quote to inspire your next road trip!

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

This life travel quote is an excellent reminder of how people can connect across cultures, countries, and languages. One of the best things about traveling is that it introduces you to diverse ways of seeing the world and living life, and of course, new friends.

45. Travel is better with friends. – Unknown

This travel quote needs no explanation. While a solo trip can be fun now and then, traveling with friends is one of the best experiences in life.

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

Those who love to explore will understand the depth of this quote. Traveling is the best way to find yourself, others, and new insights about the world.

Traveling with friends is great, but if you have a significant other, it’s a unique experience. Let these couples’ travel quotes encourage you to take a journey with your partner!

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

This couples’ travel quote is an important one. As with life and relationships, there are many things out of our control, and the same goes for traveling. However, that doesn’t mean the trip isn’t worthwhile!

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

This excerpt from Alice in Wonderland makes for a wonderful travel quote . Money gets spent, clothes get tattered, and cars break down, but adventures give you memories that last forever.

49. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world. – Unknown

I love this quote about traveling together because you can share perspectives and gain even more from your trip.

50. In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schulz

Here is a beautiful quote about traveling with a partner or friend that I 100% agree with!

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

Although it’s a funny travel quote , it’s quite true!

52. No road is long with good company. – Turkish proverb

I love this proverb about travel because no matter where you’re going, as long as you have a loved one beside you, it’ll be okay.

53. Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more. – Unknown

This is another great travel quote for couples or friends. A solo adventure can be fun, but it’s different from sharing travel experiences with someone you love.

54. Together is our favorite place to be. – Unknown

This quote about travel and love is so heartwarming. Having your partner by your side can make any trip more magical, although simply being in each other’s presence is often enough.

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

This longer travel quote is an interesting analogy that frequent travelers might relate to. Visiting new lands and meeting new people is like flirting; as soon as you start to connect, you move onto a different location.

56. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault

Whether or not you believe in soulmates, it’s true that the best partner is the one we can go on adventures with.

Taking a trip as a family can be a bonding experience, as well as frustrating and memorable! These quotes about family vacations are funny and heartwarming, so they perfectly capture all facets of traveling with your kids.

57. A family that travels together stays together. – Unknown

Some travel quotes and sayings are cute and sweet, like this one. Family trips can be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together and strengthen bonds.

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

While it’s a funny travel quote , this saying can also correspond to family life. Sometimes families get tied into a routine and lose touch with each other. Taking a trip together disrupts the monotony and brings everyone closer.

59. Love is the food of life, travel is dessert. – Anonymous

If you ask any adventurous spirit, they’ll agree that love and travel is all you need!

60. Not all classrooms have 4 walls. – Unknown

I think this is one of the top travel quotes , and it’s especially pertinent to families. Sometimes, parents get nervous about letting their kids travel, but seeing a new place and a unique way of life is one of the most fulfilling ways to educate oneself.

61. Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. – Unknown

A contemplative quote about travel and life , this simple sentence encourages us to go on adventures while we can. After all, when we’re old, it’ll be easier to work than to hop on a plane!

62. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt

This is such a cute couples’ travel quote to remind us that home is the people we love, not a specific place.

63. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter

This is one of the sweetest travel quotes for families . While kids need stability, they also have vivid imaginations. Traveling with their parents can awaken their childlike wonder and instill in them a sense of adventure.

If you’ve ever taken a solo trip, you know that it’s one of the most life-changing experiences. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of traveling alone yet, hopefully, these quotes about solo trips can inspire you!

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

This is a beautiful travel quote about how you change as a person when you wake up in an unfamiliar environment. Going through daily life in a different place truly alters the way you view the bigger picture.

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

If you’re thinking of going on a solo adventure and need a nudge, consider this quote about traveling alone . Sometimes, going on a trip with people we know can distract us from the full experience of discovering a new place.

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

Here is another simple travel quote that has a deeper meaning. Sometimes, we have to get lost and break away from what’s familiar in order to truly meet ourselves.

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

Something that digital nomads crave is the feeling of being lost or a stranger in a new land. For these people, there is no other feeling like it!

68. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was one of the most beloved world travelers, so his adventure travel quote resonates deeply. The best thing about traveling is that you sprinkle a bit of yourself everywhere you go, and you bring a bit of that place back with you.

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

Read between the lines of this travel quote , and it makes so much sense. The more you stray from what you know, the more you learn about yourself, and the world!

70. When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

I agree that taking a trip with friends or a partner is awesome, but when you travel alone, you have so much time to get to know yourself.

Funny travel quotes

The deep, motivational sayings are great, but sometimes a funny travel quote is all you need to inspire your next adventure!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! Where is your next adventure going to be?

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

This short and sweet saying is another reminder that it’s often the journey – not the destination – that matters most.

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

It could be Europe or a few miles from your house, but when you travel, you gain new insights into yourself – your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, everything.

74. I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! – Unknown

This silly travel quote is funny , but all too true!

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

Yes, stability is important, but adventure is fulfilling and just as essential.

76. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! – Unknown

Here’s another lighthearted travel quote to remind you to book that vacation!

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

This travel quote is funny yet wise. Even though we are more connected than ever, you truly don’t understand a place until you step foot there yourself.

78. You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… – Unknown

You can’t deny that this funny travel vacation quote is true !

Quotes about wanderlust

The best travel quotes plant a seed in your mind, a will in your heart, and a spark in your spirit. I’m sure these motivational quotes about traveling the world will awaken your inner wanderer!

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

This one is for the wanderers and frequent travelers. While there is a place for planning and preparation, some of the best trips are those with limited foresight.

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

One of the best quotes on traveling , this saying gets to the root of why so many people love to travel. Visiting a new destination opens us up to all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, people, and lessons.

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

This is another travel quote that’s funny and deep. You can plan your trip, but things never go 100% according to plan, and you often end up with experiences you didn’t expect!

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

Goodman’s quote about travel and happiness reminds us that the journey is more important than the destination.

83. Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world.

Does this definition of wanderlust resonate with you? Which part of the world do you want to see next?

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

Proust’s motivational quote about traveling rings true. The more you travel, the more you open your mind and heart.

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

Forget souvenirs; this travel quote reminds us that the best thing you gain from a trip is the richness of the experience.

86. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination. – Unknown

It doesn’t matter if that destination is near or far, as long as it’s someplace new .

Quotes about wandering

Similar to the wanderlust quotes , these sayings appeal to those with a nomadic spirit. Which one is your favorite?

87. It is better to travel than to arrive. – Buddha

The Buddha’s quote points out that the true treasure is the journey itself.

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

Tolkien’s words remain one of the most popular quotes about wandering . Some people are simply born to travel and visit different lands!

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

Sometimes, a destination can seem strange and intimidating, but it’s simply a new adventure waiting for you!

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

I think this travel quote about nature makes a good point. When we explore all the beautiful natural places in the world, we gain a deeper appreciation for this planet.

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

This travel quote is self-explanatory, but travel lovers will agree that the best moments of their lives were probably while they were exploring.

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

There is something to this quote about travel and life . It describes how we can wander, either by hopping from one place to another or by changing up certain aspects of our lives. However, these are usually distractions, and it’s when we travel wholeheartedly that we feel fulfilled .

Other travel quotes for Instagram

This last section of trip quotes is perfect for sharing on social media or keeping around the house.

93. Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! – Hostelgeeks

Would you rather see the world than have fancy things? Me too!

94. Measure life by countries, not years. – Unknown

If you love to travel, you’ll appreciate this one. It’s a quote for travel and life and says that it’s not about how long you live; it’s about how well you live!

95. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy. – Unknown

I bet you don’t need more convincing to take a tropical vacation, but this beachy travel quote is a good one!

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

When you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and get off the beaten path, you find yourself having experiences of which you wouldn’t even dream!

97. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. – Anonymous

This travel quote doesn’t need an explanation; there are so many gorgeous places to see in this world.

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

This short travel quote is straight to the point!

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

This inspirational travel quote is definitely worth sharing. The more we travel, the more we learn about different people and ways of life. And that leads to more understanding and tolerance, which is a beautiful thing!

100. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer

Piggybacking off the previous travel quote , this sentence encapsulates the idea that adventuring requires an open mind.

I hope you loved these travel quotes and sayings! If they inspired you to go on an adventure or sparked your wanderlust, let me know. Also, what are some good travel quotes you’ve heard? Leave me a comment below to share your favorites!

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36 Short Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Adventures

These short travel quotes will have you packing your bags to discover somewhere new in no time.

Welcome wanderlusters. When it comes to travel, sometimes less is more – especially when it comes to words. A snappy, short travel quote can inspire, motivate or even change the way you see the world. 

Celebrate your next adventure with these succinct and impactful travel quotes .

The Best Short Travel Quotes

These short quotes about travel might be bite-sized, but they pack a punch in significance for your next trip — regardless of the location.

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Travel experiences that push you beyond what’s ordinary and predictable are worth exploring; go boldly and fearlessly.

“My favourite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

This quote speaks to a broader life philosophy: staying open-minded and embracing the unknown.

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – John C. Maxwell

Nothing beats the first time you travel somewhere enchanting.

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

With a few travel hacks and expert tips, it’s possible to see the most amazing places in the world… without breaking the bank.

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

Remember what I said about food for the soul? Travel pours into your sense of being abundantly.

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

Sometimes, new travel experiences require you to try things outside of your norm, and that’s okay.

Adventure Quotes

Short Unique Travel Quotes

It’s the unique, short inspirational quotes about travel that are most fitting when the journey takes you somewhere unusual. These unique sayings are perfect for rare travel opportunities.

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

Outside the cost of jet setting, being brave enough to travel makes all the difference.

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

Travel is your opportunity to satisfy your inherent sense of wonder, intrigue, and curiosity.

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

When you travel, part of the journey is finding something new — even within yourself.

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

The more of the world you see, the better you’ll get to know the essence of who you are.

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

Life is brief and unpredictable; you ought to travel as much and as far as possible while you still can.

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

The essential things you get from travel aren’t material; they’re deeply gratifying over and above what’s tangible.

Short Travel Quotes for Instagram

When the travelling quotes are short and witty, you better believe they deserve a spot on your Instagram posts. This is especially useful when you’re in luxury destinations and only want short aesthetic travel quotes to accompany breathtaking snaps.

Here are some of my favourite Insta-ready travel quotes.

“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

Travel guarantees memories and can be part of fulfilling your wildest dreams.

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

Travel unlocks more ways to enjoy the act of living itself.

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

The entire world is an astonishing wonder worth seeing and exploring.

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

Like many other areas in life, risk-taking makes travel much more enriching.

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Unknown (Chinese Proverb)

Nothing beats travelling to a destination and being there in person for visceral experiences.

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

Soak up all the richness in new lands, but always tread carefully and respectfully.

Next Read: The quote above lends itself to buzzwords like slow travel and sustainable travel . Learn more about what these mean and how you can see the world this way.

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

Looking for short cute travel quotes to symbolise your couple’s trips? Take your pick from the ones below.

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

Sometimes, the destination is simple, but your partner can elevate the travel experience beyond measure.

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

Worldly goods aren’t bad, but travel offers a different kind of wealth.

“A couple who travels together grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

If you want to get to know someone, live, work, or travel with them.

“All you need is love and a passport.” – Unknown

With the right person on your arm, discovering the world always feels right.

Next Read: Ever wondered how to maximise your time in a different setting, fully absorbing new cultures and traditions? Read all about the joys and rewards of immersive travel here.

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

You won’t feel the miles and hours when embarking on thrilling journeys with a loved one.

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

In romantic partnerships, you can’t lose as long as you keep finding new places to make memories in together.

Short Travel Quotes With Friends

It takes a little practice to master how to travel alone before you become a pro, making some of the best quotes about travel those celebrating time spent with your favourite crew. These endearing short travel quotes are apt for your group adventures.

“Life is short, and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

There’s a massive planet to behold; share its discovery with special people.

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

Go encounter phenomenal places with treasured people to truly enjoy the fullness of life.

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

The more curious you and your travel companions are about the world, the more you’ll reap in return.

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

When you travel, you interact with different people and often make new lifelong friends in the most fascinating parts of the world.

Next Read: Going boldly into the world without fear is priceless, but it’s wise to cover your bases. Get the 411 on the importance of travel insurance in this article.

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

Meeting people and forming genuine connections are central to your biggest travel takeaways.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

I love travel memes and find funny short-trip quotes just as amusing. There will be travel escapades that feature unexpected, unplanned, or hilarious quirks. They’re part of the stories you’ll share over and over. So why not use clever short quotes to capture the humour?

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

Approach each trip with enduring enthusiasm and energy.

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

Always try to enjoy every aspect of the full journey, not just the final destination.

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

You might not be able to see it all, but you can certainly try.

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

While partying is fun, don’t let it hinder the full scope of your travel experiences.

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

This is one of the most poetic ways to describe what wanderlust means for some people.

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

Embrace trips that are nothing like what you’re used to at home; put the comfort zone on the back burner.

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

Let spontaneity drive all the elements of the voyage from start to finish.

Short Travelling Quotes | The Final Say

There it is, some of the best, unique, funny, inspirational, and Insta-worthy short quotes about travelling the world. With this fun list of what to say to inspire an unforgettable vacay, it’s time to let your passport do all the talking.

Whether your next dream destination is an island escape, a trip to a flashy city, or a desert retreat, you’ve got meaningful short quips to capture all your memorable moments.

If your upcoming journey involves exciting, action-packed activities, here are winning adventure quotes to match your one-of-a-kind holiday exploits.

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60 Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

By: Author Tim Kroeger

Posted on Published: April 30, 2020  - Last updated: September 15, 2023

Do you have go-to getaway quotes that bring inspiration and motivation to travel and to be free? Here are short travel quotes to add to your collection.

Short travel quotes look good on a frame at your office, as a bumper sticker on your car, or even as a permanent tattoo on your skin.

These travel getaway quotes efficiently tell a story of a life lived outside one’s comfort zone.

It speaks of adventures, misadventures, and lessons learned along the way.

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Short Travel Quotes

Do you have good travel slogans that you live by?

Are there motivational quotes about travel and learning that have proven to be true in your life?

There are many cute short quotes and sayings about traveling, taking a break, and exploring the world that is truly inspirational.

Here are short travel quotes that will make you want to pack your bags and have an awesome adventure.

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

– Neale Donald Walsch

2. “The biggest risk in life, is not taking one”

– Barfi

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

– John A. Shedd

4. “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 – where you go.”

– Anthony Bourdain

5. “Jobs fill your pocket, Adventures fill your soul”

– Jaime Lyn Beatty

6. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ”

– Eugene Fodor

7. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

– Anonymous

8. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”

– Asian Proverb

9. “My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been”

– Annonymous

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

– Seneca

11. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

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

– John C. Maxwell

15. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

– Tom Stoppard

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

– Gustave Flaubert

17. “Work, travel, save, repeat.”

18. “A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.”

– J.D. Andrews

19. “To Live will be an awfully big adventure”

– Peter Pan

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

– Andre Gide

21. “Yesterday, I believe I never would have done what I did today”

– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

22. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself”

– Wallace Stevens

23. “If it scares you ,it may be a good thing to try”

– Seth Godin

24. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s lethal.”

– Paulo Coelho.

25. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”

– Chuck Thompson

26. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself”

– David Mitchell

27. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

– Aldous Huxley

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

– Anna Quindlen

29. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

– Peter Hoeg

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

– Clint Borgen

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Short travel phrases and inspirational vacation quotes perfectly encapsulate every explorer’s zest for a life on the road.

These groups of words add depth to every photograph and drama to every story told.

Can’t get enough of short but sweet quotes about life through the eyes of a traveler?

Here are more inspirational short travel quotes perfect for every wanderer out there.

31. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien.

32. “The world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.”

– John Muir

33. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”

– Sir Richard Burton

34. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

36. “Some people are so poor, all they have is money”

– Patrick Meagher

37. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

– Frank Tyger.

38. “Life offers you a thousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”

– Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun

39. “Collect Moments, Not Things.”

– Aarti Khurana

40. “He who would travel happily must travel light.”

– Antoine de St. Exupery

41. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

– Helen Keller

42. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

– Dr. Seuss

43. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

– Susan Sontag.

44. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”

– Anais Nin

45. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”

– Tim Cahill

46. “The journey not the arrival matters.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– James Michener

48. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”

– Roy M. Goodman

49. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.”

– Thomas Fuller

50. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

– Herman Melville

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

– Shirley MacLaine

52. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

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

– Irving Wallace

54. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

– Simon Raven

55. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

– Stephen Covey

56. “To travel is to live.”

– Hans Christian Andersen

57. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

– Chief Seattle

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

– John Steinbeck

59. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.”

– Babs Hoffman

60. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

– Melody Truong

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80 Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

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With 64% of women and 75% of men still living in the city they grew up in, you might be forgiven for thinking that the world is a small place, but there’s a whole planet out there that’s just waiting to be explored. Far more than just a 2-week vacation, traveling opens the mind and introduces us to experiences we will never be able to sample at home.

Showing us sights, sounds, flavors, and even smells that we’ve never tried before, different destinations can completely change our lives for the better, and teach us far more than we could ever learn in a classroom or from a textbook. You only have to read through this collection of travel quotes to see just how essential traveling is to our souls.

Whether you are looking back on vacations past or looking forward to visiting new and exciting faraway shores, these travel quotes will inspire you to get out there and take in as much of the world as you can. With busy working lives, you may only manage one annual vacation, but if you do as the Dalai Lama advises, seeing just one new place each year will broaden your horizons and enrich your life in ways you never thought possible.

If you’re looking for more inspiration to travel, take a look at these inspirational quotes and these adventure quotes .

Travel Quotes

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind” – Ralph Crawshaw

“There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything.” – Adam Richman

“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

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“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley

“Travel empties out everything you’ve put into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.” – Claire Fontaine

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

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

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

“Would you still want to travel to that country If you could not take a camera with you. – a question of appropriation.” – Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

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

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

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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

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

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

“I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.” – Justina Chen Headley

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

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

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

“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

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

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

“Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It’s exciting to start as young as possible – you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.” – Natalie Dormer

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

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

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

“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

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller

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

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

“They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” – Anderson Cooper

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.” – Hedy Lamarr

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

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark

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

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

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

“Travel more to see more to live more.” – Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it” – J. D. Andrews

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

“Traveling is the great true love of my life… I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

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

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

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

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

“I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it…it all depends on who I travel with.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“Traveling is more fun — hell, life is more fun — if you can treat it as a series of impulses.” – Bill Bryson

“What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.” – Ruzwana Bashir

“It’s important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you’ve got more to feedback into your work. For me, it’s a natural thing.” – Cate Blanchett

“Travelling the road, last known is where I want to be.” – Paper Lions

“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

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

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

“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again. — Jane Wilson” – Howarth

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

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

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.— Jane Wilson” – Howarth

“A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell

“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

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

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

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450+ Travel Quotes for Instagram to Inspire Wanderlust

Travel Instagram captions and quotes are essential for showcasing the beauty and experiences of your journeys.

Whether you are an avid traveler or just embarking on an exciting expedition, crafting the perfect caption is crucial to complement your travel photos and videos on Instagram.

Here’s the scoop on travel quotes for Instagram!

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Travel Instagram Captions are the written descriptions that accompany your travel photos and videos on the social media platform.

They are meant to encapsulate the essence of your travel experience and evoke emotions, curiosity, and wanderlust among your followers.

Engaging travel captions for Instagram can be created by infusing personal experiences, emotions, and vivid descriptions that transport the audience to the locations depicted in the posts.

Incorporating relevant travel quotes or popular phrases can also add depth and relatability to the captions.

Instagram captions are important for travel posts as they provide context, storytelling, and a personal touch to the visual content.

They enable the sharing of travel experiences, recommendations, and insights, fostering connections and inspiring others to embark on their own adventures.

• “Wander often, wonder always.”
•  “Embracing the beauty of new horizons.”
•  “Lost in the magic of [Destination].”
• “Wanderlust: the desire to travel and explore.”
• “Adventure awaits, just a plane ticket away.”
• “The world is your oyster, go out and discover it.”
• “Travel far and wide, leave footprints everywhere you go.”
• “Escape the ordinary and embrace extraordinary experiences.”
• “Explore new places, meet new faces.”
• “Life is short, book the flight and make memories that last forever.”
• “Collect moments, not things – travel is the best investment in yourself.”
• “Seek adventures that nourish your soul and inspire your spirit.”
• “Take only pictures, leave only footprints – respect nature wherever you roam.”
• “Discover hidden gems in every corner of the world – it’s all about perspective!”
• “Embrace cultures beyond your own for a truly enriching experience on your travels.
• “Let wanderlust guide you to places you’ve never dreamed of visiting before.”
• “Find beauty in every sunset, from beaches to mountainsides.”
• “Pack light but dream big – adventure is calling!”
• “Escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life with a getaway to paradise.”
• “Unplug from technology and reconnect with nature on your journeys.”
• “Travel sparks creativity by exposing us to new sights, sounds, tastes.”
• “Explore historic landmarks that have stood the test of time.”
• “Capture breathtaking landscapes that will take your breath away.”
• “Adventures are best when shared – tag along with friends or loved ones!”
• “Unleash your inner explorer as you traverse through unknown territories.”
• “Immerse yourself in local traditions for an authentic cultural experience.”
• “Indulge in local cuisine for a taste bud-expanding journey.”
• “Step out of your comfort zone – growth happens outside familiarity.”
• “Travel has no boundaries – let your dreams take flight!”
• “Rise and shine – the world is waiting for you to explore it.”
• “Escape the ordinary, embrace the extraordinary.”
• “Collect moments, not things.”
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
• “Every journey starts with a single step – where will yours take you?”
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
• “Travel far enough to meet yourself.”
• “Adventure awaits around every corner – go out and find it!”
• “Dare to live the life you’ve always imagined – start by exploring new places.”
• “Discover magic in every moment as you wander through unfamiliar territories.”
• “Go where your heart desires and let curiosity guide you on incredible journeys.”
• “Embrace spontaneity and create unforgettable memories along the way.”
• “Explore off-the-beaten-path destinations for unique experiences that inspire.”
• “Make memories that last a lifetime by venturing out of your comfort zone.”
• “Find inspiration in breathtaking landscapes that stir your soul.”
• “Leave footprints behind as evidence of your adventures around the globe.”
• “Discover diverse cultures and broaden your horizons through travel.”
• “Challenge yourself with thrilling activities that push boundaries.”
• “Be present in every moment as you navigate through unknown territories.”
• “Capture captivating moments on camera to share with others back home.”
• “Connect with fellow travelers from all walks of life and form lifelong friendships.”
• “Wanderlust fuels our desire to explore new horizons.”
• “Choose experiences over possessions – travel enriches our lives.”

How to Find the Best Travel Quotes for Instagram?

Finding the best travel quotes for Instagram involves exploring various sources such as travel books, famous travel authors, classic literature, and even modern song lyrics & movies.

Additionally, numerous websites and apps curate and categorize travel quotes, making it easier to discover the perfect quote for your Instagram captions.

Travel quotes for Instagram can be found in literary works, online quote archives, travel-themed social media accounts, and through the exploration of different cultures and languages, uncovering unique expressions that resonate with your travel experiences.

Popular adventure travel captions for Instagram include phrases like “Embrace the journey, cherish the memories.” and “Adventure awaits, it’s time to explore the unknown.”

These captions radiate excitement and encourage others to pursue thrilling experiences.

Here are more examples include in your caption:

• “Embark on the ultimate adrenaline rush with these thrilling adventure travel destinations.”
• “Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with these awe-inspiring travel experiences.”
• “Discover hidden gems and breathtaking landscapes on your next adventure trip.”
• “Embrace your inner explorer and journey to remote corners of the world on an epic adventure vacation.”
• “Experience heart-pounding activities and immerse yourself in nature’s wonders on these adventure getaways.”
• “Unleash your adventurous spirit and dive into unforgettable outdoor escapades across the globe.”
• “Escape the ordinary and embark on a wild journey filled with exhilarating adventures in stunning locales.”
• “Seek out new thrills as you explore extraordinary landscapes during your next adventure travel expedition.”
• “Ignite your sense of wanderlust as you venture off-the-beaten-path to discover extraordinary places around the world.”
• “Challenge yourself and create lifelong memories while conquering some of nature’s most spectacular terrains.”
• “Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey through rugged terrains, scenic trails, and breathtaking landscapes.”
• “Indulge in thrilling outdoor activities that will leave you spellbound by their sheer excitement.”
• “Experience the thrill of exploring untamed wilderness, from dense jungles to towering mountain peaks.”
• “Immerse yourself in local cultures while enjoying exhilarating adventures in far-flung destinations.”
• “From white-water rafting to rock climbing, get ready for non-stop excitement at these adventure hotspots.”
• “Savor unforgettable moments as you hike through stunning national parks and capture jaw-dropping vistas.”
• “Discover new perspectives as you zip-line through lush forests or soar high above scenic canyons.”
• “Venture off-road for thrilling ATV rides that showcase rugged terrain like never before.”
• “Dive into crystal-clear waters to explore vibrant coral reefs and encounter a world of marine wonders.”
• “Follow in the footsteps of intrepid explorers as you trek through remote wilderness areas.”
• “Embark on a thrilling safari adventure and witness majestic wildlife in their natural habitats.”
• “Conquer towering peaks and push your limits with high-altitude mountaineering expeditions.”
• “Experience the rush of paragliding as you soar above breathtaking landscapes and enjoy panoramic views.”
• “Navigate treacherous rapids during an exhilarating white-water rafting trip that will get your heart racing.”
• “Discover hidden caves and underground river systems while exploring mysterious subterranean worlds.”

Using travel quotes to inspire wanderlust through Instagram involves pairing them with mesmerizing travel photos, creating a harmonious blend of visual and textual stimuli that ignite curiosity and desire for exploration within the audience.

What are the Most Inspiring Travel Captions for Instagram?

The most inspiring travel captions for Instagram are the ones that evoke a sense of wonder, curiosity, and adventure. They encapsulate the essence of the travel experience and convey the emotions and discoveries encountered during the journey.

Inspirational travel Instagram captions for 2023 may include phrases like “Embracing new beginnings with each expedition.” and “Discovering the world’s wonders, one journey at a time.”

Here are more inspiring travel captions:

• “Embrace the unknown and let your wanderlust guide you.”
• “Discovering new horizons fuels the soul’s desire for adventure.”
• “Traveling opens our eyes to the beauty of diversity and unity.”
• “Every journey is a chance to learn, grow, and become a better version of ourselves.”
• “Exploring new places ignites a sense of wonder that lingers long after we return home.”
• “In every destination lies an opportunity for self-discovery and personal transformation.”
• “Escape the ordinary and immerse yourself in extraordinary experiences around the world.”
• “Life is short, so travel often to collect memories that will last forever in your heart.”
• “Step out of your comfort zone and into a world full of endless possibilities waiting to be explored.”
• “Travel teaches us that there are countless paths to happiness, each with its own unique charm.”
• “Let go of routine; set sail on an expedition where adventure becomes your compass.”
• “Uncover hidden gems as you venture through lands both near and far.”
• “Recharge your spirit by seeking solace in nature’s breathtaking wonders.”
• “Expand your perspective by immersing yourself in cultures different from yours.”
• “Capture moments that take your breath away – they become cherished memories forever.”
• “Find beauty not only in iconic landmarks but also in everyday sights off the beaten path.”
• “Get lost without fear, for it is when we lose ourselves that we truly find what matters most.”
• “Leave footprints across borders as you embrace connections with people from all walks of life.”
• “Experience firsthand how travel has the power to bridge divides and create understanding.”
• “Open up a whole new world with each step you take beyond familiar shores.” 
• “Embark on journeys where sunsets paint vibrant hues on foreign landscapes.”
• “Discover the magic that lies within every destination, waiting to be uncovered.”
• “Indulge in the flavors of different cuisines, letting your taste buds explore a world of delights.”
• “Take a leap of faith and let travel be the wings that carry you to new heights.”
• “Through travel, witness how diverse cultures interweave to create a rich tapestry of humanity.”
• “Find peace in simplicity as you disconnect from the chaos and reconnect with nature’s tranquility.”
• “Traveling is not just about reaching destinations; it’s about unraveling stories along the way.”
• “Let curiosity guide your footsteps as you traverse unfamiliar paths and stumble upon hidden treasures.”
• “Experience life through different lenses as you immerse yourself in local customs and traditions.”
• “Remember: It’s not about miles traveled but about hearts touched during your journey.”

Create captions that evoke wanderlust in travel posts by utilizing descriptive language, evocative imagery, and invoking a sense of curiosity and longing through your words.

Transporting the audience into the scene and letting them envision themselves in those captivating locations can inspire wanderlust.

• “Exploring the hidden gems of [travel destination] 🌍”
• “Adventures await in…🌴”
• “Capturing memories in… ✨”
• “Discovering the beauty of… 💫”
• “Wanderlust mode: ON in [travel destination] 🗺️”
• “Embracing the culture and charm of…👣”
• “Lost in the magic of… ✨✈️”
• “[Travel destination]: Where dreams become reality 💭💫”
• “Indulging in breathtaking views at…🌅🏞️”
• “Unforgettable moments created in [travel destination] 📸❤️”
• “A paradise for adventurers ⛰️🚀”
• “The perfect escape from reality ✈️💼”
• “Where culture and history collide 👥🏰”
• “A feast for the senses 🍽️🎶”
• “Unlocking new horizons 🔐🔭”
• “Embrace your inner wanderer ⛺👟” 
• “Discovering hidden treasures 💎💼”  
• “Creating memories one step at a time 👣❤️ “
• “Reconnecting with nature’s wonders 🍃⛰️ “
• “Exploring enchanting landscapes 💫✨”
• “Relaxation meets adventure 😌⚡”
• “Unforgettable experiences await 🌟✈️”
• “A journey to remember 🌍📸”
• “Embracing the local flavors 🍽️🥂”
• “Stepping into a world of wonders ✨🚶‍♀️”
• “A photographer’s paradise 📷💫”
• “[Travel destinations]: Discovering the unexplored corners 💡🔎” 
• “[Travel destinations]: Embracing the unknown with open arms 👐❓” 
• “Capturing moments that take our breath away 😮❤️” 
• “Exploring new horizons and expanding our perspectives 🔭🗺️” 
• “[Travel destination] in all its glory! 🌈😍”
• “Sunsets and palm trees make [travel destination] paradise on Earth! 🌅🌴”
• “Discovering hidden treasures in [travel destination] is an adventure worth taking! 💎⚓”
• “Exploring [travel destination] feels like stepping into a fairytale! ✨✈️”
• “Wandering through the streets of [travel destination], getting lost in its charm! 👣💕”
• “Savoring every moment spent in [travel destination], creating memories to last a lifetime! ❤️✨”
• “Feeling awestruck by the beauty that surrounds me in [travel destination] 😍🏞️”
• “The history, culture, and vibrant atmosphere of [travel destination] are truly captivating! 👥💃”
• “Taking a break from reality and immersing myself in the tranquility of [travel destination] 🌿🌊”
• “Embarking on an incredible journey through [travel destination], where every step is an adventure! 👟😊”
• “Experiencing pure bliss in the enchanting landscapes of [travel destination] ✨💖”
• “Feeling alive and free as I explore the wonders of [travel destination] 🙌🌍”
• “Letting my wanderlust guide me to new and exciting experiences in [travel destination] 🗺️✈️”
• “Creating memories that will last a lifetime with loved ones in [travel destination] 💕📸”
• “Finding serenity and peace amidst the stunning beauty of [travel destination] 🏞️💫”
• “Admiring architectural marvels and historical landmarks in bustling cities like London or Rome!”    
• “Embracing nature’s wonders at majestic destinations such as Yosemite National Park or Machu Picchu!”  
• “Recharging my soul at serene locations like Bali, Maldives, or Santorini!
• “Exploring the historic streets of [Destination]. A journey through time and culture. 🏛️🌆 
• “Finding tranquility amidst the mesmerizing landscapes of [Destination]. A paradise on Earth. 🏞️🌿”

How to Use Instagram Captions to Inspire Wanderlust?

To inspire wanderlust through Instagram captions, it’s important to convey the allure and enchantment of travel destinations and experiences.

Incorporating vivid descriptions, sharing personal insights, and alluring travel quotes can ignite the desire to wander and explore in your audience.

The best ways to inspire wanderlust through Instagram captions include sharing captivating tales of discovery, expressing genuine emotions, and showcasing the beauty and diversity of global destinations.

Additionally, utilizing poetic language and impactful quotes can further inspire wanderlust.

Crafting inspirational travel captions that inspire others involves narrating compelling stories, conveying the transformative power of travel, and conveying the enriching experiences that travel brings.

It’s about creating a connection and fostering a sense of shared adventure and discovery.

Using Instagram captions to share inspirational travel quotes can involve integrating them seamlessly into your travel stories, amplifying the emotional impact of the visuals, and inspiring your audience to venture out and explore the world.

What are the Most Creative Adventure Travel Captions for Instagram?

The most creative adventure travel captions for Instagram resonate with the thrill and exhilaration of embarking on new ventures.

They infuse elements of excitement, wonder, and discovery, resonating with the bold spirit of adventure enthusiasts.

Writing funny and short adventure travel captions for Instagram involves injecting humor, lightheartedness, and a sense of spontaneity into the captions.

Puns, playful references, and witty remarks can add an entertaining and relatable flair to the adventure captions.

• “Embrace the unknown and wander into new horizons.”
• “Let the adventure begin, and may it never end.”
• “Seek thrills, find joy, and capture memories that last a lifetime.”
• “Exploring the world one step at a time, embracing each journey with open arms.”
• “Adventure awaits around every corner – go out there and find it!”
• “Leave footprints in places where only your soul has been before.”
• “Life is short, so travel far and wide to make every moment count.”
• “Dive into the unknown and discover hidden gems along the way.”
• “Take risks, make memories, and live for those moments that take your breath away.”
• “Adventure: because sometimes wandering aimlessly leads you to the most incredible places.”
• “Explore uncharted territories with a heart full of curiosity.”
• “Let your spirit roam free in search of thrilling escapades all over the globe.”
• “Climb mountains not only to conquer them but also to discover yourself along the way.”
• “Adventure calls – will you answer?”
• “Discover beauty beyond imagination as you chase adventures across continents.”
• “Unleash your inner explorer as you embark on untamed journeys across diverse landscapes.”
• “Go off the beaten path – it’s where true magic happens.”
• “Wanderlust is not just a word; it’s an insatiable craving for extraordinary experiences.”
• “Traveling solo doesn’t mean being alone; it means discovering independence in exhilarating ways.”
• “Take flight towards adventure; let wanderlust be your guide through unexplored frontiers.”
• “Powered by adrenaline, fueled by wanderlust – every destination becomes an unforgettable expedition!”
• “Leave behind comfort zones as you venture into awe-inspiring realms filled with endless possibilities.”
• “Every journey is an opportunity to immerse yourself fully in different cultures’ rich tapestry.”
• “Capture slices of pure life as you explore the world’s hidden gems, one adventure at a time.”
• “If happiness had coordinates, you’d find it in the wilderness of new experiences.”
• “Embrace the thrill of uncertainty and let wanderlust guide your path to unparalleled memories.”
• “The world is vast and full of wonders – it’s time to curate your own extraordinary story.”
• “Cherish every sunset, conquer every summit, and create unforgettable stories with each journey.”
• “Wander far enough to uncover the true essence of yourself amidst captivating landscapes.”
• “Let wanderlust take you on an exhilarating ride through breathtaking scenery and heart-pounding adventures!”
• “Uncover secrets that nature whispers as you explore untouched corners of this beautiful planet.”
• “Seek refuge from routine in exploring unfamiliar terrain; there’s magic waiting around every bend.”
• “Admire nature’s grandeur while embarking on thrilling escapades that leave imprints on your soul.”
• “Experience a symphony for the senses through daring adventures across diverse landscapes worldwide!”
• “Get lost in moments that make your heart race and fill your spirit with boundless joy!”
• “Discover exhilaration anew with each bold step into uncharted territories awaiting your arrival.”
• “Grab life by the handlebars and ride into compelling landscapes that awaken the adventurer within.”
• “Inhale wanderlust like oxygen as you embark on extraordinary odysseys across unknown horizons.”
• “Escape ordinary routines by venturing into extraordinary destinations – a feast for both eyes and soul!”
• “Every travel experience holds a puzzle piece connecting our souls to different cultures globally!”
• “Release inhibitions while immersing yourself in incredible journeys where spontaneity reigns supreme.”
• “Connect with nature’s untamed beauty through adrenaline-fueled adventures under open skies.”
• “Open new chapters abroad as each destination becomes a colorful page etched onto precious memories.”
• “Savor freedom like never before as you wander through captivating landscapes with wide-eyed wonder.”
• “Let loose the adventurer within, chasing sunsets and soaking up cultures in mesmerizing destinations.”
• “Capture moments that defy gravity; let your travel adventures be a testament to your soaring spirit.”
• “Discover treasures beyond material wealth—moments that inspire awe and leave you forever changed.”
• “Adventure is where ordinary meets extraordinary – embrace the thrill of intrepid journeys worldwide!”
• “Embarking on a journey with a backpack full of dreams and a heart full of wanderlust.”
• “Lost in the wilderness, found in the adventure.”

Popular adventure travel song lyrics for Instagram captions include excerpts from uplifting songs that celebrate exploration, freedom, and the thrill of the unknown. Lyrics that evoke emotions and paint vivid imagery are ideal for adventure-themed posts.

• “I wanna run away, I wanna fly away.”
• “Take me anywhere, take me everywhere.”
• “Let’s escape this ordinary life.”
• “Into the wild we go, where freedom unfolds.”
• “On an endless road to nowhere but everywhere.”
• “Adventure awaits at every turn, let’s dive in and learn.”
• “We’re explorers in this vast world of unknowns.”
• “Adventures fill our souls like stories yet untold.”

How to Create Engaging Beach Travel Captions for Instagram?

Creating engaging beach travel captions for Instagram involves capturing the essence of the seaside escapades, whether it’s the tranquil serenity, exhilarating water sports, or the pure joy of basking in the sun.

Crafting captivating captions that exude the beauty and allure of beach vacations can enhance the visual impact of your posts.

Some short and witty beach travel captions for Instagram posts may include phrases like “Salty air, sun-kissed hair.” and “Tides, tan lines, and good times.”

Here are more beach captions:

• “Life’s a beach, enjoy the waves and soak up the sun!”
• “Sandy toes, salty kisses – perfect beach getaway!”
• “Take me to the ocean and leave me there.”
• “Beach therapy: Vitamin Sea and sunshine.”
• “Keep calm and get your tan on at the beach!”
• “Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.”
• “Paradise found – just add sand and palm trees.”
• “Seas the day! Embrace every moment at the beach.”
• “Catch some rays, make lasting memories at the beach.”
• “Life is better in flip-flops with a cool drink in hand.”
• “Wanderlust: chasing palm trees, waves, and endless summer vibes.”
• “Ocean air, salty hair – blissful days by the water’s edge.”
• “Saltwater heals everything – let go of worries at the beach!”
• “Find your inner peace with toes buried in golden sand.”
• “Leave only footprints; take only memories from your sandy adventures.”
• “Sunshine is my favorite accessory for a day by the sea.”
• “Nothing but good vibes here; let’s ride some waves!”
• “Beach please! I’m ready for lazy days under swaying palms.”
• “In need of vitamin sea? Head to paradise on Earth – it’s called a beach!”
• “Inhale confidence; exhale worries while soaking up rays at your favorite spot.”
• “Surfing through life one wave at a time – catch you on those perfect swells!”
• “Let’s escape reality together – find solace where land meets endless blue waters.”
• “Dreaming of being whisked away to sandy shores – who wants to join?”
• “A dip in crystal-clear waters is all it takes to wash away any stress.”
• “Lose yourself in the rhythm of crashing waves and salty breezes – beach vibes only!”
• “Beach hair, don’t care – let’s embrace that effortless windswept look.”
• “The best moments are made at the beach – create memories that will last a lifetime.”
• “Let your worries wash away with each ebb and flow of the tide.”
• “Dive into paradise and discover what lies beneath the serene surface.”
• “Find your inner mermaid (or merman) at the beach – live life with a touch of magic.”
• “Walking on sunshine – basking in golden rays at your tropical escape.”
• “Sunkissed skin and freckles; proof of days well spent by the ocean’s edge.”
• “A day at the beach is worth a thousand words – capture it all in one picture-perfect moment.”
• “Life is better barefoot on sandy shores – enjoy every step along this coastal journey.”
• “Beach therapy: where saltwater heals, sunsets inspire, and smiles come naturally.”
• “Salty kisses and sandy toes – just another day in paradise.”
• “Seize each wave like it’s an opportunity to dance with nature.”
• “Embrace wanderlust; explore beaches across oceans, enjoying their diverse beauty.”
• “Escape reality by diving into an ocean of tranquility. Let serenity be your guide!”
• “Lush palm trees, gentle waves; lose yourself in nature’s tranquil embrace.”
• “Just sitting here watching waves kiss the shore – feeling blissful as time drifts away.”
• “On sandy shores or hidden coves, create memories that forever whisper stories of joy.”
• “With sun-kissed skin and laughter echoing through dunes, we find happiness wherever we roam.”
• “Blessed with infinite shades of blue; find solace where sky meets sea.”
• “Paradise found: warm sand beneath my feet, a gentle breeze kissing my face.”
• “Leave behind footprints of wanderlust as you explore the world one beach at a time.”
• “Let your problems drown in the soothing rhythm of crashing waves.”
• “Tropical vibes and sunny skies – this beach getaway is pure paradise!”

Tips for crafting captivating Instagram captions for beach vacations include incorporating sensory descriptions, capturing the carefree spirit of beach moments, and utilizing beach-themed quotes to complement the scenic beauty portrayed in the travel photos.

Using travel quotes to complement beach travel Instagram captions adds depth and poetic resonance to the seaside reveries depicted in the posts, infusing them with a touch of introspection and contemplation amidst the coastal escapades.

• “Life is short, buy the plane ticket!”
• “Adventure awaits… and so does room service!”
• “Traveling: Where finding yourself often involves getting lost first.”
• “Jet-lagged but still fabulous! #TravelProblems”
• “Eat, sleep, travel, repeat… in that exact order.”
• “Wanderlust: The only thing contagious that we actually want to catch!”
• “Vacation calories don’t count, right? Bring on the gelato!”
• “Going places and leaving a trail of laughter behind me.”
• “My passport is calling, and I must go! And pack snacks…”
• “‘I haven’t been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list’ – Slightly modified by procrastination.”
• “Exploring new destinations one souvenir shop at a time.”
• “‘Are you there yet?’ – A question that deserves its own vacation timeout.”
• “When in doubt, choose the window seat for the best views and awkward elbow encounters.”
• “Note to self: Pack extra patience for navigating foreign languages and public transportation systems.”
• “Who needs maps when you have Google Maps? Oh wait…no signal! *cue epic adventure*”
• “The world is my oyster…and I’m allergic to seafood!”
• “Always leave room in your suitcase for unexpected shopping sprees… or souvenirs shaped like Eiffel Towers.
• “Beach hair? Don’t care!”
• “Foreign cuisine goals: Eat everything without asking what it is!”
• “Traveling with friends means creating memories… and blaming each other for missing flights!”
• “Jetlagged selfie game strong!”
• “Traveling alone isn’t lonely when you make friends with local food vendors.”
• “FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) has reached an all-time high… and so has my airline mileage!”
• “Traveling is the best way to learn geography… and discover your terrible sense of direction.”
• “Warning: May spontaneously break into dance when surrounded by stunning landscapes.”
• “Spontaneity is the key to adventure. And occasionally missing return flights.”
• “Don’t forget to pack your sense of humor. Lost luggage can be replaced, but laughter is priceless!”
• “Life’s too short for boring vacations! Let’s add a touch of chaos and make it memorable!”
• “Travel tip: Take photos before eating that picture-perfect meal. No one likes a cold foodstagram!”
• “Exploring cities one wrong turn at a time!”
• “Packing light? That’s cute! I packed three outfits per day… just in case!”
• “Chasing sunsets like there’s no tomorrow… or sunrise for that matter.”
• “I came, I saw, I took way too many selfies!”
• “Jetsetter on a budget: 5-star dreams with a 2-star hotel reality.”
• “Time flies when you’re having fun…and trying to catch connecting flights.”
• “Travel isn’t about the destination; it’s about getting on board with free snacks!
• ”The only thing wilder than my travels? My passport photo!”
• ”Vacation rule #1: Always say yes to dessert…and then order seconds.”
• ”Palm trees and pina coladas – the perfect cure for wanderlust.”
• ”Traveling opens our hearts, minds…and sometimes our suitcases if we overpack.”
• ”Not all who wander are lost… Just temporarily disoriented without Google Maps.”
• “My travel budget: 10% plane tickets, 90% snacks.”
• “I need a six-month vacation twice a year.”
• “Jet lag is just my body’s way of saying, ‘You didn’t need that sleep anyway.'”
• “My passport is my favorite accessory.”
• “Traveling: where the only exercise I get is running out of money.”
• “I followed my heart, and it led me to the airport.”
• “If travel were free, you’d never see me again.”
• “I’m not lost; I’m just exploring alternative routes to my destination.”
• “My favorite exercise is a mix of running late and jumping to conclusions.”
• “I don’t need a hairstylist; I need a destination.”
• “I’m not a morning person unless it’s to catch a flight.”
• “My luggage gets more vacation days than I do.”
• “Traveling is the only time where ‘getting lost’ is a legitimate goal.”
• “I travel for the funny stories and the questionable decisions.”
• “I don’t always travel, but when I do, it’s to escape reality and find better Wi-Fi.”
• “My favorite kind of social distancing is being in a different country.”
• “I left my heart in [insert last vacation spot]… and probably my charger too.”
• “Traveling: because my Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail.”
• “I’m not a tourist; I’m a professional souvenir collector.”
• “My travel philosophy: Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
• “I’m on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it… especially when I travel.”
• “I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.”
• “I’m not avoiding work; I’m on a workcation.”
• “Traveling is the art of getting lost and finding yourself simultaneously.”
• “I’m not great at geography, but I can pack a suitcase like a pro.”
• “My sense of direction leads me to amazing places—mostly by accident.”
• “The only trip you will regret is the one you don’t take, or the one where you forget your charger.”
• “I travel so much; my passport thinks it’s a frequent flyer.”
• “I’m not a thrill-seeker; I’m a chill-seeker. Find me by the beach.”
• “My favorite travel game is ‘Guess which language I don’t speak.'”
• “Traveling: the only time my diet consists of 70% gelato.”
• “I don’t travel to escape life; I travel to make sure life doesn’t escape me.”
• “My two moods: Packing for a trip and unpacking from a trip.”
• “I have a crush on the world, and I’m not afraid to show it.”
• “Jet lag is my spirit animal.”
• “My travel style: Dress like you might meet your worst enemy.”
• “I need a vacation from my vacation.”
• “I don’t always travel, but when I do, I prefer to get lost.”
• “My suitcase and I have a special bond. It never judges how much I pack.”
• “I’m not a tourist; I’m a temporary local.”
• “I’m not saying I’m Wonder Woman; I’m just saying no one has ever seen me and Wonder Woman in the same room.”
• “Traveling: the only time I appreciate a long layover.”
• “My bucket list: Fill the bucket with beach sand.”
• “I like long walks… to the airport gate for my next adventure.”
• “I’m not a morning person, but I’ll wake up at sunrise for a good photo.”
• “I followed my dreams, and they led me to the airport.”
• “If traveling were a job, I’d be the CEO of Vacation.”
• “I have a ‘to-do’ list: travel, eat, nap, repeat.”
• “I don’t need a map; I have Google Maps and a questionable sense of direction.”
• “My travel motto: Go where the WiFi is weak, and the cocktails are strong.”

• “Traveling: Where new adventures await around every corner.”
• “Exploring the world one stamp at a time.”
• “Jetting off to new destinations, leaving worries behind.”
• “Embracing the unknown and finding beauty in unexpected places.”
• “Capturing memories that will last a lifetime through travel photography.”
• “Breaking out of my comfort zone, one trip at a time.”
• “Discovering hidden gems and local treasures in every city visited.”
• “Traveling is not just about seeing new places, but also experiencing different cultures and traditions.”
• “Finding solace in the serenity of nature during travel escapades.”
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• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
• “Hike more, worry less.”
• “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay
• “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
• “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “Hiking is not escapism; it’s realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.” – Jennifer Pharr Davis
• “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl
• “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir
• “Hiking is a bit like life: The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other… again and again and again.” – Linda Brill
• “Hike your own hike.”
• “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
• “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Adventure awaits.”
• “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
• “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” – John Muir
• “Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot.” – Diane Spicer
• “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”
• “May your trails be crooked, winding, and dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” – Edward Abbey
• “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.”
• “Hiking: the best workout that doesn’t feel like work.”
• “On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.”
• “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
• “Hiking is the answer. Who cares what the question is?”
• “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
• “To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” – Mary Davis
• “Hiking: Cheaper than therapy.”
• “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir
• “The best way to lengthen your life is to stretch out on a trail.” – Charles de Lint
• “Life is short, and the world is wide. Get out there and explore.”
• “Wandering where WiFi is weak.”
• “Hike the trails of life with the boots of perseverance.”
• “Hiking is not just exercise; it’s therapy with a view.”
• “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
• “Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost.”
• “I hike because I really like snacks and napping in the woods.”
• “My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch. I call it lunch.”
• “Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.”
• “I’m outdoorsy in that I like getting drunk on patios.”
• “The only time I enjoy a long walk is when it’s taken by someone who annoys me.”
• “I don’t need therapy; I just need a mountain and some good company.”
• “I’m not lazy; I’m on energy-saving mode.”
• “Hiking: where the wifi is weak, but the connection is strong.”
• “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted a paycheck to go hiking.”
• “Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.”
• “I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.”
• “My happy place is where the coffee is strong and the hiking trails are endless.”
• “I’m not a morning person or a night person. I’m a ‘whenever I can sneak in a nap’ person.”
• “The early bird can have the worm because worms are gross and mornings are stupid.”
• “If you see me on a trail running, my campfire was probably stolen.”
• “I’m not fat; I’m just easy to see.”
• “I only run when I’m being chased or when the trail mix is on sale.”
• “Hiking is my cardio, and by cardio, I mean eating trail mix.”
• “My hiking style is best described as ‘I need a shower.'”
• “I only hike on days that end in ‘y.'”
• “Sail away with me, where every sunset feels like a hug from the universe. ⛵✨ #WanderlustAdventures”
• “Exploring this wonderful world, one adventure at a time. 🌍✨ #WanderlustMagic”
• “Roaming through places full of beauty, finding magic in every corner. 🌺✨ #TravelEnchantment”
• “Embarking on a journey to find the beautiful in every step and every sunset. 🌍✨ #DiscoverBeauty”
• “Pack your dreams, buckle up your curiosity, and let’s travel the world together. 🌍✈️ #WanderlustAdventures”
• “Battered suitcases were piled high as dreams, waiting to unfold across the map of possibilities. 🌍✨ #JourneyBegins”
• “Amidst diverse landscapes, become common ground where every journey finds its unity. 🌏✨ #TravelHarmony”
• “The open road grants the freedom to make your own map, weaving tales of adventure at every turn. 🗺️🌟 #ExploreYourPath”
• “In every new destination, find a piece of the past to hold, a memory to carry forward into the future. 🌍✨ #TravelMemoirs”
• “Embrace the call of adventure, let your spirit soar, and go ever upward to the heights of new horizons. 🌄✈️ #RiseAndExplore”
• “Amidst the miles, the journey changes us, sculpting our souls with the beauty of every experience. 🌍✨ #TransformativeTravels”
• “Travel unfolds the things you didn’t know you were seeking, revealing the treasures of the unknown. 🌏✨ #DiscoverUnexpected”
• “The path to discovery isn’t always comfortable, but it’s on those winding roads that we find the true essence of our journey. 🌍✨ #UncomfortableAdventures”
• “Wander with your eyes open, for it’s in the details that the world reveals its most enchanting secrets. 🌎✨ #EyesWideWanderlust”
• “In the journey of exploration, you’ve come to the right place to unwrap the gifts of the world’s wonders. 🌍✨ #TravelTreasures”

In the realm of travel, each quote encapsulates the essence of exploration, wanderlust, and the transformative power of traversing the globe.

From the whimsical to the profound, these quotes serve as compass points guiding us through the vast landscapes of our own adventures.

They remind us that the journey is not merely about reaching a destination but about discovering the beauty, humor, and wisdom that unfurl along the way.

Get the scoop on more inspiring quotes below:

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Hi, my name is Alexis, and I am an Assistant Editor for Sarah Scoop! When I'm not writing about lifestyle or the latest entertainment news, you'll find me cuddling on the couch watching k-dramas and horror movies.

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Laughter is arguably the best medicine.

When life feels gloomy, a dose of humor is the easiest way to brighten up your day.

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• “Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired.” — Sandra Bullock 
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• “If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.” — Ace Ventura, “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”
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• “Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” — Robin Williams 
• “Don’t be so humble — you are not that great.” ― Golda Meir
• “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” ― Judith Martin
• “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” ― Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
• “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” — Fran Lebowitz

• “Instant gratification takes too long.” ― Carrie Fisher
• “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” ― Bo Derek
• “So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.” — Neil Gaiman
• “I’m not good at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?” — Chandler Bing , “Friends”
• “I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” ― Mitch Hedberg

• “I’d love to stand here and talk with you...but I’m not going to.” — Phil Connors, “Groundhog Day”
• “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz
• “People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” — Joan Rivers
• “I’m not offended by blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb…and I also know that I’m not blonde.” —Dolly Parton
• “It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office.” — Shirley MacLaine
• “I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don’t really remember yesterday all that well.” — Dory, “Finding Dory” 

• “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ― Terry Pratchett, “Diggers”
• “To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs.” — Wanda, “A Fish Called Wanda"
• “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” ― Isaac Asimov
• “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” ― George Carlin
• “I’m not superstitious…but I am a little stitious.” — Michael Scott, “The Office”
• “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?” — Jay Leno

Funny family quotes

• “I’m sure wherever my Dad is, he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.” — Jack Whitehall
• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
• “I’d like to have a kid, but I’m not sure I’m ready to spend 10 years of my life constantly asking someone where his shoes are.” — Damien Fahey
• “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
• “My husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look.” — Halley Reed, “Crimes and Misdemeanors” 
• “When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” ― Erma Bombeck

• “When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” ― Rodney Dangerfield
• “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” — Prince William
• “I’m not insane. My mother had me tested.” —Sheldon Cooper, “The Big Bang Theory”
• “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
• “Good parenting means investing in your child’s future, which is why I am saving to buy mine a hoverboard someday.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
• “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ― P. J. O’Rourke

• “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron
• “You can kid the world, but not your sister.” ― Charlotte Gray
• “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” ― Mae West
• “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” — Jerry Seinfeld
• “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ― George Bernard Shaw, “Immaturity”

• The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin
• “The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
• “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” — George Burns
• “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” ― P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
• “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.” — Shirley MacLaine

Funny quotes on aging

• “People say, ‘How you stay looking so young?’ I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup.” — Dolly Parton
• “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” — Bob Hope
• “My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.’” ― Rose Nylund, “Golden Girls”
• “You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.” ― George Burns
• “People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends, I need a Ouija board.” —Betty White
• “A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.” — Graham Norton

• “I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. Number two was death. This means to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.” — Jerry Seinfeld
• “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” — Theodore Roosevelt
•  “You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.” — Joan Rivers
• “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” ― Isaac Asimov
• “As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” ― Norman Wisdom
• “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” — Redd Foxx

• “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” ― Yogi Berra, “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball’s Greatest Heroes”
• “I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.” — George Carlin
• “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball
• “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” ― Luis Buñuel
• “It must be around forty, when you’re “over the hill.” I don’t even know what that means and why it’s a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I’m past the hard part and there’s a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “Death is nature’s way of saying, “Your table is ready.” — Robin Williams

Funny nature quotes

• “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” — Mindy Kaling, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?”
• “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin
• Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’” — Steven Wright

• “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” ― Noel Coward
• “Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “It was so beautiful today that I only watched four hours of ‘Law & Order’ in my apartment.” — John Mulaney
• “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” — Jack Handey

Funny well-being quotes

• “My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.” ― Tina Fey , “Bossypants”
• “Reality continues to ruin my life.” ― Bill Watterson, “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes”
• “Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn’t allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, Jazzercise; 6:30, dinner with me — I can’t cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing...I’m booked.” — The Grinch, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
• “Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!” — Charlie Brown
• “When I’m in social situations, I always hold onto my glass. It makes me feel comfortable and secure, and I don’t have to shake hands.” — Larry David

• ​​“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.” — Garry Shandling
• “People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys.” —Mike Bechtle
• “People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass.” — Sophia Petrillo, “The Golden Girls”
• “Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.” — Bo Bennett
• “From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.” — Jarod Kintz

• “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
• “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
• “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.” — William Gibson
• “My therapist says I’m afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting-around time.” — Maria Bamford
• “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” ― James Branch Cabell, “The Silver Stallion”

• “Why can’t you just be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back later like a normal person?” —Lillian Donovan, “Bridesmaids”
• “Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.” ― Quentin Crisp
• “I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places.” — Rodney Dangerfield
• “I’m not crazy — I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.” — Ouiser Boudreaux, “Steel Magnolias”
• “Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.” — Philip K. Dick
• “I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back.” — Jimmy Kimmel

Funny work quotes

• “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben
• “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” — Douglas Adams
• “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” ― Charles Lamb
• “I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ― Jerome K. Jerome 
• “When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” — Don Marquis
• “By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.” — Miranda Priestly, “The Devil Wears Prada”

• “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
• “Trying is the first step toward failure.” — Homer Simpson, “The Simpsons”
• “Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
• “By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.” — Robert Frost
• “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” ― Mark Twain
• “If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it.” — George Burns

• “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
• “Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.” — Paula Poundstone
• “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” ― Walter Payton
• “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields
• “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
• “When in doubt, look intelligent.” — Garrison Keillor

• “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley
• “Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• “An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max. An office is a place where dreams come true.” — Michael Scott, “The Office”
• “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” ― Rita Mae Brown, “Alma Mater”
• “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” ― John Gotti 
• “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” — Douglas Adams

• “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi 
• “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
• “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates
•  “When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
• “Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
• “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ― Muhammad Ali
• “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” — William Faulkner 
• “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” ― Mark Twain
• “If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’” — Dave Barry
• “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ― A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”
• “No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx

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These 12 Wrinkle-free Travel Clothes Will Be the M.V.P.s of Your Suitcase — and They’re Starting at $23

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I’m one of those people who can’t leave the house in good conscience with wrinkles all over my outfit. But it’s hard to avoid when you travel. I’ve tried every method — rolling things up Marie Kondo-style, laying each item flat and piling it, using packing cubes — but wrinkles are just a reality of the jet-set lifestyle. Sure, I could bring a travel steamer or mini iron, but there's not always room for one in my carry-on. Or, I could curate a wardrobe packed with wrinkle-resistant tops, bottoms, and one-pieces . That way I can skip the part where I have the ironing board set up and my travel companions are impatiently scrolling through their phones because they’re inevitably ready before me.

Some clothes are specially constructed to be wrinkle-resistant, and you’ll find that in the product messaging. But other times, you just have to look at the materials on the label. Some fabrics, like linen and cotton, though great for the warmer weather, are notorious for wrinkling at the drop of a hat. Others have the natural ability to resist and repel wrinkles. These fabrics include (but are not limited to) Supima cotton, lyocell (brand-name Tencel), an eco-friendly acetate called triacetate, charmeuse, and certain types of polyester. Luckily, a lot of your favorite brands are already on board with the convenience of wrinkle-free clothes. Among them are Athleta, Everlane, Madewell and Summersault. And of course, you can dig around Amazon and find your fair share of wrinkle-resistant clothes that travel well, too. 

Below, I've rounded up 12 of my favorites, from tanks and polos to rompers and cover-ups. Bonus points for the pieces that include other travel-friendly features, like UPF protection and moisture-wicking fabrics. Bottom line: packing these pieces will make your trip go a lot smoother. Your travel buddies can thank me later.

Timeson Three-quarter-sleeve Blouse

A crisp white blouse is a travel M.V.P., but it’s usually made of quick-to-wrinkle cotton. Not this sheer Timeson blouse from Amazon, though. It’s got wrinkle-resistant polyester (with a touch of stretchy spandex) and has a more relaxed silhouette than a traditional Oxford shirt with its tunic-style design. My white blouses are in constant rotation when I travel because they’re so versatile, and this one is unique in that its precise length allows it to look great tucked in or left loose. Plus, it pairs nicely even with yoga pants. Take it from this shopper : “I packed this blouse in a suitcase for a trip and it didn't wrinkle." 

PrettyGarden Midi Summer Dress

Twirl your way through the vineyards in this pretty poplin PrettyGarden dress made with wrinkle-resistant polyester. Its pleated skirt, ruffled hem, and keyhole front make it fun and flirty for any warm-weather destination. And, you can dress it up or down depending on your accessories, so wear it straight out of your suitcase for whatever's next on your itinerary. According to one Amazon customer , it “washes well, never wrinkles" and is "very classy and feminine." 

Babaton New Power Blazer

This long, versatile blazer by Aritzia-favorite brand Babaton is my go-to for travel and the perfect layer to help any outfit transition from day to night. I’ve worn it to elevate a white-tee-and-jeans look and over a bodycon dress for a bit more modesty. Its open front, collarless design and ruched, three-quarter sleeves keep it looking chic instead of stuffy, and the fabric is made of eco-friendly triacetate with a touch of polyester — which is the reason why I can literally ball it up in my suitcase and it will never wrinkle. 

Summersalt The Silky Luxe Beach to Brunch Wrap Skirt

With Summersalt's Beach to Brunch Wrap Skirt, You can pack up your beach bag with all of the essentials and not have to worry about your swimsuit cover-up getting smushed by your towel, books, snacks, and sunscreen. It's made with silky charmeuse fabric and is specifically designed to resist wrinkles. As the name implies, this skirt can be worn as part of your post-beach outfit thanks to its stunning print, stylish details, and maxi skirt length that provides the right amount of coverage for a restaurant or walk around the city. 

Amazon Essentials Lightweight Open-front Cardigan

I’m so glad cardigans are on-trend again because they truly come in handy when I visit places that are hot during the day and chilly at night (Mexico City and Lisbon, I’m talking to you). Roll up this lightweight, best-selling Amazon Essentials cardigan and pop it in your tote without worry because it’s got modal and polyester mixed in, so it won’t look crumpled when you pull it out at night. A reviewer confirmed that it's “wrinkle-resistant and packs well,” and you have your choice of 20 colors and prints to help it maximize your travel wardrobe. 

REI Co-op Sahara Bermuda Shorts 

Outdoor activities in warmer temps call for shorts that are comfy and rugged, and this pair by REI Co-op is the brand’s answer for Bermuda shorts fans. Not only are these water-repellent, stretchy, and outfitted with UPF sun protection, but they’re also wrinkle-resistant thanks to their resilient nylon construction. I’m not even a regular hiker, but there seems to be a spontaneous hike on almost every extended trip that I take, so this pair is going in my cart for summer. 

Madewell Pull-on Wide-leg Pants in Softdrape

Another great fabric option for the wrinkle-free travel life is lyocell — also known by its brand-name Tencel — a sustainable type of rayon that’s known for being super soft, durable, and breathable. That’s what Madewell’s Softdrape fabric is made up of, making its elastic-waist Wide-leg Pants the perfect pair for all-day wear. They can be dressed up or down and paired with anything from a T-shirt or tank to a button-down blouse or bodysuit. According to one reviewer, "They're so comfortable, flattering and stylish. The material is super lightweight and flowy. They'd be flattering on any body type." 

Lands’ End Moisture-wicking UPF Sun Curved Hem Tunic Tank Top

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A soft polyester blend fabric is responsible for making sure that this performance tank top won’t wrinkle, and its UPF 50 sun protection helps shield you from UV rays on long walks and hikes. The ribbed top also wicks away sweat and resists odors, comes in eight cute colors, and pairs perfectly with leggings and shorts. I wore a top just like this to go off-roading in a military tank in the Czech Republic, and wish that I had it for my jeep tour of Sintra, Portugal. It also would have come in handy during my Kenyan safari. Moral of the story? Your travels will often present you with hot-weather, open-sun activities, so you’ll never regret packing a top that does as much as this one does. Use the code " FAVORITES " to get select colors on sale for as little as $23. 

Athleta Essential Tee Dress

You’ll always find an occasion to wear this T-shirt dress from Athleta, a brand that masters the intersection between stylish and high-performing activewear and travel clothes. The dress has a playful, flowy shape constructed of breathable, wrinkle-resistant Supima cotton and comes in four colors, including classic gray and black (plus bold hues like orchid pink and rosewood red). The dress makes getting ready a breeze, too — just put it on and pair it with sandals or sneakers, and you’re good to go. One customer wrote, ”I took to Hawaii for spring break… [it was a] comfortable, cute, easy-to-pack, pretty dress." 

Basudam Golf Polo Shirt

If a round of tennis, pickleball, or golf is on the agenda, this wrinkle-free polyester polo shirt should be in your suitcase. Its modified V-neck collar gives it a visual twist to make it more fashionable than your average polo. It’s also moisture-wicking and stretchy enough to handle a day filled with sports, but polished enough to keep you looking put together for post-game drinks or grub. “Female golfer here," an Amazon shopper began their review. "This shirt will be my go-to and I plan on buying every color. It's lightweight, super cute, and comfortable."

Everlane The Supima High-neck Riviera Dress

The importance of a comfy midi or maxi dress that doesn’t cling can’t be overstated. I’ve had at least one in my luggage since I became a travel writer, and this High-neck Riviera Dress from Everlane that's made with wrinkle-resistant Supima cotton fits the bill beautifully. It’s the perfect style to pair with Birkenstocks or with your favorite pair of white, all-day walking sneakers. “I am not usually a huge dress girl, but I will definitely be wearing this for spring and upcoming summer months, too," an Everlane shopper raved, adding that they "have already paired it with a jean jacket and black slides." 

Athleta Brooklyn Utility Romper

Another wardrobe essential that I’d never travel without is a romper or jumpsuit, as one-pieces just make an easy no-brainer for getting dressed and looking put together fast. They also cinch my waist and skim my figure in a way that leaves me feeling confident and securely covered to handle whatever's on my itinerary for the day. Athleta’s Brooklyn Utility Romper takes it the extra mile by being wrinkle-free, too. Plus, it has UPF-protective fabric and resists snags and rips. According to one reviewer, it's “lightweight and simple" and you can "dress it up with a jacket or just go sleeveless." 

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Trading as Fast as Lightning

Exchanges can trace their origins back to the  Middle Ages . Since then, however, technology has transformed the global capital markets, and the speed of trading has accelerated with the adoption of computers to trade, mostly over the last 50 years. Today, quotes and trades travel over microwaves, lasers and optic fibers – often at close to the theoretical speed of light. 

Fiber optics, microwaves and lasers replace trading pits  

In today’s modern markets, orders, confirmations, quotes and trade data move digitally along a combination of cable, microwave, millimeter wave and, most recently, laser.

As with most aspects of trading, there is a tradeoff with each.  

Chart 1: Different data transmission technology

Fiber is the most reliable and has the most bandwidth. Fiber optic cables work by sending light pulses along fiber or glass tubes. Because light slows down in the glass, fiber is “slower” than the alternatives, and it’s best to use it if you need to send a lot of data or detailed data.  

In contrast, microwaves — millimeter waves and lasers — all move through the air. That makes them all faster than fiber but are more prone to signal disruptions due to natural events, such as the passage of clouds, rain, mountains. This phenomenon makes them  unreliable for a split second or hours affecting market liquidity .  

The curvature of the Earth is also a problem. Wireless transmitting requires frequent signal towers high enough to see over mountains and around the globe. In fact, the curvature of the Earth alone makes the Earth slope  100 feet every 25 miles.   

Furthermore, wireless transmissions can’t hold as much data as fiber, and the signal tends to fade faster (needing more “repeater” stations to amplify and resend the signal. However, that is where tradeoffs between laser and radio waves begin.  

Table 1: Benefits of different types of data transmission technology

Source: Nasdaq Economic Research, A Comprehensive Review on Millimeter Waves Applications and Antennas;  Millimeter Wave Propagation: Spectrum Management Implications; Fiber Optic Association ;  Nasdaq Co-Location Services, Anova , Wall Street Journal, Optics Express  

*Anova system uses a combination of laser and mm wave

Both microwaves and millimeter waves are a type of radio frequency signal. Radio signals travel pretty close to the speed of light and around 50% faster than light can move down a fiber cable, so switching to using microwaves can really decrease how long it takes to find out when prices and markets elsewhere have changed (also called “latency”).

The main difference between microwaves, millimeter waves and lasers is their frequency and wavelength. This requires us to get into a little physics.

Frequency measures the number of waves that pass a point in a second; a higher frequency means more waves move in that second. Wavelength tells us how much energy the signal can carry; a larger wavelength has less energy and carries less data, while shorter wavelengths have more energy and carry more data. We can hear this with sound waves. Low tones have long wavelengths and sometimes are hard to hear. High notes have higher frequencies, and some can hurt our ears. 

However, we are talking about electromagnetic waves – some of which we can see. Chart 2 shows how the wavelengths change and where they are useful.  

Chart 2: Electromagnetic spectrum

Overall, the main latency (speed) difference is between wireless and fiber. Capacity (or bandwidth) then differentiates each of the technologies, too, with higher frequency, giving millimeter waves an advantage over microwaves, but at the cost of shorter distances between antennae.  

What about satellites?  

We’ve all heard of satellite TV. Why don’t we trade with satellite messages? 

It turns out the distance from Earth to a satellite and back matters – and is longer than around the surface of the Earth. However, some say  low Earth orbit  satellites could  work for long distances .  

Chart 3: Satellites vs. microwave

Source: A Bird’s Eye View of the World’s Fastest Networks , 2020  

How much does time matter?  

Even a very short distance, like the distance from Nasdaq to Secaucus (where dark pools sit, pegging peg prices to primary quotes), can matter to certain traders.  

• Via fiber, the theoretical fastest speed is around 162us (microseconds).  
• Via wireless, that falls to  only 89us . 

That might not seem like much (it is, after all, a fraction of one-thousandth of a second). But even in an Olympic race, a split second can be the difference between winning and second place – here, it might mean completing an arbitrage or being legged and exposed to losses.  

Think of this a different way: There are about 35 million trades a day and only 23.4 million milliseconds during market hours. In short, microseconds can matter. And that’s before we discuss how most activity happens in 1% of the microseconds in the day. That’s why traders doing strategies where latency is important choose to use wireless technology. And the advantages and disadvantages of each are why millimeter wave, microwave and lasers exist.  

But it’s also important to remember that to a human optic fiber is very fast, too – and it’s accurate and can handle large bursts of activity with less backlogs. That’s why it’s used for the SIP.  

Just like for the past hundreds of years, it’s likely that the  race for lower latency  will continue. However, the reality is that if you’re using wireless now, you’re already pretty close to the theoretical limits of the speed of light, and you’re aware of the tradeoffs you’re already making to get there.  

Nicole Torskiy, Economic Research Senior Specialist, contributed to this article.   

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Some far-right members of congress seem to be parroting vladimir putin’s talking points. that doesn’t mean anti-ukraine conspiracy theories can’t be homegrown..

Earlier this month, Republican Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Puck News that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” Several days later, another Republican, Rep. Michael Turner of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said he agreed. “Anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor,” Turner told CNN, are “directly coming from Russia.”

It was a notable moment—and a telling one, as the House gets ready for a contentious vote on aid to Ukraine. The vote is being loudly protested by far-right politicians including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is pushing to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his role over the issue.

It’s not the first time Republican lawmakers have accused their colleagues of essentially being Russian pawns. But as far-right rabble-rousers in the Republican Party have increasingly advocated against continued support of Ukraine—and even some mainstream Republicans no longer interpret Russian aggression as a ruthless threat to democracy and the international order—the most extreme lawmakers appear to be mirroring the Kremlin’s own propaganda.

Last Monday, Greene told Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast that Ukraine was waging a “war against Christianity” and Russians “seem to be protecting” the religion. The idea of Russia as a great (white) Christian nation has been percolating in right-wing thinking for more than a decade , despite Russia’s history of suppressing non-Orthodox Christianity and exerting power over the Russian Orthodox Church.

But Greene didn’t limit herself to praising Russia’s religious nationalism on Bannon’s show: She cited , as fact, anti-Ukraine disinformation that “the Ukrainian government is attacking Christians” and “executing priests.” This prompted former Rep. Ken Buck, another Republican, to call Greene “Moscow Marjorie” on CNN.

And indeed, this assertion does mirror Russia’s own talking points about Ukraine. (In actuality, the crimes Greene accused Ukraine of committing are crimes Russian forces have perpetrated .) But whether the Kremlin’s own talking points are being piped into the brains of right-wing American politicians—or just bear a striking similarity to the new isolationist rhetoric of the far right—is a matter of interesting debate.

Russian propaganda operations have evolved somewhat from the infamous social media campaigns that influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Take the case of a false narrative about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky using U.S. aid money to buy himself two yachts. This rumor—which is demonstrably false, given that the ownership of ships can be easily tracked—has been swirling in right-wing social media circles for months and popping up in American politicians’ talking points. It’s such an effective fabrication that North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis told CNN in December that the debate over aid to Ukraine had been halted on the Hill in part because some lawmakers were concerned that “people will buy yachts with this money.”

But where did that idea come from? According to the BBC , the assertion that Zelensky had purchased two luxury yachts with U.S. aid money originated in November on a YouTube channel with just a handful of followers. The day after the video was posted, a site called DC Weekly published the claim as news, and that report was then picked up by other websites.

DC Weekly is not some kind of alternative newspaper or community blog; Clemson University researchers Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren argued in a report in December that the website was likely created to share fake news created by Russian state actors. The site is populated with A.I. content, has clearly fake authors, and has been partially hosted on a server in Moscow.

Russian disinformation that is packaged as news, Linvill said in a phone interview, often follows a similar pattern of dissemination. “I would bet my retirement on the fact that the Russians create the videos, plant the videos, write the stories, plant the stories, and distribute the stories,” Linvill wrote in an email.

“It’s the logic of the thing,” he said, “but also the fact that it happens repeatedly.” He pointed to a dozen other instances of disinformation narratives that started as assertions in obscure YouTube videos and were then picked up by publications with similarly legitimate-sounding names.

From 2016 through 2020, Linvill said, Russian propagandists focused on creating social media accounts to promote divisive ideas within the existing American discourse. That is still happening. But today, Linvill said, resources are more likely to be directed toward creating entire fake platforms, including websites that look like news sites. The stories tend to be sensationalized in a way that encourages organic sharing.

According to the Washington Post , Kremlin materials “obtained by a European intelligence service” show Moscow-linked strategists also stoke division in the U.S. by amplifying stories based in reality—including about migrants overwhelming the border, poverty and inflation, and reasons not to trust mainstream media.

But the story of the yacht shows how a fabricated rumor, likely originating in Russia, can start circulating in American politics. On Bannon’s War Room in December, Sen. J.D. Vance said , of his fellow politicians, “there are people who would cut Social Security, throw our grandparents into poverty, why? So that one of Zelensky’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht?”

The yacht story had a specific origin, but the growing anti-Ukraine sentiment among right-wing circles is harder to trace. After years of warfare and many millions of dollars in American aid, it makes sense that American enthusiasm for the Ukrainian cause might organically ebb.

And there is one man whose personal grudge against Ukraine could also cause Republicans to sour on a U.S. ally: Donald Trump.

“When American journalists and congresspeople use Russian talking points, they’re quoting Trump,” said Sarah Oates , a professor who studies disinformation and propaganda at the University of Maryland. “They are broadcasting Russian propaganda, but the conduit is Trump.”

Trump has several reasons to dismiss Russia’s threat to the international order. For starters, he openly admires authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin and has shown an interest in modeling himself after them. More importantly, the association of his 2016 election with Russian election-meddling caused some on the left to question the legitimacy of his victory.

For legitimacy reasons, then, Republicans have an incentive to downplay the potency of Russian propaganda. Not to mention: The basis of much of the Republican Party’s attacks on President Biden relies on a misleading assertion that his son Hunter Biden colluded with corrupt Ukrainian officials. Portraying Ukraine as a corruption-riddled country bolsters right-wing conspiracy theories about Biden’s family.

In other words, shared talking points between Republicans and the Russian propaganda machine don’t necessarily mean Russia is effective in seeding its influence; it’s a mutually beneficial swirl of conspiracy theories. “I think this is just a highly useful convergence of goals for Putin and Trump,” Oates said.

“Trump does not care; he literally is not thinking about it,” Oates said, referring to the possibility that many of Trump’s talking points could come from Russia. “His calculus is, ‘How can I win?’ ”

Because it’s quite possible that Americans who want the U.S. to abandon Ukraine may have arrived at that opinion on their own, Thomas Rid , a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins, has warned against giving the Russians too much credit for swaying American public opinion.

Rid’s argument is: We shouldn’t help Russian strategists by assuming they’ve succeeded. Russia wants to undermine Americans’ trust in our systems and in our democracy. Believing that another country has the capability to, say, sway an election, serves that goal. “If we exaggerate the impact, we make the operations more successful than they would be otherwise,” he said, “and undermine trust in our own democracy, which is the goal of this game.”

It’s important, he argued, not to blame misinformation, isolationism, and other factors that led to changing views of the war on external actors alone. Americans, Rid said, are “perfectly capable of coming up with crazy ideas.”

Take Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s claim about why Putin needed to invade Ukraine. Speaking to a right-wing Alabama website, Tuberville said: “It’s a communist country, so he can’t feed his people, so they need more farmland.”

The claim—coming from a man who couldn’t name the three branches of American government and who thought World War II was fought over socialism —seems to be pure, homegrown nonsense.

“It’s blaming our own problems on others,” Rid said. “That’s the problem I find worrying.”

To be clear, Russian propaganda should be taken seriously: The country’s plans for deepening existing societal conflicts in the U.S. are not a secret . Given the various motivations at play and the inherent vagaries of how information and belief travel, though, it’s hard to know just how much the Republican Party has been “infected” by Russian propaganda, as Rep. McCaul put it.

What we can say with certainty is that there’s an alliance of interests. In his bizarre interview with Tucker Carlson in February, Putin laid out his several invented justifications for the invasion and said that he was interested in “peace.” The next day, Tuberville said he opposed sending aid to Ukraine because the Carlson interview “shows that Russia is open to a peace agreement.”

In her work, Oates found that researchers often couldn’t tell the difference between media pulled from Fox News and Russia Today, a Russian news network and propaganda arm; “identical” talking points don’t mean Russia is pulling the strings.

But there is still something to be gleaned from the coherence between Republicans and Russian strategists—and it’s probably a warning about our own news-media ecosystems. Rep. McCaul seemed to note this, telling Puck News that he saw “nighttime entertainment shows” in the U.S airing content that was “almost identical” to what was playing on Russian state TV.

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