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85 Travel With Kids Quotes to Inspire Family Adventure

Best family travel quotes that will inspire you to live the life of your dreams!

Traveling with kids (and parenting in general) is a wild ride filled with unexpected twists, hilarious mishaps, and heartwarming moments that make it all worthwhile.

If there’s one thing that can make a travel experience even more memorable (and occasionally hilarious), it’s exploring the world with kids in tow. Family travel is a rollercoaster ride of excitement, chaos, and unforgettable moments.

These family trip quotes are guaranteed to make you smile, nod in agreement, and maybe even inspire your next adventure. And they make pretty great Instagram captions as well. 😉

Best Travel With Kids Quotes

1. The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.

2. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

3. The two greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter

4. Collect memories. Not things.

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

6. There will never be a perfect time to travel with your children, so you might as well do it now!

7. Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. – Charles Swindoll

8. Not all classrooms have four walls.

9. You will never regret making family memories.

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

11. Sometimes you never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss

12. Travel gives your children things that can never be taken away – experience, exposure, and a way of life.

13. In the end, kids won’t remember the fancy toy you bought them, but they will remember the time you spent with them. – Kevin Heath

14. Actually, the best life you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. – Lewis Carroll

15. There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.

16. If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

17. Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.

18. Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember the trip is like refusing to read them books because they won’t remember the stories.

19. As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh

20. Together is our favorite place to be.

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

22. Jobs fill your pockets, but adventure fills your soul. -Jamie Lyn Beatty

23. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. – Og Mandino

24. Not all who wander are lost.

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

26. You are our greatest adventure.

27. A family that travels together stays together.

28. Traveling with kids comes with challenges, but the reward of seeing the world through your child’s eyes is immeasurable.

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

30. There is a whole world out there. Pack the diaper bag and go.

31. Memories made together last a lifetime.

32. Kids won’t remember their best day of television.

33. Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.

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

35. If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end. – Akaine Kramarik

36. We were together. I forget the rest. – Walt Whitman

37. We all smile in the same language.

38. Life is more fulfilling when we fill it with experience, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.

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

40. Happiness is experiencing a new place with those you love.

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

42. Don’t be the person who is too busy when you are young and too tired when you are old.

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

44. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt

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

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

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. We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. – Ben Franklin

49. You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr. Seuss

50. Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

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

52. We have not traveled everywhere, but it’s on our list.

53. Live life with no excuses. Travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde

54. The world is your playground.

55. Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. – Harvey Lloyd

56. You will never regret spending time with your children.

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

58. To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. – Barbara Johnson

59. Life is short and the world is wide. – Simon Raven

60. In the wilderness lies the hope of the world. – John Muir

61. Just like a bee needs a flower, a child needs nature. – Brandi Rondinelli

62. If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs. – Nicolette Sowder

63. Sad child? Nature. Cranky child? Nature. Bored Child? Nature.

64. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. – Walt Straigtiff

65. Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn. – Benjamin Franklin

66. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert

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

68. Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon. – Paul Brandt

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

70. Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.

71. Prioritize spending time with people you love in places you love.

72. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah Winfrey

73. Kids are the future and deserve to be part of our everyday lives.

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

Funny Family Vacation Quotes

75. A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places! – Tom Lichtenheld

76. Traveling without kids is a vacation. Bring them along and it’s a trip.

77. 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

78. My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my vacations.

79. Families who hike together always take the high road.

80. 90% of traveling with kids is finding bathrooms and snacks.

81. On my last flight, I asked the flight attendant to switch my seat as I was sitting next to a screaming baby. Apparently, you’re not allowed to do that if it’s your own baby.

82. You’ll never be more thankful for technology than when you are on a long flight with kids.

83. Summer vacation: when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

84. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Jones

85. You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.

I hope you enjoyed these travel with kids quotes & they leave you feeling inspired to plan/take on your next family adventure! Happy travels!

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70 Uplifting Family Travel Quotes to Inspire You to Travel with Kids

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Who doesn’t love a good inspirational quote?! Whether you are looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your family travel photos or simply want a little inspiration to take that trip with your kids, we’ve compiled a list of the best family travel quotes and quotes about trips with family.

These quotes about family travel capture the joy, inspiration, and even the struggle of traveling with kids.

The best family travel quotes by topic

Every family is different, and our reasons for traveling are different. Some families travel primarily for educational purposes. In fact, worldschooling, a form of homeschooling while traveling full-time, is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to a traditional education. 

Other families simply travel to make memories with their children , relax, have fun, and get away from the day-to-day stresses of normal life.

Not all family travelers fit into the same box, so not all of these family vacation quotes will apply to every family. For this reason, we have categorized our list of travel quotes to make it easier to find the best quote or family travel caption for you!

Family travel quotes about making memories

One of our main reasons for travel is to make memories with our daughter. After all, we work full-time jobs, and our daughter is now in full-time school and extra-curricular activities. Our lives at home are busy. So travel is a good way for us to go off the grid and reconnect with what is most important – family. H

ere are some of our favorite family holiday quotes about making memories with our kids.

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll

This has long been one of our favorite quotes about traveling with kids. In fact, we even have it in the footer of our website. For us, it is a reminder to try to make each day with our daughter count. 

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

Some of my own favorite memories from childhood are of family vacations. My family didn’t have a lot of money growing up, but those long road trips and inexpensive family camping trips are still some of my happiest memories.

(They’re even better when you have the right kids’ camping gear .)

The point I’m trying to make is that a family trip doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to be memorable. You can leave a legacy for your children regardless of how much money you have in the bank.

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

“Memories made together last a lifetime.” – Unknown

“in the end, kids won’t remember the fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – kevin heath.

We have made it a family mission to invest in travel instead of toys. We prioritize travel because we believe that the lessons learned and the memories made will far outweigh any toy or item we could ever give our daughter.

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

“actually, the best gift you could have given her is a lifetime of adventures.” – lewis carroll.

Another one of our personal favorite travel adventure quotes . As the parents of a very adventurous little girl, this quote speaks directly to my heart. Parents of boys – you could easily replace the word her with he and the quote has the same valuable meaning!

“The family that travels together, stays together.” – Unknown

I’m sure this family trip quote isn’t always true. But for us, traveling is the greatest bonding experience as a family. Even before we were parents, traveling as a couple made our relationship stronger.

While traveling comes with it’s fair share of challenges, I guarantee you, all the stressful moments of a family trip are worth it!

Family travel quotes about learning through travel

We truly believe that travel makes kids smarter. In fact, there have been actual studies on this that have proven it true. But travel doesn’t just help you retain knowledge, travel teaches lessons that you cannot learn any other way.

As our society has become more global-minded, many parents have realized family travel is a form of education.

We have compiled quite a few quotes on the educational benefits of travel, because travel has been a learning experience for us and for our daughter. Here are some of our favorite educational trips with kids quotes.

“Not all classrooms have four walls.” – Unknown

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

We have a family travel bucket list that we created soon after our daughter was born. Basically it is a list of places we want to visit as a family. From that bucket list, we have created a plan to take our daughter to all seven continents and all seven wonders of the world.

But one of the great things about traveling with kids, is that a hiking trail just outside of your hometown can create just as much wonderment for a child as seeing the Taj Mahal.

Seeing the world through our daughter’s eyes has made travel that much more rewarding as parents.

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

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

This family travel quote hits me like a gut punch.

You can buy your kids lots of souvenirs from your family vacation, but the greatest gift you’re giving them comes from simply showing them the world and introducing them to new cultures, foods, languages , and people.

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

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

I mean, who doesn’t love going back through your passport and looking at all the different passport stamps?! Each one brings back a flood of memories from trips you’ve taken. 

“Travel is a great teacher.” – Unknown

“Travel is not reward for working. It is education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

So many of us treat a family vacation as a reward for hard work. As a dual-income family and parents with very demanding jobs, we understand why.

While travel can be very rewarding and a welcomed break from work, it is also nourishment for the soul and the brain. In fact, our brains probably work harder on an international trip than they do when we are sitting at our desks dreaming of one. 

“Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.” – Unknown

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

Even as adults, we are still learning through travel. Every time we visit a new country, we step out of our comfort zone and into someone else’s. 

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world. – C. JoyBell C.

“There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.” – Unknown

Every parent has heard the complaint “I’m bored!” from their children. But travel reminds us just how much fun this planet is!

“The world is your playground – Play with a sense of destiny.” – Edward Boyden

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

When you travel with your kids, they don’t just learn about other places, they learn about their homeland.

Perhaps, they will learn to appreciate the privileges and freedoms they have in their own country. Or perhaps, they will realize there is more than one way of doing things, and both may be OK, or the alternative may even be better. 

“Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled.” – Prophet Muhammad

“at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – shanti.

We probably have a thousand pictures of our daughter that perfectly illustrate this family travel quote.

Her hair is always messy, she won’t wear shoes to save her life, so her feet are always dirty, but man, do her eyes sparkle with wonder!

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

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what to count is best.” – Bob Talbert

Reading is important, so is counting and math. We are strong believers in academia, but we also believe that many of life’s real lessons are learned through travel.

“A mind stretched by travel can never go back to old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr .

“travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – deborah lloyd.

This is another personal favorite family travel quote of ours. We love visiting new places that looks like settings from a Disney movie and watching our daughter’s imagination come to life.  Even better, watching our child make friends at playgrounds around the world with kids who do not look like her or even speak the same language, but they find commonality and friendship regardless. 

“We know that travel is essential to a complete education. Traveling abroad teaches understanding of other people, cultures, and communities, and these types of experiences offer young people a greater ability to be successful in today’s global society.”  – Michael Palmer

I’m often embarrassed by the things I may have said or done as a young adult simply because I didn’t know any better. Travel has changed by perspective on a lot of things.

When you travel abroad, you are no longer ignorant to the ways of the world, to the conditions in other countries, or the views of other people. You learn, you grow, and you are better equipped for conversing or even doing business with those from other countries.

By traveling with your children you are planting the seed for a global perspective. 

“Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn’t the only reality. There are many.” – Unknown

“And suddenly you realize your travels were more education than vacation.” – Unknown

And there it is friends! Even the trip that started as a family vacation can hold significant educational value for kids . New sounds, textures, and experiences all help a child’s ever-expanding mind grow!

Family travel quotes about the struggle of traveling with kids

We pride ourselves in showing the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly aspects of family travel. Traveling with kids can be extremely rewarding, but it can also be extremely tough, especially in the early years . After all, the tiniest humans have the biggest emotions!

If we had a dollar for every time we heard someone ask “ how do you do it? ”, “ Why do you do it? ” or tell us, “I don’t know how you do it!” when speaking about traveling with kids, we would probably have enough money to book a trip around the world.

Here are some of our favorite quotes and captions for family trips that may give you some encouragement through the travel struggles and stresses.

“Deciding not to travel with your children because they won’t remember the trips you take is like saying don’t read them books because they won’t remember the stories you read.” – Unknown

We have heard so many times that our money spent on traveling has been wasted because our daughter was too young to remember the trips from her early years.

Each trip and experience shapes you, no matter how young or old you are. 

“Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t.” – Unknown

“you call it chaos, we call it making memories.” – unknown.

There is a bit of chaos that goes into doing anything with kids. Whether you are getting them ready for school in the morning, or boarding a flight to a new continent, some level of chaos should be expected.

Unfortunately, for many the fear of chaos keeps them from traveling with their kids. But it shouldn’t. Plan for it, embrace the chaos and make those memories!

“Having kids is reason to travel. Never a reason to stop.” – Unknown

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

To be fair, we have never traveled first class. Even before children, we were budget backpackers.

With children, we are still budget travelers who often stay in hostels with kids . But this family travel quote still has a lot of truth, because once you’ve traveled with kids, traveling without your kids feels like first class!

“It is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – Unknown

“i have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – mark twain.

We always recommend before you marry someone and have kids, go on an extended trip together to a place that feels very foreign to you. How you navigate the stress of being in a new country will teach you a lot about each other.

If you make it through traveling as a couple and still love each other, go ahead and start planning a life together. You’ve found a good one! 

Family travel quotes about changing your perspective

Travel will change your perspective on a lot of things, even if you do not intend for it to. We are different people than we were before we started traveling, and we will likely continue to change, evolve, and grow with each trip we take. Your children will, too.

Except, children are like sponges, they absorb so much more, and their minds are more open because they are not yet set in their ways, so travel stands to have an even greater impact on kids. 

“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

“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.” – Unknown

The average person touches their smartphone 2,617 times per day!  Each of those swipes and taps adds up to 145 minutes spent consumed by a device.

Sometimes, as a family, we physically have to remove ourselves from the constant distraction by traveling off the grid to a remote area where the WiFi is weak or non-existent. It forces us to stop checking our phone. But regardless of where you travel, travel in and of itself can make you completely forget to check your phone. And for this reason, we should all travel more!

You will never look back on your life and think “I spent too much time with my kids.” – Kimberly Mcleod

“there are no foreign lands. it is the traveler only who is foreign.” – robert louis stevenson.

This is a great lesson to teach kids early in life. When you visit a new country it is you who is foreign, not the people you meet there.

When we visited Morocco with kids , it was a huge culture shock. There was a language barrier, transportation challenges, and a lot of cultural differences that seemed “foreign” to us. However, we went to bed the first night in Morocco determined to wake up with a different outlook. Our ways of life were not their ways of life. But we were in their homeland, not ours.

We, as visitors to their country, were the foreign ones. Once we embraced that, we had a wonderful time in the North African country.

“Time is precious. Waste it wisely.” – Unknown

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – leigh hunt.

Home doesn’t have to be a physical place. It is a feeling we can carry with us anywhere as long as we are with the people who are and will always be our home.

“You are my home and my adventure all at once.” – Unknown

We had to use a picture of Iceland to illustrate this quote because the country perfectly captures the meaning for us. In so many ways Iceland was a wonderful, out-of-this-world adventure, but somehow this wild island nation felt so comfortably like home to us.

“I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben

Again, home doesn’t always have to be a physical place, and the concept of returning home to the people you love, is a beautiful thing.

We hope our daughter always knows, she can always come “home” to us, even as an adult, no matter where we may live. 

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” – JK Rowling

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

Nothing will give your children the confidence to fly like traveling. And having their parents there with them on every journey will give them roots. Book. That. Trip.

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

“don’t listen to what they say. go see.” – unknown.

Misconceptions will always exist. For example, we had always heard Mexico City was a dangerous place to visit. But after visiting the capital of Mexico, we realized that much of the city is very safe, and visiting Mexico City with kids is a great vacation!

“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

Funny family travel quotes

Our list of quotes about travel with family wouldn’t be complete without a few funny ones thrown in there. Laughter and kids go hand-in-hand, so here are a few of the funniest quotes about family travel.

I wish travel therapy was covered by health insurance.

Don’t we all!?

You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a plane ticket.

Every parent knows you can’t always please your kids.

We would have to make macaroni and cheese every night in order to please our daughter. (Just kidding, she has actually always been an adventurous eater – thanks in part to traveling.) But knowing just how hard it is to please our children sometimes, this family travel quote makes us giggle.

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. – Susan Sontag

We take so many pictures on trips, and most of them are of our kid! It basically looks like she started traveling solo at the age of 2. 

If you’re like us and have 4 million travel photos, invest in an external hard drive to store your memories all in one place.

Education is important. But travel is importanter. 

My favorite memory from childhood is my parents paying for my holidays. .

Travel can get expensive unless you’ve learned the art of travel hacking… Hence why we often stay in hostels as a family rather than springing for a fancy hotel. 

Mondays are better at the beach.

No list of travel quotes would be complete with at least one or two beach quotes . Also, can we just make beach Mondays a thing? Please. 

I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.

Let’s be real… as a mom, you rarely get the window seat. This is a containment strategy that anyone who has ever had to fly with a toddler quickly learns. But regardless, I’ll take a day in the middle seat over a day at home!

If you look like your passport picture you probably need a trip.

All parents who travel with their kids look like their passport photo. Traveling with kids is exhausting! But it is so worth dealing with jet lag !

Also read: how to take the perfect baby passport photo  

I’m making sure my daughter travels a lot so when she’s older she won’t be impressed by a weekend in Miami with your dusty son.

Another great girl mom quote. Nothing against Miami, it’s more about showing your kids the world so they choose their significant other wisely. After all, you want them to marry their perfect match!

Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ll pack 35 just to be safe. 

While this quote is funny, it definitely doesn’t apply to us. Even packing for a baby, we pack only the baby travel essentials !

My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.

You never stop being a mom, and moms never stop worrying about their kids. You know how I know that? As an almost-40-year-old woman, my mother still calls me to tell me about some terrifying thing that JUST happened in whatever country we are traveling to.

She was even worried when we took our child to Iceland. One of the fun facts about Iceland : it’s the safest country in the world! 

Our own family travel quotes

Overtime, as you travel as a family, you develop a few of your own travel quotes. I’m sure plenty of other traveling parents have used these quotes or something similar, as well.

But for us, these are things we have said without knowing the origin. They are more so observations we have had during our travels.

Play is a universal language.

We first said this while watching our child at a playground in Prague, Czech Republic . She was playing with a little girl who spoke French, a girl who spoke Chinese, and a local kid from Czech Republic. None of them spoke the same language, yet it didn’t seem to matter.

Traveling with kids is a trip – not a vacation.

As we’ve mentioned traveling with kids can be a challenge. It is not a vacation . In fact, you might feel like you need a vacation after your “vacation”.

Of all the paths you take on life, make sure a few of them are on skis!

We are a family of a skiers. In fact, our child was only a toddler when we taught her to ski .

For this reason, we believe at least some of the life’s paths should be through snow, and preferably on skis!

How to display your favorite family travel quotes

While most people use family travel quotes as captions for family trips, you can also display your favorite family holiday quotes in several other ways.

Wall canvas

Whether you create a travel-themed nursery or kids’ room, or just want to bring a little inspiration to your home so you can feel like you’re traveling even when you can’t , a wall hanging with a decorative font is a great way to incorporate your favorite travel quote into your home decor. You can even find some pre-made on a canvas!

Photo frame

For a cheaper option, buy an inexpensive picture frame, use an online graphic design program, like Canva, and design and print your travel quotes to frame and display throughout your home or office. (Or in your home office if you work remotely.) 

Travel photo book

Creating a book of your travel memories on Shutterfly or Amazon Photos is a great way to reminisce about a trip or family vacation.

Incorporate a few of your favorite travel quotes into your photo book, and you’ve got the perfect gift for moms who love to travel or travel-loving dads !

Customized coffee mug

Finally, there is no better way to perk up your morning than by adding a dose of inspiration with your coffee. Customize a coffee mug on Airportag.com with your favorite travel quote, and you’ll wake up happier every day!

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70 Inspiring Travel With Kids Quotes

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Looking for travel with kids quotes? We researched the internet to put together this list of inspiring quotes about travel with children. Hope our compilation inspires you enough to travel with kids more often.

Traveling with family is one of the most rewarding and unique experiences you can ever have. It strengthens the family bond and makes everyone in the family appreciate the little things in life. Plus, kids learn way beyond what they learn in school. Kids who travel are well-rounded. We, thus, aspire to inspire people to travel with kids.

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Travel With Kids Quotes

If you want to raise well-rounded kids, who grow up to become global citizens, you must explore the world with kids. ~ Travel Melodies

1. Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading the books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.

2. It’s never too early to begin exploring the world.

3. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. ~ Hodding Carter

4. In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them. ~ Kevin Heath.

5. Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves. ~ Stephen Moss

6. The best way to get a child outside is to go with them.

7. What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.

8. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

9. When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away – experience, exposure, and a way of life. ~ Pamela T. Chandler

10. Kids don’t remember their best day of television.

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11. Kid, you’ll move mountains. ~ Dr Seuss

12. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. ~ Og Mandino

13. Not all classrooms have four walls.

14. Traveling is learning. ~ Kikuyu Wisdom

15. It’s a wondrous thing how the wild calms the child.

16. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. ~ W.E.B. DuBois

17. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson

18. We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist. ~ Richard Louv

19. There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children. ~ Robert Benchley

20. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~ John Muir

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21. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. ~ JoyBell C.

22. Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

23. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~ Franklin P. Jones

24. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. ~ Robert Orben

25. Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and show them the way to go home. ~ Seanan McGuire

26. If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end. ~ Akiane Kramarik

27. 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

28. Listen to the must not, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the wont’s. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. ~ Shel Silverstein.

29. It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.

30. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. ~ Chief Seattle

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31. You will never look back in your life and think, I spent too much time with my kids. ~ Kimberly Mcleod

32. In fairy tales, it’s always the children who have fine adventures. ~ Audrey Niffenegger

33. Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.

34. When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. ~ Anna Quindlen

35. Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live. ~ Thomas Berry

36. To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. ~ Barbara Johnson

37. The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.

38. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~ Walt Streightiff

39. You don’t have to go far from home with your kids. Spend some time with them because they see things in amazing new ways.

40. If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs. ~ Nicolette Sowder

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41. Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience. ~ Francis Bacon

42. As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. ~ A.A.Milne

43. What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth? ~ Theodore Roszak

44. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. ~ Abigail Van Buren

45. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ~ Dr. Seuss

46. Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise. ~ Andy Stanley

47. He who travels has stories to tell. ~ Irish proverb

48. I hope my children grow up to be ‘look at the moon!’ type of people.

49. Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.

50. On a journey with your child, take every moment to enjoy the ride.

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51. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ~ Margaret Mead

52. The earlier and the more often children are exposed to nature, the happier, healthier, and brighter they become.

53. Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. ~ Thomas Berry

54. Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. ~ Harvey Lloyd

55. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. ~ Angela Schwindt

56. Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is the children’s best teacher.

57. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all . ~ Aristotle

58. The best education you will ever get is travelling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. ~ Mark Paterson

59. The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think. ~ Agnes Reppler

60. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience. ~ Francis Bacon

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61. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. ~ Bob Talbert

62. Travel is not a reward for working, It’s education for living. ~ Anthony Bourdain

63. Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective. ~ Rick Steves

64. A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature. ~ Maria Montessori

65. If you can repair a child, you don’t have to spend years repairing an adult.

66. The world is your playground.

67. Blessed are curious for they shall have adventures. ~ Lovelle Drachman

68. Holidays with young kids isn’t about the holiday, it’s about making memories.

69. Vacations are necessities, not luxuries. ~ Linda Bloom

70. Are we there yet?

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50 Best Family Vacation Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

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The best family travel quotes are a great reminder of why traveling together as a family has so many benefits. Not only will you create lasting memories for your kids and (literally) broaden their horizons, but you’ll also get the chance to bond as a family as you ride out all the ups and downs of your adventure together.

On top of that, traveling with your kids will allow you to see the world through new eyes and watch as they learn more about the world and themselves. This collection of family vacation quotes includes everything from hilarious family vacation sayings and motivational family adventure quotes to brief but beautiful family getaway quotes .

I hope these quotes about family trips are meaningful and inspire you to plan your next great family adventure. Save your favorites to use as photo captions, travel wisdom, or future travel inspiration. Also, don’t forget that we have a list of the top 100 quotes about travel that will fuel your wanderlust!

• Short family travel quotes
• Family adventure quotes
• Funny family vacation sayings
• Inspirational family trip quotes
• Family travel memories quotes

Short Family Travel Quotes

Concise yet powerful, these short family travel quotes are the perfect kickstarter for an epic family vacation.

1. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Anonymous

This lovely traveling with family quote overturns the usual assumption that having children can limit traveling. Instead, as this quote expresses, traveling with kids is so important because it teaches them more about the world.

2. “A family that travels together stays together.” – Unknown

This family holidays quote works both literally (in that you physically can’t escape your family when you’re on vacation together!) and figuratively (travel, as I’ve mentioned, is an amazing way to bond). Either way you look at it, you and your family will get to spend lots of time together when you travel.

3. “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.” – Rachel Hartman

Share this lovely family road trip quote with your family to express your gratitude for their company.

4. “What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.” – Anonymous

Children have such vivid imaginations that they can travel places in their minds, but it’s also great for them to physically travel the globe!

5. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – Unknown

This quote about family and travel is a wonderful reminder that traveling has no age minimum or limit.

6. “Adventures: they’re the best gift you could ever give your kids.” – Unknown

As this family love travel quote shows, travel experiences are valuable and memorable gifts that your children will cherish.

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

This quote on family travel reminds us that children need a good mix of both stability and adventure.

8. “The world is your playground.” – Anonymous

As this happy family travel quote suggests, you should embrace your inner child and adopt a sense of playfulness as you explore. After all, you’re never too old to be young at heart!

9. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

Travel and adventure aren’t always pretty (or clean!). In the end, though, it’s how happy you are that counts.

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

This lovely family travel bonding quote shows that we can find a sense of home, even when we’re somewhere abroad, just by being with the people we love.

Family Adventure Quotes

These adventures with family quotes should be just the inspiration you need to keep exploring the world with your family.

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

As this family vacation trip quote points out, vacations with children aren’t just fun family bonding time. They’re also a chance for kids to learn, grow, and experience new things.

12. “‘What’s your favorite place?’ ‘I don’t have a favorite place, I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.'” – Nivaz Ahmad

As the famous saying goes, home is where the heart is, so it’s no surprise that anywhere we find the people we love is a place we love too.

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

Sweet and simple, this family travel saying makes the perfect caption for your favorite family vacation photo.

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

This travel and family quote works for just about any traveler. Whether you’re young or old, travel is sure to be a learning experience.

15. “Together is our favorite place to be.” – Anonymous

As this quote for traveling with family expresses, exploring becomes so much better when you have the people you love by your side.

16. “Don’t wait to retire. Pack up your family, and go on adventures.” – Unknown

This quote about family trips reminds us to live in the present and travel now, while we can, instead of putting off adventures for later.

17. “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind.” – Lilo and Stitch

This family travel quote from the beloved Disney movie Lilo and Stitch expresses the loyalty and togetherness of being a family.

18. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip with your family.” – Fred Connors

Don’t put off your adventures until some unknown future date. Seize the moment and plan a trip with your family for sooner rather than later.

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

As this travelling with family quote reminds us, we learn best by experiencing things for ourselves. Travel is a way of giving your children knowledge about the world around them.

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

As this family travel bonding quote suggests, the memories you make on a family vacation will last forever, whether you capture them on film or simply hold them in your mind.

Funny Family Vacation Sayings

These funny family travel quotes will hopefully amuse you, make you laugh, and maybe even be a little relatable.

21. “I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben

As this funny family vacation quote points out, every parent traveling with kids gets a little fed up sometimes. Try to take a little time for yourself if you can!

22. “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.” – Dave Barry

The fact that memories of family vacations last forever can be both a good and bad thing. The best we can do is to try and make as many good memories as possible.

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

This tongue-in-cheek family adventure quote may not be true for all families. Hopefully, you’re one of the lucky parents that get to travel first-class with kids!

24. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

Spending all day, every day with your family can lead to lovely bonding moments but can also mean that people start to get on each other’s nerves. Hopefully, your next trip involves more bonding than getting annoyed!

25. “Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

While it’s wonderful to travel just about anywhere, this vacation quote with family is a good reminder to spend some time in nature too.

26. “You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.” – Unknown

As this quote about traveling with family suggests, things won’t go smoothly all the time, but we can still make the best of any chaos.

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

I love this quote for family trips because it reminds us that we all become children in a way when we travel.

28. “Parents don’t really go on vacation. They just take care of their kids in a different city.” – Unknown

As this family getaway quote points out, parenting doesn’t stop just because you’re in a new place. Ideally, though, you’ll still find at least a bit of time to relax and enjoy yourself.

29. “Are we there yet?”

Who hasn’t heard this famous question on a road trip or long journey? While it’s normal to get impatient, don’t forget to enjoy the little moments that make up your journey.

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

I think this family vacation memories quote captures exactly what it feels like to travel as a family .

Inspirational Family Trip Quotes

These lovely family vacation trip quotes will hopefully help motivate you to start planning your next big family adventure.

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

As this quote on family travel suggests, children are in awe of so many things that may simply seem natural or familiar to you. Whether you go far away or to the next town over, there will always be something new and exciting for kids to see.

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

The legendary Anthony Bourdain was a world-class traveler, and he left us with this great reminder that travel is an important way of making us better, more informed human beings.

33. “Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and shows them the way to go home.” – Seanan McGuire

This quote for vacations with family expresses the vastness of children’s imaginations. You don’t even have to leave home to have a wonderful adventure with your kids.

34. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis

This quote about travel and family reminds us that even if things go wrong while we’re traveling, we should still enjoy the perfect moments as they arise.

35. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

This wanderlust family travel quote is all about priorities. If you want your kids to travel and be curious, model that for them by taking them on adventures.

36. “If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end.” – Akiane Kramarik

This family travel quote is a good reminder to all of us that we should be curious, imaginative, and adventurous like children, especially when we travel.

37. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Unknown

As this quote about family vacation suggests, parents play a key role in shaping their children’s lives and personalities. If you love traveling, you’re probably fostering a little traveler-in-the-making.

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

This family travel saying expresses how much we can learn by seeing the world through our children’s eyes.

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

Good company makes everything better, which is why vacations with family can be so lovely.

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

This family road trip quote is as good a motivation as any to plan a family road trip. Not only will you see new places, but you’ll also hear others’ stories and make your own story in the process .

Family Travel Memories Quotes

Hopefully, your family vacation creates a ton of wonderful memories that you’ll cherish forever. These family travel memories quotes express just how powerful family travel memories can be.

41. “The best memories are those of people you love, the places you have seen together, and the experiences you have shared with one another.” – Anonymous

This family on vacation quote is a great reminder that people, places, and experiences all become linked through travel.

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

As this quote for family travel expresses, travel serves different purposes for people of different ages. For kids, it’s a way to learn, and for adults, it’s a way of increasing their wisdom.

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

While a camera can capture so many incredible travel moments, the best memories will always be in your head.

44. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

If you take anything away from these quotes about family vacations , hopefully, it’s that giving your kids new experiences and good memories is one of the best things you can do as a parent.

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

This family trip quote reminds us to keep our impact on the world minimal so that future generations can enjoy the same beauty we have.

46. “Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.” – Unknown

As this traveling with family quote suggests, worrying that your kids won’t remember a family vacation is no reason to stop you from traveling.

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

I love this family travel quote because I have so many good memories of my own family vacations. Hopefully, your kids will have years of good vacation memories too!

48. “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv

This family adventure quote shows that parents teach their children how to value and interact with the world around them.

49. “Children will not remember you for the vacation you provided, but for the way you made them feel during that vacation.” – Allen Richardson

This quote about vacation with family is a fantastic reminder that feelings are important. You could be in the most beautiful place in the world, but it’s the way people treat you that will make you love where you are or not.

50. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them. They will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

As this family holiday quote points out, spending time with your kids means so much to them. And what better way to spend time together than on a family vacation?

I hope you’ve enjoyed these quotes about family vacations as much as I enjoyed finding and sharing them with you! Whether they inspire you to plan a family road trip or just serve as great photo captions, be sure to save the family travel quotes you love the most. That way, you can return to them again and again, and maybe even share them with your family.

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40 Travel with Kids Quotes for Family Trips in 2024

I love family trip quotes for inspiration and, let's be honest, for Instagram captions! I organized these 40 family travel quotes into 3 categories: 1) Trips with Kids Quotes 2) Family Vacation Quotes and 3) Family Travel Quotes from Famous People . Happy exploring!

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Family Trip Quotes with Kids:

1) “Collect moments. Not things.” - Karen Salmansohn, Author

I am starting off with one of my favorite quotes as a parent and a traveler. I have this quote hanging in our kitchen as a reminder for our family of what really matters. Traveling with kids has its shares of challenges. Its good to have reminders and inspiration as the to why behind traveling with kids.

2) “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” - Lovelle Drachman

Curiosity is a precious thing to cultivate in kids! Adventuring and traveling can lead to a bigger world for your kids!

3) "Not all classrooms have four walls." - Anonymous

Any parent or educator or anyone who has spent any time with kids can attest to the truth of these words! Kids are innately curious about their surroundings so when their surrounding changes, they are bound to learn!

Love these Wood Flag Pins to add to your world traveling map!

4) "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

My natural inclination is to seek safety for my kids. But, many times it is the spontaneous adventures that are the most memory-making! One time we were visiting Amsterdam with two small kids. And instead of taking a tram or taxi back to our rental apartment, we chose to walk. The walk ended up taking 3 hours but during that time we got to experience the many rings of canals, markets, and street life that we would have missed!

Family Trip Quotes about Giving Your Kids The World

5) "Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning."  - Harvey Lloyd Photographer

This is one of my favorite parts of travel for my kids as well as myself! Each new experience leads to new insights and learnings. For instance, on a boat ride in Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands, we learned about the natural wildlife (monkeys and eagles!) but also about the people who call the Islands home from our incredible guide Mars. My then 3 year old might forget the epic islands. But will never forget Mars’ kindness and that mommy monkey holding her baby!

6) “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides, Ancient Greek playwright

Well if an Ancient Greek over 2,000 years ago said it, it must be true! Many teachers have found this travel quote to be true around the world.

7) “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings.”  - Hodding Carter, political author

A beautiful maxim that I’ve seen throughout my life. I moved nearly every year as a child but my mom always reminded us that 2 things remain the same, our family and God. I am so thankful for our experiences to travel as a kid as well as the roots of home, wherever in the world that may have been! These family travel quotes encourage me to follow in my mom's footsteps.

8) “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, author of The Adventured Star

Family travel is truly priceless!

Quotes about Stretching Your Horizon Through Family Trips

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

This follows the famous Mark Twain travel quote about being fatal to prejudice (in the next section). Such an important aspect to traveling with our kids is that their new experiences broaden not just their memories, but their viewpoints!

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

I love this family travel quote as a reminder to us as parents that part of our role is to encourage our children to grow and explore the world they live in.

11) "Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul." – Jamie Lyn Beatty

A caveat is that many jobs can and do fill your soul! But I think this is a great encouragement to prepare our children not just for their future vocation but for their future adventures!

12) “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” - Dolly Parton

Of course, we had to finish this section with a Dolly Parton quote! This may not usually be on lists of family travel quotes but I think it deserves to be! She walked the talk with her various educational programs impacting hundreds of thousands. Be sure to check out her Imagination Library program which sends free books monthly to children from birth to Kindergarten.  

13) "Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." - Charles Swindoll

14) "Memories made together last a lifetime." - Unknown

15) "We were together. I forget the rest." - Walt Whitman

16) "Deciding not to travel with kids because they won't remember, is like not reading them books becuase they won't remember the stories you read them." - Unknown

17) "Travel is the only thing that you buy that makes you richer." - Unknown

Maybe not the only thing but makes you richer for sure!

Family Vacation Quotes:

18) “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” - Ibn Battuta, 14th century Explorer

Maybe this is my favorite travel quote right here in the middle of the stack?! The wonder of travel and the stories that come from traveling to different lands cannot be overstated.  

19) “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

This is one of my favorite family travel quotes because it gets to the heart of the impact of travel on one’s outlook on the world. For our kids, showing them the world is not just about a fancy vacation, but a broadening of their minds. We found this to be true when traveling and living in Taiwan. As a white mom raising biracial children, I assumed too much and learned more of the nuances each day.

One tiny example of my changed understanding was comments from “aunties” in our apartment building. At the beginning, I thought these well-meaning older women were being busybodies to comment if my toddler was wearing enough clothes for the weather etc. I learned though that they really saw us as part of their community and wanted to show their concern in these comments. I got so used to this that when we moved back to the States, I was slightly offended no one in the check-out aisle was commenting on if my kid had the right clothes on!

My Favorite Family Trip Quotes!

20) “To my mind, the greatest regard 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 author of many travel memoirs including one of my personal favorites, The Road to Little Dribbling

And this can be opened to local travel as well as dramatic international travel! I love the focus on not taking things for granted, truly a priceless takeaway from a family trip!

21) “What’s your favourite place?” “I don’t have a favourite place, I have my favourite people. And, whenever I’m with my favourite people, it becomes my favourite place.”  - Nivaz Ahemad in Late Night Tales

Family vacations are about the people you travel with much more than the places you go to. I love this quote that makes that emphasis clear!

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

This one might not be on a lot of family vacation quote lists but I have found it to be true! What we grow up thinking about a country is reflected in our first-hand knowledge and nothing can beat visiting in person!

23) "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

Trips and vacations may end but you (and your kids!) will always have the memories to remember and enjoy! Family travel quotes are so encouraging to me because they help me to see the many ways travel impacts our lives.

Unknown Author Travelling Quotes:

24) “Wanderlust: a strong desire to wander or travel and explore the world.” – Wikipedia definition

Doesn’t get much clearer than that! Wanderlust may be overused as an Instagram hashtag but I will never get tired of exploring the world with my family.

25) "Having kids is reason to travel, not a reason to stop.” – Author Unknown

This gets to the heart of the “why” for family travel. We travel because we have kids not in spite of them!

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

My 7 year old just came in and picked this as her favorite quote of the bunch! Sometimes the simplest is the best!

27) “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain (seen attributed to him or Anonymous)

Oftentimes, I’ve said to myself or others that I need a family vacation or I deserve one. This is one of the family travel quotes that flips that over and says travel is part of our living!

Family Trip Quotes about Travel Expanding Your Mind

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

What an important thing for our kids to understand. Their place and space in this world as they grow up!

29) "Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." - Roy S. Goodman

I probably need this reminder on my living room walls! Focusing on contentment in the present is so important for travel and the rest of life!

Family Travel Quotes from Famous People

30) “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca, 1st century philosopher

Don’t mess with Seneca on pithy to the point quotes! I think this is one of the great family travel quotes because it gets to the heart of a well rounded childhood.

31) “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” - Muhammad Ali

This could be a life quote in addition to family travel quotes! In other words, even during the harder parts of travel (jet lag, I’m looking at you!), we can focus on the parts that will be lasting for our children.

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

This may be the only family trip quote that I would disagree with. I think for both kids and adults, travel is both an education and an experience! (But hey, I’m no 16th-century philosopher!)

33) "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, former prime minister of India

It is truly a wonderful world whether across the ocean or in our own neighborhood backyard. We can teach our kids to appreciate everything with wonder and curiosity!

Wise Words from Terry Pratchett

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, A Hat Full of Sky

This is another variation of the Bill Bryson quote. Like the previous one, traveling with kids helps them to see the world but also changes their view of their home too!

35) “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” -  Robert Frost, Poet

Yes, this is one of the most famous American poems, but for good reason! It evokes the wondrous spirit of being spontaneous. Family travel quotes can help encourage us to see travel as not just in the exotic trips but also in our everyday life.

Travel Quotes from Philosophers

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

I didn’t know whether to include this one in the family travel quote list because it sounds a little judgmental. I understand the ability to travel is a luxury. Especially if someone lives in a country that doesn’t allow movement, doesn’t have documentation or financial resources. I don’t think travel is the only way to expand your mind. Education and reading and an open spirit to learning from all can as well.

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

Travel doesn’t have to be a huge expedition. It can simply offer a new perspective on a walk in your neighborhood.

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

Can’t add much to this encouragement to see the beauty around us.

And now I leave you with 3 final travel with kids quotes:

39) “Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings

Perhaps the most Instagrammed quote and the one with the most Etsy prints! I couldn’t not include this quote.

40) “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

I cannot add anything better to this Mark Twain quote. If I could, I would tattoo this to my arm! (little long and I don’t like permanent things lol!)

41) "Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion." – Leigh Hunt, English 18thcentury poet

This is the newest family travel quote I added to my collection, and one of the most poignant. It brings together our love for our families and our love of travel!

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75+ Inspirational Travel with Family Quotes to Ignite your Family’s Wanderlust

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Are you looking for some family travel inspiration? These family travel quotes are the perfect pick me up for those hard days. I love collecting travel inspirational quotes, and my house is filled with little sayings that make me smile and fuel my wanderlust. These quotes about traveling with family lift me up every time I see them! Do you have any favorite travel inspirational quotes? Drop me a line in the comments below with your favorite inspirational quotes about traveling and I’ll include them in this list!

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I hope you enjoy these travel with family quotes and sayings – if you’re inspired by these travel with kids quotes make sure to put them to good use! One of the best ways to remember your family trip and celebrate your family journey is with a photobook. We create a photo book after every trip with our family. It’s so nice to have memories of our family vacations together that we can look back on forever. We use these wanderlust quotes to inspire our family trip captions. Our favorite company to create high quality photobooks is Mixbook, we love their stuff!

Travel With Family Quotes and Travel Inspiration

Family vacation quotes.

1.  ‘Let’s wander where the WiFi is weak’

2. ‘It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you’

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

4. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien [ pillow ]

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

6. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day” – A.A. Milne

7.  “Oh, the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

8.  “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

9. “In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children. ” — Robert Benchley

10. ‘To travel is to live’

Quotes about adventure and travel

11. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty [ travel bullet journal ]

12. “Life is better barefoot”

13.  “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen

14. “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

15.  “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” [ sign ]

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

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

18.  Adventure Awaits [ Wall Decal ]

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

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

Family Adventure Quotes

21. “As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen.” – Winnie the Pooh [ poster ]

22. “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

23.  “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama [ wall art ]

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

25.  “Always take the scenic route”

26.  “Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Batutta

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

28. “No road is long with good company” [ luggage tag ]

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

30.  “You weren’t born to just pay bills and die”

Quotes about family travel

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

32. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way” – Dave Willis

33. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page” – Saint Augustine [ travel journal ]

34.  “When in doubt, travel”

35.  “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone”

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

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

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

39. “Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children” – Charles R. Swindoll

40. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff” [ mug ]

Traveling together quotes

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

42. “I can always make more money; I cannot make more time”

43. “Time is precious. Waste it wisely.”

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

45. “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living”

46. “Life is better in flip flops” [ t-shirt ]

47.  “Let’s go on a trip, somewhere far away, with nothing but good people and happy thoughts”

48. “Travel is my therapy”

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

Vacation with family quotes

50. “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show”

52. “I need vitamin sea”

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

53. “Having kids is a reason to travel. Never a reason to stop”

54.  “Just go”

55. “Happiness comes in waves”

56. “Wander often, wonder always”

57. “Not all who wander are lost”

58. “Say yes to new adventures” [ journal ]

59. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling” – Shanti

Family that travels together quotes

60. “Memories made together last a lifetime”

61. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion”

62. “Let’s find some place beautiful to get lost”

63. “Veni. Vidi. Amavi” (We came. We saw. We loved)

64. “Take me to the mountains” [ vinyl decal ]

65. “It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting”

66. “Life is short and the world is wide”

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

68. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old”

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

Travel Quotes for Kids

70. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try”

71. “Don’t live the same year 75 time and call it a life” – Robin Sharma

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

73. “Life is a journey and only you hold the map” [ decal ]

74. “Wanderlust: A strong desire or urge to wander or travel and explore the world” [ phone case ]

75. Not all classrooms have four walls

Bonus! 25 more family travel quotes to ignite your wanderlust!

76. ‘ The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step’ – Lao Tzu [ mug ]

77. ‘This heart of mine was meant to travel the world” [ Phone Case ]

78. “ Travel As Much As You Can As Far As You Can As Often As You Can Life Is Not Meant To Be Lived In One Place” [ decal ]

79. Eat well. Travel often.  [ pillow ]

Captions for family trips

80. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television”

81.  Fernweh: a Crave for Travel; Being Homesick for a Place You’ve Never Been. [ decal ]

83. “Smell the sea and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly” [ toiletry bag ]

84. “Let’s get lost” [ mug ]

85. “Life is meant for spectacular adventures. Let your feet wander, your eyes marvel and your soul ignite.”

86. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings” [ poster ]

87. “Design a life that you are inspired to live” – Annette White

88. “Once the travel bug bites there is no antidote. And I know that I will be happily infected until the end of my life” – Michael Palin

89. “Live for the moments you can’t put into words”

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

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

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

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

94. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excited a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson

95. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

96. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory”

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

98. “I’m not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world”

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

100. “There are seven days in a week, some day isn’t one of them”

What is your favorite travel quote? Drop me a line in the comments with more quotes about travel with family ideas and I will be sure to add them to this list.

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Family Travel Quotes for You and Your Loved Ones

When I was little, my parents would take me on adventures around the world. And while I may not remember every single trip, it’s always a delight to look back on old pictures.

Whether you need ideas for your scrapbook collection, or you need some convincing for your next vacay, these traveling with family quotes are sure to spark wanderlust.

Best Travel with Family Quotes

• Family vacation is one of the best things in life!
• Nothing beats spending time with the people you love most in the world!
• Seeing your kids smile makes all the stress and planning worth it.
• Spending quality time with your family is priceless.
• Home is not a place, it is wherever your family is.
• Family trips are simple, crazy, stressful, fun, and totally worth it.
• A weekend away with my family is just what I need right now.
• Grateful for this chance to travel with my family.
• Our family getaways are always filled with good food and lots of laughter.
• Living my best life with my family by my side.  
• This family trip is my new favorite memory.
• Making memories with you is my favorite thing to do. 

Short Travel Quotes with Family

• Vacation time is family time.
• We’re out of the house and having fun!
• Always say yes to family travel.
• We’re off on a family trip!
• Having a blast with my family!
• Best. Family. Trip. Ever.
• Dreaming of my next family vacation.
• Family vacation goals!
• Time to go on a family vacation!
• Give your kids memories, not things. 
• Families that travel together stay together.
• Family vacations are always a good idea.
• Family bonding time!
• Let’s make some memories!
• Vacation mode activated.
• We’re off to explore the world!

Cute Family Travel Quotes for Instagram

• Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.
• “What’s your favorite place?” I don’t have a favorite place. I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.
• Instead of sitting at home on our phones, we were out making priceless memories.
• Living life to the fullest right now and I could not be happier.
• Life is meant to be enjoyed alongside your family.
• “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie the Pooh.
• Living in the moment and enjoying this family vacation.
• “Any day spent with you is my favorite day” – A.A. Milne.
• The most beautiful things in life are not things. They are people, places, memories, and pictures. They are feelings and moments, smiles and laughter.
• I live to explore the world with the people I love the most.

Family Beach Vacation Quotes

• Paradise consists of a warm beach and my family.
• The best family getaway is a trip to the beach!
• Nothing beats relaxing on the beach with my family next to me.
• Life is better barefoot with your family hand in hand.
• My toes in the sand, the sun on my face, and my family by my side. This is paradise.

Family Weekend Getaway Quotes

• Weekend getaway with the family is always a good idea.  
• There’s nothing like a weekend getaway with your favorite people in the world.  
• Can’t wait to have fun with my awesome family this weekend!
• It’s so important to make time for your family, even when it’s just a quick weekend getaway.
• All set for a weekend getaway with my family!
• I’m so happy to be here with my family this weekend!
• Family + adventure = the best kind of weekend!
• Weekend getaway is all about family bonding.
• Nothing like a fun family weekend getaway!
• It’s time to go on a weekend getaway with my family!

More Classic Family Travel Quotes

• “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali.
• “Happiness is only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer.
• “Home is people. Not a place.” – Robin Hobb.
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle.  
• “Oh, the places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss.

Family Adventure Quotes

• This weekend, we’re going on a family adventure!
• Let’s go get lost!
• The best thing you can give your family is a lifetime of adventures.
• Teach your kids the importance of going on adventures by doing it with them.
• Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.
• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart.
• Today is a good day for a family adventure.
• Adventures are the best ways to learn.
• Going on an adventure is only considered an adventure if your family is involved. 
• We are a family of adventurers.
• We are going on a little adventure.
• It’s time to go on a family adventure!
• What can I say, we love our little family adventures.
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller.
• Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to kids.
• Life was made for good family and great adventures.
• “Blessed are the curious as they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman.
• No Wi-Fi out here, but I found a better connection.

Family Road Trip Quotes

• We’re about to hit the road for a weekend getaway!
• “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld.
• No road is long with good company.
• “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip with your family.” – Fred Connors.
• Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.

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Funny Family Vacation Instagram Captions

• My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.
• “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley.

Other Quotes About Travel and Family

• You won’t regret going on that family trip. But you will regret not going.
• If you want your family to love each other more, go on a family trip.
• Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.
• A vacation with my family is always the best way to spend my time!
• In order to have a successful trip, you only need your family. The rest is minor details.
• Not all classrooms have four walls.
• Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.
• Nothing shows your love more to your kids than spending time with them.
• Forget the stress of the vacation, just soak up all the memories together.
• Family trips will not be perfect. There will be bumps along the way. But the memories you make are unlike anything else. 
• Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.
• You won’t look back and wish you worked more. Go on that family trip.

• Nothing grows our family bond stronger than these family vacations.
• We ate delicious food, laughed till we cried, explored new places, and tried new things. We enjoyed this family trip to its fullest.
• You can’t buy happiness, but this sure did come close.
• I’ll keep these memories in my heart until our next family trip.
• My favorite family selfie out of this entire trip.
• If only we could stay like this forever.

Famous Quotes About Traveling with Family

• “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.
• “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson.
• “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain.
• “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv.
• “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt.
• “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis.
• “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Marty Rubin.
• “Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll.
• “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd.
• “Children will not remember you for the vacation you provided, but for the way you made them feel during that vacation.” – Allen Richardson.
• “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti.
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino.
• “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” – Mehmet Murat İldan.
• “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams.

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Traveling with babies and children is an epic adventure filled with laughter, fun, new experiences and memories that last a lifetime. As we planned our first international trip with baby J we sought inspiration and motivation from our favourite family travel quotes: from bravery inducing adventure travel quotes to wonderful wanderlust quotes, we hope that our collection of the best family travel quotes will inspire you on your travels and encourage your wandering soul!

The 30 best family travel quotes to inspire your adventures!

If you love these family travel quotes feel free to pin and share them for inspiration!

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

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

3 | “ Oh the places you’ll go” –  Dr. Seuss

4 |  “What child has not travelled by spinning the globe” – Anon

5 |  “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

6 |  “Not all classrooms have 4 walls” – Anon

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

8 |  “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it” – Peter Pan J.M. Barrie

9 |  “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow”  – Anita Desai

10 |  “Kid, you’ll move mountains” – Dr. Seuss

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

12 |  “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children” – Charles R Swindoll

13 |  “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

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

15 | “ To travel is to live”  – Hans Christian Anderson

16 |  “Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be.” – Danielle Laporte

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

18 |  “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary

19 |  “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle

20 |  “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

21 |  “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” –  Dr. Seuss

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

23 |  “I do believe it’s time for another adventure.” –  Unknown

24 |  “Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand” –  Karl Schmidt

27 |  “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” – Dr. Seuss

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

26 |  “Where you lead, I will follow.” –  Carole King

28 | “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” –  Bob Talbert.

29 |  “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories” –  Og Mandino

30 |  “ Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” – Aristotle

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“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” This one is my favourite Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

Thanks Steve, love the quote!

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25 Inspiring Travel With Kids Quotes For Families

Looking for inspirational travel with kids’ quotes? I have put together 25 of my favorite family vacation quotes below, and I hope they inspire you as much as they inspire me!

As working parents, we prioritize spending our free time adventuring with kids to create a strong family bond and memories.

Having kids inspired us to travel more with them and learn together as much as possible about the planet we live on. For example, exploring the beauty of Grindelwald and the underwater world of Turks and Caicos through little eyes was much more meaningful and joyful than the trips we took without kids.

I do not claim that traveling with kids is easy. But with a positive mind, the right resources, and some practical tips for flying with your little one , you and your children will create memories and experiences that will last forever.

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Travel With Kids Quotes

1. ” There are no seven wonders of the World in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff.

This quote can go to the top of the list because it highlights the feelings I experience when looking into my son’s eyes when exploring something for the first time, whether it is a new toy, plant, or a real-life airplane.

The excitement in his eyes completely changed my mindset about traveling with kids. We aim to bring out the curiosity and excitement in our children’s eyes through exploring and adventures as much as possible.

Exploring does not always mean traveling with your passport. Simple road trips and getaways close to your house are as meaningful.

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

This picture was taken in a Swiss Gondola while visiting The First Mountain in Grindelwald. Our 3-year-old son may not have understood our daily excursions, but he was undoubtedly excited about riding the gondolas and trains, and that was enough for us to feel joy.

3. “Not all classrooms have four walls.” – Anonymous While I am not against school education, they spend too much time inside classrooms and so little outdoors. Kids are much better off learning more about our world, different cultures, and a little bit of everything through real-life experiences combined with classroom education.

4. “Each day of our lives we make the deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll

5. ” Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself.” – Richie Norton

6. ” Kids don’t remember their best day of television” – Unknown

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

8. “Nature is the tool to get Children to experience not a wide world but themselves” – Stephen Moss

9. “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the Moon” – Paul Brandt

10. “Collect moments not things” – Karen Salmahson

11. “It is never too early to start exploring the world” – Unknown

12. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, hair messy, and eyes were sparkling.” – Shanti

13. ” Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”  – Dr. Seuss

14. ” The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

15. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

16. “In the end, kids won’t remember the fancy toy you bought them; they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

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

Family Travel Quotes

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

It’s one of my absolute favorite family quotes. If you are a working parent, you know how much time we spend away from our children.

We all need help with daily schedules and responsibilities to ensure enough time for family gatherings and playtimes. Day trips, weekend getaways, and longer destinations are crucial for reconnecting with each other.

19. ” Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Penny Whitehouse

20. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

Traveling with kids will undoubtedly test your patience at some point. You may have already had a moment when you wanted to give up trying to make it a perfect holiday.

We could not believe it was so challenging when we first went on a small road trip within the first year of my son’s life. But guess what? It gets better. One trip after another, we learned to be more patient, accommodate each other, and learn how to enjoy the journey still.

No trip is the same, but we lowered the expectations, which made the traveling so much better!

21. ” Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

22. “Travel is not a reward for working. It is education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

23. “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd

24. “Deciding not to travel with your children because they won’t remember the trips you take is like saying don’t read them books because they won’t remember the stories you read.” – Unknown 25. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous.

Is it worth traveling with kids?

Speaking for my family, traveling with kids is worth it. For working parents like us who have limited vacation days, we use most of the time as a family to create the best memories.

You may ask, but will they remember any of it, or is it a waste? Maybe they will, perhaps they won’t. However, the point is to create shared experiences and learn throughout the travels as a family.

There are so many benefits of traveling with children. As Nicola has summarized in her article Benefits of travel for kids, you can expect your children to become more adaptable, patient, diverse, responsible, and more.

In conclusion, these quotes encapsulate the adventure, challenges, and priceless family travel experiences, highlighting the lifelong memories and lessons children and adults gain.

Here are some of the Key Takeaways that I believe are true when traveling with kids:

• Shared travel experiences can strengthen the bonds between family members, creating deeper connections through shared adventures and challenges.
• Both children and adults can experience significant personal growth while traveling, gaining confidence, independence, and a sense of adventure.
• Exposure to different cultures and ways of life during travel helps children develop a greater appreciation for diversity and understand their place in the world.
• Traveling with kids is an invaluable educational experience, offering lessons far beyond the classroom walls. It opens young minds to new cultures, languages, and histories.

What are your favorite travel quotes with kids?

There you have it, my top inspirational travel with kids quotes. I had so much fun finding them and sorting them out for you. I am currently thinking about our next family vacation to fuel our wanderlust. Save your favorite quotes to inspire you next time you plan your family trip.

Read More: Tips for Traveling With a Toddler

Mariam is a full-time working mom based in New Jersey who loves adventuring outside office hours with her husband and two little boys. She started this family travel blog to share family-friendly travel guides, itineraries, and tips to help busy families with kids keep exploring outside their 9-5.

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155 Fantastic Family Travel Quotes For Your Family Trip Inspiration

If you are looking for fantastic family travel quotes , you have come to the right place as I love collecting beautiful quotes, among many other things.

I enjoy travelling solo , which I have been doing most of the time, but family trips are still a big part of my life.

If you are planning a trip with your loved ones and you are looking for cute quotes about travel with family or a caption for family trips, I have collected around 150+ family getaway quotes for you. 

These quotes about traveling with family will not only inspire your trip but will also think and influence your future family trips.

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Best Family Travel Quotes

Here are some of the most beautiful quotes about traveling with family that describe what it means to travel with your loved ones.

These family travel quotes will leave you in awe, and nodding your head in agreement!

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

I think the above is one of the best travel quotes with family, that perfectly describes the emotions of how enriching our trips can be when we travelled with our loved ones.

They could be friends or family or your partner – The joy of traveling with some you care and love is absolute bliss.

‘There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.’ – Dave Willis.

‘Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.’ – Unknown

‘Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember, is like not reading the books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.’ – Unknown

There is no better analogy that can be given apart from these family travel quotes above.

Many people think that travelling with kids when they are too young is not a good idea as they don’t remember anything. 

While it is true that they might not remember if they are out on the roads at a very young age – the experiences they are going to accumulate.

The foreign cultures, food, all kinds of adventure activities, traditions, and experiences like hiking amidst beautiful national parks, climbing mountains, camping, and watersports will not make them happy but will expose them to the world and enhances their maturity and wisdom beyond our comprehension.

The family travel quote below perfectly describes the thoughts further.

‘In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.’ – Kevin Heath.

You may have to keep buying new toys as they grow bored of the ones, which they will not even remember – How about planning family trips with them instead?

‘The best things you can give your family is a lifetime of adventures.’ – Unknown

One of the beautiful family adventure quotes which elucidate how there is no better gift than adventures

‘Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.’ – Lewis Carroll .

‘The best things in life are the people you love, the places you have seen, and the memories you have made along the way.’ – Unknown

‘Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves’ – Stephen Moss

‘Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.’ – Hodding Carter

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

‘When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away – experience, exposure and a way of life.’ – Pamela T. Chandler

‘We should live every day like it is a holiday, being thankful and spending time with family, and looking hopefully to the future.’ – Unknown

Short Travel Quotes

Below are some of the short quotes on family, and also some family holidays quote that you can relate to!

Share these holiday with family quotes as perfect captions for your trip pictures.

‘Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.’ – J.K.Rowling

‘The best way to get a child outside is to go with them.’ – Unknown

‘Life was made for good family and great adventures.’ – Unknown

‘Family vacations are always a good idea.’ – Unknown

‘When we have each other we have everything.’ – Unknown

‘Time is precious. Waste it wisely.’ – Unknown

‘The only trip you will regret is the one you didn’t take.’ – Unknown

‘Time waits for no one. Take your family for travel adventures.’- Unknown

‘May your adventures bring you closer together.’ – Unknown

‘Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers but by moments.’ – Unknown

‘You are my home and my adventure all at once.’ – Unknown

‘Not All Classrooms Have Four Walls.’ – Unknown

‘No road is long with good company.’ – Unknown

‘It Is Never Too Early To Begin Exploring The World.’ – Unknown

‘A Family That Travels Together Stays Together.’ – Unknown

‘Traveling Is Learning.’ – Kiyuyu Wisdom

‘Memories made together lasts a lifetime.’ – Unknown

‘What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.’ – Unknown

‘It’s a wondrous thing how the wild calms the child.’ – Unknown

‘My ideal travel companions are my family.’ – Pharrell Williams

‘Home is people. Not a place.’ – Robin Hobb

‘Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.’ – W.E.B. DuBois

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

‘Then I Realized Adventures Are The Best Way To Learn.’ – Unknown

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

‘The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Make voyages! Attempt them. There’s nothing else.’ – Tennesee Williams

‘The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.’ – Carl Jung

‘Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.’ – Unknown

‘Little by little, one travels far.’ – Mexican proverb

‘Kids don’t remember their best day of television.’ – Unknown

‘Kid, you’ll move mountains.’ – Dr Seuss

‘The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.’ – Og Mandino

Long Family Vacation quotes

These inspiring traveling with family quotes gives us insights on all the aspects of how travelling with your family is one of the best things to do in life. Some of these are deep and thoughtful and while others make you think and reflect on many things, not just by travelling.

“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

‘If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.’ – Rachel Carson

‘The most beautiful things in life are not things. They are people, places, memories, and pictures. They are feelings and moments, smiles and laughter.’ – Unknown

‘We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.’ – Richard Louv

‘Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.’ – Unknown

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‘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

‘And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel. It provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.’ – Dave Berry

‘At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.’ – Barbara Bush

‘Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.’ – John Muir

‘I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.’ – JoyBell C.

‘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

‘Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and show them the way to go home.’ – Seanan McGuire

More about family quotes in this section for you.

‘The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.’-Pearl S. Buck

‘If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.’ – Akiane Kramarik

‘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

“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

These are beautiful trip with family quotes that share the emotions about how these journeys can deepen the bond and educate the kids at the same time.

‘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

‘I have wandered all my life, and I have also travelled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.’ – Hilaire Belloc

Listen to the must not, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the wont’s. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.’ – Shel Silverstein.

‘Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.’– Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

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

‘Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.’ – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn .

‘We finally move into our destiny when we understand that we are to live in and as adventurous play. Perhaps the whole natural world is a party, a festival, and we, the long-awaited champagne.’ – Brian Swimme

Funny Quotes About Travelling With Family

All the best experiences aside, it is not an easy feat to travel with kids. You need to plan various things well in advance with minimum chances for spontaneous travel.

With tantrum-throwing toddlers or stubborn adolescents, you need tons of patience and the ability to get going without throwing towels, but travelling as a family is another level adventure, right?

The best way to enjoy family trips is to take things on a light note and be open to having fun in your crazy terms.

Here are some of the fun vacation quotes and quotes about family fun!

Use these funny quotes about a family in your captions and laugh with your loved ones.

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

‘There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children.’– Robert Benchley

‘Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.’ – George Burns

‘Summer vacations are a time when parents realise that teachers are grossly underpaid.’ – Unknown

‘You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘Family – a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.’ – Unknown

‘When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.’ – Helen Hayes

‘You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.’ – Unknown

The list below includes some amazing family trip quotes which are hilarious too.

Don’t laugh alone, share these funny family travel quotes with everyone.

‘Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?’ – Rick Riordan

‘I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.’ – Robert Orben

‘My family is temperamental – half temper, half mental.’ – Unknown

‘Parent’s don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while.’ – Unknown

‘A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.’ – Tom Lichtenheld

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‘If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the aeons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.’ – Rick Riordan

‘Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is suspicious.’ – Unknown

‘Passports, pineapples, and vacation with my people.’ – Unknown

Best Adventure Travel Quotes With Your Loved Ones

Here are some of children adventure quotes that will inspire you to go on explorations with them!

These are exclusive travel quotes for families with young children. 

If you are having second thoughts, these family vacations quotes will surely prep you up a little.

If you are one of those globetrotters that are on the road exploring the planet with your kids, you can definitely relate to these beautiful quotes on world travel with kids.

‘In fairy tales, it’s always the children who have fine adventures.’ – Audrey Niffenegger

‘Don’t wait to retire, pack up your family and go on adventures.’ – Unknown

‘My idea of dealing with stress is to book flight tickets for a family getaway.’ – Unknown

‘I hope my children grow up to be ‘look at the moon!’ type of people.’ – Unknown

‘Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.’ – Unknown

‘On a journey with your child, take every moment to enjoy the ride.’ – Unknown

These are some of the best quotes on holidays with family to inspire you.

‘Like anything else in my life, you and the family need to unplug every once in a while. Go. Travel. Enjoy one another.’ – Unknown

‘It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.’ – Unknown

‘There is no WiFi in the forest but you will find a better connection.’ – Unknown

‘We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.’ –Chief Seattle

‘You will never look back in your life and think, I spent too much time with my kids.’ – Kimberly Mcleod

‘The safest place for a child is at the top of a five-foot tree.’ – Unknown

‘Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.’ – Unknown

‘For the holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparent’s yard.’ – Unknown

‘No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.’ – Unknown

‘Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.’ – Unknown

‘When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live.’ – Thomas Berry

‘To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.’ – Barbara Johnson

‘The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.’ – Unknown

‘There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.’ – Walt Streightiff

‘Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.’ – Jennifer Donnely

‘The gift of play is that it invites us to create without attachment, explore without a destination, and enjoy without complexity.’ – Vince Goemon

‘You don’t have to go far from home with your kids. Spend some time with them because they see things in amazing new ways.’ – Unknown

Best Travel With Kids Quotes

As a kid, I remember how eager and enthusiastic I would be for our family getaways.

From planning to packing to enjoying the journey to photographs, there were many too many things to be excited about!

I am grateful that we could regularly go on family trips, sometimes near and many times to faraway places – I owe my love for travel to these trips, which introduced me to the beautiful world.

The kids might feel the same way, and you might be glad that you could watch them grow, spend time with them by taking them to places and wonderful experiences.

The below travel with family quotes beautifully explain these things.

‘If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.’ – Nicolette Sowder

‘What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth?’ – Theodore Roszak

‘If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.’ – Abigail Van Buren

‘Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise.’ – Andy Stanley

‘What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.’ – Mother Teresa

‘That’s why I love family road trips. It is like doing something without actually doing something.’ – Unknown

‘Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Sandy.’ – Unknown

Beautiful CAptions about Travel with Kids

If there is one thing that travellers are aware of, it is that travel is the greatest teacher.

And taking family trips and vacations is the best way to teach children everything.

Whether it is about the destinations, culture, people, mountains , or beaches , kids observe, grasp, and learn things much quicker. 

Travel with kids will also prepare them for adult life – from simple things like learning the directions or planning trips or adventure.

The family travel quotes are some of the best words out there.

Here are some of the deepest and insightful travel family quotes and family trips quotes.

‘Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.’ – Margaret Mead

‘The earlier and the more often children are exposed to nature, the happier, healthier, and brighter they become.’ – Unknown

‘Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.’ – Thomas Berry

‘Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.’ – Harvey Lloyd

‘While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.’ – Angela Schwindt

‘Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is children’s best teacher.’ – Unknown

‘Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.’ – –  Aristotle

‘The best education you will ever get is travelling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.’ – Mark Paterson

‘The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.’ – Agnes Reppler

The below family travel quotes emphasise how trips teaches kids more than we can imagine.

‘Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.’ -Francis Bacon, Sr.

‘Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best’ – Bob Talbert.

‘Travel Is Not Reward For Working, It’s Education For Living. – Anthony Bourdain

‘Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.’ – Rick Steves

‘A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature.’ – Maria Montessori

‘If you can repair a child, you don’t have to spend years repairing an adult.’ – Unknown

Awesome Captions

Here are some more quotes about vacation, especially quotes about family vacations that emphasize the value of travelling and its beauty.

These beautiful family travel quotes perfect capture the emotions of travelling together – the ups and downs, what it teaches kids, and much more.

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

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

‘Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.’ – Pierce Brown

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

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

Ending this list with another set of quotes about families traveling. Whether you want some inspiration or you want captions, these

‘Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.’ – Frank Bowman

‘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

‘There’s dirt on my shirt And leaves in my hair There’s mud on my boots But I don’t really care.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.’ – Unknown

‘It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.’ – Unknown

‘And at the end of the day your feet should be dirty your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.’ – Shanti

‘The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.’ – Natalie Kocsis

‘And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.’ – Louis Armstrong

‘Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.’ – Euripides

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

‘There Is No Time To Be Bored In A World As Beautiful As This.’ – Unknown

‘You lose sight of things, and when you travel, everything balances out.’- Deanna Gidel

‘Fill Your Life With Experiences, Not Things. Have Stories To Tell, Not Stuff To Show.’ 

‘To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.’ – Daphne Sheldrick

‘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.

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

So that’s all about wonderful quotes about family trips for you. I am sure these inspiring quotes about family trip will entice you to plan your next vacation.

Don’t hesitate to use these captions for trips with family on your Instagram or Facebook. 

Don’t forget to share these epic family travel quotes with your loved ones of course. Use these as family trip quotes for Facebook or family trip quotes for Instagram.

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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

• famous travel quotes.

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

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

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

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

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

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

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

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

• Funny Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Short Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

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

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

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

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

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

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

• Misc Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Travel With Friends Quotes

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

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

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

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Solo Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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130 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

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

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

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100+ Inspirational Travel Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. The journey is my home – Unknown

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

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

35. Great things never came from comfort zones – Anonymous

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

38. Don’t quite your day dream – Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Same here! Glad you enjoy them!

I love these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

This is so inspirational! Love it!

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

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

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

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

Thanks for including that one on this ultimate list!

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

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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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“A mother is the truest friend we have.”

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“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”

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“The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.”

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“My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.”

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Jon Bon Jovi ’s son Jesse Bongiovi has seemingly married longtime girlfriend Jesse Light .

Bongiovi, 29, and Light, 30, obtained a marriage license in Clark County, Nevada on Tuesday, May 7, Us Weekly can confirm. The couple tied the knot at the same Las Vegas chapel where Bongiovi’s parents, Jon and Dorothea Hurley , eloped in 1989, People reported the following day.

Light, who is an executive producer on reality TV shows including Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise and Southern Hospitality , previously shared photos from her Bachelorette Party.

“Can I hear a little commotion for the dress?” she captioned April Instagram snaps of herself posing and dancing on a table in a little white bedazzled dress and sheer veil.

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Bongiovi and Light announced their engagement in August 2022.

“⚠️Time to BeReal⚠️,” Bongiovi jokingly wrote via Instagram at the time alongside photos of the pair kissing during the proposal. He set the scene with bouquets, flower petals and candles at the outdoor locale.

Bongiovi, who cofounded the wine company Hampton Water with his dad, previously showed his support for one of Light’s career wins. In a January Instagram photo dump he included a snap of himself wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Light’s appearance on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list.

The twosome’s wedding comes ahead of Jesse’s brother Jake Bongiovi ’s nuptials to fiancée Millie Bobby Brown . Jake, who turned 22 on Tuesday, and Brown, 20, announced their engagement in August 2023.

“I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, I want ’em all,” Brown captioned an Instagram photo of her diamond engagement ring at the time, quoting Taylor Swift ’s song “Lover.”

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Jon, 62, who shares Jesse, Jake, daughter Stephanie, 30, and son Romeo, 20, with Dorothea, 61, was asked whether he thought Jake was too young to get engaged during a May 2023 appearance on Andy Cohen ’s Sirius XM Show.

“I don’t know if age matters , you know, if you find the right partner and you grow together,” the musician answered. “I think that all my kids have found the people that they think they can grow together with and we like them all.”

Jon and Hurley know a thing about young love, as they are high school sweethearts. The Bon Jovi frontman has recently been candid about the mistakes he’s made in his marriage.

“I got away with murder. I’m a rock and roll star, I’m not a saint,” Jon recalled during an April 2024 interview with ABC News. “You know, I’m not saying that there weren’t 100 girls in my life – I’m Jon Bon Jovi. It was pretty good.”

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“There is no doubt in my mind that this world revolves because of her,” he said. “Because of what she did to keep the kids right, what she does to keep me right, what we do together to keep it right. No doubt about it.”

Later that month, Jon cited “mutual admiration” as the secret to his lasting marriage.

“You wake up in the morning excited to be with each other,” he said. “And you admire each other. And you respect each other. It’s a pleasure to do. It’s a pleasure to be.”

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Nationwide has been around close to 100 years after being founded in 1926. The Ohio-based company has many different products in the insurance and finance space, including coverage for trips. Nationwide Travel Insurance policies are available for single or multiple trips and can cover cruise trips too.

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Nationwide Travel Insurance offers many of the standard benefits you might see with a travel insurance policy. This can include things like trip cancellation coverage, so you can recover pre-paid costs or trip interruption in the event your vacation is interrupted by an unexpected event. There's also baggage delay coverage and medical coverage.

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Nationwide is one of the leading names in insurance across various areas of coverage including life, auto, and travel insurance. Nationwide's coverage is also as comprehensive as it is varied. It tops our list of the best travel insurance companies and best cruise travel insurance , also ranking among the best cheap travel insurance companies for the value it provides.

With single trip, multi trip, and cruise-specific policies along with an abundance of riders, there's a good chance Nationwide will have the coverage you're looking for.

That said, Nationwide lacks some of the niche coverage that other companies can provide. For example, Nationwide doesn't insure trips over 31-days long. Its annual travel insurance only applies to trips 30 days or under. Additionally, Nationwide lacks specific adventure sports coverage.

Ultimately, Nationwide is the company to beat. If you're shopping for something a little more specific, use Nationwide's quotes as your baseline as you search for something more tailored to your trip. 

Coverage Options from Nationwide

Nationwide offers many of the standard benefits you might see with a travel insurance policy. This can include things like trip cancellation coverage, so you can recover pre-paid costs or trip interruption in the event your vacation is interrupted by an unexpected event. There's also baggage delay coverage and medical coverage.

The travel insurance policies offered by Nationwide are available to consumers and are divided up by the type of trip: single trip, multiple trips, or cruise coverage.

Single-trip travel insurance policies

Nationwide offers two single-trip travel insurance policies: the Essential plan and the Prime plan.

As the name suggests, Nationwide Essential travel insurance covers the basics. It offers some protection should anything happen ahead of your trip or while you're on your trip.

The Prime plan takes your coverage to the next level, with higher coverage limits and the option to add on the coveted cancel for any reason (CFAR) coverage at an extra cost.

Both plans include trip cancellation or interruption coverage in the event of terrorism in your destination city, travel assistance from Nationwide at no additional charge, and refunds with a 10-day review period (except in Washington and New York). Note that for baggage and personal effects coverage, there is a $500 combined maximum limit for valuable items (see your policy's terms and conditions for details on what's considered valuable). It also covers damaged or lost sports equipment.

Here's how the two plans stack up in terms of coverage limits. For trip delay coverage, you'll be eligible for reimbursement for delays of six hours or more.

Annual and multi-trip travel insurance policies

If you're looking for travel insurance coverage for more than one trip and want to cover your partner and children, the Travel Pro Plan may be an affordable option. It's important to note that this policy only covers events after departure, not pre-departure events. This policy could be as low as $59 as of the time of writing.

The Travel Plus Plan is another multi-trip policy from Nationwide that has flexible term limits for trip interruption and cancellation coverage, up to $10,000. This covers the gaps from the Travel Pro Plan, which only covers post-departure events. So if you needed to cancel the trip due to a covered illness or other reason, this is the plan for you.

If you want to increase the level of benefits for your after departure coverage, the Travel Pro Deluxe Plan does just that. It builds on the Travel Pro Plan, hence the name, and includes higher coverage limits for just $20 more.

All plans include the same travel assistance from Nationwide that's included with the single-trip policies. Here's how the multiple-trip plans compare:

Cruise coverage

Nationwide offers three cruise travel insurance plans.

If you're going on a short cruise or going for the first time, the Universal Cruise Plan may be a good starting point if you want added protection and to recoup nonrefundable costs. Just make sure that you qualify based on your state, as cruise coverage isn't available in all states.

If you're going on a longer cruise and want added coverage to protect your trip, the Choice Cruise plan is an option to consider. And if you're looking for the most benefits and go on many cruises, the Luxury Cruise plan offers the most coverage options.

All three policies can be refunded with a 10-day review period, except in Washington and New York.

Here's a comparison of the coverage you'll get with Nationwide's three different cruise travel insurance policies:

Additional coverage options from Nationwide

Nationwide has a number of additional coverage options that can add more protection to your policy but also add to the cost as well. These include:

• Financial default coverage , in the event your travel supplier ends up in default or bankruptcy. This is available with the Essential and Prime single-trip policies.
• Pre-existing condition waiver, which may offer coverage for pre-existing illnesses or diseases if certain conditions are met. This is available with the Essential and Prime single-trip policies.
• Accidental death and dismemberment, which can have limits of $5,000, $10,000, $25,000 or $50,000 depending on the plan. This is available with the Essential and Prime single-trip policies.
• Accidental death for flights only, which can have limits of $100,000, $250,000, or $500,000. This is available with the Essential and Prime single-trip policies.
• Rental car collision or loss coverage, in the event something happens to your rental car, you can add on this coverage for up to $25,000 or $35,000 depending on the plan.This is available with the Essential and Prime single-trip policies (except in Texas or New York).
• Cancel for any reason (CFAR) , which must be added to a policy and is available through the single-trip Prime Plan, the Choice Cruise Plan, and the Luxury Cruise Plan.

Nationwide Travel Insurance Cost

The premium you pay will depend on various factors, including the age of the travelers, destination, and total trip costs. The  average cost of travel insurance  is 4% to 8% of your travel costs.

After inputting some personal information, such as your age and state of residence, along with your trip details, like travel dates, destination, and trip costs, you'll get an instant quote for Nationwide Insurance plans available for your trip. And from there, it's easy to compare each option based on your coverage needs and budget.

Now let's look at a few examples to estimate Nationwide coverage costs.

As of 2024, a 23-year-old from Illinois taking a week-long, $3,000 budget trip to Italy would have the following travel insurance quotes:

• Essential: $89.55
• Prime: $129.19

Premiums for Nationwide Insurance plans are between 3% and 4.3% of the trip's cost, well within the average cost of travel insurance.

Nationwide insurance provides the following quotes for a 30-year-old traveler from California heading to Japan for two weeks on a $4,000 trip:

• Essential: $113.01
• Prime: $160.47

Once again, premiums for Nationwide plans are between 2.8% and 4% of the trip's cost, within and below the expected range of travel insurance costs.

A Texas family consisting of two 40-year-old parents with a 10-year-old and 4-year-old on a two-week trip to Australia for $20,000:

• Essential: $571.62
• Prime: $801.94

Nationwide plans cost between 2.8% and 4% of the trip's cost, below and within the average cost of travel insurance. 

A 65-year-old couple looking to escape New Jersey for Mexico for two weeks with a trip cost of $6,000 would have the following quotes:

• Essential: $248.56
• Prime: $352.44

Premiums for Nationwide plans are between 4.1% and 5.9%, which is well the average cost for travel insurance. While its certainly more expensive than coverage for younger travelers, it's on the lower end of what travel insurance companies tend to quote for older travelers. 

Nationwide Annual Travel Insurance Cost

Quotes from Nationwide's annual travel insurance plans don't actually change based on age or state. You'll get a base quote of $69, which will vary based on how much trip cancellation coverage you'd like to purchase. Prices range from $155 to $729

You can also select a Pro Delux upgrade, which will cost an additional $20.

How to Purchase and Manage Your Nationwide Policy

To purchase a Nationwide travel insurance policy, you first need to obtain a quote from Nationwide's website. You should be prepared to provide the following:

• Destination
• Departure date
• Return date
• State of Residence
• Total trip cost
• Initial trip payment date

When you select a plan, be sure to also take a moment and scroll through the optional add-ons, such as rental car coverage. 

How to File a Claim with Nationwide

If you purchased travel insurance through Nationwide and need to file a claim, you can contact a Nationwide representative. You have seven days from the start of the issue that caused loss to notify Nationwide of your claim.

Claims through Nationwide are handled by Co-ordinated Benefit Plans, LLC. You can use its claims portal or call a representative, based on your type of policy.

Single trip policy phone number: 888-490-7606

Annual plan policy phone number: 866-281-1017

Cruise policy phone number : 866-281-0334

Rather reach out via email? You can contact Nationwide via [email protected] .

If you need to send documents via mail, the mailing address is:

Co-ordinated Benefit Plans, LLC

On Behalf of Nationwide Mutual Insurance

Company and Affiliated Companies

P.O. Box 26222 Tampa, FL 33623

Nationwide refrains from promising a specific response time frame. However, customers have reported waiting several weeks before hearing any updates.

Since Nationwide offers such a wide breadth of insurance types, it's difficult to separate its travel-specific customer reviews from reviews on its other products. It received an average of 1.16 stars out of five across over 340 reviews on its BBB page, though most customers are writing about experiences with Nationwide's auto and health insurance.

On SquareMouth, a travel insurance-specific aggregator, Nationwide has an average of 4.01 stars across 570 reviews. Reviewers reported unresponsive a claims team and long wait times. Additionally, while insurance companies often engage directly with customer reviews on SquareMouth, Nationwide doesn't respond to customer reviews.

Learn more about how Nationwide Travel Insurance compares against the competition. 

Nationwide Travel Insurance vs. Allianz Travel Insurance

Much like Nationwide, Allianz Travel Insurance insurance offers many different types of insurance coverage. While the company may be most well known for auto insurance, it offers travel insurance as well and has eight options. Allianz Travel Insurance, a major player in the travel insurance space, has 10 options listed.

Allianz Travel Insurance may offer higher coverage limits for the policies offered and have a streamlined process for filing a claim online. Where Nationwide wins out is the fact that you can add cancel for any reason (CFAR) for an added cost, whereas CFAR coverage isn't available when purchasing an online policy via Allianz Travel Insurance.

Read our Allianz Travel Insurance review here.

Nationwide Travel Insurance vs. John Hancock Travel Insurance

John Hancock Travel Insurance  is similar to Nationwide in that it provides a wide range of insurance offerings and financial services. One of those offerings is travel insurance. John Hancock travel insurance offers travel insurance through Bronze, Silver, and Gold policies.

When comparing policies, the budget option may be slightly more affordable with Nationwide. However, mid-tier and higher coverage options may be more affordable with John Hancock travel insurance. It depends on your policy, trip details, and age. One good thing is that you can add cancel for any reason (CFAR) coverage under all John Hancock travel insurance plan options.

Read our John Hancock Travel Insurance review here.

Nationwide vs. credit card travel coverage

Rewards credit cards come chock full of benefits for cardholders, some of which they might be unaware of. One such perk can be travel interruption or cancellation coverage as well as rental car coverage. Credit cards may have sufficient coverage for quick trips. However, if you want the peace of mind of having solid medical coverage or higher limits, going the traditional travel insurance route may be a better fit.

For frequent travelers, credit card travel protection may be appealing as the coverage is constant. If you're looking for a comparable travel insurance plan with more comprehensive coverage, some companies offer annual travel insurance.

You can find our guide on the best credit cards with travel insurance  here.

Nationwide Travel Insurance Frequently Asked Questions

Nationwide's travel insurance offers very comprehensive coverage, including trip cancellation, interruption, medical emergencies, and baggage loss.

Yes, Nationwide allows the purchase of travel insurance up to a day before your departure. It doesn't offer plans for trips already in progress.

Nationwide covers COVID-19 like any other illness, covering trip cancellations with proof of a positive test and covering emergency medical expenses. 

Nationwide single trip plans cover pre-existing conditions as long as you purchase the Essential plan within 10 days of your trip deposit and the Prime plan within 21 days of your trip deposit. The annual plan doesn't cover pre-existing conditions, with a 60-day look-back period. 

Nationwide is known for its reliable customer service, wide range of coverage options, and the ability to tailor policies with various add-ons, setting them apart from many competitors.

Why You Should Trust Us: How We Reviewed Nationwide Travel Insurance

For our review of Nationwide, we looked at the leading travel insurance providers and compared the amount of options provided, coverage limits, cost, customer service options, and flexibility.

Nationwide is a top contender for cruise-related travel insurance policies and stands out for having cancel for any reason (CFAR) coverage, though it's not available with every policy and comes with an extra cost. To find the best travel insurance policy for you, review various providers and compare quotes before buying a policy.

Read more about how Business Insider rates travel insurance companies here.

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To some, Atlanta is the urban music center of the world. To others, it’s the Hollywood of the South. To chef Marcus Samuelsson , the Dixie metropolis is a vibrant culinary hotbed that was missing his personal stamp.

“I think it’s important to respect each city,” says Samuelsson, who opened Atlanta’s Marcus Bar & Grille , in March 2023. “Otherwise, don’t mess with it. Atlanta has its own cuisine, its own history. It’s the biggest city [in the South] and such a connecting city, particularly for people of color in terms of the incredible universities and all it does in terms of culture.”

The Ethiopia-born, Sweden-bred talent now has successful restaurants all over the globe, stretching from Harlem to Eastern Africa. “When we decide to go somewhere, my ‘why’ is very different than other people’s ‘why,’” Samuelsson says. “But I know, as a person of color again, that I have a responsibility, and I take that with me.”

The best-selling author, TV personality and James Beard-winning toque is taking his love of cooking to Upstate New York’s Catskill Cuisine from May 10 to 12. There, he’ll be paired alongside longtime friend and chef Scott Conant for a memorable multi-course experience. In the following chat, Samuelsson tells us about their bond, the common thread between his eateries and the vital role music plays in it all.

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Where in the world are you?

How’s New York treating you today?

Always good, man. In New York, you gotta go get it. Gotta make your own shot.

I was on your Instagram recently and saw you and the family were on the water near a beach. Where were you?

A couple of days ago, we were in Sag Harbor [on Long Island]. But two weeks ago, we were on a cruise. I was cooking on a cruise, so I took the whole family to the Caribbean.

Did you have a good time when you weren’t working?

That’s one of the fun things with the kids. They come with me to so many of these events. My son has been to so many different countries, and he always makes some type of memory, food-wise or experience-wise. I think his favorite [destination] is the Bahamas . We go down there or Jamaica a lot. I would say those two.

How are you doing with the whole “work hard, play hard” balancing act?

I love working. I really enjoy the craftsmanship, dealing with my team, the creative challenges and the financial challenges. I like the challenges, what it means to be in business and the opportunities. It’s literally what we make out of it. Let’s go at it. I enjoy that process. But the minute I’m on my way home, it has to go away. With a two-year-old and seven-year-old, it gives you no option. You got to be all in there. But that’s fun, too. [My son] Zion likes swimming and biking and I got to keep up with him on that. And every time I think I’ve figured it out, he’s [moved on to something else]. I taught him swimming a couple of years ago. Now he wants to do butterfly. I don’t know how to do that. There’s always an itch that keeps you on your toes.

Prepping for a good time at Catskill Cuisine.

What drew you to Catskill Cuisine?

It’s Upstate. You forget sometimes as a New Yorker how stunning and how beautiful it is just a couple of hours north. [Nearby] Woodstock is such a historical place. We think about it, of course, from a music scene but also from a food [perspective]. When you drive just an hour or two north of New York, it’s the Hudson Valley. It’s just stunning. I grew up with a lot of forests and foraging. I’m always reminded [that a similar setting is] just two hours away, particularly where we do our [Catskill Cuisine] demos. It’s right where the Woodstock music festival happened 50, 56 years ago. This is an incredible place. And for us to cook there, engage there [is amazing].

Also my friends like Scott Conant are there. We’ve been buddies forever. Anne Burrell, Melba Wilson and Andrew Zimmern [will be there as well]. And we’re doing it with Resorts World, who’s such a great host. There are so many reasons why it’s such a special place. It’s okay to be a tourist in your own state.

You mentioned Scott Conant. What makes him such a special chef?

Scott is like a brother to me. We came up in New York at the same time. He had incredible restaurants there at a very early age: L’Impero, Scarpetta, just to mention a few. To see him evolve and become such an incredible American chef [is great]. We were two young bucks coming up in the city with all the ups and downs that happen. To be here 25 years later, to share the stage [is incredible]. That’s probably what I share with all of these guys—[Geoffrey] Zakarian, Anne, Melba. Melba is a big reason why I’m in Harlem. I think it’s the work ethic, the camaraderie and all the ups and downs. Think about it. We were in food when 9/11 happened. We were in food when the financial crisis of 2008 happened. We had to navigate through the pandemic. There’s a lot that has culturally happened. We’re still here and I think we celebrate that. When we see each other, sometimes we don’t even say anything — we just laugh — because I know what we’ve been through.

You’ve brought up music a few times. If you could put together your dream concert, give me three or four acts, alive or dead, who’d be at your show?

Oh, that’s easy. I would have Prince close it. Michael Jackson would be in there. David Bowie will be in there. And oh wow, just the voice of Whitney Houston. I can hear that forever. And throw in some Gap Band.

Oh, so the late ’70s and ’80s are your wheelhouse?

No, I love music. I just love music in general. There’s not really an era that I like more. I like the creativity. I’m even so impressed with Beyoncé’s country album. The homework she did, just the reference points and everything. The music isn’t just incredible; it’s the past, present and future.

I’ve always gone to musicians for inspiration since I was a child. It could be Bob Marley or whatever. I feel like, food-wise, I’m in my own head. I don’t want to look at other people that much [for ideas]. Music has been the outlet.

Be it the music, the look or the feel, tell me the things that connect all of your restaurants.

I would say the love of people because I think about the customers, what we want to say and how we want to share [the experience] with the customers. Also, the staff that are part of the restaurant make it special. And then the vendors, which you guys, the customers, don’t normally see. The vendors are a huge part of the community. Those three areas, for me, are special. I have respect and love for all three. Without the vendors, we can’t cook.

And then, being able to tell a story [is important]. At [New York City’s] Hav & Mar , we can talk about female leadership, and we have Derrick Adams doing his thing with the art program.

Metropolis sits on the land where 9/11 happened. That’s a very special place to me. It tells a story about New York City.

Red Rooster is the epicenter for Black comfort food, where families come together. And on Sundays, I want to listen to gospel or jazz there.

And [New Jersey’s] Marcus is just all about comfort with a twist. It’s in the neighborhood. It’s of the neighborhood. And it’s familiar. It’s very familiar.

What does the rest of 2024 look like for you?

All I know is that in May I got my hands full. With the food festival in Catskill, that’s going to be fun. It’s really about just watching the team grow. And not just my team, but the individuals that I know who have personal goals and watching them grow. I take a lot of pride in that. We have a couple more fun projects coming up that I can’t speak on yet, but ’24 and ’25 are going to be fun. Gonna keep it creative and keep it delicious.

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60 Quotes About Reading That’ll Inspire You To Pick Up A Book

Open your heart to these words from authors and celebrities about their favorite pastime

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Quotes about reading that will expand your horizons.

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Few things are better than reading a good book on your porch on a warm summer night, but sometimes it’s nice to get some encouragement from other readers to get those pages turning. That’s why we’ve pulled some quotes about reading that are sure to satisfy every kind of reader. We even have some quotes about reading for the kids and students in your life. 

Quotes About The Magic Of Books

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• “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” ― Walt Disney
• “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” ― Victor Hugo
• “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen
• “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”― Virginia Woolf
• “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ― John Locke
• “I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.” ― Sarah J. Maas
• “Literature is my Utopia” ― Helen Keller
• “If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” ― Jane Austen
• “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” ― Louisa May Alcott
• “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen
• “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King
• “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” ― Garrison Keillor
• “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ― Harper Lee
• “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”― Ernest Hemingway
• “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”― Lemony Snicket
• “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” ― René Descartes
• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Cicero
• “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis 
• “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” ― Emma Thompson
• “I guess there are never enough books.” ― John Steinbeck
• “For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.” ― Audrey Hepburn
• “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.” ― Nora Ephron
• “The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
• “You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.” ― Paul Rand
• “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen
• “I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.” ― Benedict Cumberbatch
• "Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." ― E.B. White
• “What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.” ― Oprah
• “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ― Margaret Fuller
• “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I’ve always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid
• "I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes,” ― Emma Watson
• "Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind," ― Toni Morrison
• “I have challenged myself that I will read thousands of books and I will empower myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism,” ― Malala Yousafzai
• “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ― Joseph Addison
• “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”― Mary Schmich
• “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” ― Joyce Carol Oates
• “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”― Helen Exley
• “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler
• "One of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author or a story, we also have a better understanding of people unlike ourselves. Books cultivate empathy." ― Sarah Jessica Parker 
• "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was." ― Ernest Hemingway 
• "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." ― Benjamin Franklin

Quotes About Reading For Children And Students

• “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” ― Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” ― Roald Dahl
• “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” ― C.S. Lewis
• “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte
• “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”― Maya Angelou
• “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ― Harry Truman
• "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go," ― Dr. Seuss 
• "I wouldn't be a songwriter if it wasn't for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see." ― Taylor Swift 
• "Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible," ― Barack Obama 
• “I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ​​― Maya Angelou
• “Don’t give up reading, the more you practice, the easier it will get.” ― unknown
• “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them.“ ― Judy Blume
• “A child who carries a book with a bookmark in it is in two places at the same time.” ― Tony Abbott
• “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young” ― Maya Angelou 
• “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

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