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101 Best Short Travel Quotes (+ Caption Ideas!)

There’s something about beautiful, meaningful, or impactful travel quotes that have always spoken to me–and I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering spending days doodling travel captions in the margins of notebooks during school or work as inspiration to work toward the next big adventure.

We’ve put together this gigantic list of the best short travel quotes around to help inspire your next adventures (or just help you find some short travel captions for Instagram, whatever works for you!), including everything from world-famous adventure quotes to short quotes about traveling pulled from some of my favorite travel books and memoirs.

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The Most Inspirational Travel Quotes

Best short travel quotes on appreciating the journey, short travel quotes on how travel changes you, inspirational travel quotes on connecting with people, best short travel quotes on living adventurously, planning a trip.

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These top travel quotes are among the most famous short travel quotes in the world.

You’ve likely heard most or all of them before, but that doesn’t mean they can’t make for a classic Instagram caption or a dose of travel inspiration!

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

I am forever obsessed with this beautiful travel quote–the longer and farther we travel, the more I appreciate just how smitten I am with this incredible world of ours.

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

While this is one of the most famous travel quotes out there, it’s as controversial as it is inspiring: not everyone has the opportunity to travel, after all, and I certainly don’t believe that you  have  to travel to be a well-rounded person.

… That being said, for those of us lucky enough to have the opportunity, I do believe travel can enrich us and our knowledge of the world immeasurably.

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

“Tell me, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

“This… this was excitement, romance, adventure–and there was so much more of it,  too  much more of it for even another month, another year, another  decade  to adequately contain my investigations.” — Anthony Bourdain

This quote from Anthony Bourdain’s first memoir (the fantastic Kitchen Confidential , which helped propel him to stardom), has always stuck with me: this  is exactly how I feel arriving in a new destination and becoming intoxicated by just how much I love it.

Bourdain is talking about his first trip to Tokyo here, but the sentiment could belong to any number of overwhelming, delightful, fantastic cities around the globe

For me, it brings to mind Rome , Mexico City , Istanbul , Bangkok , and so many more.

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

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama

“Climb the mountain so that you can see the world, not so that the world can see you.” — David McCullough

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

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” — Anthony Bourdain

Some of the best short travel quotes in the world are not about any single destination or accomplishment in particular, but about appreciating all of the unexpected (if often uncomfortable) adventures that happen along the way.

“The journey itself is my home.” — Matsuo Basho

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

I love this quote–and have found it to be true over and over again while traveling.

Major travel accomplishments are fantastic, but often the best and most memorable travel adventures cannot be planned.

“It’s better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

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

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

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

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

“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

“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

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

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

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

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

Oh, how true this is!

The reality of travel–especially long-term travel like what we have been experiencing for nearly 5 years as of the time that I’m updating this travel quotes blog post–is often stressful and physically uncomfortable, but so far, it has always been worth it.

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

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

“Adventure is worthwhile.” — Aesop

Short, sweet, and to the point: Aesop’s words are still worth living by.

“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for traveling?” — Freya Stark

While our personal travel bucket list is longer than ever, we find ourselves living by this short travel quote near-constantly on the road: when the opportunity presents itself to explore another neighborhood, city, or country that we know little to nothing about, our question is no longer “why should we visit?” but “why not?”.

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

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

Travel long enough, and it becomes clear that changing along the way is simply part of the deal.

Here’s how travel changes you–as told in short travel quotes from a wide variety of travelers.

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” — Libba Bray

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

“So much of who we are is where we have been.” — William Langewiesche

I love this quote about traveling and have been tempted to use it plenty of travel captions before: each destination has a way of weaving itself into us and becoming part of who we are.

“You go away from a long time and return a different person–you never come all the way back.” — Paul Theroux

As someone who left on what was supposed to be a RTW trip with a clear end date, never came back, and half a decade later has a new career, focus in life, and wealth of experiences to show for it, I can certainly attest to this: we have never and will never come all the way back to who we started before traveling long-term.

We have been so changed by our experiences that the life we originally planned for ourselves feels inconceivable now, and we place the responsibility for most of that on leaping into the unknown.

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

This pick from Bill Bryson might be just slightly too long for this post specifically on short travel quotes, but I love it too much to leave it off: nothing brings back childlike wonder quite like being dropped in a country dramatically different from your own!

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

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

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

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” — Ralph Crawshaw

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

“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” — Gayle Foreman

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

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

“When you travel, you’re forced to have new thoughts. “Is this alley safe?” “Is this the right bus?” “Was this meat ever a house pet?” It doesn’t even matter what the new thoughts are, it feels so good to just have some variety. And it’s a reboot for your brain. I can feel the neurons making new connections again with new problems to solve, clawing their way back to their nimbler, younger days.” — Kristin Newman

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

There’s no doubt that one of the best things about travel is getting to connect with people all over the world–here are some of the best travel quotes on the subject, starting with one of my ultimate favorites…

“Travel is about great and illogical leaps of trust.” — Dave Eggers

I pulled this from a short story called The Road to Riyadh that Eggers wrote for Lonely Planet as part of a phenomenal compilation of true travel stories , and have had it seared into my memory from the moment I read it–it perfectly captures the emotion behind stepping outside your comfort zone when traveling. 

“If you’re 22, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel–as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them, wherever you go.” — Anthony Bourdain

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

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

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

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

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

“If I am an advocate for anything, it is to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. It’s a plus for everybody.” — Anthony Bourdain

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

Anyone who has ever fought with their travel companion over something seemingly inane while way too jetlagged knows this short travel quote to be true!

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

“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

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” — Mark Twain

As much as I love this famous travel quote by Twain, I’ve always felt that it’s best appreciated when read with the following one by Michener:

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

These two short travel quotes may have two entirely different takes on how travel can (or cannot) change you, but read together, to me they always add up to the idea that you get out of travel what you put into it–and I have always found that to be true in our own adventures around the world.

At its core, the pursuit of travel tends to be about the joy of living an adventurous life.

Here are some of the best travel quotes on pursuing a life of adventure!

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

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

Nearly 5 years of living a life of travel later, we can confirm this is definitely true for us! So much overpacking in those early months…

“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

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

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

“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.” — Freya Stark

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

“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

“To travel is to live.” — Hans Christian Anderson

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

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

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

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

“My favorite thing is to go where I have never been.” — Diane Arbus

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” — Paul Coelho

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

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

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

Freya Stark provided the world with many amazing travel quotes, but this is definitely one of my favorites from her! There’s definitely something invigorating about a beautiful horizon in the distance.

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

“Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” — Mae Jemison

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

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

“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

… And, of course, what better way to close out a list of the best short travel quotes than this classic by Kerouac?

Here’s to continually living adventurously and climbing all the mountains, literally and figuratively.

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About Kate Storm

In May 2016, I left my suburban life in the USA and became a full-time traveler. Since then, I have visited 50+ countries on 5 continents and lived in Portugal, developing a special love of traveling in Europe (especially Italy) along the way. Today, along with my husband Jeremy and dog Ranger, I’m working toward my eventual goal of splitting my life between Europe and the USA.

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“Adventure is worthwhile.” — Aesop . The best one yet. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this list of quotes. Thanks for putting together. I’m going to keep this as a reference, and use all over the place…on my website, in my IG quotes, etc.

Thanks, Lauren! So glad you like them. 🙂

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101 of the Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Amazing Adventures

I’ve put together 101 of the best travel quotes as a reminder, motivation, and remembrance for the reasons why we travel.

I’m not just talking about the sightseeing and beach vacations. Travel is about the journey as much as the beautiful destination.

We learn about the world by experiencing new cultures and ways of living, in turn learning about ourselves.

I’ve been traveling the world for a few years – Will has been traveling for over 9 years – and the rest of the Broke Backpacker crew has put quite a dent in their passports too. I think these awesome quotes about traveling highlight some of the magnificent journeys and lessons we’ve experienced along the way.

Why? Because Travel quotes provide inspiration and capture truths about travel, adventure, and life.

Just like travel, words have the power to open our minds to completely new perspectives, which is why I hope this collection of quotes about travel and powerful words will inspire you to get out there and experience some adventurous travel yourself.

101 Best Travel Quotes

Some last words….

From funny travel quotes to inspiring words from legends past and present, here are the 101 best:

1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra, The Cultureur

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

This is one of my favorite quotes about traveling. A lot of people think that one travels to escape life, or that long-term travelers are running away from reality. The way I see it – sure – maybe vacations are a quick escape from the real world, but traveling is a way to embrace life’s grandest adventures. Traveling is a way for life not to escape us.

3. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

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

5. “to live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” – t.l rese.

6. “Travel often; Getting lost will help you find yourself.” – Holstee Manifesto

Some of my best travel experiences were not necessarily butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes they were uncomfortable and painful. Sometimes I have quite literally gotten lost, but in the end, these experiences have helped me find myself.

I think that is what traveling is often about: finding – or at least rediscovering – aspects of yourself.

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

8. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george a. moore, 9. “sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” –   drake.

This is one of the most important travel quotes. Doesn’t matter how long you’re traveling for, you’ll see new cultures, open your mind and change your way of thinking – even if it’s just a little bit. Traveling shows us sides of the world but also about yourself that you’ve never seen before. Having a different view on things helped a lot of people when it comes to making hard decisions.

10. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey

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

I love this traveling the world quote from Cesare Pavese. Having been on the road for the last few years, he nailed my experience spot on. Nothing is certain – except air, sleep, the sea, the sky – but that is what traveling is about: embracing the unknown and trusting the process. The way I see it, the only thing for certain is what is happening in the now.

12. “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

13. “culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – thomas wolfe, 14. “traveling — it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – ibn battuta.

This is one of the most beautiful travel quotes. Meeting so many new people, making new friends and even finding a second family, has to be one of the best aspects of traveling. Having traveled quite a bit, I can say that having multiple homes is definitely an amazing feeling, although it can also create some distance between you and your original home.

15. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” – Malcolm Bradbury

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

Probably one of the best travel quotes I’ve heard – the play on words, the sincerity, and the capture of what it means to travel. Traveling will undoubtedly leave you speechless, surprised, and lost for words, but those words will be found, and you will have epic stories to tell.

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

19. “every journey is personal. every journey is spiritual. you can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. you can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – diana ambarsari, 20. “the perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. there is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – rosita forbes, 21. “travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – ella maillart.

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

I think this is one of my favorite quotes about travel. Having been to 30 or so countries, and plenty of destinations among them, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that happiness does   not come from beautiful destinations any more than the concept that money can buy happiness…

It’s easy to assume that if money can’t buy happiness, surely experiences can, but you can be in the most beautiful place on earth having some crazy experience, and not be happy. We tend to always be in search of the next big thing – the most beautiful beach or bigger mountain – without realizing that it is the journey there that matters, not the destination.

Happiness is hard to define of course, but I think happiness lies in your outlook and present state of mind. To be happy is to be in the present moment, no matter what you own or where you are.

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23. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict

24. “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, 25. “though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – ralph waldo emerson.

Walking on the globe with your head down will never open up all views and beautiful things to see. In order to enjoy traveling, you have to keep your mind and heart open, accept different cultures and traditions and simply try to adapt. Keep a positive mindset and you’ll see the beauty of the world.

26. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha

27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown

Both of these travel quotes (#26 and #27) encapsulate that sometimes we travel to learn more about ourselves. A large aspect of traveling is, of course, visiting places, but sometimes you end up visiting parts of yourself too.

28. “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” – Hans Christian Andersen

29. “traveling outgrows its motives. it soon proves sufficient in itself. you think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – nicolas bouvier, 30. it is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – ursula k. le guin, 31. “the best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” – rick ridgeway.

32. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” –   Gayle Forman

This is one of my favorite travel quotes! It reminds me of something I read in the book  Shantaram , about an ex-convict on the run and his adventures in India. In the book, he was given similar advice: to surrender to India and accept his experience for what it was.

You have to surrender to the chaos and enjoy/endure the experiences as they come. While this is applicable to many aspects of life, it is definitely applicable to travel. You can’t try to force itineraries and plans or work hard to fulfill some high expectations in your mind. Doing so will only tire and disappoint you.

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

34. “travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” – janna graber, 35. “life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” –   oliver goldsmith, 36. “focus on the journey, not the destination. joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – greg anderson.

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

I can relate to this quote about travel quite well actually. The longer and more that I travel, the more I find myself self-analyzing and observing my own thought and emotional processes.

Traveling has a funny way of throwing you out into the world with the intention of discovering more about everything around you, only to realize you will discover far more about yourself. It is why traveling can be the most rewarding form of introspection.

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

39. “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, 40. “travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – seneca, 41. “a man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – wilfred peterson.

42. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

I can relate to these words quite a bit as I try to find the balance between preparing and planning for the future, reaching goals, and just enjoying the ride and staying present in the moment.

Having goals and an endpoint in sight is good; however, I don’t think it will be as satisfying if you don’t enjoy the moments that take you there. If you only focus on the destination you’ll miss everything that matters – the journey along the way.

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

44. “life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” – debasish mridha, 45. “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”- izaak walton.

Whether it’s long, annoying bus trips, a shabby hostel or simply somewhere you don’t necessarily feel comfortable, it’s always better to have great company by your side. Going through the rough times together makes the whole experience more endurable.

46. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

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

I love this quote about traveling. With age, comes wisdom. Wisdom isn’t something you can read about, it is something you learn through experience. The same goes for travel. You can read and hear about places and people that are different than you, but sometimes it takes experiencing those places and meeting those people for yourself to truly understand them.

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48. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

49. “travel opens your mind as few other things do. it is its own form of hypnotism, and i am forever under its spell.” – libya bray, 50. “half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – ray bradbury, 51. “travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – francis bacon.

52. “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

Anthony Bourdain will always be remembered for his adventurous spirit and ability to share some of the most remote and fascinating corners of this planet with the rest of the world. His words ring true. Travel is not pretty, and it’s definitely not always comfortable.

Sometimes you’ll deal with awful buses and missed flights, sleep in strange places, be confronted with challenging and stressful situations, or encounter experiences that break your heart. But that’s okay because the journey will make you stronger, and ultimately make you a better person.

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

54. “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, 55. “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, 56. “uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” –  ken hundert.

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

58. “investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – matthew karsten.

Rather than investing in the latest technology, do yourself the favor and take yourself on a little trip. Clear your mind, learn new things and experience different cultures and people. You won’t regret it!

59. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” – Margot Fonteyn

60. “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, 61. “culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.” – karl kraus.

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

63. “travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – sheda savage.

There are so many things to see and learn. The more you know, the more open your mindset and view will be. If you feel like you’re missing someone, invest in yourself and go on a trip to experience new things – you won’t regret it, we promise!

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64. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes

65. “if you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – cesare pavese, 66. “of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – richard francis burton.

67. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

68. “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, 69. “i soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – lillian smith, 70. “for my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson, 71. “conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. i’m not so sure. travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to cleveland and is never heard from again.” – eric weiner.

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

73. “travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. that is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – pico iyer, 74. “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, 75. “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, 76. “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.

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

78. “you will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.” – freya stark, 79. “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.

This another one of the most important travel quotes, especially in nowadays time. When traveling, always keep your mind open, be respectful towards other people and try new things. Just because your believes, expectations and values work for you, doesn’t mean that it works for others too. Watch, experience and keep the critical thoughts to yourself if you don’t want to make enemies in a different country.

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80. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine

81. “travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – paul sheehan.

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

83. “we travel because we need to because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. when we get home, home is still the same. but something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” – jonah lehrer, 84. “travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet’s blurred reality.” – andrew solomon, 85. “ i travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – nyssa p. chopra, the cultureur, 86. “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..

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

88. he who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – moorish proverb, 89. “travel is like an endless university. you never stop learning.” – harvey lloyd.

Whether it’s about a new recipe, a new language or as simple as the fancy toilets in Japan, there’s ALWAYS something new and exciting for you to learn. That is the beauty of travel, just make sure you keep your mind open!

90. “ The symbol of joy to-day is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood.” – Rollin A. Sawyer

91. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

92. “nothing develops intelligence like travel.” –  emile zola, 93. “the value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – rolf potts, 94. “there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” – david mitchell.

95. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Forman

96. “no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – lin yutang, 97. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george moore, 98. “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.

99. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” – Nancy Petralia

100. “travel molds a man, people mold his wisdom and experiences mold his life” – sujit lalwani, 101. “travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. one looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. good travelers are heartless.” – elias canetti.

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Every Travel Quote Ever

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

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

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

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“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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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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105 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire WANDERLUST with Photos

Last Updated March 15, 2024 William Tang

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Sometimes you just need that extra bit of motivation to push you out the door or a good reminder of what makes travel life-changing. Through the years, we’ve been collecting the best travel quotes that’ll truly inspire some serious wanderlust.

By combining these wanderlust quotes with photos to create the most fitting pictures, use the table of contents below to jump straight down to organized categories such as trip with friends quotes, short travel quotes, meaningful wanderlust quotes about life and discovery, and more!

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• A list of our favourite travel quotes.
• Wanderlust quotes are categorized to make it easy to find something that you’re looking for.

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“Best” is always subjective and yes there are many other great takes on quotes that can inspire one to travel or speak to why the idea of travel is so powerful and life-changing.

Below, we’re going to be listing the best travel quotes with the associated person that wrote or said them. We’ve created pin-able images for many of the quotes for you to use and share.

For organization, wanderlust inspired quotes are broken down into high level categories. Some may belong to multiple but I tried my best to segment them into appropriate buckets.

We’ve also dropped a few nuggets of wisdom and color commentary for a few that we really love.

As we mentioned, the selection of the “best” quotes is subjective. Every quote speaks to every individual differently because of where you are in your life, the experiences you’ve had, your mind space, where you want to be, and your aspirations.

These are the best in our eyes because they aren’t deep in meaning and haven’t been overused to death.

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

Passed on from generation to generation is the idea that we need to fit in our own box and follow the norms set for us. It can be societal, cultural, or anything. We’ve found joy in our lives not following that conventional path.

Starting Going Awesome Places and turning it into a full time job sounded crazy (still kind of is) but we carved our own way through it. Sure there are parallel paths but I’d like to think we’ve blazed our own trail.

2. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes

I’ll be the first to admit that we take way too many photos when we travel but when we go back and look at the own albums (whether on our phones or photobooks we print), it really is a wonderful portal back in time to moments and time gone but not forgotten.

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

Now that’s the incredible thing about travel. If you open your mind and your heart, anywhere new is a wonderful adventure of discovery and not strange of weird.

Take the incredible journey I had in our 9 day Ethiopia itinerary . Sure it was uncomfortable and challenging but I embraced it all.

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

You can make your dreams come true with a simple step. It might be the hardest step that you’ve ever had to take because you don’t know where the journey will take you but all it takes are the first baby steps.

Sometimes it can be literal when you take that step off the plane when we went skydiving in New Zealand .

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

Where we grow up in many ways define who we are and what we know. Like it or not, places like our favorite restaurants in North York , the Oxford County Cheese Trail , or local walks in the parks in Richmond Hill , are a core part of who you are.

It’s our own little bubble and when we are able to bust out of it to see what the world is like, it will challenge you to open your eyes, mind, and be a better person. In Mary’s words, you will never be the same again.

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

We cheated a little here but we sometimes throw around the word wanderlust but what does it actually mean? With this fun travel quote, now you know!

Now who has that impulse to explore the world?

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

My mind immediately went to the new worlds we’ve seen while going to the best places to scuba diving in the world but this is one of the best quotes about travel because it encourages us to leave the comforts of home to make new discoveries.

You can take this from the perspective of us being land mammals or the fact that we naturally want to be close to the things that we feel at home with. Whether small or large, you won’t learn something new until you put yourself out there and venture to places unknown.

And no, it’s not just “man” but all the wonderful people of this earth!

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

This is one of the best travel quotes because it is SO TRUE .

The experiences you gather while travelling are honestly worth more than all the money you can make.

9. “There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

As a photographer, my favourite moments are during sunrise and sunset. Every time we compile a list of the best photography spots like this one in Prague , there’s at least one sunrise or sunset included.

There’s a calmness, stillness, and serenity to the start and end of the day and yes, they’re totally free.

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

As a married couple, there’s a deep honesty to this travel quote. As a couple, travel will test your relationship to the max and we always say that even more -so than moving in is to go on a trip together to see if you have partner in life.

In John Steinbeck ‘s travel quote, he talks about how you have to let travel flow the way it wants to go. You can try to bend it, mold it, and control it but you have to let it take you

Some of the best wanderlust sayings are by accomplished writers. They’re incredibly deep, thoughtful, and literary.

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

This is one of the most well-known wanderlust quotes that speaks to how the journey is more important than the destination. Many of us travel without that end point in mind and that’s totally okay!

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

Travel is the greatest teacher of them all. It’s something that has truly opened my mind and is something that more of us need. I’d like to think that we don’t travel for travel’s sake but we do it with purpose – to open our minds, break barriers, and gain broader understanding of the world.

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

The more you travel the more you realize that what you know and take for granted is but just a tiny bubble on this great earth. While I don’t know if I’ll ever see it all but to travel is to expand your horizons.

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

Everything you encounter – people, food, culture, fortunes, and mishaps stay with you forever and you become better for it.

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

I’ve been feeling a little empty ever since COVID-19 and our lockdown existence. It’s truly made me realize how important it is my life.

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

Bucket-lists are such a topic of contention these days but I say there’s nothing wrong about dreaming and building your list of places you want to go, what you want to do, and things you want to experience. Just expect it to be a long list.

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

18. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

I’m pretty OCD when it comes to planning and I’m sure it comes through on the itineraries we publish but some of the best travel moments always come from the unexpected. In many ways, as much as I want to be in control, I feel that I am but a passenger.

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

There’s a level of fulfilment when travelling and I love that I can expand my horizons and see our world in a new and different way.

Sometimes you just need something short and sweet to convey your love of travel.

Here are our favorite short travel quotes but there are also quotes that cross with other categories so make sure to browse through the entire list as there are definitely more short quotes than just these ones below.

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

You probably don’t know yet but you’ll be going to a ton of awesome places in your lifetime.

23. “Don’t quit your day dream.” – Anonymous

Always be dreaming and more than that, make it a reality.

24. “Where to next?” – Anonymous

This is more like the question that I get asked the most beyond “where’s your favorite place you’ve been to?”. This

If you’re a traveler, this is a question that you get almost every single time. It’s also a fantastic short travel quote because it’s almost rhetorical. There’s always somewhere you’re planning on going or want to go to.

It’s also a bit of a loaded question because I’m sure your list is quite long.

25. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw

26. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous

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

Not just an amazing travel quote but great words to live by in all facets of your life.

28. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb

In travel, it’s easy for someone to say that you can know everything you need to know by reading about it in the books or looking at photos but it’s something else entirely to see, experience, and feel it in person.

29. “I want to make memories all over the world.” – Anonymous

30. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – Anonymous

We try to live without regret and this is a great short quote that we try to live life by.

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

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

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

I don’t always travel that light with our packing lists but this is a great short travel quote that’s always the forefront of my mind. I always ask myself, “do I really need this?”.

Here, I’m in the middle of Tokyo with the original Peak Design 5L Sling that makes a great light travel set up.

Sticking to the road less travelled can be the most rewarding. Here are a couple of quotes that push me to always incorporate something a little different on my trips.

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

It’s so easy to follow the crowd and be sucked into what everyone’s doing on Instagram or places that are the most popular. I’ve always found that the best trips are the ones that most people don’t know about.

35. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” – Rick Watson

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

To some extent all great quotes come from a place of philosophical thought but to keep things organized, these are some of the most famous quotes by legendary philosophers that have stood the test of time.

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

Wisdom, experiences, happiness, and wonder – it’s out there for you to explore.

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

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

If you’ve read about how Going Awesome Places came to be , you’ll know that I kind of stumbled upon it by accident. It’s through travel that I’ve become a better storyteller. Ibn Battuta was absolutely right.

40. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi Jalalud-Din

This quote speaks to the greatest reward of travel. Travel has given me so much on many levels. I’m gracious beyond words.

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

42. “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

This has to ring so true right. The best test of a friendship is to travel and you quickly find out whether you can stand them or not.

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

44. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – Anonymous

45. “True friends never apart maybe in distance never in heart.” – Helen Keller

46. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

48. “As with any journey, whom you travel with is more important than the destination.” – Anonymous

49. “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – Anonymous

There’s enough suckage in life. Spend time with those that don’t suck.

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

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

52. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh

Sometimes you just know who’s going to make an awesome travel partner.

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

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

As much as I love solo travel, it just isn’t the same when you can’t share your travel experiences with someone else.

55. “No road is long with good company.”  – Turkish proverb

56. “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Anonymous

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

58. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.” – African Proverb

59. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Anonymous

We seek good wanderlust quotes because we’re looking to be inspired. In a simple sentence, you’ll feel that itch to book that ticket. These quotes speak to a way of life, and why you need to just go.

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

Sustainable travel is so important and its core principle can be said in this simple travel quote.

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

62. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous

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

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

65. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous

Travel is about taking that leap of faith. It could be a big investment in money. It could be a big risk quitting your job or taking a sabbatical. It could be scary doing it on your own. Whatever it is, think about how incredible the experiences will be to push you over that edge.

66. “Wanderlust isn’t about running away from it all.  It’s about experiencing the outside to discover the inside.” – Unknown

This is so true. Some might have the perspective that intrepid travellers are running away from something at home. The reality is that for many, travel is a way for us to learn more about ourselves and running towards truth.

Beyond inspiration, travel and wanderlust quotes tell us how we should think about life and what is important.

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

Time moves faster than ever. There are only so many “I’ll do that later” you can use before you run out. Don’t let those opportunities slip on by.

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

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

This is one of my all-time favourites that can easily go into the short travel quotes section. It’s a motto in life that’s truly transformative.

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

71. “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

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

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

You have one life to live. Make it count is what I say.

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

Adventure is such a core part of our travel DNA and these quotes about travel should inspire you to launch your very own.

75. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

76. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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

When the adrenaline is pumping, and you don’t know what’s coming next is when I feel the most alive. That includes being terrified of heights and jumping out of a plane in the Abel Tasman .

78. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

79. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous

80. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Anonymous

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

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

83. “Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world.” – Anonymous

There is truly so much beauty in the world. Everywhere I go, I’m constantly amazed.

Above all else, travel is what puts a smile on many people’s faces. This collection of wanderlust quotes should give you what people call “the travel feels” these days.

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

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

86. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

There are so many ways to interpret this one but I think of it as always staying positive whether it’s someone feeling down or when shit happens when you travel.

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

I have a couple of these songs on my road trip mixtape. Songs are such a great way to convey ideas and these are a few lyrics that make me want to travel even more.

88. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world”. – Louis Armstrong, “It’s a Wonderful World”

This isn’t normally something you associate with travel but when you think about those skies of blue, clouds of white, trees of green, colors of the rainbow, and all the faces of people going by, I can’t help but think about all the things that make travel so amazing.

89. “Life is short; I wanna live it well. One life, one story to tell.” – Switchfoot, “Live It Well”

If you know me well, you’ll know that Switchfoot is my all-time favourite band. Their lyrics are what I love the most about them because they always have incredibly deep meaning. Life is precious, you’ve got one shot to make it count.

90. “But hold me fast, hold me fast, cause I’m a hopeless wanderer.”  – Mumford & Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”

91. “Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free. I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me.”  – Elvis Presley, “Harem Holiday”

92. “Tell everybody I’m on my way. New friends and new places to see. With blue skies ahead, yes I’m on my way.” – Phil Collins, “On My Way”

They might not be authors or philosophers but they equally have important things to say about the impact of travel and why it matters.

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

The late Anthony Bourdain was someone that truly understood travel. He was such a great storyteller and this quote reminds me of my earlier days when I was backpacking around Europe and just not having a care in the world.

94. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

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

96. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

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

Travel does change you and always for the better. Anthony Bourdain goes a step further by also encourages us to leave the places we visit better off.

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

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

100. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

There are a couple of wanderlust quotes from movies that stand out. Some are well-known and others you might not’ve heard of or watched.

101. “I’m shaking the dust of this crummy town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world!” – George Bailey from “It’s a Wonderful Life”

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

Pictures tell a thousand words and videos many more but there’s nothing like being in these places that people talk about and taking it in with all of your senses.

103. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

104. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” – Me Before You

105. “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere.” – Beauty and the Beast

I’m not sure if we’ve ever done a list this long but we hope that you’ve been able to pull a few favorites of your own with the best quotes about travel.

Many of these have anchored but have also set me free when it comes to traveling the world. In one way or another, these quotes have driven me to take the leap, to continue to explore, and to get outside of my comfort zone.

Wanderlust is defined as “a strong desire to travel”.

Best quotes about travel are ones that are easy to understand, have deep analogies to life, and of course create strong feelings of wanderlust.

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Helen Sontag “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous “We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us.” – Anonymous “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere.” – Beauty and the Beast

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – Anonymous “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “Don’t quit your day dream.” – Anonymous “Where to next?” – Anonymous “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

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140 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

by Mark and Kristen Morgan

Published: August 19, 2022

Travel has the power to transform your life because just one trip can help you see through a new perspective. The quotes on this list inspired us to quit our scientific careers for a life on the road and we hope to motivate you to live a life of adventure . If you’re new to our blog, you can read our story here .

We’ve organized this guide featuring quotes about travel into various topics so you can easily search for a particular theme.

Famous Travel Quotes

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

2. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. “Life is a journey not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” – John Berryman

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

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

13. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Robyn Yong

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

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

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

17. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

24. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” – Unknown

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

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

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

28. “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Anderson

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

30. “Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown

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

32. “I love the places that make you realize how small you and your problems are.” – Anonymous

33. “What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.” – Sarah Dessen

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

35. “Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” – David Avocado Wolfe

36. “Whatever is good for your soul, do that.” – Unknown

37. “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” –  Anonymous

38. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

39. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester

40. “The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo

41. “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown

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

43. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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

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

Funny Travel Quotes

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

47. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57. “Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” – Unknown

58.  “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

59. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henry Youngman

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

Couples Travel Quotes

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

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

63. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

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

65. “Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.” – Anonymous

66. “I don’t want to be tied down with someone, I want to be set free with someone.” – Anonymous

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

68. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” – Rumi

69. “I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.” – Amit Kalantri

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

71. “The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.” – Ritu Ghatourey

72. “Find someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.” – Anonymous

73. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world.” – Unknown

74. “A couples who travels together, grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

75. “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho

76. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin

77. “But the most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people, and places, and memories, and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter.” – Unknown

78. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro

79. “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Anonymous

80. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

Short Travel Quotes

81. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” – Anonymous

82. “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”

83. “Backpacking is money spent on education.”

84. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

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

87. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

94. “A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” – Spanish Proverb

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

96. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

97. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.” – Unknown

98. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

99. “Traveling with kids is not a vacation. It’s an adventure.” – Unknown

100. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous

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

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

103. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

104. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

105. “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”

106. “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.”

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

108. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.”

Adventure Travel Quotes

109. “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

113. “The journey is the destination.” – Dan Eldon

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

115. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

116. “Different languages, different cultures, different souls.” – Anonymous

117. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough

118. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina

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

120. “Adventure is out there – just waiting for us to find it.” – Ellie Badge

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

122. “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

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

124. “Do not go where the path may lead: go instead where there is no path a leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

125. “Only those who risk going out too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Elliot

126. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

127. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – John Rohn

128. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”

Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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

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

131. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

132. “…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” – Mark Twain

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

134. “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” – Mark Twain

135. “It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” – Mark Twain

136. “To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.” – Mark Twain

137. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

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

139. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

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

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Happy Travels ,

Mark and Kristen

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36 Short Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Adventures

These short travel quotes will have you packing your bags to discover somewhere new in no time.

Welcome wanderlusters. When it comes to travel, sometimes less is more – especially when it comes to words. A snappy, short travel quote can inspire, motivate or even change the way you see the world. 

Celebrate your next adventure with these succinct and impactful travel quotes .

The Best Short Travel Quotes

These short quotes about travel might be bite-sized, but they pack a punch in significance for your next trip — regardless of the location.

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Travel experiences that push you beyond what’s ordinary and predictable are worth exploring; go boldly and fearlessly.

“My favourite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

This quote speaks to a broader life philosophy: staying open-minded and embracing the unknown.

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – John C. Maxwell

Nothing beats the first time you travel somewhere enchanting.

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

With a few travel hacks and expert tips, it’s possible to see the most amazing places in the world… without breaking the bank.

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Remember what I said about food for the soul? Travel pours into your sense of being abundantly.

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

Sometimes, new travel experiences require you to try things outside of your norm, and that’s okay.

Adventure Quotes

Short Unique Travel Quotes

It’s the unique, short inspirational quotes about travel that are most fitting when the journey takes you somewhere unusual. These unique sayings are perfect for rare travel opportunities.

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

Outside the cost of jet setting, being brave enough to travel makes all the difference.

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

Travel is your opportunity to satisfy your inherent sense of wonder, intrigue, and curiosity.

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

When you travel, part of the journey is finding something new — even within yourself.

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

The more of the world you see, the better you’ll get to know the essence of who you are.

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

Life is brief and unpredictable; you ought to travel as much and as far as possible while you still can.

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

The essential things you get from travel aren’t material; they’re deeply gratifying over and above what’s tangible.

Short Travel Quotes for Instagram

When the travelling quotes are short and witty, you better believe they deserve a spot on your Instagram posts. This is especially useful when you’re in luxury destinations and only want short aesthetic travel quotes to accompany breathtaking snaps.

Here are some of my favourite Insta-ready travel quotes.

“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

Travel guarantees memories and can be part of fulfilling your wildest dreams.

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

Travel unlocks more ways to enjoy the act of living itself.

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

The entire world is an astonishing wonder worth seeing and exploring.

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

Like many other areas in life, risk-taking makes travel much more enriching.

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Unknown (Chinese Proverb)

Nothing beats travelling to a destination and being there in person for visceral experiences.

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

Soak up all the richness in new lands, but always tread carefully and respectfully.

Next Read: The quote above lends itself to buzzwords like slow travel and sustainable travel . Learn more about what these mean and how you can see the world this way.

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

Looking for short cute travel quotes to symbolise your couple’s trips? Take your pick from the ones below.

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

Sometimes, the destination is simple, but your partner can elevate the travel experience beyond measure.

“We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Unknown

Worldly goods aren’t bad, but travel offers a different kind of wealth.

“A couple who travels together grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

If you want to get to know someone, live, work, or travel with them.

“All you need is love and a passport.” – Unknown

With the right person on your arm, discovering the world always feels right.

Next Read: Ever wondered how to maximise your time in a different setting, fully absorbing new cultures and traditions? Read all about the joys and rewards of immersive travel here.

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

You won’t feel the miles and hours when embarking on thrilling journeys with a loved one.

“We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro

In romantic partnerships, you can’t lose as long as you keep finding new places to make memories in together.

Short Travel Quotes With Friends

It takes a little practice to master how to travel alone before you become a pro, making some of the best quotes about travel those celebrating time spent with your favourite crew. These endearing short travel quotes are apt for your group adventures.

“Life is short, and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

There’s a massive planet to behold; share its discovery with special people.

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

Go encounter phenomenal places with treasured people to truly enjoy the fullness of life.

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

The more curious you and your travel companions are about the world, the more you’ll reap in return.

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

When you travel, you interact with different people and often make new lifelong friends in the most fascinating parts of the world.

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

Meeting people and forming genuine connections are central to your biggest travel takeaways.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

I love travel memes and find funny short-trip quotes just as amusing. There will be travel escapades that feature unexpected, unplanned, or hilarious quirks. They’re part of the stories you’ll share over and over. So why not use clever short quotes to capture the humour?

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

Approach each trip with enduring enthusiasm and energy.

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

Always try to enjoy every aspect of the full journey, not just the final destination.

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

You might not be able to see it all, but you can certainly try.

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

While partying is fun, don’t let it hinder the full scope of your travel experiences.

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

This is one of the most poetic ways to describe what wanderlust means for some people.

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

Embrace trips that are nothing like what you’re used to at home; put the comfort zone on the back burner.

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

Let spontaneity drive all the elements of the voyage from start to finish.

Short Travelling Quotes | The Final Say

There it is, some of the best, unique, funny, inspirational, and Insta-worthy short quotes about travelling the world. With this fun list of what to say to inspire an unforgettable vacay, it’s time to let your passport do all the talking.

Whether your next dream destination is an island escape, a trip to a flashy city, or a desert retreat, you’ve got meaningful short quips to capture all your memorable moments.

If your upcoming journey involves exciting, action-packed activities, here are winning adventure quotes to match your one-of-a-kind holiday exploits.

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101 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

Travel quotes inspire me to remember why it was all worth it it in the first place.

Travel can seem like this glamorous adventure filled with perfect Kodak moments without a care in the world.

Any real traveler knows that this could not be further from the truth.

Traveling involves money, planning, creativity, energy, and a willingness to be uncomfortable.

To be a clean slate and allow the realities of the world to teach you something you cannot learn in a book.

I hope that these travel quotes inspire your wanderlust, and ignite your passion to see the world.

I scoured the internet and handpicked 101 travel quotes that spoke to me the most!

• “Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
• “ Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
• “ Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”  –Unknown
• “ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustav Flaubert
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett
• “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
• “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

• “Paris is always a good idea.” ―  Audrey Hepburn
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
• “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― Agustine of Hippo
• “A person susceptible to “ wanderlust ” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
• “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” ― Isabelle Eberhardt
• “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “ Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

• “The journey is the destination.” ― Dan Eldon
• “ Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
• “Oh the places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
• “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
• “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
• “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― K. Chesterton
• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ― Mark Twain
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “ Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

• “But that’s the glory of foreign travel , as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” ― Bill Bryson
• “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
• “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” ― Anthony Bourdain
• “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
• “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
• “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
• “The journey itself is my home.” ― Matsuo Basho
• “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.” ― Anthony Bourdain

• “Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” ― Thor Heyerdahl
• “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel , change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” ― Kenneth Grahame
• “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” ― Jodi Picoult
• “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” ― Tahir Shah
• “Most travel , and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.” ― Paul Theroux
• “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.” ― Elizabeth Bishop
• “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” ― Pico Iyer
• “You thought too hard. Same with travel . You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” ― Gayle Forman
• “The best traveler is one without a camera.” ― Kamand Kojouri

• “He who would travel happily must travel light.”  ― Antoine de St. Exupery
• One’s destination is never a place. It’s a new way of seeing things. ― Henry Miller
• You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. ― Dr. Suess
• There’s the whole world at your feet. ― Mary Poppins
• “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
• “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” ― Agnes Repplier
• “We travel , some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
• “ Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

• “ Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”  ― Saint Augustine
• “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
• “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by”  — Robert Frost
• “The best education I have ever received was through travel .” ― Lisa Ling
• “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.”  — Hilaire Belloc
• “I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.”  —  Karamo Brown
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled .” – Mohammed
• “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” ―  Hypatia
• “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
• “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
• “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” ― Chris Humphrey
• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
• “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”  ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ― Matthew Karsten
• “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
• “Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it’s actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.” ― Meghan Markle
• “ Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
• “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”  – Caroline Myss

• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
• “ Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”  – Paulo Coelho
• “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”  ― Jack Kerouac
• “There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel . I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.” ― Emilio Estevez
• “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
• “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”  – Unknown
• “Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.”  ― Anthony Bourdain
• Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.” ― Virginia Postrel
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” ― Unknown
• “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”  ― Ray Bradbury

What was your favorite quote from this list? Have any other travel and wanderlust quotes that you love? Let me know in the comments below!

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51 comments.

What a wonderful list of quotes! My favorite is probably the first one!

Thank you for reading!

As a fellow world traveler, I simply adore travel quotes! Thank you for posting!! 🙂

You’re very welcome!

Great quotes! I am saving this for later!

I just love your blog! Your picture with the elephants made me smile!! This post really makes you think about traveling; the quotes from so many travelers! loved it!!

Wow thank you for your very kind words!

I liked, “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” My fiance and I are new full-time RVers who are hoping to embrace the travel life without having to worry about a 9-5 office job.

Wow, that’s very exciting!

Jennifer Morrison

I agree with the Hans Christian Andersen quote! Sadly, I put myself on a travel moratorium for two years. UGH. But, it is going to mean Italy in 2020, so it is totally worth it!

I can’t wait to go to Italy one day. I’m excited for you!

Lie reading about travel

So many beautiful words and so many places to see!

Thank you for visiting!

I love quotes and I love travel, so this post is perfect! I can’t wait for my next big trip.

Thank you so much!

Tricia Snow

I never knew there were so many travel quotes! Thank you for sharing!

You’re welcome!

Traveling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer!! 100% agree. We try to be frugal to save for our kids and retirement but spend money every year on vacation. Great to see other cultures, relax, and try new foods.

A good vacation, when done right, can be priceless!

Your post makes me want to leave for a trip right now! Soon very soon.

I highly encourage it!

OH MY GOODNESS! What a great list! I love this blog! I am a wanderlust! will be coming back to these quotes on a regular basis!

Thank you so much! I would love if you came back 🙂

These are so great! There are so many that I loved!

Kathryn at QuestFor47

Well now I just want to pack my bags and get out there! Too bad I have to be at work in a couple hours! Thanks for sharing!

Tonya @ the Writer Mom

That’s a lot of travel quotes! Very inspiring.

Kathy Phillips

I love these quotes. Especially the one about seeing things and people with new eyes. That is so true.

Great list! This must have taken you a while to compile!

Thanks! And yes, it took me 2 or 3 days!

Clarissa Miller

All of these quotes are so inspiring! Now I want to take a trip!

Arianny Rodriguez

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” is my favorite!

I love all of these quotes! I especially love the I e that says travelling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer 🙂

Im always looking for new quotes for my IG Page. Thanks so much.

What an amazing list of fantastic quotes!!! I love the one about travel instilling a sense of modesty because it shows us the tiny place we occupy in this world. Sooo true.

I love that one too!

I love the quote that says that the road will always be there, you have to choose to take it. It reminds me of Glinda the good witch in the Wizard of Oz, when she tells Dorothy that she’s always had the power. It is within us.

That’s a great comparison!

Love these quotes! I travel to experience new adventures. Travel for sake of traveling sounds like me.

Thanks for visiting!

Where is your next destination, Dominique?

Hopefully, I’ll be traveling to Italy, France, and England next month!

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100 Quotes About Travel to Inspire Your Next Adventure

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. Adventure is out there. – Charles Muntz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. There is a world elsewhere. – Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Gael Attal

Remember that you are the ship, and you’re meant to experience this beautiful, magical world while you’re here!

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

No matter how many photos you see or stories you hear, nothing beats seeing a place in person!

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

This travel saying reminds us that experiencing unfamiliar places and cultures is one of the best ways to learn.

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

This inspirational travel quote is about taking charge of your life and, as a traveler, getting off the beaten path to discover new places.

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

A lot of people think about investing in their career or home, but the life experience you get through traveling is one of the greatest investments. The insight, perspective, and resilience you gain can help you in all facets of life.

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

This tried and true travel quote is another one that can inspire you to push past fears and embrace adventure! And remember, everyone’s comfort zone is different!

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

While taking a trip requires money, this inspirational travel quote reminds us that you also need the courage to leave behind familiarity for adventure.

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

Frost was a poet who understood the importance of charting your own path rather than following the crowd. That principle applies to traveling too, as you can find all kinds of unique places when you venture away from the tourist traps.

18. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous

This is one of the best travel quotes because it sums up why so many people pack their bags. When we’re traveling, we’re fully living !

Quotes about traveling the world

These quotes about traveling to new places will ignite your desire to pack up and go somewhere new!

19. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – Melody Truong

Here is a famous travel quote that can spark wanderlust in anyone, especially travel junkies like us!

20. It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it. – J.D. Andrews

Even if you can only go to the next town over, it’s always worth it to visit a new place and see something different.

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

This is another travel quote that points out how you need to face some fears to travel to new destinations. Of course, it’s totally worth it!

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

Here is a wonderful metaphor that can motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and go someplace new. Travel always reminds us that the world doesn’t revolve around us, and there are so many different ways of life.

23. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens

This simple travel quote truly needs no explanation. When you feel down or uninspired, the world is there in all its natural beauty.

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

This quote about traveling the world can shift our perspective to see the big picture.

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

Some people live to travel, and they get bored when they’re in one place for too long. If that’s you, know that you’re not alone!

26. Travel because life is short, and the world is huge. – Anonymous

If you need an inspiring travel quote , here it is!

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

This travel quote is also about the big picture. If you’ve ever stood on the edge of a cliff or sailed in the middle of the ocean, you know that sensation of feeling ridiculously small in a big world.

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

A wonderful quote about traveling the world , this sentence captures the feeling of taking a piece of your travels with you while leaving a part of you behind .

Quotes about travel & adventure

These quotes are for travel lovers who crave their next adventure. If you’re ready to indulge your wanderlust, keep reading this adventure sayings !

29. Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi

This travel quote will resonate with many digital nomads and explorers. Waking up in a new place and experiencing a different culture may be jarring at first, but that kind of adventure is much better than doing the same thing every day.

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

Anyone who has traveled will agree that this wanderlust quote is 100% true.

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

Life is full of adventures and things to see, and if you’re curious enough, you’ll experience them all!

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

Odds are, the most interesting and fulfilled people you’ve met have spent more time seeing the world than buying things.

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

This is one of the best travel quotes for a burst of inspiration.

34. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Unknown

While it’s pragmatic to have both, it’s true that you gain something when you travel that you don’t get anywhere else.

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

Helen Keller’s motivational travel quote applies to life in general, so whatever the word adventure means to you, go for it!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! After a trip, you always come home with a story or two to tell, and those tales stay with you for life.

37. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. – Mark Twain

This is a simple travel quote to motivate you. Have you ever met anyone who said they regretted traveling?

Some of the best trips are the ones you take with good friends. I’m sure these travel quotes will inspire you to hit the road with your best friends. These are my favorite quotes about traveling with friends .

38. A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you. – Unknown

Whoever said this trip quote knows what it’s like to have that best friend who will explore the world and navigate life with you.

39. Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown

Here is another fun quote about traveling with friends . Do you have that bestie that’s always ready for the next adventure?

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

I’m sure everyone can relate to this funny travel quote . When you take a trip with someone, you learn a lot about them, yourself, and your relationship!

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

As this travel quote suggests, one of the best parts of taking a trip isn’t the destination, but who you’re with.

42. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures. – Anonymous

I don’t think anyone can argue against the idea that adventure and friendship are two of the best things in life!

43. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas. – Thelma and Louise

This cute saying is the perfect travel quote to inspire your next road trip!

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

This life travel quote is an excellent reminder of how people can connect across cultures, countries, and languages. One of the best things about traveling is that it introduces you to diverse ways of seeing the world and living life, and of course, new friends.

45. Travel is better with friends. – Unknown

This travel quote needs no explanation. While a solo trip can be fun now and then, traveling with friends is one of the best experiences in life.

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

Those who love to explore will understand the depth of this quote. Traveling is the best way to find yourself, others, and new insights about the world.

Traveling with friends is great, but if you have a significant other, it’s a unique experience. Let these couples’ travel quotes encourage you to take a journey with your partner!

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

This couples’ travel quote is an important one. As with life and relationships, there are many things out of our control, and the same goes for traveling. However, that doesn’t mean the trip isn’t worthwhile!

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

This excerpt from Alice in Wonderland makes for a wonderful travel quote . Money gets spent, clothes get tattered, and cars break down, but adventures give you memories that last forever.

49. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world. – Unknown

I love this quote about traveling together because you can share perspectives and gain even more from your trip.

50. In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schulz

Here is a beautiful quote about traveling with a partner or friend that I 100% agree with!

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

Although it’s a funny travel quote , it’s quite true!

52. No road is long with good company. – Turkish proverb

I love this proverb about travel because no matter where you’re going, as long as you have a loved one beside you, it’ll be okay.

53. Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more. – Unknown

This is another great travel quote for couples or friends. A solo adventure can be fun, but it’s different from sharing travel experiences with someone you love.

54. Together is our favorite place to be. – Unknown

This quote about travel and love is so heartwarming. Having your partner by your side can make any trip more magical, although simply being in each other’s presence is often enough.

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

This longer travel quote is an interesting analogy that frequent travelers might relate to. Visiting new lands and meeting new people is like flirting; as soon as you start to connect, you move onto a different location.

56. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault

Whether or not you believe in soulmates, it’s true that the best partner is the one we can go on adventures with.

Taking a trip as a family can be a bonding experience, as well as frustrating and memorable! These quotes about family vacations are funny and heartwarming, so they perfectly capture all facets of traveling with your kids.

57. A family that travels together stays together. – Unknown

Some travel quotes and sayings are cute and sweet, like this one. Family trips can be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together and strengthen bonds.

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

While it’s a funny travel quote , this saying can also correspond to family life. Sometimes families get tied into a routine and lose touch with each other. Taking a trip together disrupts the monotony and brings everyone closer.

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

If you ask any adventurous spirit, they’ll agree that love and travel is all you need!

60. Not all classrooms have 4 walls. – Unknown

I think this is one of the top travel quotes , and it’s especially pertinent to families. Sometimes, parents get nervous about letting their kids travel, but seeing a new place and a unique way of life is one of the most fulfilling ways to educate oneself.

61. Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. – Unknown

A contemplative quote about travel and life , this simple sentence encourages us to go on adventures while we can. After all, when we’re old, it’ll be easier to work than to hop on a plane!

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

This is such a cute couples’ travel quote to remind us that home is the people we love, not a specific place.

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

This is one of the sweetest travel quotes for families . While kids need stability, they also have vivid imaginations. Traveling with their parents can awaken their childlike wonder and instill in them a sense of adventure.

If you’ve ever taken a solo trip, you know that it’s one of the most life-changing experiences. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of traveling alone yet, hopefully, these quotes about solo trips can inspire you!

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

This is a beautiful travel quote about how you change as a person when you wake up in an unfamiliar environment. Going through daily life in a different place truly alters the way you view the bigger picture.

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

If you’re thinking of going on a solo adventure and need a nudge, consider this quote about traveling alone . Sometimes, going on a trip with people we know can distract us from the full experience of discovering a new place.

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

Here is another simple travel quote that has a deeper meaning. Sometimes, we have to get lost and break away from what’s familiar in order to truly meet ourselves.

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

Something that digital nomads crave is the feeling of being lost or a stranger in a new land. For these people, there is no other feeling like it!

68. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was one of the most beloved world travelers, so his adventure travel quote resonates deeply. The best thing about traveling is that you sprinkle a bit of yourself everywhere you go, and you bring a bit of that place back with you.

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

Read between the lines of this travel quote , and it makes so much sense. The more you stray from what you know, the more you learn about yourself, and the world!

70. When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

I agree that taking a trip with friends or a partner is awesome, but when you travel alone, you have so much time to get to know yourself.

Funny travel quotes

The deep, motivational sayings are great, but sometimes a funny travel quote is all you need to inspire your next adventure!

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

This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! Where is your next adventure going to be?

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

This short and sweet saying is another reminder that it’s often the journey – not the destination – that matters most.

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

It could be Europe or a few miles from your house, but when you travel, you gain new insights into yourself – your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, everything.

74. I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! – Unknown

This silly travel quote is funny , but all too true!

75. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho

Yes, stability is important, but adventure is fulfilling and just as essential.

76. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! – Unknown

Here’s another lighthearted travel quote to remind you to book that vacation!

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

This travel quote is funny yet wise. Even though we are more connected than ever, you truly don’t understand a place until you step foot there yourself.

78. You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… – Unknown

You can’t deny that this funny travel vacation quote is true !

Quotes about wanderlust

The best travel quotes plant a seed in your mind, a will in your heart, and a spark in your spirit. I’m sure these motivational quotes about traveling the world will awaken your inner wanderer!

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

This one is for the wanderers and frequent travelers. While there is a place for planning and preparation, some of the best trips are those with limited foresight.

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

One of the best quotes on traveling , this saying gets to the root of why so many people love to travel. Visiting a new destination opens us up to all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, people, and lessons.

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

This is another travel quote that’s funny and deep. You can plan your trip, but things never go 100% according to plan, and you often end up with experiences you didn’t expect!

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

Goodman’s quote about travel and happiness reminds us that the journey is more important than the destination.

83. Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world.

Does this definition of wanderlust resonate with you? Which part of the world do you want to see next?

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

Proust’s motivational quote about traveling rings true. The more you travel, the more you open your mind and heart.

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

Forget souvenirs; this travel quote reminds us that the best thing you gain from a trip is the richness of the experience.

86. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination. – Unknown

It doesn’t matter if that destination is near or far, as long as it’s someplace new .

Quotes about wandering

Similar to the wanderlust quotes , these sayings appeal to those with a nomadic spirit. Which one is your favorite?

87. It is better to travel than to arrive. – Buddha

The Buddha’s quote points out that the true treasure is the journey itself.

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

Tolkien’s words remain one of the most popular quotes about wandering . Some people are simply born to travel and visit different lands!

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

Sometimes, a destination can seem strange and intimidating, but it’s simply a new adventure waiting for you!

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

I think this travel quote about nature makes a good point. When we explore all the beautiful natural places in the world, we gain a deeper appreciation for this planet.

91. The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton

This travel quote is self-explanatory, but travel lovers will agree that the best moments of their lives were probably while they were exploring.

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

There is something to this quote about travel and life . It describes how we can wander, either by hopping from one place to another or by changing up certain aspects of our lives. However, these are usually distractions, and it’s when we travel wholeheartedly that we feel fulfilled .

Other travel quotes for Instagram

This last section of trip quotes is perfect for sharing on social media or keeping around the house.

93. Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! – Hostelgeeks

Would you rather see the world than have fancy things? Me too!

94. Measure life by countries, not years. – Unknown

If you love to travel, you’ll appreciate this one. It’s a quote for travel and life and says that it’s not about how long you live; it’s about how well you live!

95. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy. – Unknown

I bet you don’t need more convincing to take a tropical vacation, but this beachy travel quote is a good one!

96. The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. – Henry David Thoreau

When you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and get off the beaten path, you find yourself having experiences of which you wouldn’t even dream!

97. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. – Anonymous

This travel quote doesn’t need an explanation; there are so many gorgeous places to see in this world.

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

This short travel quote is straight to the point!

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

This inspirational travel quote is definitely worth sharing. The more we travel, the more we learn about different people and ways of life. And that leads to more understanding and tolerance, which is a beautiful thing!

100. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer

Piggybacking off the previous travel quote , this sentence encapsulates the idea that adventuring requires an open mind.

I hope you loved these travel quotes and sayings! If they inspired you to go on an adventure or sparked your wanderlust, let me know. Also, what are some good travel quotes you’ve heard? Leave me a comment below to share your favorites!

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10 replies on “ 100 Quotes About Travel to Inspire Your Next Adventure ”

Traveling opens doors to new perspectives and unforgettable experiences. These quotes ignite my wanderlust and remind me of the endless adventures awaiting discovery. Let’s explore

Hi Tapu, Thanks so much! I 100% agree…travel is the best way to learn new things about the world and ourselves. Happy travelling 😉

I have liked the content because it really reveals to me that travelling is the therapy for peace of mind whenever it is practiced.

Hi Janane, Yes, I 100% agree! 🙂

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

Posted on Last updated: November 10, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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Famous travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

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

Travel the world quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adventure travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes about travelling & coming home

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

My personal favourite travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel

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

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

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

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Wednesday 22nd of May 2019

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

Tuesday 28th of May 2019

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

Saturday 18th of May 2019

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

Monday 27th of May 2019

That's one of my favourites too :)

Marc Deschamps

Wednesday 17th of October 2018

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

Monday 22nd of October 2018

One of my favourite quotes too :)

Brian & Noelle

Thursday 30th of August 2018

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

Those are amongst my favourite too! :)

Tuesday 7th of August 2018

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

Saturday 24th of November 2018

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

Saturday 18th of August 2018

Another beautiful travel quote!

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Travel Quotes: Short Escape Quotes

Here's 50 of the best short travel quotes and sayings to inspire your next adventure! These short quotes about travel will motivate you to see more of the world!

Travel Quotes Short

The power of a short travel caption or quote is not to be underestimated. They inspire us to think outside the box, and act as a reminder that there is more to the world.

Often, the more concise the trip quotations, the more memorable and inspirational they are.

Travel quotes remind us that we get to see new places, meet new people and experience how different cultures live.

They can also inspire us to explore ourselves, learn more about our past and find out who we really are.

Whether you're planning your first big RTW backpacking trip, want to cycle from Alaska to Argentina , or are saving for your next weekend city break , you'll love these short travel quotes!

We've put 50 of the best together with some inspiring images, which are just the things to get you dreaming of faraway places.

Short Travel Quotes

Here's our first 10 emotionally powerful travel quotes from the collection. We hope they make you laugh, fire up your wanderlust, and open your mind to a summer of change!

They feature some humorous, insightful, wise and popular sayings, paired with a picture that will make you want to plan your next break right now.

Life is short – travel and see the world. Let us know what you think to these motivational and positive vibes!

“Adventure is worthwhile.”

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

– Oscar Wilde

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

– Helen Keller

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

– John Steinbeck

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“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

– Peter Hoeg

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

– Eugene Fodor

“It’s only a short trip, enjoy it!” – Dave Briggs

Short Escape Quotes

“Oh the places you’ll go.”

– Dr. Seuss

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

– Chief Seattle

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

– Susan Sontag

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

– Herman Melville

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Short Travel Sayings

Travel can inspire wonder in almost every person on planet earth. It's amazing when you look at nature or ancient cities… but also when you look into the faces of other humans around the world!

Here's our next section of 10 perfect and inspiring quotes about traveling . It doesn't matter if you are looking for weekend getaway quotes, or timeless phrases for travelers.

We love this first one, because really when you travel, you learn as much about yourself and life as the world around you. True story!

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”

– Matthew Karsten

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself”

– David Mitchell

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

– Stephen Covey

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

– Paolo Coelho

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

“To travel is to live.”

– Hans Christian Andersen

“The journey is my home.”

– Muriel Rukeyser

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

– Euripides

 “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“He travels fastest who travels alone.”

Short Quotes About Travel

Many of these handpicked short travel quotes also double up as travel proverbs and lessons we can carry in every day life.

You don't need to be traveling in order to apply some of these philosophies in your everyday life. Take this next short travel quote as an example.

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”

– Moslih Eddin Saadi

“Jet lag is for amateurs.”

– Dick Clark

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

– George Bernard Shaw

 “Travel teaches toleration.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

“…life is short and the world is wide.”

– Simon Raven

“Paris is always a good idea”

— Audrey Hepburn

“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

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.”

— J.D. Andrews

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around for a while, you could miss it.”

— Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”

— Freya Stark

Travel Quotes

Have these short travelling quotes inspired some wanderlust in you yet? They certainly made us feel like we'd topped the romantic fuel tank up!

“The world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.”

— John Muir

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

— Wallace Stevens

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

— Mark Twain

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

— Walter Mitty, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Life offers you a thousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”

— Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun

“Call your mom, without her you would not be traveling today”

— Natasha Alden

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul”

― Jaime Lyn Beatty

“My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been”

– Anonymous

“Freedom. Only those deprived of it know what it really is”

– Timothy Cavendish, Cloud Atlas

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try”

— Seth Godin

Trip Quotes In English

Here are some memorable trip quotes you can use with your travel status update:

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

– Paul Theroux

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Anatole France

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

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

Travel Sayings And Quotes

Here's our final 10 quotes from our selection of 50 of the best short trip quotes. The idea behind collecting these top short travel phrases is to capture the essence of seeing more of the world.

We hope we've saved the best until last!

“Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien.

“To Travel Is To Live”

– Hans Christian Andersen.

“If You Think Adventures Are Dangerous, Try Routine: It’s Lethal.”

– Paulo Coelho.

Travel Short Captions

“The Goal Is To Die With Memories Not Dreams”

“Don’t Listen To What They Say. Go See.”

– Chinese Proverb.

“I Haven’t Been Everywhere, But It’s On My List.”

– Susan Sontag.

“Dare To Live The Life You’ve Always Wanted.”

“Collect Moments, Not Things.”

– Aarti Khurana

“The Journey Not The Arrival Matters.”

– T.S. Eliot

“All You Need Is Love And A Passport.”

Short Quotes On Travel

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

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

When you pack: Take half the clothes and twice the money

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination

Traveling Quotes

The best quotes about traveling often capture the feeling of wanderlust, inspiring us to step out of our comfort zone, push boundaries and explore new places. They also remind us that experiences are worth more than possessions.

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

― Ibn Battuta

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

– Andre Gide

“Once a year go some place you've never been before”

― Dalai Lama

Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.

— Anonymous

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination

― Roy M. Goodman

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles

― Tim Cahill

Travel is my therapy

The earth has music for those who listen

Wander often wonder always

One Word Short Travel Quotes

Looking for something simple to add to an adventure-defining photo to go on Instagram? 

• Expeditionist
• Globetrotter
• Excursionist
• Safari-goer
• Trailblazer
• Odyssey-seeker

Inspiring Travel Sayings and Getaway Quotes

Take a look at these other collections of cute short quotes for even more travel inspiration. Empower your inner traveler today!:

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100+ Vacation Quotes That Will Fuel Your Wanderlust

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Inspiring Vacation Quotes

Motivational travel quotes, uplifting vacation quotes, family vacation quotes, funny vacation quotes, short vacation quotes for instagram, i need a vacation quotes, beach vacation quotes, summer vacation quotes, vacation quotes with friends, end of vacation quotes, christmas vacation quotes.

If you’re anything like me, then you are a passionate traveler who loves to explore the world. Whether you’re planning an upcoming vacation or dreaming about a future getaway, these inspiring vacation quotes are sure to get you in the mood for an adventure!

At its core, travel is about experiencing new places, meeting new people, and making memories that last a lifetime. So if you’re looking for some motivation and inspiration to get you ready for your next trip, look no further than these uplifting vacation quotes.

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
• “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

• “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
• “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Earl Wilson
• “There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
• “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” – Evan Esar

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• “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
• “Traveling is like reading a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Elbert Hubbard
• “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” – Jack Adam Weber
• “Family: where life begins and love never ends.” – Unknown
• “Family vacations: because making memories is more important than making money.” – Unknown
• “A family vacation is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get, but it’s always sweet!” – Unknown
• “Vacation time is family bonding time.” – Unknown
• “In the end, kids won’t remember the fancy hotel, but they will remember the time spent with family.” – Unknown
• “Family vacations are like a rollercoaster ride – filled with ups, downs, and lots of screaming!” – Unknown
• “Family vacations: creating memories that will last a lifetime.” – Unknown
• “Family vacations: where parents relax and kids re-energize.” – Unknown
• “Vacations with kids are like a workout – exhausting but totally worth it!” – Unknown
• “Family vacations: the only time when you’re willing to pay for chaos and call it fun!” – Unknown
• “Vacation: A time when you take twice the clothes and half the money that you need.” – Unknown
• “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark
• “I need a vacation so long, I forget my email password.” – Unknown
• “Vacation calories don’t count!” – Unknown
• “Life’s a beach, enjoy the waves!” – Unknown
• I don’t need therapy, I just need a vacation.” – Unknown
• “Travel is like a dessert – it’s always a good idea to save room for it.” – Robert Orben
• “Traveling: where you spend money to be tired and stressed, but also have the time of your life!” – Unknown
• “Vacation mode: On. Adulting mode: Off.” – Unknown
• “My goal in life is to have a passport full of stamps and a house full of cats.” – Unknown
• “Jet lag is just my body’s way of reminding me that I’m out of my comfort zone.” – Unknown
• “I’ve got 99 problems, but a beach ain’t one!” – Unknown

• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
• “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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• “I want to see the world, travel to new places, and experience different cultures. Life is too short to stay in one place.” – Nina Arianda
• “I need a vacation like yesterday.” – Unknown
• “Take me to that place where flip flops are mandatory and cocktails are free.” – Unknown
• “I need a vacation to recover from my vacation.” – Unknown
• “I need a vacation to escape from adulting.” – Unknown
• “I need a vacation to recharge my sanity.” – Unknown
• “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!” – Lea Mishell

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• “Life’s a beach, enjoy the waves.” – Unknown
• “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” – Nina Arianda
• “Sun, sand, and salty air – the perfect beach affair.” – Unknown
• “Beach please!” – Unknown
• “I’m not a mermaid, but I sure do love the beach!” – Unknown
• “Tropic like it’s hot!” – Unknown
• “Seas the day!” – Unknown
• “B.E.A.C.H.: Best Escape Anyone Can Have.” – Unknown
• “Salt in the air, sand in my hair.” – Unknown
• “The beach is calling, and I must go.” – Unknown
• “Life is better in flip-flops.” – Unknown

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• “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
• “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.” – Unknown
• “Summertime is the season when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
• “A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish Proverb
• “Summer is a state of mind.” – Unknown
• “Summer should get a speeding ticket.” – Unknown
• “Beach days and starry nights.” – Unknown
• “Make waves, not excuses!” – Unknown
• “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.” – Unknown
• “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben

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• “Good friends and great adventures make the best vacation memories.” – Unknown
• “Vacationing with friends: because great stories start with ‘Remember that time when…'” – Unknown
• “Friends who travel together, stay together.” – Unknown
• “The best kind of therapy is a vacation with friends.” – Unknown
• “Vacationing with friends is like a treasure hunt – you never know what you’ll find, but it’s always a blast!” – Unknown
• “Friends + Vacation = Epic adventures and unforgettable memories.” – Unknown
• “Sun, sand, and friends hand in hand – the perfect vacation dreamland.” – Unknown
• “Life is short, but vacations with friends make it sweet and memorable.” – Unknown
• “Laughter is the soundtrack of great vacations with friends.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with friends: the best kind of therapy for the soul.” – Unknown

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• “Vacation may be over, but memories last forever.” – Unknown
• “Farewell, beachy days and sunny rays. Until next time!” – Unknown
• “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” – Leo Tolstoy
• “Back to reality, but grateful for the vacation escape.” – Unknown
• “The end of a vacation is just the beginning of planning the next one!” – Unknown
• “Vacation may have ended, but the wanderlust continues.” – Unknown
• “Adios, vacation mode. Hello, adulting mode.” – Unknown
• “Time to bid adieu to lazy days and carefree ways. Until we meet again, vacation!” – Unknown
• “Leaving with a suitcase full of memories and a heart full of joy.” – Unknown
• “As the vacation comes to an end, the memories will forever remain.” – Unknown
• “Vacation: an intermission from the routine, a break from the ordinary. Until next time, adieu!” – Unknown

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• “It’s the most wonderful time of the year, especially on vacation!” – Unknown
• “Christmas magic is even more enchanting on a vacation getaway.” – Unknown
• “Dreaming of a white Christmas, and a sandy beach to go with it!” – Unknown
• “Jingle all the way to the beach and make it a merry vacation!” – Unknown
• “Tis the season to relax and unwind on a holiday vacation.” – Unknown
• “Christmas is not just a day, it’s a state of mind – especially when you’re on vacation!” – Unknown
• “Christmas vacation: where joy meets relaxation and holiday cheer is in the air.” – Unknown
• “Escape the winter chill and indulge in some sunny Christmas thrill on a vacation trip.” – Unknown
• “Christmas lights and palm trees make the perfect holiday scene on a vacation dream.” – Unknown
• “Take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle, and enjoy a Christmas vacation with peace and tranquility.” – Unknown