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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

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

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

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

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

Famous travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes of All Time

O ne of these travel quotes may get you on the road again and/or be a mantra to keep you exploring the world for years to come. Here are the 50 most inspiring travel quotes of all time:

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

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

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

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

5. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. “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

14. “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

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

16. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

17. “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

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

19. “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

20. “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

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

22. “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

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

24. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42. “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

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

44. “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

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

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

47. “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

48. “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

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

50. “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

A version of this article about travel quotes was previously published on March 7, 2008 and was updated on March 28th, 2019.

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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 By Famous Authors

This collection of the best quotes about travel by famous writers and public figures can help inspire and motivate your wanderlust.

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This collection of the most famous travel related quotes draws together the words of philosophers, adventurers, explorers and writers. Each one is inspiring, especially as they are paired with some great travel pictures!

If you feel the travel bug, but are still in the planning stages for your trip, it's quotes like these that will keep your wanderlust alive. Remember, life begins at the end of your comfort zone!

Famous Travel Quotes

1. Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.

― Jamie Lyn Beatty

2. Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. 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

4. Adventure is worthwhile.

– Aesop

5. Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

― Ibn Battuta

6. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

― Richard Francis Burton

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

– Andre Gide

8. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

– Chief Seattle

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9. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

– Lao Tzu

10. Once a year go some place you've never been before

― Dalai Lama

11. A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.  

― Tim Cahill

12. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

– Helen Keller

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

– Lin Yutang

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

~Andre Gide

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

– Jack Kerouac

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

– Henry Miller

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

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

– James Michener

19. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

– Freya Stark

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

– Martin Buber

21. Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Agustine of Hippo

23. Not all those who wander are lost.

-J .R.R. Tolkien

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24. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

– Anaïs Nin

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

26. 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

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

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

29. Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag

– Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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

– Susan Heller

31. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world

– Gustave Flaubert

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32. 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

33. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

35. The journey not the arrival matters.

― T.S. Eliot

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

– Nyssa P. Chopra

37. If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. 

– Raymond Floyd

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

–  Marcel Proust

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

– Ella Maillart

40. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

– Swami Vivekananda

41. I love to travel, but hate to arrive

– Albert Einstein

42. It matters not where or how far you travel,–the farther commonly the worse,–but how much alive you are.

― Henry David Thoreau

43. A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

– Stephen Hawking

44. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

– Bob Dylan

45. Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

46. Travel teaches toleration.

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Anatole France

48. I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

– Henry Rollins

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49. I want to see friends more and travel more.

– Jennifer Aniston

50. I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

– Hillary Clinton

51. We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

– Angelina Jolie

52. Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

– Chief Joseph

53. You should make travel as comfortable as possible.

– Tom Segura

54. Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

55. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

– Diane von Furstenberg

56. Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

– Paul Theroux

57. My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

– Lilly Singh

58. The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

– Xun Kuang

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59. An English man does not travel to see English men.

– Laurence Sterne

60. My ideal travel companions are my family.

– Pharrell Williams

61. I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

– Blake Lively

62. Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.

– Greg Gutfeld

63. When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

– Maria Sharapova

64. Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

– Debbie Reynolds

65. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

– Ernest Hemingway

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

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

– Dan Rather

68. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

– Mary Anne Radmacher

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What did Mark Twain say about travel?

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.

What are best quotes in travel?

Some of the best travel quotes include: ‘Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer' – Anonymous. ‘The journey is my home' – Muriel Rukeyser. ‘To travel is to live' – Hans Christian Anderson. ‘It feels good to be lost in the right direction' – Unknown. ‘Life is a journey, not a destination' – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Why do people travel?

Many of us have our own motives for traveling: wanderlust, the desire to experience another culture, or an urge to experience something new. One quote that sums it up is – We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

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With spring break just around the corner, it's about time to pack up your suitcase and head off on an adventure. If you're anything like me, half the fun of traveling is curating your Instagram. I adore editing my photos and pairing them with beautiful words. I like to find a caption that captures the spirit of the photo and what I was thinking about as I took it. And, as a reader, I frequently use quotes from books along with my Instagram posts. When I use a line from literature in context of my photos, I find it lends a new perspective to both the quote and the photo.

Of course, travel is a major theme in books. Literature is filled with quests and adventures aplenty, and there's no better travel agent than your local library. All you have to do is open a book, and there is always a journey waiting for you. Literature in itself is inherently a way to travel. And with both, you're constantly making discoveries about yourself and your inner world.

Whether you're headed for the beach, or your off to trek across a new country, you're going to want to be sure to document your trip the right way so that your memories can last forever:

“Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.”

― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

— Mary Oliver, "That Summer Day"

"Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”

― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”

― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.”

― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

"Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea."

― Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla

"Above all, be the heroine of your own life."

― Nora Ephron

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

― Anaïs Nin

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

― Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go!

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”

― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"We'll never know exactly why we are, what we are, and so on. All you can do is follow your path all the way to the wilderness, and then you continue along because that's what must be.”

― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

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

― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

"I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

― Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia

"Do I dare disturb the universe?"

― T.S. Eliot, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "

"Let the world change you and you can change the world."

― Che Guevera, The Motorcycle Diaries

"To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong: I'll never be through with my life.”

― Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks

“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”

― Sharon Creech, The Wanderer

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The 80 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes of All-time

• “We travel just to travel.” — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “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
• “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
• “Don’t be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.” — National Geographic’s Andrew Evans
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
• “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
• “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
• – Katharine Butler Hathaway
• “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 ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal
• “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
• “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
• “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
• ‎”If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right.” — Roland Gau
• “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” — Oscar Wilde
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener
• “He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” — Dutch proverb
• 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
• “Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” — Lily Leung
• “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
• “No matter where you go, there you are.”
• “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
• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharal Nehru
• “How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.” — Spanish Proverb
• “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.” — Diane von Furstenberg
• “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
• “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
• “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” — Danny Kaye
• “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen
• “Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.” — Rolf Potts
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
• “The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.” — Lao-Tzu
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
• “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”— Gustave Flaubert
• “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
• “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” — Ross Morley
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
• “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” — Eudora Welty
• “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel
• “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” — Amelia E. Barr
• “Let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen closely.”
• “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs
• “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
• “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
• “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” — Glenn Clark
• ‎”Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men, instead, seek what they sought.” — Matsuo Basho
• “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide
• “Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson
• “You can see it for miles. Like, it goes over the hills and stuff ….but so does the M6.” – Karl Pilkington on the Great Wall of China
• “Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of colour without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream’s shadow.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald,  The Beautiful and Damned
• “ Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine.  So is Odessa.  London is a teenager, an urchin, and this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger
• “Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere” – Geoff Dyer,  Paris Trance
• ” I needed no better reason for the journey than to be exactly where I was, knowing what I knew. Those were the times when I felt full of natural wisdom, scratching at heaven’s very door.” – Ted Simon,  Jupiter’s Travels
• “The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.” – Rick Riordan,  The Lightning Thief
• “And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, what am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?” – Alain de Botton,  The Art of Travel
• “ 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,  On the Road
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “A new kind of heat, brutal and hard, carrying the smell of another continent. As I came down the mountain this heat piled up, pushing against me with blasts of sand, so that I walked half-blind, my tongue dry as a carob bean, obsessed once again by thirst. These were ominous days of nerve-bending sirocco, with peasants wrapped up to the eyes… but far down in the valley, running in slow green coils, I could see at last the tree-lined Guadalquivir.” – Laurie Lee,  As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
• “A journey is like a marriage.  The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it” – John Steinbeck,  Travels with Charley
• “Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.” – Alex Garland,  The Beach
• “Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.” – Jan Morris,  Venice
• “All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet’s hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.” – Paul Theroux,  The Great Railway Bazaar
• “I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.” – Colette
• “He won’t fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won’t fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.” – Spalding Gray
• “Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child’s transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.” – Gerald Durrell,  My Family and Other Animals
• “The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.” – Graham Greene
• “Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.” – Bruce Chatwin,  What Am I Doing Here?
• “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
• “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
• “With the palms zipping past and the big sun burning down on the road ahead, I had a flash of something I hadn’t felt since my first months in Europe. A mixture of ignorance, and a loose, what-the-hell kind of confidence that comes when a man picks up and begins to move in a hard, straight line toward an unknown horizon.” – Hunter S. Thompson,  The Rum Diary
• “We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure.” – Terry Darlington,  Narrow Dog to Carcassonne

Written by Ryan Lum

Ryan is an avid bucket lister. Travel, photography, blogging and adventure are some of his hobbies. He once went on a trip to Spain and was robbed of all his stuff except his clothes. No money, no insurance, no identification and no way to contact family and friends from back home. Did he end his trip? No way! He ended up running with the bulls in Pamplona the very next day.

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

Posted on Last updated: November 10, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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Famous travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

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

Travel the world quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adventure travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes about travelling & coming home

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

My personal favourite travel quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel

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

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

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

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Enjoyed reading the best inspirational travel quotes? Pin it!

Wednesday 22nd of May 2019

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

Tuesday 28th of May 2019

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

Saturday 18th of May 2019

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

Monday 27th of May 2019

That's one of my favourites too :)

Marc Deschamps

Wednesday 17th of October 2018

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

Monday 22nd of October 2018

One of my favourite quotes too :)

Brian & Noelle

Thursday 30th of August 2018

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

Those are amongst my favourite too! :)

Tuesday 7th of August 2018

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

Saturday 24th of November 2018

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

Saturday 18th of August 2018

Another beautiful travel quote!

101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures

Written By: The Planet D

Inspiration

Updated On: April 7, 2024

We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.

101 Best Travel Quotes

Famous travel quotes, adventure travel quotes, funny travel quotes.

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

Happy Travel Quotes

• Unique Travelling Quotes

Travel Quotes by Famous People

Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, we’ve been inspired to travel,  and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .

Favorite Travel Quotes

Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be it taking on a new project, opening a business, or enrolling in a course. When you do something that scares you a little, you can do something great.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow

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

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

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

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

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

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

Travel brings people together. It helps people understand other cultures and religions. What we think we know about other places is thrown out the window, once we land on their soil.

So get out there, meet other people and you’ll soon see that people around the world are just like you and me.

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

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

For life and travel, we all must follow our path without making excuses and we should never live with regrets.

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

Many people think traveling quotes are all about people escaping and dreaming. But to us, this quote captures exactly the essence of travel. We never traveled to escape life, we always traveled to find ourselves.

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

We all take trips, but most of the time the trip ends up taking a life of its own.

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

Perhaps people tell you not to go to a place because they think it is awful when it is really beautiful. Or perhaps someone constantly tells you how wonderful a destination is.

Go and see for yourself and make up your own mind. That’s what this says to me.

46. “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”

One of my favorite quotes about wanderlust. One of the things Dave and I are most thankful for is the fact that we never stopped dreaming.

If we settled (like we were supposed to in life) we’d still be working at our jobs thinking we weren’t allowed to have dreams once we reached a certain age. Never stop dreaming.

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

Isn’t this just the dream? I love it when I take a trip and clearly do not have a plan. That is when the real adventures happened in our travels.

48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss

It’s a short one, but oh it’s a good one. Whenever we meet someone that is starting to travel or is thinking of traveling, we always think of this quote by Dr. Suess.

These words make us think of adventure. Oh the Places You’ll Go! Doesn’t this make you excited to get out and explore thw world?

49. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

50. “life’s a journey, not a destination” ~aerosmith.

Okay so maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson deserves the credit for Life is a journey, not a destination, but we heard it first through Aerosmith, so I’m giving it to Aerosmith. Because I couldn’t find the proof anyway.

I’ll never forget being in Vietnam in 2003 and while sitting in a bar, they encouraged travelers to write their favorite quotes on its wall.

What did Dave choose? Life’s a journey, not a destination naturally. We have always lived by this motto and of course adventure is for everyone.

51. “Where to next?”

“Where will you travel next? How will travel change you and how will you change the world?”

52. “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson

Why does this travel quote resonate so much with us? Before we traveled, we felt that we never truly lived. The more we worked, the more exhausted and disconnected we felt. When we introduced travel into our lives, we felt alive again.

53. “I want to make memories all over the world”

To us, memories mean more than things. When we are out with friends, we have so much to talk about. It’s way more meaningful to have a memory to share than to show off a “thing.”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

54. “whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ mark twain.

Mark Twain is one of the greats when it comes to creating famous quotes about travel. We have always tried to live a life less ordinary and think outside the box. I do believe this has helped us have success in our business and our relationship.

55. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho

I think in today’s society this travel quote couldn’t be truer. Many people are quick to attack others through social media and everyone has an opinion.

But what about “being the change?” Positive leadership can be powerful.

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

We often have preconceived notions of what other countries are like. But once we visit a destination, we realize that we have it all wrong.

Travel helps us to understand and learn about different cultures and ways of life. We always encourage people to visit other countries to understand the people and cultures around the world.

It’s impossible to truly understand a place until you have met the people, and immersed in the culture.

57. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

Travel often opens our eyes to different ways of thinking and understanding the world. We as travel bloggers love to preach what we have learned to the world, but we also need to live by example.

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

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

I’ll never forget saying to Dave “I need meaning to my travels” when we first started traveling. It was by creating this blog, creating our videos, and creating our purpose to share our experience that I finally created myself.

60. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters

This is certainly one of the best motivational quotes that have to do with travel.

I often hear people complaining that they can never catch a break. But you know what? You can’t wait for things to happen, you have to make them happen.

61. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”

Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!

62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Don’t get lost in the crowd. Be an individual. Think big and be brave. Stand out and live life to the fullest.

63. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

All my life, I worked hard and dreamed of what I might do one day when I retire. Once I learned that doing what you love is happiness. We don’t have to dream about what might be one day.

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

Do you ever just stop and take a breath and look around? I am amazed at the little things. Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and start living today. From home!

65. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”

Dave and I feel that our hearts were truly made to travel the world. Even when we worked in the film industry, we were always planning our next trip.

66. “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”

It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.

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

Do you get lost when you travel? Or are you a planner? Here, the anonymous traveler quotes an idea to go with the flow, just the way we like it.

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

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

71. “The journey is my home.”

Dave and I were on the road for seven solid years. We didn’t have a home. People often said to us that they couldn’t imagine not having a home base, but we felt at home on the road. We actually felt more at home on the road than at home.

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

71. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”

We got this traveling quote from our friend JD of EarthXplorer. Well said JD! There is no better piece of advice. I wish my niece and nephews listened to me when I told them this.

72. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”

Whenever I read this quotation on travel, I always think of the singer Dido. Do you know that song ? “I’ve still got sand in my shoes and I can’t shake the thought of you.” When traveling to islands and beaches , this one always pops into my mind.

73. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous

Over the years we have had many people ask us, “how did we have the courage to do what we do.” Truthfully, we never thought too much about what could go wrong.

When we knew we wanted to cycle Africa or climb a mountain, we didn’t focus on what could go wrong, instead, we focused on the excitement and challenges ahead. So we recommend using this travel quote to help you overcome the “what ifs in life.”

74. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc

When we first started traveling, people thought we were running away from things. But in truth, we were finding ourselves and we ran right toward our purpose in life. We have never felt so fulfilled as when we do when we’re traveling.

75. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

We love traveling together and this is our favorite of all couple travel quotes. While we admire solo travelers we are so grateful to having someone to share special moments together.

76. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” ~ Gayle Foreman

People often say to us “Oh, you must be such great travelers!” and we say, It’s not about being good at something, it is about enjoying what you do. If you enjoyed your travels and if you have a good time, you did a good job!

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

As we get older, we have developed a deeper appreciation of the time we have on earth. After spending many years doing something we did NOT love, we realized that time goes by quickly and we have to make the most of our time.

Now that we have a passion for our careers and adventures, we understand even more how true this quote is.

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

Dave and I often get lost when traveling and it is usually the times that we take a wrong turn that we have our greatest adventures.

Getting lost is part of the fun of travel, so don’t over plan too much when planning your travels.

79. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”

When we started traveling we discovered so many new things about ourselves and each other.

By stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things, travel helped us become better people and this quote is definitely true for us.

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

Travel expands the mind and without having to study or read books or take a course. We learn and grow without even trying when we travel.

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

Wow, this is certainly one of those deep travel quotes. But it is true! Humans are connected to the universe, when we get out and really travel, we feel that connection stronger.

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

How many times have you gone traveling and thought that you have it all planned out? But it’s the surprises and secret destinations along the way that really stick with you for the rest of your life.

83. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill

People really do make the journey. We may only meet someone for a fleeting moment, but they often stay in our memories forever.

84. “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Each day we are grateful that we get to live in this beautiful world.

Not only is the earth’s scenery awe-inspiring, but there is a beauty in the people, culture, and wildlife that we have experienced.

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

85. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We just love to travel. It doesn’t matter where. No matter where we go, we always learn something new.

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

87. “because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. climb that damn mountain.” ~ jack kerouak.

We have our tasks and chores to do each day, but it is the unique challenges that come with an adventure that we will remember at the end of our lives. I want to be able to say “I climbed the mountain and I lived well.”

88. Paris is Always a Good Idea ~ Audrey Hepburn

89. You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back ~ Paul Theroux

90. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ mae west.

Ah, Mae West. I can just hear her saying this quote in that fabulous accent. I am sure she wasn’t talking about travel, but we can make anything related to travel quotes.

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

Robert Frost said it best, if you take the road less traveled in life, you will probably see success. And when it comes to travel, you can find something amazing if you go off the beaten path.

92. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer

93. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ dalai lama.

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

95. “the only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ henry david thoreau.

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

My favorite part of traveling is the anticipation. This captures that perfectly.

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

98. “keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ walt whitman.

I have found that travel has helped me become an optimist. The more experiences I have, the more positive my life becomes.

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

100. “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ~ maya angelou, 101. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams” ~ oprah winfrey.

It was Oprah Winfrey that got us hooked on inspiring quotes so how could we not finish off our best travel quotes list with words of wisdom by the Grand Dame of Show Biz, inspiration, and philanthropy? And it is definitely a great way to end.

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

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

Not truer words have been said about packing. The best way to travel is to travel light. You can always buy something if you forgot it or need it, but seriously, chances are you probably won’t.

You’ll be surprised just how few clothes and accessories you’ll need to travel. So when packing for your next trip remember… When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. ~ Sir Richard Burton

It’s getting more difficult to find unknown lands as the world shrinks in the age of Instagram and TikTok. But it is still possible so, start searching for those unknown lands today.

And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

All images belong to The Planet D and are from our travels around the world to seven continents and 110 countries.

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145 thoughts on “101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures”

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

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

It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/

It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure.

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.” ~ MARK TWAIN” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

Lovely collection of travel quotes, but you miss something in this. So, i share the new collection of Travel Quotes and Sayings. Please check and share your reviews.

Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

thank you for giving me wonderful information

Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

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

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.

Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

100+ BEST Travel Quotes from Famous People with Photos!

Aren’t we all a sucker for the best travel quotes ?

I know I am! There was a point in my life when I lived by them. Whenever I read a book and find quotes about life, I write them on paper, plaster it on my wall, and read it for daily inspiration – they are motivational and help brighten my day.

Let this inspiring travel quotes fuel your desire for an adventure, too!

Not everyone has the courage to step out of their comfort world to travel the world; some need a little push or encouragement, which is one of the many reasons I created this blog space. To inspire and fuel your desire for travel.

I believe that travel (and these traveling quotes)is for everyone, a little different idea from one person to another but with one initial goal – to experience new things. We all travel the world to see new places, taste new flavors, learn new cultures, avoid the norms, and many other reasons. But we all have that one desire and are hungry for it. Adventure.

Mind over matter. Don’t think too much!

I was in your position once, and though many things made me start traveling, looking for motivation to do it is NOT one of them. Guys, motivation is seriously just an excuse for lazies, when you see something and get inspired when you want to achieve your goals, go and do it!

Also, while you’re going through this list of quotes about traveling, always be reminded that these are powerful words , and you must understand that these must be used to motivate you, so please enjoy these explore quotes we have compiled.

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100+ Travel Quotes from Famous People with Photos!

1. “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.” – S amuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

This post is so full of explore quotes more than you can imagine so please read ahead and find inspiration from this post! Enjoy these quotes about traveling and share the ones you like on Pinterest.

6. “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

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

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

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

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

This list of the best quotes on travel is compiled with one goal in mind – to keep a positive atmosphere in this blog! I’ve had so much fun looking for the best quotes to put in here and I’ll keep updating it whenever I find amazing quotes by famous authors!

Awesome explore quotes

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

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

13. “All that is gold does not glitter; just as not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien

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

15. “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

I’ve read a lot of quotes about traveling and I must say that almost all quotes by JRR Tokien always hits the spot and by far some of the favorite travel quotes I’ve added in this list!

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

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

18. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

19. “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

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

You’ve gone almost 1/3 of the list, so far, which of these travelling quotes did you like the best? There are so many awesome authors who quotes travel and we’ve compiled them all in here.

Top exploring quotes

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

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

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23. “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

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

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

As I mentioned above, some of my favorite quotes on traveling are from JRR Tolkien but there are also amazing quotes by Mark Twain (like number 23) that really makes you think!

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

27. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”– Greg Anderson

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

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

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

Some of the safe travel quotes to use out there are the ones that speaks about looking for yourself at your own pace and not necessarily speaking about going on a holiday or vacation because the best journey we have is the life we are living right now.

31. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lau Tzu

32. “No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.” – Banana Yoshimoto

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33. “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

34. “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

35. “When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.” – Catherynne M. Valente

As a solo female traveler, I sometimes find myself attracted to solo travel quotes to keep me motivated to go on push my limits to see up to how long I can keep this specific lifestyle. These inspirational travel quotes are trully amazing.

Perfect travelling caption for Instagram

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

37. “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry” – Jack Kerouac

38. “In books, I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen

39. “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

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

Number 37 by Jack Kerouac talks about world traveling quotes and inspires you to keep on following what your heart desire and to live without regrets.

41. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

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

43. “The journey itself is my home.” – Bashō Matsuo

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

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

I’ve read a lot of travel the world quotes (as you see, this is a very long list of quotes!) and sometimes the simplest ones are by far the best!

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

47. “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

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

49. “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

50. “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

Even scholars and philosophers from way back in history quote about travel just like Augustine of Hippo who probably quoted one of the most recognized travel quote of all: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”.

51. “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” – Kirsten Hubbard

52. “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

53. “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

54. “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Joe Abercrombie

55. “We wandered in a frenzy and a dream.” – Jack Kerouac

The best travel quotes out there are best used when you’re lacking inspiration. Believe it or not, I do read this post everynowandthen whenever I feel blue!

Some of the best quote about travel are truly motivating.

56. “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

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

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

59. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.” – Alain de Botton

60. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” – Anderson Cooper

Again, as a solo female traveler , I treasure travel alone quotes to keep me motivated! These travel the world quotes makes amazing inpiration for a lot of people.

World traveling quotes

61. “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

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

63. “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 the floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

64. “I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.” – J.A. Redmerski

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

A lot of these quotes can be an awesome travelling caption for Instagram! Read more and perhaps you’ll find one to go with your next photo.

66. “How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!” – Walter Benjamin

67. “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” – Brian Selznick

68. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” – Shane L. Koyczan

69. “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” – Neil Gaiman

70. “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

Carefully choosing these inspirational travel quotes was a tedious yet rewarding job and I really hope that you’re enjoying it so far!

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

72. “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

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

74. “Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.” – Ryū Murakami

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

As I mentioned above, some of the best quotes are short travel quotes that is packed with deep meanings!

Quotes on traveling

76. “A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.” – Ryszard Kapuściński

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

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

79. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” – Charlotte Eriksson

80. “Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.” – Hermann Hesse

So, you’ve gone this far, which these authors that quotes travel you think sends the message well?

Travel with friends quotes

81. “I read; I travel; I become.” – Derek Walcott

82. “If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.” – Santosh Kalwar

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

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

85. “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

Do you enjoy some of these exploring quotes in this list? They really do impress you, don’t they?

85. “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” – Vera Nazarian

87. “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

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

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

90. “A good traveler is one who knows how to travel with the mind.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

Some of my favorite famours travel quotes are from the late Anthony Bourdain. As a professeional chef turned full-time travel blogger , I always looked up to him and hoped to one day walk the same road he has.

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

92. “Tourists went on holidays while travelers did something else. They traveled.” – Alex Garland

93. “Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.” – Lucy R. Lippard

94. “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

95. “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

Just like number 95 as an example, Anthony Bourdain quotes on travel and happy travel quotes really hits the adventurer spot in me . It is so true, journey is indeed part of the experience.

96. “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

97. “The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.” – Carl Sagan

98. “I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

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

100. “Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That said, Elizabeth Gilbert, the famous author behind Eat, Pray, Love quotes about traveling in her book (it is a travel book after all) and number 98 explains how we all feel whenever we enter a new destination. These quotes about travel and life are so beautiful .

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

102. “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf

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

104. “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

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

I wish to one day write my own travelling quotes that will one day inspire a mass amount of people! Also, these makes really good best friend travel quotes .

106. “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

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

108. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

109. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

110. “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

111. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore

This is the end of this friends and travel quotes compilation and I hope you liked it!

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Evan Kristine a.k.a Pretty Wild World is a professional travel blogger with over 10 years of experience in content creation. Originally from the Philippines, she's been living in Finland for 15+ years working as a chef and entrepreneur in Tampere, Finland.

She's an expert in Finland travel and explores the country often sharing her insights and tips in this blog and social medias. She also splits her free time either going for weekend getaways in Europe or galavanting to different European destinations on her holidays. All her useful Europe travel guides are also in this blog!

Evan Kristine is also the food blogger behind at The Kitchen Abroad and on her free time, she enjoys decorating her 75m2 apartment and shares her experience over at Solía Avenue .

A true master of her own life and despite her busy schedule juggling life as a chef, blogger, and entrepreneur, she still finds time to read 50+ books a year and indulge in several hobbies like hiking, working out, yoga, and painting.

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31 Mark Twain Quotes About Travel and the World As He Saw It

Mark Twain travel quotes that are all about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone.

Mark Twain’s words, in some ways, transcend time. Though he penned some of his best work from the 1870s to 1890s, his words feel genuinely applicable to our lives today. His humor, insight, and vast cultural knowledge are so spot on that some Mark Twain quotes feel like they were written in response to our lives in 2019. (Though, admittedly, his use of “shall” dates him a bit.)

When it comes to quotes about travel , Mark Twain will excite and inspire you, while simultaneously bringing you back to reality. Mark Twain’s famous quotes will give you courage, confidence, and a good laugh when you most need one.

Whether you have a quote on the tip of your tongue (trying to remember that one saying from Mark Twain, “travel is fatal to prejudice”… or something?) or you’re a Twain novice, we’ve got you covered. We gathered some of Twain’s best sayings, and verified their legitimacy with the Center for Mark Twain Studies .

Here are 31 essential Mark Twain quotes for every type of traveler:

Mark Twain Quotes About Travel

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.”

“Take the universe as a whole, and it is a very clever conception and quite competently carried out, but I don’t think much of this globe as a work of art. It would have been better to take more time to it and do it right, it seems to me, than to rush it through, helter-skelter, in six days, just for reputation.”

“It is a subject that is bound to stir the pulses of any man one talks seriously to about, for in this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation — and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain.”

“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.”

Famous Quotes From Mark Twain’s Books

“In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.” — "Life on the Mississippi," 1883

"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment." — "Innocents Abroad," 1869

"Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise." — “Pudd'nhead Wilson,” 1894

"One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life." — "Innocents Abroad," 1869

"The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time." — "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," 1876

"It is curious — the space-annihilating power of thought." — "Following the Equator,” 1897

“Be good and you will be lonesome.” ― “Following the Equator,” 1897

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." — "Life on the Mississippi," 1883

Mark Twain Quotes on Courage

“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”

“It is curious — curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.”

Mark Twain Quotes About Life

“It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others — and less trouble.”

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”

“Everything has its limit — iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.”

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”

Funny Mark Twain Quotes

“Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink — under any circumstances.”

“Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak — like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support — something that ought to be arrested.”

“When your watch gets out of order you have a choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.”

“The funniest things are the forbidden.”

“Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.”

“The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.”

“Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.”

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Get Your Wanderlust On: 30 Best Travel Quotes

Written by Stephanie Oliveira Nguyen on May 4, 2022

Sometimes it takes the words of another person to fully embody what we are feeling. Such is the case with travel. The experience can be moving, transformative , eye-opening: so profound that you struggle to put it succinctly into words. Lucky for us, those who came before have done the impossible in pithy, quotable sound bites that will inspire you endlessly.

Inspirational Travel Quotes

Let the following quotes swirl around your head. You’ll surely feel inspired—if not to set out on the road, then to plan your next adventure and fill your dreams with the wonder of possibility. 

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
• “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
• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
• “It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor
• “This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime .” – G Adventures
• “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. ” – John Mayer 
• “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

Relatable Travel Quotes

Travel is, to some extent, a universal experience. Where we go and how we get there may vary, but the way that our travels shape us is a pattern drawn by thousands of years of human tradition. The following quotes speak to that commonality.

• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
• “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
• “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
• “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• “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. 
• “How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?” – Ernesto Che Guevara. 
• “All you’ve got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.” – Tony Wheeler  
• “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
• “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

Clever Travel Quotes

The way that these creatives have expressed themselves capture the essence of travel perfectly.

• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “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
• “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
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Anonymous

Dreamy Travel Quotes

Sometimes the experience of travel fills our souls with such amazement at the scope and beauty of the universe that it feels like our bodies are inadequate to contain it. These quotes will top off your spirit with wonder. 

• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
• “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

Let your sense of wonder lead you to become a better traveler and world citizen. 

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There are many reasons why humans have loved to travel over the centuries. From discovering new lands to interacting with different peoples, travel really does broaden the mind. But just don’t take our word for it. We’ve pulled together 50 of the best travel quotes, from some of the greatest thinkers and explorers, which are bound to give you a serious case of wanderlust.

• Gustave Flaubert
• Henry Miller
• D.H. Lawrence
• George Bernard Shaw
• Dagobert D. Runes
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Henry David Thoreau
• Aldous Huxley
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Oscar Wilde
• Marcel Proust
• Martin Buber
• Robert Frost
• Thomas Fuller
• Paul Theroux
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• John Steinbeck
• Albert Einstein
• Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
• Cesare Pavese
• Hilaire Belloc
• Caskie Stinnett
• Charles Horton Cooley
• Herman Melville
• Elizabeth Drew
• J.R.R. Tolkein
• G.K. Chesterton
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Anatole France
• Ray Bradbury
• St Augustine
• Jack Kerouac
• Freya Stark

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

A 19th-century French novelist from Rouen, Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was considered a leading mover in realism within French literature. He's best known for his 1857 novel Madame Bovary , a portrayal of bourgeois life, which was tried by the French government on the grounds of alleged immorality – Flaubert narrowly escaped conviction.

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

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (that's right, Mark Twain was a pseudonym) was a novelist, journalist, humourist and lecturer born in Florida, Missouri, USA on November 30, 1835 (and died April 21, 1910, Redding, Connecticut). He became famous for his travel narratives such as The Innocents Abroad (1869) and for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and follow-up, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In Hartford, Connecticut, the Mark Twain House awaits your visit to learn more about the author.

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

Henry Miller was a 20th-century American writer (December 26, 1891 – June 9, 1980) who spent a large portion of his career in Paris, France. His works are based on his own life and experiences which later became characterised as fictionalised autobiography, and include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939) and Black Spring (1936). His books often had explicit and obscene content which led the way for other American writers, but also resulted in both Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn getting banned in the US for nearly three decades.

D.H. Lawrence When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. He's most famous for his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), a reflection of the state of modern society under relentless industrialisation, which faced years of criticism and legal pushback for its explicit sexual content when such language was still considered taboo. D.H. Lawrence also wrote poems, plays, essays, travel books and more, making him one of the most distinguished writers of his day.

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

Born in Dublin, George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, literary critic, comic dramatist and political activist for socialism. So impressive were his contributions that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, but he refused the prize money (he had no desire for public honours). He was highly influential across generations for his wit and intelligent critiques.

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

Dagobert David Runes (January 6, 1902 – September 24, 1982) was a philosopher and author born in Zastavna, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary (now in Ukraine), emigrating to the USA in 1926. He spoke at least nine languages fluently and was friends with Albert Einstein. His most significant legacy is arguably the founding of the Philosophical Library in 1941, a US publisher specialising in philosophy, psychology, religion and history.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was an influential and highly acclaimed Austrian musical composer of the classical era. Some of his most famous compositions include the Piano Concerto No. 23, Symphony No. 41 and Requiem, among many, many others. The Mozart House in Vienna is the only former home of Mozart in Vienna that has been preserved and today serves as a museum.

Henry David Thoreau Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher and naturalist, who started his career writing nature poetry under the mentorship and friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He's one of America's most famous writers, most known for his book Walden (1854), which he wrote during a two-year stay on Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, living a simple life in a home he built for himself.

Aldous Huxley For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English author, critic and philosopher famous for writing one of the most highly acclaimed novels of all time, Brave New World (1932), which became a base for dystopian science fiction for future writers.

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

Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister (twice) and novelist who played a central role in the formation of the modern Conservative Party. He was known as being a compelling speaker and in his second stint as Prime Minister focused on social reform, including passing laws to recognise trade unions and prevent labour exploitation.

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

Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author from Atlanta, Georgia. Two of his most highly acclaimed books were made into Oscar-nominated films: The Prince of Tides (1986) and The Great Santini (1976).

Mohamed Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.

The Prophet Mohamed (570-632) was a central figure to Islam and is considered the last prophet sent to mankind by God to present and uphold the teachings previously preached by Moses, Adam, Abraham and other prophets.

T.S. Eliot The journey not the arrival matters.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an essayist, poet, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic. He was born in the US but moved to the UK when he was 25 and spent the rest of his life there. He was considered one of the best poets of the 20th century, and a leader of the Modernist poetry movement.

Kurt Vonnegut Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 — April 11, 2007) was an American writer whose career spanned 50 years and was most famous for his dark, satirical novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). His writing became known for its use of postmodern techniques, mixed with science fiction and fantasy in order to highlight the ironies of modern society.

Mark Twain 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.

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

Arguably one of the most famous literary figures of all time and known for his witty humour, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet and critic. While his most famous work is The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), he mostly wrote plays, which include The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He's just one of many famous artists, writers, and musicians, having found his final resting place on the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris , one of the city's top attractions.

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

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), was a French novelist, essayist and critic. He was influenced by the works of Gustave Flaubert (who we met earlier) and his most prominent writing was In Search of Lost Time, a seven-volume psychological and allegorical novel based on Proust's life.

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

Seneca the Younger, or Seneca, full name Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and orator. He was the leading intellectual figure in the mid-1st century in Rome.

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

Martin Buber (8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was a German-Israeli religious philosopher and biblical translator. His philosophy centred on man's dialogue with other men and God, most notably expressed in his book Ich und Du or I and Thou (1923).

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

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet most admired for his depictions of life in New England. Having been unsuccessful in getting his poetry published in the US, he moved to London in the UK, where he finally gained acclaim. One of his most notable poems is The Road Not Taken , which is where our travel quote pick comes from.

Thomas Fuller If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come home a horse.

Thomas Fuller (baptized 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English scholar, preacher and prolific author, often considered extremely witty. He is most well known for History of the Worthies of England (published posthumously in 1662) and Holy State and the Profane State (1642).

Paul Theroux Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.

Paul Edward Theroux (April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, with some of his books being made into feature films. His best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), and he wrote many others, including The Old Patagonian Express (1978).

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

Very little is known about Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer (who died in 533 BC in the Zhou dynasty). He was renowned for being the philosophical founder of Taoism and is said to be the writer of sacred text, Tao Te Ching . Taoism is intertwined with other schools of thought like Buddhism and Confucianism.

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

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books. He's most well known for his hugely popular books, Treasure Island (1881) and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), the latter one being loosely based on a local criminal in Edinburgh, as explained on this guided walking tour .

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

John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 — December 20, 1968) was an American author, most famous for his novel Of Mice and Men (1937). He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."

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

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 — April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, whose name has now become synonymous with "genius". This is due to his high intellect, having developed the theory of relativity, won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics and written more than 300 scientific papers (and more than 150 non-scientific).

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

Lisa St. Aubin de Teran 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 Terán (2 October 1953) is an English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist. She left England at age 16 and travelled before moving to her husband's home in the Andes, which influenced her award-winning first novel, Keepers of the House (1982). Now, she splits her time between the Netherlands and Mozambique where she runs the Terán Foundation, a not-for-profit working in underdeveloped villages in the country.

John Steinbeck People don't take trips... trips take people.

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

Cesare Pavese (9 September 1908 — 27 August 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He was heavily influenced by the authors whose work he translated, such as Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. His work was significant in introducing British and American writers to Italy, such as The Moon and the Bonfires (1950), and a Pavese Prize of Literature was established after his death in 1957.

Hilaire Belloc We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, known as Hilaire Belloc, (July 27, 1870 — July 16, 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian, most known for his poetry and essays. He worked as a journalist before his books Verses and Sonnets (1895) and The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (1896) launched his literary career.

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

Caskie Stinnett was an American travel editor, writer and humorist. His best known work is One Man's Island: Reflections on Maine Life from Slightly Offshore (1984).

Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association.

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

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet most famous for his classic, Moby Dick published in 1851.

Elizabeth Drew Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew is an American political journalist and author, born in Ohio in 1935. She has written multiple books on politicians and the newspaper media.

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

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) – or J.R.R Tolkein as we more commonly know him – was an English writer, poet and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic book series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit , which have been made into successful feature films. Today, you can even visit the Hobbit set in New Zealand .

Henry David Thoreau Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was one of the dominating figures of the London literary scene in the early twentieth century and known for his exuberant personality. He was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator and literary critic.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Benjamin Disraeli Travel teaches toleration

Andre Gide One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

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

Tim Cahill is a travel writer (born 1944) who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an "Editor at Large" for the magazine.

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

Anatole France (April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a French poet, journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers and was known for his satirical tone.

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

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction and was most famous for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

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

Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 AD – 28 August 430 AD) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.

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

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. His most well known novel is On The Road (1957), but also wrote other well-received novels such as Dharma Bums (1958) and Big Sur (1962).

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

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993), was a Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.

Pico Iyer 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.

Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer (born 11 February 1957), is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu (1988), The Lady and the Monk (1991) and The Global Soul (2000).

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