Travel Quotes
Travel quotes, like the journeys that inspired them, lead us to more adventures.
When you’re traveling, you can learn so much, not only about your destination and its people but also about yourself.
Enjoy these insights and take advantage of any opportunity to travel.
Quotes About Travel
1.) A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
J. B. Priestley
2.) 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
3.) Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
4.) Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going.
Paul Theroux
5.) Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Chief Seattle
6.) Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.
Oscar Wilde
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7.) I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir
8.) Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.
Jaime Lyn
9.) One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.
Edith Wharton
10.) We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
Henry David Thoreau
11.) Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace
12.) Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.
Gayle Foreman
13.) Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.
Paulo Coelho
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Traveling Quotations
14.) We have nothing to lose and a world to see.
Unknown
15.) Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
Ewan Mcgregor
16.) Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
Unknown
17.) Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
18.) 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
19.) I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
20.) Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
Dalai Lama
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21.) Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L’Amour
22.) Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
Mercedes Lackey
23.) As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
John Green
24.) When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
Susan Heller
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25.) Travel makes a wise man better and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller
26.) Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Spanish Proverb
27.) Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
28.) A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
Emile Ganest
29.) The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Russell Baker
Inspirational Adventure Sayings
30.) One’s destination is never a place but always a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
31.) I would gladly live out of a backpack if it meant I could see the world.
Unknown
32.) To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark
33.) A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
34.) 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
35.) We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharial Nehru
Inspiring Travel Quotes
36.) You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.
Sue Fitzmaurice
37.) We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
John Hope Franklin
38.) I’d rather look back at my life and say I can’t believe I did that instead of saying I wish I did that.
Richard Branson
39.) Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.
Robert Frost
40.) 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
41.) If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
James Michener
42.) One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
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43.) 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.
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines and sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The world around us is real life, and experiencing it is invaluably educational; sitting at home and endlessly going through the same routine over and over again isn’t any more real, but it’s certainly more boring and infinitely more conducive to ignorance.
Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
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 seeing land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Quotes on Trips
45.) Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
46.) That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
Pico Iyer
47.) 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
48.) 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
49.) You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.
Daranna Gidel
50.) It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
51.) 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
Good Traveling Sayings
52.) Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.
Fitzhugh Mullan
53.) People don’t take trips; trips take people.
John Steinbeck
54.) Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Ibn Battuta
55.) We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither
56.) Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Roy Goodman
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Around the World Sayings
57.) To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley
58.) Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J.R.R. Tolkien
59.) When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.
Clint Borgen
60.) Experience travel – these are as education in themselves.
Euripides
61.) 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
62.) If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be the top priority.
Richard Branson
63.) Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
64.) The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia E. Barr
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Journey Quotations
65.) 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
66.) Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams, Jr.
67.) The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
68.) A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
Isabelle Eberhardt
69.) Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
70.) If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll
71.) With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
Sandra Lake
72.) 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
73.) The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.
Sir Richard Burton
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74.) 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
75.) All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
76.) A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
77.) Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
78.) To get through the hardest journey, we need to take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
Chinese Proverb
79.) One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
80.) It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Explore Quotes
81.) Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
82.) The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
83.) We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
84.) If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?
Sidney Buchman
85.) He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wildlands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
J.R.R. Tolkien
86.) Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Frank Borman
87.) Explore the unseen.
Unknown
Exploration Sayings
88.) The mountains are calling, and I must go.
John Muir
89.) It’s a big world out there; go explore.
Unknown
90.) I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett
91.) One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
Richard Burton
92.) A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell
93.) Until you cross the bridge of your insecurities, you can’t begin to explore your possibilities.
Tim Fargo
94.) The learned is happy, nature to explore; the fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
Great Travel Quotes
95.) Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert
96.) I love to travel but hate to arrive.
Albert Einstein
97.) Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
98.) Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
99.) Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac
100.) You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown; you travel for the unknown that reveals you with yourself.
Ella Maillart
101.) Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.
Francis Bacon
102.) To many people, holidays are not voyages of discovery but a ritual of reassurance.
Philip Andrew Adams
103.) Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
W. H. Auden
104.) Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.
Peter Hoeg
105.) The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
106.) Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.
Ray Bradbury
107.) The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
Wanderlust Sayings
108.) For the born traveler, traveling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy, and the sacrifice of comfort.
Aldous Huxley
109.) Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
110.) Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.
Kurt Vonnegut
111.) A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
112.) The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire.
Robert W. Service
113.) Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
114.) We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
115.) Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
116.) The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
117.) Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Lawrence Block
118.) The best view comes after the hardest climb.
Unknown
119.) May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, and dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
New Adventures Quotes
120.) An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
121.) Between every two pine trees, there is a door leading to a new way of life.
John Muir
122.) Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
Mark Jenkins
123.) Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
John Muir
124.) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
125.) I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Boston
126.) If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.
Joseph Campbell
127.) If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.
Buddhist Saying
128.) The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Short Travel Quotes
129.) The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
William Least Heat-Moon
130.) The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser
131.) The journey, not the arrival, matters.
T.S. Eliot
132.) Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli
133.) Never stop exploring.
Unknown
134.) Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Pascal
135.) The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
136.) Life is short and the world is wide.
Simon Raven
137.) Adventure is worthwhile.
Aristotle
138.) Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
139.) If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
140.) Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Rumi
142.) I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
James Baldwin
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Touring Quotes
143.) Exploration is curiosity put into action.
Don Walsh
144.) To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen
145.) The world is yours to explore.
Unknown
146.) To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
Elizabeth Gilbert
147.) The grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.
Paul Theroux
148.) Adventure is worthwhile.
Amelia Earhart
149.) He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
Moorish Proverb
150.) Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.
Jack Kerouac
151.) I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan Sontag
Travel With Friends Quotes
152.) A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.
Tim Cahill
153.) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
154.) It doesn’t matter where you’re going; it’s who you have beside you.
Unknown
155.) As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.
Winnie the Pooh
156.) Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.
Unknown
157.) Just remember, if we get caught, you’re deaf, and I don’t speak English.
Rick Riordan
158.) We were together. I forget the rest.
Walt Whitman
Family Travel Quotes
159.) Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
Ezra Taft Benson
160.) A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.
Steve Harvey
161.) No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang
Encouraging Travel Quotes
162.) Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Neale Donald Walsch
163.) The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
164.) The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
165.) 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
166.) With age comes wisdom. With travel comes understanding.
Sandra Lake
167.) Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.
Jamie Lyn Beatty
168.) Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca
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