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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.
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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
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3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw
68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time
- Quotes , Travel Tips
- November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
- 12 min read
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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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100 Quotes About Travel to Inspire Your Next Adventure
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The best quotes about travel will inspire you to pack your bags, book that ticket, and start your journey in a new place. We’re always thinking about our next trip, and sometimes a saying or quote can remind us why we travel in the first place.
Traveling is a great opportunity to step out of your comfort zone, reflect on the bigger picture, and learn about the world and yourself. If you need some motivation, I’ve got a collection of inspirational travel quotes , quotes about traveling with friends , funny travel quotes , and more. With that and our step-by-step guide on planning a trip anywhere , you will have no excuses.
Short travel quotes
Most inspiring travel quotes, best quotes about traveling with friends, travel quotes for couples, best quotes about traveling with family, quotes for traveling alone & solo travel quotes.
Spend some time reading through these adventure travel quotes and see which ones resonate with you most. Keep your favorites handy, so you can revisit them when you want some insight or something to inspire your wanderlust !
These short travel quotes are simple but can inspire lofty ideas for your next journey!
1. A change of latitude would help my attitude. – Unknown
![A change of latitude would help my attitude A change of latitude would help my attitude](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-1.jpg)
As this short travel quote suggests, going to a new place can give you a total attitude adjustment!
2. Adventure is out there. – Charles Muntz
![Adventure is out there Adventure is out there](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-2.jpg)
This travel quote from the animated film Up has inspired kids and adults alike. Adventure is out there; go find it!
3. Live your life by a compass, not a clock. – Erica Jong
![Live your life by a compass, not a clock Live your life by a compass, not a clock](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-3.jpg)
I appreciate travel life quotes like this one. It’s not about how long you live, it’s whether you live it to the fullest. And for me, that means seeing the world!
4. Oh, the places you’ll go! – Dr. Seuss
![Oh, the places you’ll go! Oh, the places you’ll go!](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-4.jpg)
This simple travel quote is a good one for life in general. Whether you’re moving to a new city or taking a trip around the world, oh, the places you’ll go!
5. Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle
![Take only memories, leave only footprints Take only memories, leave only footprints](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-5.jpg)
This poignant travel quote is a reminder to treat our planet with respect, especially while traveling. Things like eco-tourism, carbon offsets, and environmental footprints need more attention!
6. The journey, not the arrival, matters. – T.S. Eliot
![The journey, not the arrival, matters The journey, not the arrival, matters](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-6.jpg)
This is a quote about trips that can encourage you to slow down and enjoy the journey. Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in where we’re going, that we forget to appreciate all that’s around us.
7. There is a world elsewhere. – Shakespeare
![There is a world elsewhere There is a world elsewhere](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-7.jpg)
This poetic travel quote is short and sweet. It’s easy to become distracted by daily life, but there is so much more out there.
8. To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen
![To travel is to live To travel is to live](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-8.jpg)
This travel quote says it all: traveling truly is one of the best ways to experience life.
The best travel quotes will inspire you to take the leap and go on a new adventure! Check out these inspirational travel quotes for more insight and direction.
9. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
![A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-9.jpg)
This inspiring travel quote applies to life, too. Step by step, we can reach new destinations, as well as our goals.
10. A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Gael Attal
![A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-10.jpg)
Remember that you are the ship, and you’re meant to experience this beautiful, magical world while you’re here!
11. Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. – Asian proverb
![Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-11.jpg)
No matter how many photos you see or stories you hear, nothing beats seeing a place in person!
12. Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled. – Mohammed
![Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-12.jpg)
This travel saying reminds us that experiencing unfamiliar places and cultures is one of the best ways to learn.
13. Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
![Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-13.jpg)
This inspirational travel quote is about taking charge of your life and, as a traveler, getting off the beaten path to discover new places.
14. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten
![Investment in travel is an investment in yourself Investment in travel is an investment in yourself](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-14.jpg)
A lot of people think about investing in their career or home, but the life experience you get through traveling is one of the greatest investments. The insight, perspective, and resilience you gain can help you in all facets of life.
15. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
![Life begins at the end of your comfort zone Life begins at the end of your comfort zone](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-100.jpg)
This tried and true travel quote is another one that can inspire you to push past fears and embrace adventure! And remember, everyone’s comfort zone is different!
16. Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. – Paulo Coelho
![Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-15.jpg)
While taking a trip requires money, this inspirational travel quote reminds us that you also need the courage to leave behind familiarity for adventure.
17. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
![Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-16.jpg)
Frost was a poet who understood the importance of charting your own path rather than following the crowd. That principle applies to traveling too, as you can find all kinds of unique places when you venture away from the tourist traps.
18. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous
![We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-17.jpg)
This is one of the best travel quotes because it sums up why so many people pack their bags. When we’re traveling, we’re fully living !
Quotes about traveling the world
These quotes about traveling to new places will ignite your desire to pack up and go somewhere new!
19. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – Melody Truong
![I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-18.jpg)
Here is a famous travel quote that can spark wanderlust in anyone, especially travel junkies like us!
20. It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it. – J.D. Andrews
![It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-19.jpg)
Even if you can only go to the next town over, it’s always worth it to visit a new place and see something different.
21. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
![Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-20.jpg)
This is another travel quote that points out how you need to face some fears to travel to new destinations. Of course, it’s totally worth it!
22. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine
![The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-21.jpg)
Here is a wonderful metaphor that can motivate you to step out of your comfort zone and go someplace new. Travel always reminds us that the world doesn’t revolve around us, and there are so many different ways of life.
23. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens
![The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-22.jpg)
This simple travel quote truly needs no explanation. When you feel down or uninspired, the world is there in all its natural beauty.
24. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
![There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-23.jpg)
This quote about traveling the world can shift our perspective to see the big picture.
25. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac
![There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-24.jpg)
Some people live to travel, and they get bored when they’re in one place for too long. If that’s you, know that you’re not alone!
26. Travel because life is short, and the world is huge. – Anonymous
![Travel because life is short, and the world is huge Travel because life is short, and the world is huge](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-25.jpg)
If you need an inspiring travel quote , here it is!
27. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
![Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-26.jpg)
This travel quote is also about the big picture. If you’ve ever stood on the edge of a cliff or sailed in the middle of the ocean, you know that sensation of feeling ridiculously small in a big world.
28. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai
![Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-27.jpg)
A wonderful quote about traveling the world , this sentence captures the feeling of taking a piece of your travels with you while leaving a part of you behind .
Quotes about travel & adventure
These quotes are for travel lovers who crave their next adventure. If you’re ready to indulge your wanderlust, keep reading this adventure sayings !
29. Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
![Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-28.jpg)
This travel quote will resonate with many digital nomads and explorers. Waking up in a new place and experiencing a different culture may be jarring at first, but that kind of adventure is much better than doing the same thing every day.
30. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
![All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-29.jpg)
Anyone who has traveled will agree that this wanderlust quote is 100% true.
31. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman
![Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-30.jpg)
Life is full of adventures and things to see, and if you’re curious enough, you’ll experience them all!
32. Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. – Unknown
![Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-31.jpg)
Odds are, the most interesting and fulfilled people you’ve met have spent more time seeing the world than buying things.
33. If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Rachel Wolchin
![If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-32.jpg)
This is one of the best travel quotes for a burst of inspiration.
34. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Unknown
![Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-33.jpg)
While it’s pragmatic to have both, it’s true that you gain something when you travel that you don’t get anywhere else.
35. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
![Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-34.jpg)
Helen Keller’s motivational travel quote applies to life in general, so whatever the word adventure means to you, go for it!
36. Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
![Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-35.jpg)
This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! After a trip, you always come home with a story or two to tell, and those tales stay with you for life.
37. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. – Mark Twain
![Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-36.jpg)
This is a simple travel quote to motivate you. Have you ever met anyone who said they regretted traveling?
Some of the best trips are the ones you take with good friends. I’m sure these travel quotes will inspire you to hit the road with your best friends. These are my favorite quotes about traveling with friends .
38. A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you. – Unknown
![A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-37.jpg)
Whoever said this trip quote knows what it’s like to have that best friend who will explore the world and navigate life with you.
39. Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Unknown
![Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure” Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure”](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-38.jpg)
Here is another fun quote about traveling with friends . Do you have that bestie that’s always ready for the next adventure?
40. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain
![I 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 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](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-39.jpg)
I’m sure everyone can relate to this funny travel quote . When you take a trip with someone, you learn a lot about them, yourself, and your relationship!
41. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. – Unknown
![It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-40.jpg)
As this travel quote suggests, one of the best parts of taking a trip isn’t the destination, but who you’re with.
42. Life is meant for good friends and great adventures. – Anonymous
![Life is meant for good friends and great adventures Life is meant for good friends and great adventures](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-41.jpg)
I don’t think anyone can argue against the idea that adventure and friendship are two of the best things in life!
43. Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas. – Thelma and Louise
![Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-42.jpg)
This cute saying is the perfect travel quote to inspire your next road trip!
44. The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
![The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-43.jpg)
This life travel quote is an excellent reminder of how people can connect across cultures, countries, and languages. One of the best things about traveling is that it introduces you to diverse ways of seeing the world and living life, and of course, new friends.
45. Travel is better with friends. – Unknown
![Travel is better with friends Travel is better with friends](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-44.jpg)
This travel quote needs no explanation. While a solo trip can be fun now and then, traveling with friends is one of the best experiences in life.
46. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
![We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-45.jpg)
Those who love to explore will understand the depth of this quote. Traveling is the best way to find yourself, others, and new insights about the world.
Traveling with friends is great, but if you have a significant other, it’s a unique experience. Let these couples’ travel quotes encourage you to take a journey with your partner!
47. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck
![A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-46.jpg)
This couples’ travel quote is an important one. As with life and relationships, there are many things out of our control, and the same goes for traveling. However, that doesn’t mean the trip isn’t worthwhile!
48. Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. – Lewis Carroll
![Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-47.jpg)
This excerpt from Alice in Wonderland makes for a wonderful travel quote . Money gets spent, clothes get tattered, and cars break down, but adventures give you memories that last forever.
49. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world. – Unknown
![I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-48.jpg)
I love this quote about traveling together because you can share perspectives and gain even more from your trip.
50. In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schulz
![In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-49.jpg)
Here is a beautiful quote about traveling with a partner or friend that I 100% agree with!
51. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. – Hemingway
![Never go on trips with anyone you do not love Never go on trips with anyone you do not love](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-50.jpg)
Although it’s a funny travel quote , it’s quite true!
52. No road is long with good company. – Turkish proverb
![No road is long with good company No road is long with good company](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-51.jpg)
I love this proverb about travel because no matter where you’re going, as long as you have a loved one beside you, it’ll be okay.
53. Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more. – Unknown
![Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-52.jpg)
This is another great travel quote for couples or friends. A solo adventure can be fun, but it’s different from sharing travel experiences with someone you love.
54. Together is our favorite place to be. – Unknown
![Together is our favorite place to be Together is our favorite place to be](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-53.jpg)
This quote about travel and love is so heartwarming. Having your partner by your side can make any trip more magical, although simply being in each other’s presence is often enough.
55. Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
![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 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](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-54.jpg)
This longer travel quote is an interesting analogy that frequent travelers might relate to. Visiting new lands and meeting new people is like flirting; as soon as you start to connect, you move onto a different location.
56. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault
![What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-55.jpg)
Whether or not you believe in soulmates, it’s true that the best partner is the one we can go on adventures with.
Taking a trip as a family can be a bonding experience, as well as frustrating and memorable! These quotes about family vacations are funny and heartwarming, so they perfectly capture all facets of traveling with your kids.
57. A family that travels together stays together. – Unknown
![A family that travels together stays together A family that travels together stays together](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-56.jpg)
Some travel quotes and sayings are cute and sweet, like this one. Family trips can be a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together and strengthen bonds.
58. I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. – Caskie Stinnett
![I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-57.jpg)
While it’s a funny travel quote , this saying can also correspond to family life. Sometimes families get tied into a routine and lose touch with each other. Taking a trip together disrupts the monotony and brings everyone closer.
59. Love is the food of life, travel is dessert. – Anonymous
![Love is the food of life, travel is dessert Love is the food of life, travel is dessert](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-58.jpg)
If you ask any adventurous spirit, they’ll agree that love and travel is all you need!
60. Not all classrooms have 4 walls. – Unknown
![Not all classrooms have 4 walls Not all classrooms have 4 walls](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-59.jpg)
I think this is one of the top travel quotes , and it’s especially pertinent to families. Sometimes, parents get nervous about letting their kids travel, but seeing a new place and a unique way of life is one of the most fulfilling ways to educate oneself.
61. Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. – Unknown
![Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-60.jpg)
A contemplative quote about travel and life , this simple sentence encourages us to go on adventures while we can. After all, when we’re old, it’ll be easier to work than to hop on a plane!
62. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
![Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-61.jpg)
This is such a cute couples’ travel quote to remind us that home is the people we love, not a specific place.
63. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter
![Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings best quotes on Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-62.jpg)
This is one of the sweetest travel quotes for families . While kids need stability, they also have vivid imaginations. Traveling with their parents can awaken their childlike wonder and instill in them a sense of adventure.
If you’ve ever taken a solo trip, you know that it’s one of the most life-changing experiences. And if you haven’t had the pleasure of traveling alone yet, hopefully, these quotes about solo trips can inspire you!
64. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
![I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-63.jpg)
This is a beautiful travel quote about how you change as a person when you wake up in an unfamiliar environment. Going through daily life in a different place truly alters the way you view the bigger picture.
65. I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne du Maurier
![I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-64.jpg)
If you’re thinking of going on a solo adventure and need a nudge, consider this quote about traveling alone . Sometimes, going on a trip with people we know can distract us from the full experience of discovering a new place.
66. Not until we are lost do, we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau
![Not until we are lost do, we begin to find ourselves Not until we are lost do, we begin to find ourselves](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-65.jpg)
Here is another simple travel quote that has a deeper meaning. Sometimes, we have to get lost and break away from what’s familiar in order to truly meet ourselves.
67. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark
![To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-66.jpg)
Something that digital nomads crave is the feeling of being lost or a stranger in a new land. For these people, there is no other feeling like it!
68. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain
![Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-67.jpg)
Anthony Bourdain was one of the most beloved world travelers, so his adventure travel quote resonates deeply. The best thing about traveling is that you sprinkle a bit of yourself everywhere you go, and you bring a bit of that place back with you.
69. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell
![Travel far enough, you meet yourself Travel far enough, you meet yourself](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-68.jpg)
Read between the lines of this travel quote , and it makes so much sense. The more you stray from what you know, the more you learn about yourself, and the world!
70. When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
![When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted with himself](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-69.jpg)
I agree that taking a trip with friends or a partner is awesome, but when you travel alone, you have so much time to get to know yourself.
Funny travel quotes
The deep, motivational sayings are great, but sometimes a funny travel quote is all you need to inspire your next adventure!
71. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
![I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-70.jpg)
This is the perfect quote for travel lovers ! Where is your next adventure going to be?
72. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein
![I love to travel but hate to arrive I love to travel but hate to arrive](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-71.jpg)
This short and sweet saying is another reminder that it’s often the journey – not the destination – that matters most.
73. I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin
![I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-72.jpg)
It could be Europe or a few miles from your house, but when you travel, you gain new insights into yourself – your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, everything.
74. I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! – Unknown
![I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year! I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year!](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-73.jpg)
This silly travel quote is funny , but all too true!
75. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho
![If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-74.jpg)
Yes, stability is important, but adventure is fulfilling and just as essential.
76. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! – Unknown
![It’s bad manners to let vacation wait! It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-75.jpg)
Here’s another lighthearted travel quote to remind you to book that vacation!
77. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
![To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-76.jpg)
This travel quote is funny yet wise. Even though we are more connected than ever, you truly don’t understand a place until you step foot there yourself.
78. You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… – Unknown
![You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license… You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license…](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-77.jpg)
You can’t deny that this funny travel vacation quote is true !
Quotes about wanderlust
The best travel quotes plant a seed in your mind, a will in your heart, and a spark in your spirit. I’m sure these motivational quotes about traveling the world will awaken your inner wanderer!
79. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
![A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-78.jpg)
This one is for the wanderers and frequent travelers. While there is a place for planning and preparation, some of the best trips are those with limited foresight.
80. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller
![One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-79.jpg)
One of the best quotes on traveling , this saying gets to the root of why so many people love to travel. Visiting a new destination opens us up to all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, people, and lessons.
81. People don’t take trips, trips take people. – John Steinbeck
![People don’t take trips, trips take people People don’t take trips, trips take people](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-80.jpg)
This is another travel quote that’s funny and deep. You can plan your trip, but things never go 100% according to plan, and you often end up with experiences you didn’t expect!
82. Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman
![Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-81.jpg)
Goodman’s quote about travel and happiness reminds us that the journey is more important than the destination.
83. Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world.
![Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world Wanderlust: (n) a strong desire or urge to explore the world](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-82.jpg)
Does this definition of wanderlust resonate with you? Which part of the world do you want to see next?
84. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
![The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-83.jpg)
Proust’s motivational quote about traveling rings true. The more you travel, the more you open your mind and heart.
85. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. – Unknown
![Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-84.jpg)
Forget souvenirs; this travel quote reminds us that the best thing you gain from a trip is the richness of the experience.
86. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination. – Unknown
![You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-85.jpg)
It doesn’t matter if that destination is near or far, as long as it’s someplace new .
Quotes about wandering
Similar to the wanderlust quotes , these sayings appeal to those with a nomadic spirit. Which one is your favorite?
87. It is better to travel than to arrive. – Buddha
![It is better to travel than to arrive It is better to travel than to arrive](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-86.jpg)
The Buddha’s quote points out that the true treasure is the journey itself.
88. Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
![Not all those who wander are lost Not all those who wander are lost](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-87.jpg)
Tolkien’s words remain one of the most popular quotes about wandering . Some people are simply born to travel and visit different lands!
89. This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one. – Paulo Coelho
![This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-88.jpg)
Sometimes, a destination can seem strange and intimidating, but it’s simply a new adventure waiting for you!
90. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France
![Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-89.jpg)
I think this travel quote about nature makes a good point. When we explore all the beautiful natural places in the world, we gain a deeper appreciation for this planet.
91. The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton
![The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-90.jpg)
This travel quote is self-explanatory, but travel lovers will agree that the best moments of their lives were probably while they were exploring.
92. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
![We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-91.jpg)
There is something to this quote about travel and life . It describes how we can wander, either by hopping from one place to another or by changing up certain aspects of our lives. However, these are usually distractions, and it’s when we travel wholeheartedly that we feel fulfilled .
Other travel quotes for Instagram
This last section of trip quotes is perfect for sharing on social media or keeping around the house.
93. Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! – Hostelgeeks
![Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead! Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead!](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-92.jpg)
Would you rather see the world than have fancy things? Me too!
94. Measure life by countries, not years. – Unknown
![Measure life by countries, not years Measure life by countries, not years](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-93.jpg)
If you love to travel, you’ll appreciate this one. It’s a quote for travel and life and says that it’s not about how long you live; it’s about how well you live!
95. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy. – Unknown
![Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-94.jpg)
I bet you don’t need more convincing to take a tropical vacation, but this beachy travel quote is a good one!
96. The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. – Henry David Thoreau
![The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-95.jpg)
When you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone and get off the beaten path, you find yourself having experiences of which you wouldn’t even dream!
97. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. – Anonymous
![There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-96.jpg)
This travel quote doesn’t need an explanation; there are so many gorgeous places to see in this world.
98. Travel – the best way to be lost and found at the same time. – Brenna Smith
![Travel – the best way to be lost and found at the same time Travel – the best way to be lost and found at the same time](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-97.jpg)
This short travel quote is straight to the point!
99. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. – Sandra Lake
![With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-98.jpg)
This inspirational travel quote is definitely worth sharing. The more we travel, the more we learn about different people and ways of life. And that leads to more understanding and tolerance, which is a beautiful thing!
100. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer
![You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport](https://imgcap.capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/best-quotes-on-travel-99.jpg)
Piggybacking off the previous travel quote , this sentence encapsulates the idea that adventuring requires an open mind.
I hope you loved these travel quotes and sayings! If they inspired you to go on an adventure or sparked your wanderlust, let me know. Also, what are some good travel quotes you’ve heard? Leave me a comment below to share your favorites!
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Reading through these quotes about travel has ignited a flame of wanderlust within me. Each quote speaks to the essence of exploration, the beauty of discovery, and the transformative power of journeying into the unknown. As I soak in the wisdom shared by these wordsmiths, I’m reminded that the world is a vast tapestry of experiences waiting to be unravelled, and I feel inspired to embark on my next adventure with an open heart and a curious spirit.
Beautifully said! We couldn’t agree more that travel has a transformative power. I’m glad these travel quotes inspired you! Where will your next adventure be? 🙂
Traveling opens doors to new perspectives and unforgettable experiences. These quotes ignite my wanderlust and remind me of the endless adventures awaiting discovery. Let’s explore
Hi Tapu, Thanks so much! I 100% agree…travel is the best way to learn new things about the world and ourselves. Happy travelling 😉
I have liked the content because it really reveals to me that travelling is the therapy for peace of mind whenever it is practiced.
Hi Janane, Yes, I 100% agree! 🙂
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Hi Chakravarthy, Thanks! I hope they inspire your next trip! 🙂
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Thanks for the feedback, Bharti! So glad you enjoyed these travel quotes. 🙂
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156 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World
We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to journey around the world and experience new places and things abroad.
What follows is a complete collection of 156 of the best travel quotes, including some famous quotes from figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.
Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find them inspirational!
Table of Contents show 156 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips
156 Best Travel Quotes
• famous travel quotes.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien
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Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown
I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash
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Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown
Collect moments, not things. — Unknown
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown
I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir
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To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen
Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss
I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost
When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens
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• Mark Twain Travel Quotes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.
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It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
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• Funny Travel Quotes
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige
Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain
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I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
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• Short Travel Quotes
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown
Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown
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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart
Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai
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Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir
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A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir
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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada
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I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho
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Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho
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Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro
A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu
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It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen
It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier
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• Misc Travel Quotes
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein
Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire
To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe
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• Inspirational Travel Quotes
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia
Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert
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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson
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• Travel With Friends Quotes
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Adventure Travel Quotes
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey
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Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd
Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins
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The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington
Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley
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• Solo Travel Quotes
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark
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When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt
Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw
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I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman
• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.
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Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I’ve been. I’ve learned for sure only what I don’t know — and how much I have to learn.
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
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I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.
At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.
I have seen firsthand that things can turn on a dime. Tremendously awful, evil things happen to nice people all the time. I have seen people, again and again, relentlessly grinding under the wheel of poverty or oppression. At the same time, I see random acts of kindness and pride in the most outrageous and most unexpected circumstances. I am grateful. I understand that I am very privileged to see what I am seeing, even when it hurts. I think that people, particularly Americans, need to be more inspired to travel and be adventurous with the things they eat. And if they are curious about the world and willing to walk in somebody else’s shoes—that is surely a good thing.
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Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
Who wouldn’t travel, if they could? It’s unthinkable to me. Who wouldn’t want to enjoy different, new sensations, especially when the world is filled with so much great stuff? I like new things. I like to feel good. I like learning about stuff. It makes me happy. I like being wrong about stuff.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
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120 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Journey
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Travel has played a crucial role in human lives for millennia. These travel quotes show it can play a role in yours too.
Though we see travel through the lens of our own experiences and the world around us, the desire to spend time in a place far from home is not new. People have been traveling across countries and continents for generations.
Travel is an exciting adventure . Though some of us travel for business, many of us are motivated by vacations, which give us the opportunity to recharge, reconnect, and understand our place in the world.
Whether you’re going to a new place for a week, embarking on a gap year before college, or making a big move, we’ve got the best travel quotes to inspire you to get there.
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Travel Quotes
![why travel quotes Hans Christian Anderson travel quote "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"](https://www.keepinspiring.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/travel-quotes-2-min-1024x1024.jpg)
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
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Miriam Beard
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. Dutch Proverb
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin
Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets. Oscar Wilde
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. Peter Hoeg
![why travel quotes Michael Palin Quote "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"](https://www.keepinspiring.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/travel-quotes-4-min-1024x1024.jpg)
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. Martin Buber
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing in the pursuit of something else. Lawrence Block
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
One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. Edith Wharton
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. Tony Robbins
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Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time. Brenna Smith
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. Anthony Bourdain
The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot
![why travel quotes William Least Heat Moon Quote “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”](https://www.keepinspiring.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/travel-quotes-5-min-1024x1024.jpg)
For the born traveller, 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
Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert
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
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Why We Travel
We know that the urge to travel, explore, and see new things is not a new one for humankind, but what encourages us to pack our bags and leave home?
Whether you go by car, on foot, by rail, or air, these travel quotes are all about the forces that drive us to go new places and seek new experiences.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
The journey itself is my home . Matsuo Basho
I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it. Alexander Sattler
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, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
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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 Erikkson
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
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them. Mark Twain
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
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Focus on the journey, not the destination, joy is found not in finishing the activity, but in doing. Greg Anderson
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. Pat Conroy
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered. Kahlil Gibran
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. Isabelle Eberhardt
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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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. Susan Sontag
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. Agnes Repplier
Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home. Anatole France
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Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed pope-mobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. Anthony Bourdain
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful , receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. Pico Iyer
Solo Journey Quotes
Traveling alone is one of the scariest and most rewarding things you can do. Going where you want, when you want, without having to account for someone else… it sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Well, yes and no.
Taking a solo trip is liberating and reminds us how responsible and accountable we can be for our actions. We get to enjoy the journey, as well as the amazement of going somewhere we’ve never been before, with no distractions or drama.
Although traveling alone can be a little lonely, it’s also a great way to build confidence . It’s worth remembering that a solo trip might also introduce us to new friends, family we didn’t know we had, or even a significant other.
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Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime. Jacqueline Boone
Some journeys can be only traveled alone. Ken Poirot
Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. John Mayer
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell
A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much committed to movement as committed to transformation. Pico Iyer
Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself. Anonymous
The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude . Paul Theroux
When preparing to travel, let out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
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Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before. Anonymous
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to new influences, to change . Katharine Butler Hathaway
To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown. Freya Stark
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. Margaret Storm Jameson
Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating thing of your life, try it at least once. Anonymous
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. Hannah Arendt
Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone. Chinese Proverb
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love . Ernest Hemingway
Business Travel Quotes
Some of us travel more than others, and for some travel is more about obligation than enjoyment. For businesspeople who have to travel from place to place, it doesn’t seem like much of a privilege at all.
However much of an obligation traveling for work may seem, there are always ways to make it more enjoyable, fulfilling, and rewarding.
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Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. Paulo Coelho
One thing I love about traveling for work is growing and learning out of my comfort zone. Anonymous
But my sense in speaking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. Steven Soderbergh
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… adventure is a state of mind and spirit. Jacqueline Cochran
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. David Randi
Better to see something once, than to hear about it a thousand times. Asian Proverb
No one traveling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. Thorstein Veblen
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success . John D. Rockefeller
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Road Trip Quotes
Taking a road trip is a quintessential American dream for many, how many of us are brave enough to jump in the car, turn on the music, and drive for thousands of miles?
If this sounds like your idea of a perfect vacation, or something you’ve always wanted to do, make this the year that you plan it and do it!
Take the time to plan out a rough guideline for your adventure. Include must-see sights, places to stay, and experiences you just can’t live without. Making space for spontaneity is important, too, for some of the best times of our lives happen when we least expect them.
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. Robert Frost
I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it. Grace Jones
I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. Walt Whitman
I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom. Corinne Hoffman
Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. Unknown
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Isak Dineson
If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music. Edgar Wright
Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. Emma Chase
Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things. Victoria Erikson
Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions. Jenn McKinlay
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What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip. Crestless Wave
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. Romesh Gunesekera
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. Jon Bon Jovi
I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. Miriam Toews
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Jerry Seinfeld
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place. Caleb Johnson
You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. Steve Rushin
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. Aaron Lauritsen
That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. John Green
Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement. Anthony Joshua
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All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. Jack Kerouac
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. Paulo Coelho
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. Susan Magsamen
When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. Charles de Lint
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. William Least Heat Moon
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
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt
The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Jack Kerouac
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Wherever your next trip takes you, we hope you found a quote to inspire you on your journey! And if you’ve just returned home, now may be the perfect time to start planning your next adventure.
Travel has always been a transformative experience for those who dare to do it. Visiting different places, cultures, and lands can introduce us to parts of ourself we otherwise may never know.
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50 Inspirational Travel Quotes to Ignite the Wanderlust in You
As a child gazing at a world map, I would daydream about exploring every exotic shore on the horizon. However, embarking on my first transatlantic journey revealed how challenging travel can also be. From navigating unforeseen obstacles to trying new foods, each foray away from home transforms us.
Travel expands perspectives, unravels preconceived notions, and illuminates the rich tapestry of global cultures. These inspirational travel quotes capture the allure of discovering new places, overcoming adversity, and the personal growth inspired by our journeys. May the words ignite your own wanderlust spirit and send you voyaging to far-flung realms!
Key Takeaways:
The call of distant shores: travel quotes about new destinations, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tzu.
The Chinese philosopher highlights how even vast undertakings like world travel start small, with courage and intention. His wisdom inspired me to take my first solo trip to Asia . Though daunting, those initial steps created a path to the most rewarding experience of my life.
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
After hiking through jaw-dropping Yosemite Valley , I understood what Flaubert meant. Surrounded by towering granite cliffs and sequoia trees, I felt small yet connected to the grandeur of nature. Travel humbles and exhilarates us.
“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Publilius Syrus
The ancient writer cautions that travel alone does not guarantee growth. We must approach our journeys with open minds, curiosity to learn, and critical thinking. Travel reveals our true natures.
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
Twain’s humor gets at a truth – sharing transport and living quarters reveals a travel companion’s character. Challenging situations will expose their integrity, patience, and problem-solving. Choose wisely for smooth journeys.
Embracing the Path Less Trodden: Quotes on Travel and Adventure
“life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller.
Despite blindness and deafness, travel gave Keller fascinating insights into human nature, heightened her remaining senses, and broadened her worldview. She encourages us not to let fear limit our adventurous sides.
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Many associate wandering with aimlessness. But as Bilbo Baggins of The Hobbit discovered, sometimes finding your way requires getting intentionally lost and following where the road takes you.
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
No description or photo can ever match being enveloped by the damp heat of the Borneo jungle or deafened by the volcanic eruption in Tonga I witnessed. Some moments must be lived firsthand – so get out there!
“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous
While trying new foods could cause belly issues and hiking the Inca Trail knee aches, staying within our comfort zones can actually shrink our worlds. When we stop challenging ourselves, we stop living and learning.
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
This line from On the Road captures the restless spirit of adventure – to throw caution to the wind and risk it all for the freedom of the open road, come what may. It’s a siren call that tugs at every true wanderer’s soul.
The Gifts of the Journey: Quotes on the Benefits of Travel
“the more i traveled, the more i realized that fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” – shirley maclaine.
MacLaine aptly expresses how travel breaks down the barriers between us, laying bare our common humanity. Prejudices seem to fade when we actually connect with people .
“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage
This quote perfectly captures the sense of returning from a journey feeling more full as a person, with a bank of indelible memories and learnings to enrich daily life. Travel indeed widens our mental horizons.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustinus Sanctus
By staying home, we deprive ourselves of the fuller story and limit our knowledge of history, cultures, geographies, cuisines, languages, and more. Travel lets us read every chapter.
“Untouched by the customs and complexities of man, nature patiently waits to unleash her wonders on those who seek adventure.” – Pippa de Bruyn
De Bruyn inspires us to venture into remote corners where, free from human influence, nature surprises and rejuvenates the spirit. My trans-Siberian train journey through the stark Mongolian wilderness quenched my thirst for the rawness of the elements.
“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
Through constantly navigating new cultures, terrains, people, and languages, travel expands our competence and knowledge. Tackling each unfamiliar situation shapes us through experience. We return home as expanded versions of ourselves.
Unveiling the World’s Secrets: Quotes About Exploring New Places
“a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – oliver wendell holmes, jr..
Holmes reveals how the insights gained through travel permanently change our psychology and worldview. After living in Mumbai , the poverty sharpened my gratitude and showed me how joy transcends wealth. My perspective forever transformed.
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
This quote by the great naturalist makes me think of one of the joys of map-gazing as a child – imagining how much was out there to discover. Muir inspires us to seize the daylight and set off on the ultimate adventure – exploring the planet.
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
The ancient Taoist master understood the magic that happens when travelers remain open to evolving journeys. Chance encounters, spontaneity and newfound freedom await those who let the journey unfold organically.
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
This reminder to tread lightly and respectfully should guide all travels. We take home cherished memories that enrich the soul. What we leave behind is our responsibility. From picking up trash to supporting local businesses, we vote with our actions to protect destinations.
The Tapestry of Global Traditions: Quotes About Different Cultures
“when we reject the single story, when we realize there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.” – chimamanda ngozi adichie.
Nigerian writer Adichie warns about the danger of a “single story” stereotype dominating perceptions of a people or place. By listening directly to locals’ multidimensional stories with empathy, we gain a nuanced cross-cultural understanding.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
Twain perfectly expresses how living within diverse cultures expands minds and dissolves ingrained biases. Experiential learning fills gaps left by classroom lessons alone. This quote serves as my ongoing anthem for cultivating empathy through travel.
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
Here the author highlights the out-of-body experience of observing one’s own culture from afar for the first time. In a loose sense, travel introduces you to yourself within the tapestry of global diversity. These reflections foster personal growth.
Triumphs on the Trail: Quotes About Overcoming Travel Challenges
“the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.
The French novelist illuminates that transformative travel is not just about seeing sights but gaining new perspectives. Visiting the pyramids shifted my perception of “old” from a negative to a sense of awe about human endurance.
Journeys That Shape Us: Quotes About Travel’s Transformative Power
“travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – anonymous.
This quote elegantly captures how travel enriches us far beyond a monetary value. The memories, knowledge, confidence, friendships, and personal growth sparked by travel develop the spirit in priceless ways.
“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
Such a profound distinction – travel engages us far beyond the fleeting pleasures of a vacation. When we open ourselves to unfamiliar people and places, we open doors to transformation.
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
By testing ourselves in unfamiliar environments, the grit of travel reveals our true natures and we gain clearer self-knowledge. My solo backpacking trip helped me shed limiting beliefs about my introversion and capabilities.
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
Beyond sites seen, travel reveals humanity’s connective tissue. The shared joy and tribulations forge fast friendships. I still visit those I met on my very first hostel trip decades ago – they feel like old souls.
Timeless Travel Tales: Quotes on Creating Lasting Memories
“to travel is to live.” – hans christian andersen.
This pithy quote sums it up – immersing ourselves in new places and cultures makes us feel truly alive. Vibrant sights, sounds, and connections create indelible memories that enrich life after the journey ends.
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
Quindlen’s quote reflects how travel allows us to reinvent ourselves and craft new narratives. Career woman becomes nomad. Homebody tastes street food. Daily routines give way to unexpected adventures and discovery.
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground.” – Paul Bowles
Eloquently put – there is no substitute for personally experiencing the textures and flavors of a place. Travel transforms foreign lands from abstractions into cherished memories that forge human connections.
Lessons Learned on the Road: Quotes About Personal Growth from Travel
“traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – peter hoeg.
The heightened novelty and stress of navigating new places often intensify reactions. Trips reveal the deepest aspects of relationships and force personal evolution at an accelerated pace.
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
Keightley describes the awakening – travel liberates us from cultural conditioning and societal expectations. We relinquish roles to rediscover our authentic selves and what truly matters.
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot reminds us that the magic happens along the open road, with each twist and turn expanding our horizons – not just upon reaching the destination. Travel is about embracing the process, not the outcome.
The Essential Expedition: Quotes About Why Travel Matters
“travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – paulo coehlo.
While finances impact possibilities, at its core, travel demands the courage to venture beyond the familiar and comfortable. As Coehlo says, daring to explore opens our lives and selves.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
Michener makes clear that keeping an open mind and embracing cultural differences are prerequisites for meaningful travel that fosters human kinship.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustinus
By absorbing the diversity of life in unfamiliar realms, we enrich our perspectives and grayscale turns technicolor. Staying put closes the book while travel turns every page.
May these quotes ignite your lifelong quest to boldly venture beyond horizons, open minds to humanity’s mosaic, and discover more authentic selves. Keep collecting inspiring passages to reflect upon while lacing up your boots before the next journey that calls you.
Which travel quote resonates most deeply with your own wanderlust spirit? Share your favorites to keep motivating fellow travelers and explorers.
I know what it's like to go from being a crazy backpacker without a care in the world, via being a vaguely sensible parent to being an adventurer once more. In other words, evolving into a Grown-up Traveller.
Like everyone else, I love to travel, have visited a lot of countries and all that but my big thing is Africa.
I also own and run The Grown-up Travel Company as a travel designer creating personalised African itineraries for experienced adventurers
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200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World
Whether you are an experienced world traveler or merely just a dreamer with a case of wanderlust, these are the best travel quotes to inspire you. Everything from short to long, to sayings about love, couples, friendship and family. And of course the ever so popular Mark Twain travel quotes! Plus, it just wouldn’t be right for me to not include the top bucket list quotes in the bunch.
Whether they are spoken, or a taken from a book or poem, travel quotes continue to engage our imagination and lift our spirits. They make us re-evaluate our corner of the world, and inspire us to defy our boundaries. Let these quotes on travel inspire you to start packing your bags!
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Best Travel Quotes by Mark Twain
1. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
2. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain
3. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” — Mark Twain
4. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” — Mark Twain
Top Short Travel Quotes
6. “You lose sight of things…and when you travel everything balances out.”
7. “If not now, when?”
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8. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
9. “Travelers never think they are the foreigners.” — Mason Cooley
10. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”
11. “Learn to travel. Travel to learn.”
12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
13. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
14. “Travel is my therapy.”
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15. “Wander often, wonder always.”
16. “Fill your life with adventure, not things.”
17. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha
18. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
19. “Embrace the detours.” — Kevin Charbonneau
20. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
21. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berr a
22. “Adventure is out there.”
23. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventure fills your soul.”
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24. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
25. “Everyone smiles in the same language.”
26. “Eat well, travel often.”
27. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hillaire Belloc
28. “Put a ding in the universe.” — Steve Jobs
29. “Dream without limits.”
30. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”
31. “Die with memories, not with dreams.”
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32. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” —Paulo Coelho
33. “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” —Ray Bradbury
34. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” —Paul Theroux
35. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” Thomas Fuller
36. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.”
37. “Travel is an investment in yourself .” —The Cultureur
38. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.”
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39. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” —H elen Keller
40. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
41. “Design a life you are inspired to live.” — Annette White
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42. “Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.”
43. “Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.”
44. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” — Caskie Stinnett
45. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
46. “Wherever you go…go with all your heart.” Confucius
47. “I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer.”
Best Funny Travel Quotes
48. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
49. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark
50. “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Martin Buber
51. “Vacation calories don’t count.”
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52. “Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.” — Terry Hanson
53. “In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.” — Robert Benchleyl
54. “You want to know what it’s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.” — Lewis Black
55. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” — Rudyard Kipling
56. “ Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.” — Anthony Bourdain
57. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” — Dagobert D. Runes
58. “Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” — Regina Nadelson
59. “One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.” — Erma Bombeck
60. “[Airline food] is the tiniest food I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get — chicken, steak, anything — has grill marks on each side, like somehow we’ll actually believe there’s an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.” — Ellen deGeneres
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“Stop making excuses for why you can’t do epic shit and start making plans for how you can.”
— Annette White
61. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” —Rudyard Kipling,
62. “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” — Charles Kuralt
63. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” — Clifton Fadiman
64. “If traveling was free, you’d never see me again.”
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65. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore
66. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” — Russel Baker
67. “Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.” —Charles Kuralt
68. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” —George Carlin
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69. “Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.” — Al Boliska
70. “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” — Paul Theroux
71. “There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous.” — Theo Cowan
72. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” — Emile Ganest
Travel Quotes About Couples, Love & Marriage
73. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” — John Steinbeck
74. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”
75. “I’ve got a crush on the world.”
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76. “All you need is love & a passport.”
77. “Relationship status: In a relationship with my passport.”
78. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” —Lewis Carroll
79. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.”
80. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —Winnie the Pooh
81. “Together is our favorite place to be.”
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Quotes on Travel with Friends
82. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
83. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
84. “A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
85. “In life it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.”
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86. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”— Izaak Walton
87. “Be careful who you make your memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze
88. “I just want to eat good food, make good love, travel near and far, and surround myself with good people who get me. Happiness over everything. Anything less than that is irrelevant.” — Alex Elle
89. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”
90. “Everyone needs someone who calls and says, “get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.”
91. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
92. “I want to travel and meet beautiful souls. I want friends in every city.”
Quotes About Fear & Goals
93. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley Maclaine
94. “Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” — Athena Singh
95. “Don’t let fear make your decisions for you.” — Annette White
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96. “Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain
97. “The toughest challenge may be overcoming the damage our own fears have created.” — Annette White
98. “What if fearful thoughts were a habit like overspending, avoiding eye contact, or saying “umm” when you speak?” — Annette White
99. “To escape fear you have to go through it, not around it.” — Richie Norton
100. “Each time you try something for the first time you will grow—a little piece of the fear of the unknown is removed and replaced with a sense of empowerment.” — Annette White
101. “Fear does not stop death, it stops life.”
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102. “Put the fear aside and focus on the endless possibilities the world had to offer.” — Annette White
103. “Instead of listing the thousands of reasons that I can’t do something, I find the half dozen reasons to believe why I can. I find solutions instead of making excuses.” — Annette White
104. “What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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105. “Only take advice from someone who has achieved what you desire.” — Annette White
106. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
107. “Whatever you have accomplished was because you decided it was a priority in your life and something else was not as important.” — Annette White
108. “Great things never came from comfort zones.”
109. “The key is to make your goals a priority, by eliminating the words “I don’t have time” when referring to them. We all have time for what we choose to have time for and you need to make yourself a priority.” — Annette White
110. “Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
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Bucket List Quotes
111. “The very words “bucket list” can stir up some pretty heavy-duty fears. It can be a reminder of our own mortality, and death is typically something we would rather not think about. But, the reminder that our time is limited is actually one of the best gifts we can be given. It is one that can guide us to achieve what is most important to us before it is too late.” — Annette White
112. “Make a bucket list and fill it with dreams that have no boundaries.” — Annette White
113. “The first thing on my bucket list is to fill the bucket with wine.”
114. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
115. “For too many people it takes a terrifying illness, hit- ting retirement age, or some other life altering event to honestly begin thinking about the things they want to experience in their lifetime. In many of these cases, it will then be too late to turn these dreams into a reality.” — Annette White
116. “Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.” — Annette White
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117. “Whatever you want, there are benefits to turning them into a bucket list, and a well-crafted one can push you to lead your version of an ideal life.” — Annette White
118. “One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it’s worth watching.”
119. “It is never too early to begin a bucket list, don’t wait for that someday that may never come.” — Annette White
120. “Facing uncertainties every day and being able to over- come them on my own opened up more possibilities to achieving my bucket list goals.” — Annette White
121. “We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.” — The Bucket List Movie
122. “Creating a bucket list is only one small piece of the passionate life puzzle—actually living the bucket list lifestyle is the whole shebang.” — Annette White
123. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
Best Inspirational Travel Quotes
124. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” —Mohammed
125. “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”
126. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
127. “Be the girl who decided to go for it.”
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128. ‘Travel has the ability to enrich your life in some way, shape, or form—you return a different person than when you arrived.” — Annette White
129. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps, than a house full of stuff.”
130. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket.”
131. “I’m no the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
132. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” —Randy Komisar
133. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —Freya Stark
134. “Don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s not worth even beginning if you are only able to make a small start.” — Annette White
135. “Better to see something once than to hear about it hundred times.”
136. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or moving your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac
137. “Discover your passion, then take one step every day to live it.” — Annette White
138. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —H enry Miller
139. “Stop defining travel by the distance the destination is from your departure or the length of time you will be away from home. Instead characterize it as a journey of exploration, relaxation, adventure, and learning.” — Annette White
140. “I may not be rich, I don’t wear designer clothing or drive a luxury sports car, but bathing elephants in Thailand doesn’t require Louis Vuitton, just a passport and a desire.” — Annette White
141. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” —Game of Thrones
142. “Without a plan, aspirations are nothing more than hollow ideas floating around in your head.” — Annette White
143. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” — Carson McCullers
144. “You know all those things you always wanted to do? You should go do them.”
145. “There is a false perception that you need to be rich to travel, which simply is not true.” — Annette White
146. “Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
147. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” — Elizabeth Drew
148. “There are seven days in the week and someday isn’t one of them”
149. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” — William Least Heat Moon
150. “Leave the comfort of your resort hotel and be engulfed into the world around you.” — Annette White
151. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”
152. “Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” — Rick Steves
153. “Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ” — Kevin Kelly
154. “Of all the books in all the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport”
155. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton
156. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia de Castro
157. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” — Harun Yahya
158. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only the first page.” — St. Augustine
159. “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight seeing”.” — Daniel J. Boorstin
160. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mariam Beard
161. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
162. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener
163. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
164. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
165. “The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.”
166. “Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibu Battuta
167. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have in only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharial Nehru
168. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux
169. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin
170. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
171. “We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more.” — Pico Iyer
172. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” —Pat Conroy
173. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark
174. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” —Oscar Wilde
175. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” —John Hope Franklin
176. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” — Bill Bryson
177. “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.” —Roy Chapman Andrews
178. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — J.S. Eliot
179. “Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone…It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?” — Donald Miller
180. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” —Roman Payne
181. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” — Anita Septimus
182. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll
183. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” — Cesare Pavese
184. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’.” — Hunter S. Thompson
185. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
186. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” — Rachel Wolchin
187. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun drenched elsewhere.” —Isabelle Ebehardt
188. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
189. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau
190. “Some people live more in twenty years than others do in forty. It’s not the time, it’s the person .” —Doctor Who
191./ “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” Chris Humphrey
192. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli
193. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
194. “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” — Martin Yan
195. “Live with no excuses, travel with no regrets.”
196. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
197. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”
198. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi
199. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
200. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
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For many of these travel quotes, their style, humor and clarity of expression have inspired dreamers, and travelers for generations and continue to comfort kindred spirits today. Read them when you’re stuck in a rut or need to fuel your wanderlust… that is… if it’s possible to add any more fuel to that fire!
Do you have any travel, adventure or bucket list quotes to add to the list?
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49 thoughts on “200 best travel quotes: sayings to inspire you to explore the world”.
I feel like I've seen this list before? If not then I've definitely read most of the quotes before. I'm such a sucker for quotes, I even have a quote app on my phone.
There’s lots of travel quote lists out there, these are just my favorite ones ;)
I've not come across a lot of these quotes before like Elle has. My favourite one from the list is "5. Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Oh Yea, that’s a good one :)
These are good quotes, I like 6, 18, 34, 40 and 42.
So glad you read and picked your favorites!
2 is my favorite and one that I live by.
I love these, especially 18 and 31. Also ha ha to number 16. I always think of Uncle Traveling Matt's song from Fraggle Rock as inspirational for travelers. "Every sunrise shows me more and more/ So much to explore/ Come and follow me", etc.
So funny, I used to watch Fraggle Rock all the time!
Loved the list.. so inspiring ?
You’re amazing and inspiring.. Glad to read his post. Thank you so much for sharing a great information!!
Wow! What a comprehensive list! I love food and especially travel, and I find those things often bring you to a point of poignant reflection. Thanks for sharing these!
loved the list… So Inspiring…
I am glad that I am not the only one who has a huge urge to travel the world. I hope someday my dreams wont be dreams anymore!
Wow…This is a most amazing list and becomes more inspiring.
It really inspire me to travel even though I’m alone :)
It’s true! Travel is Therapy. Nice blog dude.
Enjoyed reading all the travel quotes! Each one is better than another. Some of them have really forced me to look at life from a different perspective and also sparked the interest for traveling in me. Thank you for posting such a wonderful conglomeration of travel quotes.
I love the 79th quote about friend and adventure other were also good but it was deep. I too have my own quote ” If you love surprises then Nature will never disappoint you” . Hope you like my quote too
Oh! That is actually good one too. :)
I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in their mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way, I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure!
Oh Anette! You have done such an amazing job with this article.
I agree with every factor that you have pointed out. Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts on this.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too :)
That’s a good one. Will take note of this!
My favourite has to be #136 – I live my life while muttering “climb that goddam mountain” any time something hard comes along.
very interesting topic.
amazing work.excellent.
very good one.
truly inspiring work .congrats!
very good article. Go on !!
thank you for the informative content.
good one!! congrats.
VERY NICE CONTENT.
Good to read.
very inspiring one.
helpful article.
good initiative
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel
I hope you’ve enjoyed these awesome travel quotes and you’re feeling inspired and full of wanderlust after reading them!
This is just a compilation of my own personal favourite quotes about travel, if you’re still looking for more awesome travel quotes, check out these 111 travel quotes and 100+ quotes perfect for Instagram by other awesome content creators.
What are your favourite inspirational travel quotes? Let me know in the comments below!
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Wednesday 22nd of May 2019
Waving a big hello to you, friend! My favourite: 9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” Looking forward to hearing from you more :)
Tuesday 28th of May 2019
Hi Steve! That one is one of my favourites too :)
Saturday 18th of May 2019
What a wonderful list of travel quotes. My personal favourite is “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen. i just want to travel more and more
Monday 27th of May 2019
That's one of my favourites too :)
Marc Deschamps
Wednesday 17th of October 2018
My favourite: 27. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Thank you very much for this inspirational post. Living this life, too... Marc and Sylvia
Monday 22nd of October 2018
One of my favourite quotes too :)
Brian & Noelle
Thursday 30th of August 2018
We absolutely love number 36 and 41! Travel quotes are so good for a little inspiration!
Those are amongst my favourite too! :)
Tuesday 7th of August 2018
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tzu
Saturday 24th of November 2018
That a good one. So true. Plans are made on the go. It might extend
Saturday 18th of August 2018
Another beautiful travel quote!
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101 of the Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Amazing Adventures
I’ve put together 101 of the best travel quotes as a reminder, motivation, and remembrance for the reasons why we travel.
I’m not just talking about the sightseeing and beach vacations. Travel is about the journey as much as the beautiful destination.
We learn about the world by experiencing new cultures and ways of living, in turn learning about ourselves.
I’ve been traveling the world for a few years – Will has been traveling for over 9 years – and the rest of the Broke Backpacker crew has put quite a dent in their passports too. I think these awesome quotes about traveling highlight some of the magnificent journeys and lessons we’ve experienced along the way.
Why? Because Travel quotes provide inspiration and capture truths about travel, adventure, and life.
Just like travel, words have the power to open our minds to completely new perspectives, which is why I hope this collection of quotes about travel and powerful words will inspire you to get out there and experience some adventurous travel yourself.
101 Best Travel Quotes
Some last words….
From funny travel quotes to inspiring words from legends past and present, here are the 101 best:
1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra, The Cultureur
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2. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
This is one of my favorite quotes about traveling. A lot of people think that one travels to escape life, or that long-term travelers are running away from reality. The way I see it – sure – maybe vacations are a quick escape from the real world, but traveling is a way to embrace life’s grandest adventures. Traveling is a way for life not to escape us.
3. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin
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4. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” – Marty Rubin
5. “to live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” – t.l rese.
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6. “Travel often; Getting lost will help you find yourself.” – Holstee Manifesto
Some of my best travel experiences were not necessarily butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes they were uncomfortable and painful. Sometimes I have quite literally gotten lost, but in the end, these experiences have helped me find myself.
I think that is what traveling is often about: finding – or at least rediscovering – aspects of yourself.
7. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw
8. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george a. moore, 9. “sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – drake.
This is one of the most important travel quotes. Doesn’t matter how long you’re traveling for, you’ll see new cultures, open your mind and change your way of thinking – even if it’s just a little bit. Traveling shows us sides of the world but also about yourself that you’ve never seen before. Having a different view on things helped a lot of people when it comes to making hard decisions.
10. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
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11. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
I love this traveling the world quote from Cesare Pavese. Having been on the road for the last few years, he nailed my experience spot on. Nothing is certain – except air, sleep, the sea, the sky – but that is what traveling is about: embracing the unknown and trusting the process. The way I see it, the only thing for certain is what is happening in the now.
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12. “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
13. “culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – thomas wolfe, 14. “traveling — it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – ibn battuta.
This is one of the most beautiful travel quotes. Meeting so many new people, making new friends and even finding a second family, has to be one of the best aspects of traveling. Having traveled quite a bit, I can say that having multiple homes is definitely an amazing feeling, although it can also create some distance between you and your original home.
15. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” – Malcolm Bradbury
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16. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”- Ibn Battuta
Probably one of the best travel quotes I’ve heard – the play on words, the sincerity, and the capture of what it means to travel. Traveling will undoubtedly leave you speechless, surprised, and lost for words, but those words will be found, and you will have epic stories to tell.
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18. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
19. “every journey is personal. every journey is spiritual. you can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. you can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – diana ambarsari, 20. “the perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. there is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – rosita forbes, 21. “travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – ella maillart.
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22. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
I think this is one of my favorite quotes about travel. Having been to 30 or so countries, and plenty of destinations among them, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that happiness does not come from beautiful destinations any more than the concept that money can buy happiness…
It’s easy to assume that if money can’t buy happiness, surely experiences can, but you can be in the most beautiful place on earth having some crazy experience, and not be happy. We tend to always be in search of the next big thing – the most beautiful beach or bigger mountain – without realizing that it is the journey there that matters, not the destination.
Happiness is hard to define of course, but I think happiness lies in your outlook and present state of mind. To be happy is to be in the present moment, no matter what you own or where you are.
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23. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict
24. “we must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – john hope franklin, 25. “though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – ralph waldo emerson.
Walking on the globe with your head down will never open up all views and beautiful things to see. In order to enjoy traveling, you have to keep your mind and heart open, accept different cultures and traditions and simply try to adapt. Keep a positive mindset and you’ll see the beauty of the world.
26. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha
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27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown
Both of these travel quotes (#26 and #27) encapsulate that sometimes we travel to learn more about ourselves. A large aspect of traveling is, of course, visiting places, but sometimes you end up visiting parts of yourself too.
28. “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” – Hans Christian Andersen
29. “traveling outgrows its motives. it soon proves sufficient in itself. you think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – nicolas bouvier, 30. it is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – ursula k. le guin, 31. “the best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” – rick ridgeway.
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32. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” – Gayle Forman
This is one of my favorite travel quotes! It reminds me of something I read in the book Shantaram , about an ex-convict on the run and his adventures in India. In the book, he was given similar advice: to surrender to India and accept his experience for what it was.
You have to surrender to the chaos and enjoy/endure the experiences as they come. While this is applicable to many aspects of life, it is definitely applicable to travel. You can’t try to force itineraries and plans or work hard to fulfill some high expectations in your mind. Doing so will only tire and disappoint you.
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33. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
34. “travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” – janna graber, 35. “life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – oliver goldsmith, 36. “focus on the journey, not the destination. joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – greg anderson.
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37. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
I can relate to this quote about travel quite well actually. The longer and more that I travel, the more I find myself self-analyzing and observing my own thought and emotional processes.
Traveling has a funny way of throwing you out into the world with the intention of discovering more about everything around you, only to realize you will discover far more about yourself. It is why traveling can be the most rewarding form of introspection.
38. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
39. “once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. the mind can never break off from the journey.” – pat conroy, 40. “travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – seneca, 41. “a man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – wilfred peterson.
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42. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
I can relate to these words quite a bit as I try to find the balance between preparing and planning for the future, reaching goals, and just enjoying the ride and staying present in the moment.
Having goals and an endpoint in sight is good; however, I don’t think it will be as satisfying if you don’t enjoy the moments that take you there. If you only focus on the destination you’ll miss everything that matters – the journey along the way.
43. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber
44. “life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” – debasish mridha, 45. “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”- izaak walton.
Whether it’s long, annoying bus trips, a shabby hostel or simply somewhere you don’t necessarily feel comfortable, it’s always better to have great company by your side. Going through the rough times together makes the whole experience more endurable.
46. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton
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47. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
I love this quote about traveling. With age, comes wisdom. Wisdom isn’t something you can read about, it is something you learn through experience. The same goes for travel. You can read and hear about places and people that are different than you, but sometimes it takes experiencing those places and meeting those people for yourself to truly understand them.
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48. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
49. “travel opens your mind as few other things do. it is its own form of hypnotism, and i am forever under its spell.” – libya bray, 50. “half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – ray bradbury, 51. “travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – francis bacon.
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52. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain will always be remembered for his adventurous spirit and ability to share some of the most remote and fascinating corners of this planet with the rest of the world. His words ring true. Travel is not pretty, and it’s definitely not always comfortable.
Sometimes you’ll deal with awful buses and missed flights, sleep in strange places, be confronted with challenging and stressful situations, or encounter experiences that break your heart. But that’s okay because the journey will make you stronger, and ultimately make you a better person.
53. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert
54. “it is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. such are the melancholies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” – gustave flaubert, 55. “all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – samuel johnson, 56. “uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” – ken hundert.
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57. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
58. “investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – matthew karsten.
Rather than investing in the latest technology, do yourself the favor and take yourself on a little trip. Clear your mind, learn new things and experience different cultures and people. You won’t regret it!
59. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” – Margot Fonteyn
60. “certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – miriam beard, 61. “culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.” – karl kraus.
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62. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
63. “travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – sheda savage.
There are so many things to see and learn. The more you know, the more open your mindset and view will be. If you feel like you’re missing someone, invest in yourself and go on a trip to experience new things – you won’t regret it, we promise!
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64. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes
65. “if you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – cesare pavese, 66. “of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – richard francis burton.
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67. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer
68. “when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road.” – william least heat moon, 69. “i soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – lillian smith, 70. “for my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson, 71. “conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. i’m not so sure. travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to cleveland and is never heard from again.” – eric weiner.
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72. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain
73. “travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. that is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – pico iyer, 74. “to my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – bill bryson, 75. “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – maya angelou, 76. “travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – freya stark.
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77. “The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” – Freya Stark
78. “you will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.” – freya stark, 79. “when you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. it is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – clifton fadiman.
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80. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine
81. “travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – paul sheehan.
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82. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
83. “we travel because we need to because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. when we get home, home is still the same. but something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” – jonah lehrer, 84. “travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet’s blurred reality.” – andrew solomon, 85. “ i travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – nyssa p. chopra, the cultureur, 86. “travel is the best teacher. the only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” – c. joybell c..
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87. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
88. he who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – moorish proverb, 89. “travel is like an endless university. you never stop learning.” – harvey lloyd.
Whether it’s about a new recipe, a new language or as simple as the fancy toilets in Japan, there’s ALWAYS something new and exciting for you to learn. That is the beauty of travel, just make sure you keep your mind open!
90. “ The symbol of joy to-day is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood.” – Rollin A. Sawyer
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91. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
92. “nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – emile zola, 93. “the value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – rolf potts, 94. “there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” – david mitchell.
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95. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Forman
96. “no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – lin yutang, 97. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george moore, 98. “all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – paul fussell.
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99. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” – Nancy Petralia
100. “travel molds a man, people mold his wisdom and experiences mold his life” – sujit lalwani, 101. “travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. one looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. good travelers are heartless.” – elias canetti.
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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
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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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130 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust
There are so many quotes that inspire wanderlust and travel that I wanted a place to put all my favorites. This will be updated regularly as I come across new quotes (or as you tell me your favs!) This is an ongoing updated this to create the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire you – to book the ticket, take the adventure, and to check off that bucket list (so I’ve tried to avoid cliche’s as much as possible).
There’s a mix of short travel quotes, long travel quotes, travel quotes by famous travelers (like Anthony Bourdain) and some lesser-known. Some are funny travel quotes while others are a bit more serious travel quotes. Some are quotes about traveling with friends or traveling with family, and others are about solo travel – you can do both! I hope this list inspires you to get out and explore the wonderful world we live in.
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100+ Inspirational Travel Quotes:
- “You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ~ Miriam Adeney This is my ultimate favorite quote – I even got it tattooed on my back! I have pieces of my heart all over the world!
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2. Live your life by a compass, not a clock ~ unknown There is something about travel that destroys our routine – and it’s amazing. It’s something I try to do once in a while even when I’m not traveling.
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3. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey ~ Babs Hoffman There are always potholes, but trying to enjoy the journey despite them is important.
4. “ I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro I’ve come to accept that I’ll get lost wherever I am, so I just have to keep going!
5. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes- Marcel Proust
7. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~ Omar Khayyam
8. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Unknown
9. Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. ~Anonymous
10. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. ~Bill Bryson
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11. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~ Anita Desai
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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
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13. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. ~ Unknown
14. A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. ~Tim Cayhill
15. Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind. ~ Unknown
16. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller
17. It’s a big world out there, would be a shame not to experience ~ JD Andrews
18. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. ~ MelodyTwong
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19. Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time. ~Breanna Smith
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20. We travel, some of us forever, to see other places, other lives, other souls. ~ Anais Nin
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21. Fill your life with adventures, not thing. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. ~ Unknown
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22. It’s a big and beautiful world. Most of us live & die in the same corner where we were born & never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. ~Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
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24. I want to make memories all over the world – Unknown
25. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. – David McCullough Jr.
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27. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love – Hemingway
28. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man & the universe – Anatole France
29. The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein
30. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life – Agnes Repplier
31. You only live once, but if you do it right, once in enough. – Mae West
32. The journey is my home – Unknown
33. It’s not the destination where you end up… but the mishaps and memories you create along the way – Unknown
34. Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view – Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
35. Great things never came from comfort zones – Anonymous
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37. You can shake the sand from your shoes, but you can’t shake it from your soul. – Anonymous
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38. Don’t quite your day dream – Unknown
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39. Fear is only temporary. Regret lasts forever. – Anonymous
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41. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain
42. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
43. Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Unknown
44. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world – Mary Anne Radmacher
45. Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. – Unknown
46. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years. – Unknown
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47. The ‘traveler’ rush that hits you upon arrival to a new place is like a drug. And like a drug, the more you expose yourself to it, the more you want it. – Clayton B. Cornell
48. Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living – Anthony Bourdain
49. We travel, some of forever, to see other places, other lives, other soulds – Anais Nin
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51. The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself – Andrew McCarthy
52. Stop dreaming about your bucket list, and start living it! – Annette White
53. Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell. – Paula Bendfelt
54. The ideal is to feel at home, anywhere – everywhere – Geoff Dyer
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56. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot
57. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain
58. You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ~ Eugene Fodor
59. Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. ~ Jennifer Lee
60. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. ~ Muhammed Ali
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61. You need not even listen, just wait .. the world will offer itself freely to you, unmaking itself. ~ Frankz Kafka
62. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart.
63. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
64. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. – William Least Heat Moon.
65. Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – Gayland Anderson
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66. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen – Benjamin Disraeli
67. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharp – WB Yeats
68. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor
69. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown
70. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
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71. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Way and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while, you fumble for words, trying to vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it. – Anthony Bourdain.
73. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper – WB Yeats
74. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert
75. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Erick Widman
76. Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Anthony Bourdain
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77. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves, we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown
78. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
79. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru
80. When a man is a traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family. – Peter Hoeg
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81. Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
82. Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman
83. I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro.
84. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. An in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain
85. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
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86. Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – Peter Hoeg
87. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – Secret Life of Walter Mitty
88. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
89. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson
90. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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91. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life – Marcel Proust
93. How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? – Ernesto Che Guevara
94. Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has a very little to do with the food itself. – Anthony Bourdain
95. Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. – Michael Palin
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96. Travel, not to escape life, but so life does not escape you. – Unknown
97. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
98. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark
99. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
100. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
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101. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling
102. Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau
103. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith
104. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G. K. Chesterton
105. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain
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106. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
107. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot
108. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
109. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
110. I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breathe in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood
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111. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question – Harun Yahya.
112. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
113. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
114. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
115. Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac
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116. One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. – Edith Wharton
117. We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. – Ray Bradbury
118. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. – A. A. Milne
119. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
120. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. – Lawrence Block
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121. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
122. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
123. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
124. He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish proverb
125. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten
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126. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener
127. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman.
128. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson
129. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton
130. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
131. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: This is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.” – Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules.
132. The World is a Book, and those who do not Travel, Read only one page. – Agustine of Hippo
133. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. – Oscar Wilde.
134. The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty wallet. – English proverb
135. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
136. Better to travel hopefully than to arrive. – English Proverb
137. The Journey itself is my home. – Bash ō Matsuo
138. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
139. In the desert of life, the wise travel by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone. – Arab Proverb
139. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo
140. So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac
141. The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. – Don Williams, Jr.
142. Arriving there is what you are destined for. Ithaka gave you the Marvellous Journey – C.P. Cavafy
143. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo
144. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd
145. We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parentheses in eternity. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
146. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot
147. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. – Diane Von Furstenberg.
148. Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. – Irving Wallace
149. The life you have led does not need to be the only life you have. – Anna Quindlen
150. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson
151. The true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. it’s the symbol of his liberty- his excessive
152. Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard
153. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: The desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. – Paul Theroux
154. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. – Pascal Mercier
155. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. – Paul Theroux
156. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
157. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – Unknown
158. Plane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore
159. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. – Brian Chesky
160. He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook. – African Proverb
161. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. – Thomas Jefferson
162. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies du voyage: Perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. – Gustave Flaubert
163. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it – John Steinbeck
1 64. Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time. – Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye
165. If you are planning to travel where corn grows, you should take a sickle with you. – Ethiopian Proverb
166. You go away for a long time and return a different person – You never come all the way back – Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
167. The traveler sees the world in its true proportions: Small enough to hold within his arms, yet large enough to encompass him. He feels himself part of the universe, instead of separate and apart from it – James Michener
So there you have it – 167 incredibly inspirational travel quotes (so far) to get you to live your best life.
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow is my favourite. It’s so true
I love travel quotes. They are so inspirational. Since I’m a solo traveller, #35 really resonates with me.
This is a hard one! Which would my favorite be…? I’m between my compatriot Rosalia de Castro and the unknown “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, quote number one hit differently! Pieces of my heart have been left in nearly every place I’ve ever visited, any place I’ve ever made a memory with new or old friends.
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” I think that pretty much sums up why I’m driven to travel 😀 Great list!
Thanks for sharing these quotes! “Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” is one that resonates with me most strongly. It is such an important reminder that sometimes when we’re traveling we need to put down our tour book and busy agenda and just stop to appreciate the new and exciting surroundings around us. Thanks for the reminder!
Absolutely! It’s easy to get swept up in all the “must sees” instead of what the destination is trying to show us!
Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view is my favorite. Cant wait to travel again. Hope this pandemic ends soon
I completely love the first quote you mentioned!! I can see why you got it tattooed. After reading them all, the other one which stands out to me the most is the one about us being the foreigners!
So many beautiful quotes! I can’t wait to be able to travel again
Oh I just loved these quotes. Thanks for the great post!! I miss traveling so much!
Same here! Glad you enjoy them!
I love these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
This is so inspirational! Love it!
Love these inspirational travel quotes! My favourite is number 11. It’s so true that a destination stays with you long after you leave it whether it’s a smell, a dish etc.
So many beautiful quotes! Love the positivity and inspiration during this crazy time we are in 🙂
So many great quotes, thanks for sharing. It reminds me of travel days.
This is a fantastic list of inspiring travel quotes! I’ve heard of most of them but also there a few that are new to me, so I really appreciate this! This one is one of my all time favorites –“Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living” – Anthony Bourdain
Thanks for including that one on this ultimate list!
Haha that’s my favorite reminder that work is just work. – Which (at least in America) is often forgotten.
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Inspirational Travel Quotes
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown
“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
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“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway
“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
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“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net
“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
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“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca
“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown
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“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown
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“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman
“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart
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“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton
The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap
“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
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“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
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“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)
“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
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“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro
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“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt
“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
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101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures
Written By: The Planet D
Inspiration
Updated On: May 22, 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.
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101 Best Travel Quotes
Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, 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 .
Famous Travel Quotes
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Travel Quotes by Famous People
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,” 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. It emphasizes 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
![why travel quotes travel quotes The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page by Saint Augustine](https://theplanetd.com/images/inspirational-travel-quotes-saint-augustine.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes why travel quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/best-travel-quotes-jrr-tolkein.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes adventure travel quotes by Helen Keller - Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all](https://theplanetd.com/images/adventure-travel-quotes-daring.jpg)
If Helen Keller can see 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, 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 quoted as having one of the most popular travel quotes in the world.
4. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle
![why travel quotes Famous travel Quotes - Take only memories leave only footprints by Chief Seattle](https://theplanetd.com/images/quotes-for-travelers-footprints.jpg)
Chief Seattle had many inspiring quotes, but this is probably the most famous of all 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
![why travel quotes Mark twain traveling Quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-mark-twain-1.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes best travel quotes by marcel proust](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-marcel-proust.jpg)
When thinking about travel quotes, we often look to the most popular ones, but these quotes really make me think. Sure, we can set sail to different lands, but until you change your mindset, you’ll never really immerse yourself in a voyage of discovery.
7. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
![why travel quotes Travel quotes and inspiration by Gustave Flaubert](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-travel-makes-one-modest-712x1067.jpg)
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
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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
![why travel quotes Benjamin Disraeli Inspirational quotes about travel](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-like-all-great-travel.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes best travel quotes Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta](https://theplanetd.com/images/best-travel-quotes-leaves-you-speachless-854x1067.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Adventure travel quotes by Paul Coelho](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-its-lethal.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Traveling Quotes about Adventure](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-comfort-zones.jpg)
It’s true! Of all the travel quotes in this list, I really feel that this one rings true to life. Even if you are not traveling, you need to step out of your comfort zone.
Whether you’re 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
![why travel quotes Famous Quotes about travel by Maya Angelou](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-maya-angeloou.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Babas Hoffman Inspirational travel quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-potholes-640x960.jpg)
This doesn’t have to a quote 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.”
![why travel quotes best travel quotes for motivation | fear is only temporary, regrets last forever](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-fear-is-temporary.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes Best Quotes About Traveling life begins at the end of your comfort zone](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-comfort-zone.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Traveling Quote by David McCullough](https://theplanetd.com/images/traveling-quotes-climb-mountains.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes funny quotes charles m schulz](https://theplanetd.com/images/funny-quotes-charles-schulz.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes be inspired by theses funny traveling quotes | john steinbeck](https://theplanetd.com/images/quotes-about-travel-funny-2.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes antony bordain travel quote | drink heavily](https://theplanetd.com/images/Antohny-bordain-travel-quote.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes quotes about travel | funny travel quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/funny-travel-quotes.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes bob hope funny travel quote](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-washington-dc.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes best travel quote | jet lag is for amateurs](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-amateurs.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Travel is glamorous only in retrospect by Paul Theroux](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quote-travel-is-glamorous-only-in-retrospect.jpg)
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.
![why travel quotes travel quotes | I wish I had never gone traveling said no one ever](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-wish-quotes.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Inspirational Travel Quote by Andre Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-discover-new-oceans.png)
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.
![why travel quotes Best Traveli quotes- It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way bu Penelope Riley](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-mishaps.jpg)
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.”.
![why travel quotes Traveling Wisdom through quotes.](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-make-you-richer.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Best Travel Quotes see the world](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-see-the-world.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes best quotes about traveling | it's better to see something once than to hear it a thousand times](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-better-to-see.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes inspirational quote for travel | Someday I'm going to be free and I'm going to travel the world](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-someday-be-free.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes best travel quotes john lennon imagine](https://theplanetd.com/images/best-travel-quotes-john-lennon.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Short Travel Quote by Oscar Wilde](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-regrets.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes The Road less Travelled travel Quotes We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-escape-life.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Travel the World travel Quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-trips-take-people.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Travel quotes that are Inspirational](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-go-see.jpg)
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”
![why travel quotes Travel quotes | Be inspired by this list of the most inspiring quotes of all time](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-daydream.jpg)
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”
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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
![why travel quotes best travel quotes dr suess oh the places you'll go](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-dr-seuss.jpg)
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.
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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?”
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“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 travel quotes Travel Quotes - To Travel is to Live by Hans Christian Anderson](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-hans-christian-anderson.jpg)
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”
![why travel quotes I want to make memories all over the world best travel quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-memories.jpg)
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.
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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
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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
![why travel quotes Best Travel Quotes aldous huxley To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-aldous-huxley.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes travel quotes by ghandi](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-ghandi.jpg)
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.”
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59. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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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
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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.”
![why travel quotes best travel quotes the sleeper must awaken](https://theplanetd.com/images/quotes-about-travel-sleeping.jpg)
Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!
62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson
![why travel quotes travel quotes for adventure](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-rick-warren.jpg)
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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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”
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It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.
67. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”
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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
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69. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith
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71. “The journey is my home.”
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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.”
![why travel quotes best travel quotes - Be inspired by this list of the most inspiring quotes of all time](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-earth-explorer.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes best travel quotes - You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-sand-in-shoes.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment - best travel quotes hilaire belloc](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-distractions-640x960.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes traveling quotes for couples](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-who-you-have-beside-you.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes travel quotes - traveling is not something you're good at, it's something you do. Like Breathing](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-Like-Breathing.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes best quotes about traveling - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us - J.R.R. Tolkien quote](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-given-to-us.jpg)
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.”
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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.”
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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
![why travel quotes Best quotes about traveling stretching the mind](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-stretching-the-mind.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Travel quotes | Be inspired by this list of the most inspiring quotes of all time](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-anatole-france.jpg)
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.”
![why travel quotes best travel quotes All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-martin-buber.jpg)
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
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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”
![why travel quotes Just go and see all the beauty in the world - short travel quotes](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-just-go.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes Travel quotes - inspiring quotes of all time is I travel for travel's sake](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-RLS.jpg)
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.
![why travel quotes Travel quotes - Be inspired by this list of the most inspiring quotes of all time](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-1-640x960.jpg)
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
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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.
![why travel quotes travel quotes by mae west](https://theplanetd.com/images/Best-Travel-Quotes-mae-west.jpg)
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
![why travel quotes travel quotes by robert frost](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-robert-frost-640x960.jpg)
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.
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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.
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96. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
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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.
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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.
![why travel quotes Travel quotes - Be inspired by this list of the most inspiring quotes of all time](https://theplanetd.com/images/travel-quotes-life-of-your-dreams.jpg)
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 .
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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
![why travel quotes best travel quotes Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.](https://theplanetd.com/images/best-travel-quotes-richard-burton-640x960.jpg)
It’s becoming 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
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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…
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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
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54 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Pack Your Bags
From funny to inspirational, these quotes will fuel your wanderlust.
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Whether you're an avid traveler or dreaming of your first big trip, these travel quotes reflect the spirit of travel, offering insights and motivations for your next journey from authors, poets, and philosophers.
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- "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai
- “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
- "Travel brings power and love back into your life." — Rumi Jalalud-Din
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
- "I read; I travel; I become." ― Derek Walcott
- "Adventure is worthwhile." — Aesop
- "To travel is to evolve." — Pierre Bernardo
- "Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets." — Oscar Wilde
- "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." — G.K. Chesterton
- "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Suess
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Erica Jong
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
Inspirational Travel Quotes
- "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell
- "I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." — Anna Louise Strong
- "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens
- "One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." — Henry Miller
- "Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest." — Freya Stark
- "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. “We strain to renew our capacity to wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." — Shana Alexander
- "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
- "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." —Anaïs Nin
- “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
Vacation Quotes
- “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” ― Elbert Hubbard
- “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” ― Kenneth Grahame
- “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ― Betty Williams
- “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Here's to a vacation of no regrets!” ― Joan Rylen
- "I can lie around and relax at home. A vacation is a chance for doing.”― Tessa Bailey
- “Well, I think every day’s a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you’re working on, it’s like always being on vacation.” ― Andy Warhol
- “Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over.” ― J.S. Wik
- “What I needed in the moment was a family vacation.” ― Deena Kastor
Funny Travel Quotes
- "Jet lag is for amateurs." — Dick Clark
- "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
- “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
- “There is nothing safer than flying—it’s crashing that is dangerous.” –Theo Cowan
- “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” –Robin S. Sharma
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
- “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” –Steve Martin
- “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” –Mercedes Lackey
- “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain
- “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
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It’s time to take your wanderlust to new levels with our list of the most inspiring travel quotes of all time. From iconic poets and authors to philosophers and national proverbs, we’ve compiled only the wisest, most inspiring quotes that are pretty much guaranteed to get you planning your next trip as soon as you’ve finished reading…
1. “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” – Frantz Fanon
2. “Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – Emile Zola
3. “One must travel to learn.” – Mark Twain
4. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” – Ray Bradbury
5. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
6. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
7. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
8. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
9. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Bill Bryson
10. “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf
11. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
12. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
13. “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
14. “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr Seuss
15. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
16. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
17. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourists sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
18. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
19. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
20. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
21. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
22. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do.” – Gayle Forman
23. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
24. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
25. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read a page.” – St. Augustine
26. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
27. “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
28. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
29. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
30. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
31. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
32. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
33. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
34. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
35. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
36. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you’d be better staying at home.” – James Michener
37. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
38. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
39. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
40. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
41. “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” – Norwegian proverb
42. “Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy
44. “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
45. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Jack Kerouac
46. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley
47. “Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.” – Arab Proverb
48. “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine. It is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
49. “Travel teaches tolerance” – Benjamin Disraeli
50. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
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It’s time to take your wanderlust to new levels with our list of the most inspiring travel quotes of all time. From iconic poets and authors to philosophers and national proverbs, we’ve compiled only the wisest, most inspiring quotes that are pretty much guaranteed to get you planning your next trip as soon as you’ve finished reading…
1. “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” – Frantz Fanon
2. “Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – Emile Zola
3. “One must travel to learn.” – Mark Twain
4. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” – Ray Bradbury
5. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
6. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
7. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
8. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
9. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Bill Bryson
10. “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf
11. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
12. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
13. “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
14. “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr Seuss
15. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
16. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
17. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourists sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
18. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
19. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
20. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
21. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
22. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do.” – Gayle Forman
23. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
24. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
25. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read a page.” – St. Augustine
26. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
27. “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
28. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
29. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
30. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
31. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
32. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
33. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
34. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
35. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
36. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you’d be better staying at home.” – James Michener
37. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
38. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
39. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
40. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
41. “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” – Norwegian proverb
42. “Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy
44. “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
45. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Jack Kerouac
46. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley
47. “Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.” – Arab Proverb
48. “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine. It is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
49. “Travel teaches tolerance” – Benjamin Disraeli
50. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
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From breathtaking mountainous landscapes and charming countrysides to lively cityscapes and beautiful beaches, travel offers endless opportunities for that perfect shot. Ree Drummond once said of a throwback photo, "My tiny girls (and my tiny arms, ha) in Yellowstone in...2003? Or maybe it was 1947. Either way, it was forever ago," adding, "The girls both got sick (stomach bug!) while we were in Yellowstone, but by golly, I wasn’t leaving without this photo !"
That's the power of a picture! No matter where you roam, you'll always have the ability to look back on that moment and cherish the experience you had. And what better way to capture and share your incredible adventures than through the lens of Instagram ? But let's be honest, finding the right caption to complement your travel photo can sometimes be a challenge.
That's why we've curated this list of travel Instagram captions and travel quotes that will take your posts to new heights. We've included nature quotes to caption your mountain photos as well as beach Instagram captions . There are plenty of cute captions and funny captions for wherever else you go, too. And if you happen to grab an image at just the right time, there are even options that will work as sunset quotes and rainbow quotes . No matter the view, these words of wanderlust will become your passport to sharing your journeys with the world!
Best Travel Captions
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- Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
- Here’s to the next stamp on my passport!
- Travel more, worry less.
- Let the adventure begin!
- Born to roam.
- On the road again!
- Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Bon voyage!
- Views on views.
- Not all those who wander are lost.
- Memories in the making!
- Life is short, and the world is wide. Better get started.
- PSA: Update your address book—I live here now.
- Wander often, wonder always.
- The only trip you will regret is the one you didn’t take.
- Digital greetings from [destination].
- A change of scenery.
- Living vicariously through my own vacation photos.
- Are we there yet?
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- All you need is love and a passport.
- I've found my happy place!
- Always take the scenic route.
- Living my best life—one plane ticket at a time.
- Tired feet, happy heart.
- What a wonderful world!
- To travel is to live.
- Head in the clouds.
- Vacay all day!
- The art of doing nothing.
- Exploring new horizons.
- Falling in love with the journey.
- Paradise isn’t a place. It’s a feeling.
- My home away from home.
- Girls just wanna have sun!
- Sun, sand, and surf.
- Life is not meant to be lived in one place.
- What is life but one grand adventure?
- Up, up, and away!
- The world is your oyster.
- Sampling the best of what this world has to offer.
- Better than my wildest dreams.
- I'll be here if you need me.
- I’m walking on sunshine!
- Home is where the heart is, and my heart is currently in [insert location].
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- I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
- BRB, going to soak up some vitamin sea.
- I follow my heart… and it usually leads me to the airport.
- Reality called, so I hung up.
- Don’t worry. Beach happy.
- My love for camping is in-tents!
- My favorite color is sunset.
- Sorry, I'm too busy wanderlusting.
- Pics or it didn't happen!
- If traveling was free... BYE!
- Good things come to those who book flights.
- OOO indefinitely.
- It was love at first flight.
- Do not disturb.
- Sea you later!
- Gone exploring. Leave a message after the beep.
- Maybe you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets (and that's basically the same thing).
- Work hard, travel harder.
- I need a vacation so long; I forget all my passwords.
- Travel, because money returns. Time doesn't.
- The only thing I love more than traveling is eating. So, why not do both at the same time?
- The flight was totally worth it!
- It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.
- Time flies... until you're counting down the days to your next vacation.
- What happens abroad, stays abroad.
- PSA: use your PTO!
- I'm not in Kansas anymore!
- My job is just…beach.
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- "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." —Wallace Stevens
- "The journey, not the arrival, matters." —T.S. Eliot
- "Adventure is worthwhile." —Aesop
- "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." —Anita Desai
- "To travel is to evolve." —Pierre Bernardo
- "Oh the places you’ll go!" —Dr. Seuss
- "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." —St. Augustine
- "Adventure is out there!" — Up (Disney/Pixar)
- "Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets." —Oscar Wilde
- "Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire." —Jennifer Lee
- "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." —Anaïs Nin
- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." —Lao Tzu
- "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." —Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest." —Freya Stark
- "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 travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves." —Pico Iyer
- "Jet lag is a choice." —Taylor Swift
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- "I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day. The dark sacred night. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world." —Louis Armstrong
- "Never looking down, I'm just in awe of what's in front of me." —Empire of The Sun
- "Get on board a fast train. Travel on a jet plane, far away." —Kelly Clarkson
- "See the world in green and blue. See China right in front of you. See the canyons broken by cloud." —U2
- "Tell everybody I’m on my way. New friends and new places to see. With blue skies ahead, yes I’m on my way." — Phil Collins
- "You belong among the wildflowers, you belong in a boat out at sea. Sail away, kill off the hours. You belong somewhere you feel free." — Tom Petty
- "Oh, what a world, don't wanna leave. All kinds of magic all around us, it's hard to believe." — Kacey Musgraves
- "Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free. I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me" — Elvis Presley
- "I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again." — John Denver
- "I may not know it. But these are the moments that I'm going to remember most, yeah." — Miley Cyrus
- "But hold me fast, hold me fast, cause I’m a hopeless wanderer." —Mumford & Sons
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450+ Travel Quotes for Instagram to Inspire Wanderlust
Travel Instagram captions and quotes are essential for showcasing the beauty and experiences of your journeys.
Whether you are an avid traveler or just embarking on an exciting expedition, crafting the perfect caption is crucial to complement your travel photos and videos on Instagram.
Here’s the scoop on travel quotes for Instagram!
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Travel Instagram Captions are the written descriptions that accompany your travel photos and videos on the social media platform.
They are meant to encapsulate the essence of your travel experience and evoke emotions, curiosity, and wanderlust among your followers.
Engaging travel captions for Instagram can be created by infusing personal experiences, emotions, and vivid descriptions that transport the audience to the locations depicted in the posts.
Incorporating relevant travel quotes or popular phrases can also add depth and relatability to the captions.
Instagram captions are important for travel posts as they provide context, storytelling, and a personal touch to the visual content.
They enable the sharing of travel experiences, recommendations, and insights, fostering connections and inspiring others to embark on their own adventures.
- “Wander often, wonder always.”
- “Embracing the beauty of new horizons.”
- “Lost in the magic of [Destination].”
- “Wanderlust: the desire to travel and explore.”
- “Adventure awaits, just a plane ticket away.”
- “The world is your oyster, go out and discover it.”
- “Travel far and wide, leave footprints everywhere you go.”
- “Escape the ordinary and embrace extraordinary experiences.”
- “Explore new places, meet new faces.”
- “Life is short, book the flight and make memories that last forever.”
- “Collect moments, not things – travel is the best investment in yourself.”
- “Seek adventures that nourish your soul and inspire your spirit.”
- “Take only pictures, leave only footprints – respect nature wherever you roam.”
- “Discover hidden gems in every corner of the world – it’s all about perspective!”
- “Embrace cultures beyond your own for a truly enriching experience on your travels.
- “Let wanderlust guide you to places you’ve never dreamed of visiting before.”
- “Find beauty in every sunset, from beaches to mountainsides.”
- “Pack light but dream big – adventure is calling!”
- “Escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life with a getaway to paradise.”
- “Unplug from technology and reconnect with nature on your journeys.”
- “Travel sparks creativity by exposing us to new sights, sounds, tastes.”
- “Explore historic landmarks that have stood the test of time.”
- “Capture breathtaking landscapes that will take your breath away.”
- “Adventures are best when shared – tag along with friends or loved ones!”
- “Unleash your inner explorer as you traverse through unknown territories.”
- “Immerse yourself in local traditions for an authentic cultural experience.”
- “Indulge in local cuisine for a taste bud-expanding journey.”
- “Step out of your comfort zone – growth happens outside familiarity.”
- “Travel has no boundaries – let your dreams take flight!”
- “Rise and shine – the world is waiting for you to explore it.”
- “Escape the ordinary, embrace the extraordinary.”
- “Collect moments, not things.”
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
- “Every journey starts with a single step – where will yours take you?”
- “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
- “Travel far enough to meet yourself.”
- “Adventure awaits around every corner – go out and find it!”
- “Dare to live the life you’ve always imagined – start by exploring new places.”
- “Discover magic in every moment as you wander through unfamiliar territories.”
- “Go where your heart desires and let curiosity guide you on incredible journeys.”
- “Embrace spontaneity and create unforgettable memories along the way.”
- “Explore off-the-beaten-path destinations for unique experiences that inspire.”
- “Make memories that last a lifetime by venturing out of your comfort zone.”
- “Find inspiration in breathtaking landscapes that stir your soul.”
- “Leave footprints behind as evidence of your adventures around the globe.”
- “Discover diverse cultures and broaden your horizons through travel.”
- “Challenge yourself with thrilling activities that push boundaries.”
- “Be present in every moment as you navigate through unknown territories.”
- “Capture captivating moments on camera to share with others back home.”
- “Connect with fellow travelers from all walks of life and form lifelong friendships.”
- “Wanderlust fuels our desire to explore new horizons.”
- “Choose experiences over possessions – travel enriches our lives.”
How to Find the Best Travel Quotes for Instagram?
Finding the best travel quotes for Instagram involves exploring various sources such as travel books, famous travel authors, classic literature, and even modern song lyrics & movies.
Additionally, numerous websites and apps curate and categorize travel quotes, making it easier to discover the perfect quote for your Instagram captions.
Travel quotes for Instagram can be found in literary works, online quote archives, travel-themed social media accounts, and through the exploration of different cultures and languages, uncovering unique expressions that resonate with your travel experiences.
Popular adventure travel captions for Instagram include phrases like “Embrace the journey, cherish the memories.” and “Adventure awaits, it’s time to explore the unknown.”
These captions radiate excitement and encourage others to pursue thrilling experiences.
Here are more examples include in your caption:
- “Embark on the ultimate adrenaline rush with these thrilling adventure travel destinations.”
- “Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with these awe-inspiring travel experiences.”
- “Discover hidden gems and breathtaking landscapes on your next adventure trip.”
- “Embrace your inner explorer and journey to remote corners of the world on an epic adventure vacation.”
- “Experience heart-pounding activities and immerse yourself in nature’s wonders on these adventure getaways.”
- “Unleash your adventurous spirit and dive into unforgettable outdoor escapades across the globe.”
- “Escape the ordinary and embark on a wild journey filled with exhilarating adventures in stunning locales.”
- “Seek out new thrills as you explore extraordinary landscapes during your next adventure travel expedition.”
- “Ignite your sense of wanderlust as you venture off-the-beaten-path to discover extraordinary places around the world.”
- “Challenge yourself and create lifelong memories while conquering some of nature’s most spectacular terrains.”
- “Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey through rugged terrains, scenic trails, and breathtaking landscapes.”
- “Indulge in thrilling outdoor activities that will leave you spellbound by their sheer excitement.”
- “Experience the thrill of exploring untamed wilderness, from dense jungles to towering mountain peaks.”
- “Immerse yourself in local cultures while enjoying exhilarating adventures in far-flung destinations.”
- “From white-water rafting to rock climbing, get ready for non-stop excitement at these adventure hotspots.”
- “Savor unforgettable moments as you hike through stunning national parks and capture jaw-dropping vistas.”
- “Discover new perspectives as you zip-line through lush forests or soar high above scenic canyons.”
- “Venture off-road for thrilling ATV rides that showcase rugged terrain like never before.”
- “Dive into crystal-clear waters to explore vibrant coral reefs and encounter a world of marine wonders.”
- “Follow in the footsteps of intrepid explorers as you trek through remote wilderness areas.”
- “Embark on a thrilling safari adventure and witness majestic wildlife in their natural habitats.”
- “Conquer towering peaks and push your limits with high-altitude mountaineering expeditions.”
- “Experience the rush of paragliding as you soar above breathtaking landscapes and enjoy panoramic views.”
- “Navigate treacherous rapids during an exhilarating white-water rafting trip that will get your heart racing.”
- “Discover hidden caves and underground river systems while exploring mysterious subterranean worlds.”
Using travel quotes to inspire wanderlust through Instagram involves pairing them with mesmerizing travel photos, creating a harmonious blend of visual and textual stimuli that ignite curiosity and desire for exploration within the audience.
What are the Most Inspiring Travel Captions for Instagram?
The most inspiring travel captions for Instagram are the ones that evoke a sense of wonder, curiosity, and adventure. They encapsulate the essence of the travel experience and convey the emotions and discoveries encountered during the journey.
Inspirational travel Instagram captions for 2023 may include phrases like “Embracing new beginnings with each expedition.” and “Discovering the world’s wonders, one journey at a time.”
Here are more inspiring travel captions:
- “Embrace the unknown and let your wanderlust guide you.”
- “Discovering new horizons fuels the soul’s desire for adventure.”
- “Traveling opens our eyes to the beauty of diversity and unity.”
- “Every journey is a chance to learn, grow, and become a better version of ourselves.”
- “Exploring new places ignites a sense of wonder that lingers long after we return home.”
- “In every destination lies an opportunity for self-discovery and personal transformation.”
- “Escape the ordinary and immerse yourself in extraordinary experiences around the world.”
- “Life is short, so travel often to collect memories that will last forever in your heart.”
- “Step out of your comfort zone and into a world full of endless possibilities waiting to be explored.”
- “Travel teaches us that there are countless paths to happiness, each with its own unique charm.”
- “Let go of routine; set sail on an expedition where adventure becomes your compass.”
- “Uncover hidden gems as you venture through lands both near and far.”
- “Recharge your spirit by seeking solace in nature’s breathtaking wonders.”
- “Expand your perspective by immersing yourself in cultures different from yours.”
- “Capture moments that take your breath away – they become cherished memories forever.”
- “Find beauty not only in iconic landmarks but also in everyday sights off the beaten path.”
- “Get lost without fear, for it is when we lose ourselves that we truly find what matters most.”
- “Leave footprints across borders as you embrace connections with people from all walks of life.”
- “Experience firsthand how travel has the power to bridge divides and create understanding.”
- “Open up a whole new world with each step you take beyond familiar shores.”
- “Embark on journeys where sunsets paint vibrant hues on foreign landscapes.”
- “Discover the magic that lies within every destination, waiting to be uncovered.”
- “Indulge in the flavors of different cuisines, letting your taste buds explore a world of delights.”
- “Take a leap of faith and let travel be the wings that carry you to new heights.”
- “Through travel, witness how diverse cultures interweave to create a rich tapestry of humanity.”
- “Find peace in simplicity as you disconnect from the chaos and reconnect with nature’s tranquility.”
- “Traveling is not just about reaching destinations; it’s about unraveling stories along the way.”
- “Let curiosity guide your footsteps as you traverse unfamiliar paths and stumble upon hidden treasures.”
- “Experience life through different lenses as you immerse yourself in local customs and traditions.”
- “Remember: It’s not about miles traveled but about hearts touched during your journey.”
Create captions that evoke wanderlust in travel posts by utilizing descriptive language, evocative imagery, and invoking a sense of curiosity and longing through your words.
Transporting the audience into the scene and letting them envision themselves in those captivating locations can inspire wanderlust.
- “Exploring the hidden gems of [travel destination] 🌍”
- “Adventures await in…🌴”
- “Capturing memories in… ✨”
- “Discovering the beauty of… 💫”
- “Wanderlust mode: ON in [travel destination] 🗺️”
- “Embracing the culture and charm of…👣”
- “Lost in the magic of… ✨✈️”
- “[Travel destination]: Where dreams become reality 💭💫”
- “Indulging in breathtaking views at…🌅🏞️”
- “Unforgettable moments created in [travel destination] 📸❤️”
- “A paradise for adventurers ⛰️🚀”
- “The perfect escape from reality ✈️💼”
- “Where culture and history collide 👥🏰”
- “A feast for the senses 🍽️🎶”
- “Unlocking new horizons 🔐🔭”
- “Embrace your inner wanderer ⛺👟”
- “Discovering hidden treasures 💎💼”
- “Creating memories one step at a time 👣❤️ “
- “Reconnecting with nature’s wonders 🍃⛰️ “
- “Exploring enchanting landscapes 💫✨”
- “Relaxation meets adventure 😌⚡”
- “Unforgettable experiences await 🌟✈️”
- “A journey to remember 🌍📸”
- “Embracing the local flavors 🍽️🥂”
- “Stepping into a world of wonders ✨🚶♀️”
- “A photographer’s paradise 📷💫”
- “[Travel destinations]: Discovering the unexplored corners 💡🔎”
- “[Travel destinations]: Embracing the unknown with open arms 👐❓”
- “Capturing moments that take our breath away 😮❤️”
- “Exploring new horizons and expanding our perspectives 🔭🗺️”
- “[Travel destination] in all its glory! 🌈😍”
- “Sunsets and palm trees make [travel destination] paradise on Earth! 🌅🌴”
- “Discovering hidden treasures in [travel destination] is an adventure worth taking! 💎⚓”
- “Exploring [travel destination] feels like stepping into a fairytale! ✨✈️”
- “Wandering through the streets of [travel destination], getting lost in its charm! 👣💕”
- “Savoring every moment spent in [travel destination], creating memories to last a lifetime! ❤️✨”
- “Feeling awestruck by the beauty that surrounds me in [travel destination] 😍🏞️”
- “The history, culture, and vibrant atmosphere of [travel destination] are truly captivating! 👥💃”
- “Taking a break from reality and immersing myself in the tranquility of [travel destination] 🌿🌊”
- “Embarking on an incredible journey through [travel destination], where every step is an adventure! 👟😊”
- “Experiencing pure bliss in the enchanting landscapes of [travel destination] ✨💖”
- “Feeling alive and free as I explore the wonders of [travel destination] 🙌🌍”
- “Letting my wanderlust guide me to new and exciting experiences in [travel destination] 🗺️✈️”
- “Creating memories that will last a lifetime with loved ones in [travel destination] 💕📸”
- “Finding serenity and peace amidst the stunning beauty of [travel destination] 🏞️💫”
- “Admiring architectural marvels and historical landmarks in bustling cities like London or Rome!”
- “Embracing nature’s wonders at majestic destinations such as Yosemite National Park or Machu Picchu!”
- “Recharging my soul at serene locations like Bali, Maldives, or Santorini!
- “Exploring the historic streets of [Destination]. A journey through time and culture. 🏛️🌆
- “Finding tranquility amidst the mesmerizing landscapes of [Destination]. A paradise on Earth. 🏞️🌿”
How to Use Instagram Captions to Inspire Wanderlust?
To inspire wanderlust through Instagram captions, it’s important to convey the allure and enchantment of travel destinations and experiences.
Incorporating vivid descriptions, sharing personal insights, and alluring travel quotes can ignite the desire to wander and explore in your audience.
The best ways to inspire wanderlust through Instagram captions include sharing captivating tales of discovery, expressing genuine emotions, and showcasing the beauty and diversity of global destinations.
Additionally, utilizing poetic language and impactful quotes can further inspire wanderlust.
Crafting inspirational travel captions that inspire others involves narrating compelling stories, conveying the transformative power of travel, and conveying the enriching experiences that travel brings.
It’s about creating a connection and fostering a sense of shared adventure and discovery.
Using Instagram captions to share inspirational travel quotes can involve integrating them seamlessly into your travel stories, amplifying the emotional impact of the visuals, and inspiring your audience to venture out and explore the world.
What are the Most Creative Adventure Travel Captions for Instagram?
The most creative adventure travel captions for Instagram resonate with the thrill and exhilaration of embarking on new ventures.
They infuse elements of excitement, wonder, and discovery, resonating with the bold spirit of adventure enthusiasts.
Writing funny and short adventure travel captions for Instagram involves injecting humor, lightheartedness, and a sense of spontaneity into the captions.
Puns, playful references, and witty remarks can add an entertaining and relatable flair to the adventure captions.
- “Embrace the unknown and wander into new horizons.”
- “Let the adventure begin, and may it never end.”
- “Seek thrills, find joy, and capture memories that last a lifetime.”
- “Exploring the world one step at a time, embracing each journey with open arms.”
- “Adventure awaits around every corner – go out there and find it!”
- “Leave footprints in places where only your soul has been before.”
- “Life is short, so travel far and wide to make every moment count.”
- “Dive into the unknown and discover hidden gems along the way.”
- “Take risks, make memories, and live for those moments that take your breath away.”
- “Adventure: because sometimes wandering aimlessly leads you to the most incredible places.”
- “Explore uncharted territories with a heart full of curiosity.”
- “Let your spirit roam free in search of thrilling escapades all over the globe.”
- “Climb mountains not only to conquer them but also to discover yourself along the way.”
- “Adventure calls – will you answer?”
- “Discover beauty beyond imagination as you chase adventures across continents.”
- “Unleash your inner explorer as you embark on untamed journeys across diverse landscapes.”
- “Go off the beaten path – it’s where true magic happens.”
- “Wanderlust is not just a word; it’s an insatiable craving for extraordinary experiences.”
- “Traveling solo doesn’t mean being alone; it means discovering independence in exhilarating ways.”
- “Take flight towards adventure; let wanderlust be your guide through unexplored frontiers.”
- “Powered by adrenaline, fueled by wanderlust – every destination becomes an unforgettable expedition!”
- “Leave behind comfort zones as you venture into awe-inspiring realms filled with endless possibilities.”
- “Every journey is an opportunity to immerse yourself fully in different cultures’ rich tapestry.”
- “Capture slices of pure life as you explore the world’s hidden gems, one adventure at a time.”
- “If happiness had coordinates, you’d find it in the wilderness of new experiences.”
- “Embrace the thrill of uncertainty and let wanderlust guide your path to unparalleled memories.”
- “The world is vast and full of wonders – it’s time to curate your own extraordinary story.”
- “Cherish every sunset, conquer every summit, and create unforgettable stories with each journey.”
- “Wander far enough to uncover the true essence of yourself amidst captivating landscapes.”
- “Let wanderlust take you on an exhilarating ride through breathtaking scenery and heart-pounding adventures!”
- “Uncover secrets that nature whispers as you explore untouched corners of this beautiful planet.”
- “Seek refuge from routine in exploring unfamiliar terrain; there’s magic waiting around every bend.”
- “Admire nature’s grandeur while embarking on thrilling escapades that leave imprints on your soul.”
- “Experience a symphony for the senses through daring adventures across diverse landscapes worldwide!”
- “Get lost in moments that make your heart race and fill your spirit with boundless joy!”
- “Discover exhilaration anew with each bold step into uncharted territories awaiting your arrival.”
- “Grab life by the handlebars and ride into compelling landscapes that awaken the adventurer within.”
- “Inhale wanderlust like oxygen as you embark on extraordinary odysseys across unknown horizons.”
- “Escape ordinary routines by venturing into extraordinary destinations – a feast for both eyes and soul!”
- “Every travel experience holds a puzzle piece connecting our souls to different cultures globally!”
- “Release inhibitions while immersing yourself in incredible journeys where spontaneity reigns supreme.”
- “Connect with nature’s untamed beauty through adrenaline-fueled adventures under open skies.”
- “Open new chapters abroad as each destination becomes a colorful page etched onto precious memories.”
- “Savor freedom like never before as you wander through captivating landscapes with wide-eyed wonder.”
- “Let loose the adventurer within, chasing sunsets and soaking up cultures in mesmerizing destinations.”
- “Capture moments that defy gravity; let your travel adventures be a testament to your soaring spirit.”
- “Discover treasures beyond material wealth—moments that inspire awe and leave you forever changed.”
- “Adventure is where ordinary meets extraordinary – embrace the thrill of intrepid journeys worldwide!”
- “Embarking on a journey with a backpack full of dreams and a heart full of wanderlust.”
- “Lost in the wilderness, found in the adventure.”
Popular adventure travel song lyrics for Instagram captions include excerpts from uplifting songs that celebrate exploration, freedom, and the thrill of the unknown. Lyrics that evoke emotions and paint vivid imagery are ideal for adventure-themed posts.
- “I wanna run away, I wanna fly away.”
- “Take me anywhere, take me everywhere.”
- “Let’s escape this ordinary life.”
- “Into the wild we go, where freedom unfolds.”
- “On an endless road to nowhere but everywhere.”
- “Adventure awaits at every turn, let’s dive in and learn.”
- “We’re explorers in this vast world of unknowns.”
- “Adventures fill our souls like stories yet untold.”
How to Create Engaging Beach Travel Captions for Instagram?
Creating engaging beach travel captions for Instagram involves capturing the essence of the seaside escapades, whether it’s the tranquil serenity, exhilarating water sports, or the pure joy of basking in the sun.
Crafting captivating captions that exude the beauty and allure of beach vacations can enhance the visual impact of your posts.
Some short and witty beach travel captions for Instagram posts may include phrases like “Salty air, sun-kissed hair.” and “Tides, tan lines, and good times.”
Here are more beach captions:
- “Life’s a beach, enjoy the waves and soak up the sun!”
- “Sandy toes, salty kisses – perfect beach getaway!”
- “Take me to the ocean and leave me there.”
- “Beach therapy: Vitamin Sea and sunshine.”
- “Keep calm and get your tan on at the beach!”
- “Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.”
- “Paradise found – just add sand and palm trees.”
- “Seas the day! Embrace every moment at the beach.”
- “Catch some rays, make lasting memories at the beach.”
- “Life is better in flip-flops with a cool drink in hand.”
- “Wanderlust: chasing palm trees, waves, and endless summer vibes.”
- “Ocean air, salty hair – blissful days by the water’s edge.”
- “Saltwater heals everything – let go of worries at the beach!”
- “Find your inner peace with toes buried in golden sand.”
- “Leave only footprints; take only memories from your sandy adventures.”
- “Sunshine is my favorite accessory for a day by the sea.”
- “Nothing but good vibes here; let’s ride some waves!”
- “Beach please! I’m ready for lazy days under swaying palms.”
- “In need of vitamin sea? Head to paradise on Earth – it’s called a beach!”
- “Inhale confidence; exhale worries while soaking up rays at your favorite spot.”
- “Surfing through life one wave at a time – catch you on those perfect swells!”
- “Let’s escape reality together – find solace where land meets endless blue waters.”
- “Dreaming of being whisked away to sandy shores – who wants to join?”
- “A dip in crystal-clear waters is all it takes to wash away any stress.”
- “Lose yourself in the rhythm of crashing waves and salty breezes – beach vibes only!”
- “Beach hair, don’t care – let’s embrace that effortless windswept look.”
- “The best moments are made at the beach – create memories that will last a lifetime.”
- “Let your worries wash away with each ebb and flow of the tide.”
- “Dive into paradise and discover what lies beneath the serene surface.”
- “Find your inner mermaid (or merman) at the beach – live life with a touch of magic.”
- “Walking on sunshine – basking in golden rays at your tropical escape.”
- “Sunkissed skin and freckles; proof of days well spent by the ocean’s edge.”
- “A day at the beach is worth a thousand words – capture it all in one picture-perfect moment.”
- “Life is better barefoot on sandy shores – enjoy every step along this coastal journey.”
- “Beach therapy: where saltwater heals, sunsets inspire, and smiles come naturally.”
- “Salty kisses and sandy toes – just another day in paradise.”
- “Seize each wave like it’s an opportunity to dance with nature.”
- “Embrace wanderlust; explore beaches across oceans, enjoying their diverse beauty.”
- “Escape reality by diving into an ocean of tranquility. Let serenity be your guide!”
- “Lush palm trees, gentle waves; lose yourself in nature’s tranquil embrace.”
- “Just sitting here watching waves kiss the shore – feeling blissful as time drifts away.”
- “On sandy shores or hidden coves, create memories that forever whisper stories of joy.”
- “With sun-kissed skin and laughter echoing through dunes, we find happiness wherever we roam.”
- “Blessed with infinite shades of blue; find solace where sky meets sea.”
- “Paradise found: warm sand beneath my feet, a gentle breeze kissing my face.”
- “Leave behind footprints of wanderlust as you explore the world one beach at a time.”
- “Let your problems drown in the soothing rhythm of crashing waves.”
- “Tropical vibes and sunny skies – this beach getaway is pure paradise!”
Tips for crafting captivating Instagram captions for beach vacations include incorporating sensory descriptions, capturing the carefree spirit of beach moments, and utilizing beach-themed quotes to complement the scenic beauty portrayed in the travel photos.
Using travel quotes to complement beach travel Instagram captions adds depth and poetic resonance to the seaside reveries depicted in the posts, infusing them with a touch of introspection and contemplation amidst the coastal escapades.
- “Life is short, buy the plane ticket!”
- “Adventure awaits… and so does room service!”
- “Traveling: Where finding yourself often involves getting lost first.”
- “Jet-lagged but still fabulous! #TravelProblems”
- “Eat, sleep, travel, repeat… in that exact order.”
- “Wanderlust: The only thing contagious that we actually want to catch!”
- “Vacation calories don’t count, right? Bring on the gelato!”
- “Going places and leaving a trail of laughter behind me.”
- “My passport is calling, and I must go! And pack snacks…”
- “‘I haven’t been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list’ – Slightly modified by procrastination.”
- “Exploring new destinations one souvenir shop at a time.”
- “‘Are you there yet?’ – A question that deserves its own vacation timeout.”
- “When in doubt, choose the window seat for the best views and awkward elbow encounters.”
- “Note to self: Pack extra patience for navigating foreign languages and public transportation systems.”
- “Who needs maps when you have Google Maps? Oh wait…no signal! *cue epic adventure*”
- “The world is my oyster…and I’m allergic to seafood!”
- “Always leave room in your suitcase for unexpected shopping sprees… or souvenirs shaped like Eiffel Towers.
- “Beach hair? Don’t care!”
- “Foreign cuisine goals: Eat everything without asking what it is!”
- “Traveling with friends means creating memories… and blaming each other for missing flights!”
- “Jetlagged selfie game strong!”
- “Traveling alone isn’t lonely when you make friends with local food vendors.”
- “FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) has reached an all-time high… and so has my airline mileage!”
- “Traveling is the best way to learn geography… and discover your terrible sense of direction.”
- “Warning: May spontaneously break into dance when surrounded by stunning landscapes.”
- “Spontaneity is the key to adventure. And occasionally missing return flights.”
- “Don’t forget to pack your sense of humor. Lost luggage can be replaced, but laughter is priceless!”
- “Life’s too short for boring vacations! Let’s add a touch of chaos and make it memorable!”
- “Travel tip: Take photos before eating that picture-perfect meal. No one likes a cold foodstagram!”
- “Exploring cities one wrong turn at a time!”
- “Packing light? That’s cute! I packed three outfits per day… just in case!”
- “Chasing sunsets like there’s no tomorrow… or sunrise for that matter.”
- “I came, I saw, I took way too many selfies!”
- “Jetsetter on a budget: 5-star dreams with a 2-star hotel reality.”
- “Time flies when you’re having fun…and trying to catch connecting flights.”
- “Travel isn’t about the destination; it’s about getting on board with free snacks!
- ”The only thing wilder than my travels? My passport photo!”
- ”Vacation rule #1: Always say yes to dessert…and then order seconds.”
- ”Palm trees and pina coladas – the perfect cure for wanderlust.”
- ”Traveling opens our hearts, minds…and sometimes our suitcases if we overpack.”
- ”Not all who wander are lost… Just temporarily disoriented without Google Maps.”
- “My travel budget: 10% plane tickets, 90% snacks.”
- “I need a six-month vacation twice a year.”
- “Jet lag is just my body’s way of saying, ‘You didn’t need that sleep anyway.'”
- “My passport is my favorite accessory.”
- “Traveling: where the only exercise I get is running out of money.”
- “I followed my heart, and it led me to the airport.”
- “If travel were free, you’d never see me again.”
- “I’m not lost; I’m just exploring alternative routes to my destination.”
- “My favorite exercise is a mix of running late and jumping to conclusions.”
- “I don’t need a hairstylist; I need a destination.”
- “I’m not a morning person unless it’s to catch a flight.”
- “My luggage gets more vacation days than I do.”
- “Traveling is the only time where ‘getting lost’ is a legitimate goal.”
- “I travel for the funny stories and the questionable decisions.”
- “I don’t always travel, but when I do, it’s to escape reality and find better Wi-Fi.”
- “My favorite kind of social distancing is being in a different country.”
- “I left my heart in [insert last vacation spot]… and probably my charger too.”
- “Traveling: because my Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail.”
- “I’m not a tourist; I’m a professional souvenir collector.”
- “My travel philosophy: Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
- “I’m on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it… especially when I travel.”
- “I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.”
- “I’m not avoiding work; I’m on a workcation.”
- “Traveling is the art of getting lost and finding yourself simultaneously.”
- “I’m not great at geography, but I can pack a suitcase like a pro.”
- “My sense of direction leads me to amazing places—mostly by accident.”
- “The only trip you will regret is the one you don’t take, or the one where you forget your charger.”
- “I travel so much; my passport thinks it’s a frequent flyer.”
- “I’m not a thrill-seeker; I’m a chill-seeker. Find me by the beach.”
- “My favorite travel game is ‘Guess which language I don’t speak.'”
- “Traveling: the only time my diet consists of 70% gelato.”
- “I don’t travel to escape life; I travel to make sure life doesn’t escape me.”
- “My two moods: Packing for a trip and unpacking from a trip.”
- “I have a crush on the world, and I’m not afraid to show it.”
- “Jet lag is my spirit animal.”
- “My travel style: Dress like you might meet your worst enemy.”
- “I need a vacation from my vacation.”
- “I don’t always travel, but when I do, I prefer to get lost.”
- “My suitcase and I have a special bond. It never judges how much I pack.”
- “I’m not a tourist; I’m a temporary local.”
- “I’m not saying I’m Wonder Woman; I’m just saying no one has ever seen me and Wonder Woman in the same room.”
- “Traveling: the only time I appreciate a long layover.”
- “My bucket list: Fill the bucket with beach sand.”
- “I like long walks… to the airport gate for my next adventure.”
- “I’m not a morning person, but I’ll wake up at sunrise for a good photo.”
- “I followed my dreams, and they led me to the airport.”
- “If traveling were a job, I’d be the CEO of Vacation.”
- “I have a ‘to-do’ list: travel, eat, nap, repeat.”
- “I don’t need a map; I have Google Maps and a questionable sense of direction.”
- “My travel motto: Go where the WiFi is weak, and the cocktails are strong.”
- “Traveling: Where new adventures await around every corner.”
- “Exploring the world one stamp at a time.”
- “Jetting off to new destinations, leaving worries behind.”
- “Embracing the unknown and finding beauty in unexpected places.”
- “Capturing memories that will last a lifetime through travel photography.”
- “Breaking out of my comfort zone, one trip at a time.”
- “Discovering hidden gems and local treasures in every city visited.”
- “Traveling is not just about seeing new places, but also experiencing different cultures and traditions.”
- “Finding solace in the serenity of nature during travel escapades.”
- Dreams
- Exotic
- Solitude
- Thrills
- Happiness
- Experience
- Relaxation
- Photography
- Heritage
- Sightseeing
- Vacation
- Seaside
- Countryside
- Scenic
- Wonder
- Panorama
- Urban
- Tradition
- Awe
- Rejuvenate
- Romantic
- Hidden
- Trekking
- Budget
- Luxurious
- Adrenaline
- Charm
- Stunning
- Landmarks
- Fascination
- Faraway
- Unwind
- Inspiring
- Enchanting
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Hike more, worry less.”
- “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay
- “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
- “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
- “Hiking is not escapism; it’s realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.” – Jennifer Pharr Davis
- “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl
- “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir
- “Hiking is a bit like life: The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other… again and again and again.” – Linda Brill
- “Hike your own hike.”
- “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
- “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Adventure awaits.”
- “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
- “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” – John Muir
- “Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot.” – Diane Spicer
- “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”
- “May your trails be crooked, winding, and dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” – Edward Abbey
- “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.”
- “Hiking: the best workout that doesn’t feel like work.”
- “On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.”
- “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
- “Hiking is the answer. Who cares what the question is?”
- “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
- “To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” – Mary Davis
- “Hiking: Cheaper than therapy.”
- “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir
- “The best way to lengthen your life is to stretch out on a trail.” – Charles de Lint
- “Life is short, and the world is wide. Get out there and explore.”
- “Wandering where WiFi is weak.”
- “Hike the trails of life with the boots of perseverance.”
- “Hiking is not just exercise; it’s therapy with a view.”
- “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
- “Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost.”
- “I hike because I really like snacks and napping in the woods.”
- “My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch. I call it lunch.”
- “Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.”
- “I’m outdoorsy in that I like getting drunk on patios.”
- “The only time I enjoy a long walk is when it’s taken by someone who annoys me.”
- “I don’t need therapy; I just need a mountain and some good company.”
- “I’m not lazy; I’m on energy-saving mode.”
- “Hiking: where the wifi is weak, but the connection is strong.”
- “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted a paycheck to go hiking.”
- “Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.”
- “I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.”
- “My happy place is where the coffee is strong and the hiking trails are endless.”
- “I’m not a morning person or a night person. I’m a ‘whenever I can sneak in a nap’ person.”
- “The early bird can have the worm because worms are gross and mornings are stupid.”
- “If you see me on a trail running, my campfire was probably stolen.”
- “I’m not fat; I’m just easy to see.”
- “I only run when I’m being chased or when the trail mix is on sale.”
- “Hiking is my cardio, and by cardio, I mean eating trail mix.”
- “My hiking style is best described as ‘I need a shower.'”
- “I only hike on days that end in ‘y.'”
- “Sail away with me, where every sunset feels like a hug from the universe. ⛵✨ #WanderlustAdventures”
- “Exploring this wonderful world, one adventure at a time. 🌍✨ #WanderlustMagic”
- “Roaming through places full of beauty, finding magic in every corner. 🌺✨ #TravelEnchantment”
- “Embarking on a journey to find the beautiful in every step and every sunset. 🌍✨ #DiscoverBeauty”
- “Pack your dreams, buckle up your curiosity, and let’s travel the world together. 🌍✈️ #WanderlustAdventures”
- “Battered suitcases were piled high as dreams, waiting to unfold across the map of possibilities. 🌍✨ #JourneyBegins”
- “Amidst diverse landscapes, become common ground where every journey finds its unity. 🌏✨ #TravelHarmony”
- “The open road grants the freedom to make your own map, weaving tales of adventure at every turn. 🗺️🌟 #ExploreYourPath”
- “In every new destination, find a piece of the past to hold, a memory to carry forward into the future. 🌍✨ #TravelMemoirs”
- “Embrace the call of adventure, let your spirit soar, and go ever upward to the heights of new horizons. 🌄✈️ #RiseAndExplore”
- “Amidst the miles, the journey changes us, sculpting our souls with the beauty of every experience. 🌍✨ #TransformativeTravels”
- “Travel unfolds the things you didn’t know you were seeking, revealing the treasures of the unknown. 🌏✨ #DiscoverUnexpected”
- “The path to discovery isn’t always comfortable, but it’s on those winding roads that we find the true essence of our journey. 🌍✨ #UncomfortableAdventures”
- “Wander with your eyes open, for it’s in the details that the world reveals its most enchanting secrets. 🌎✨ #EyesWideWanderlust”
- “In the journey of exploration, you’ve come to the right place to unwrap the gifts of the world’s wonders. 🌍✨ #TravelTreasures”
In the realm of travel, each quote encapsulates the essence of exploration, wanderlust, and the transformative power of traversing the globe.
From the whimsical to the profound, these quotes serve as compass points guiding us through the vast landscapes of our own adventures.
They remind us that the journey is not merely about reaching a destination but about discovering the beauty, humor, and wisdom that unfurl along the way.
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How is everyone traveling so much when gas and food prices are sky high?
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Susan Ewer watched as her kids rampaged around the play area inside the Kansas City airport, burning off energy for what promised to be a marathon travel day: flying to Ireland.
Seven members of her family were leaving from Kansas City, meeting up with another three in Chicago, for the jet trip across the Atlantic. They planned to spend 10 days driving around the Emerald Isle, meeting long-lost cousins in local pubs. They were supposed to have gone in 2020, but the pandemic screwed everything up, and this was the first chance they all had to travel together since then.
"A lot of people say we're crazy, but I’m really optimistic," she said.
Like millions of Americans, Ewer's clan is taking a big summer vacation this year, driven partly by pent-up COVID-19 demand but also funded in part by the booming stock market and increasing wages. Airports are reporting record travel, and analysts say vacationers plan to spend more on their trips, even as higher gas prices, interest rates and food costs are pinching their everyday spending.
About 60% of Americans plan to take a summer trip this year, roughly the same as last year, travel experts say. But the same time, 60% of Americans think the U.S. economy in a recession, according to a new poll , and former President Donald Trump argues many Americans can't afford summer travel.
During this presidential election, the economy and inflation are the single-biggest issue cited by voters, at 35%, with threats to democracy well behind at 21%, and immigration further back, at 19%, according to a July USA TODAY/Suffolk University survey . And even though wages and the stock market are both up under President Joe Biden , higher fuel and food costs, along with housing affordability, remain a major concern.
"It's kind of hard to understand how the stock market is doing so well when the economy doesn't really feel like it is," said Gary Smith, 54, recently as he waited for a Southwest flight to Las Vegas. "I can't quite get my hands around that."
Smith was flying with his wife, daughter, niece and a friend to the Evolution Championship Series, the world's largest e-sports competition. The long-planned trip was a graduation present for his daughter, he said, and they saved up for years to afford it.
"It did take a tad longer to put together the funds," he said, citing the higher costs of living. "But as inflation has a tendency to increase, so does our pay. It doesn't totally keep pace but any extra does help, and it's a blessing."
Experts say travelers like the Smiths represent a typical American family going on summer vacation: They know it's more expensive, but they're still going by cutting back elsewhere or saving longer.
"The fact that people are still prioritizing travel is a wallet-share shift: They are prioritizing travel, and that's a structural shift to Americans prioritizing experiences, how they want to spend their time," said Mike Daher, a longtime travel analyst at consulting firm Deloitte. "The pandemic was a reminder that life is short, and that people are wanting to prioritize time with loved ones and new experiences."
Scott Hughes is among those prioritizing travel. As he waited at Denver International Airport with his wife and four kids to fly from Alabama to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they have a second home, Hughes, a real estate developer, said higher interest rates have made business more expensive. He said they often fly a friend's private plane to Colorado, but that it's far cheaper to fly on United.
"I'm more concerned than I was last year about the economy, but not super concerned," he said.
The rising prices are hitting lower-income families the hardest, with about 19% of households earning $50,000 or less planning to travel this summer, down from 31% last year.
The July USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll showed that Americans, by a 54% to 40% margin, believe Trump, who is running for reelection, would do a better handling the economy than Biden. The poll was taken shortly before Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris . During the Republican National Convention this month, several speakers said the higher cost of living means they've had to adjust their vacation expectations.
"Under Biden and Harris, half of Americans are not taking a vacation at all this summer because they cannot afford to do it," Trump said at a July 9 rally, speaking days after Newsweek released a poll of 2,500 eligible voters that found 44% of respondents wouldn't be taking a summer trip, and 53% said they would have traveled if things were cheaper.
About 32% of Americans said they don't take any vacation in any given year because they are "too busy," according to Expedia's 24th annual Vacation Deprivation Report .
Among those who think the economy was better under Trump are Dwain and Kerrie Weinrich of Yuma, Colorado. Waiting to board a recent flight to Cabo San Lucas at Denver International Airport, the retired couple was among about 200 people from their small community flying to Mexico for a wedding. They said they prefer Cabo to Cancun because it's cheaper, and they had recently returned from a different wedding in Texas.
"We saved and now we get the payoff," said Jerrie Weinrich, 66, who wondered aloud how young Americans are affording to travel. "We didn't travel like this when we had kids in school."
Dwain Weinrich, 66, who recently retired as a hog slaughterhouse manager, said they were using a combination of savings, credit card points and stock market gains to pay for their trip. He said they also booked early to lock in low prices. Even though the stock market is dramatically higher under Biden than Trump, he said they felt the overall economy was more secure before.
"Right now, it's costing us more to live," he said.
Daher, the travel-industry analyst, said Baby Boomers – people aged 60-78 years old – are traveling more this summer than last year. Baby Boomers, who account for about 21% of the U.S. population , hold half of the country's wealth, according to NASDAQ officials, and with the stock market riding high, their 401(k)s and other investments are surging.
Daher said 34% of Baby Boomers planned to travel this summer, compared with 28% last year. He said Baby Boomers, and travelers in general, understand that vacations will cost more this year. But he said they also anticipate having a better experience as a result.
"They are expecting to spend more, they have higher budgets and they have an elevated expectation of that experience," he said. "They want to have a better experience and are willing to pay for it."
Social media is playing a big role, Daher said, with Americans spurred to travel by their friends and family posting about trips online, from Ally in Peru to Sam in Portugal, Deb in Greece and Eric in Andorra.
Daher said one significant shift is that vacationers are taking fewer trips this summer, an average of 2.3 compared to 3.1 last year. But he also noted travelers are flying more, even though experts would expect travelers trying to save money would drive instead.
Over the July 4 holiday weekend, for instance, AAA estimated road travel increased by 5%, with more than 60 million people driving more than 50 miles. Air travel on the Sunday of the July 4 weekend also set an all-time record, with more than 3 million people passing through TSA checkpoints, up 15% from 2023.
"People are protecting their longest trips (and) that marquee summer vacation has stayed pretty steady," Daher said. "What we've seen is a decrease in those short trips and weekend getaways. People are saying they are planning to take fewer of those."
For Ewer's family, the pandemic-delayed Ireland trip represented years of planning, saving and strategizing. The costs were slightly higher than they had initially planned for, in part because several of the young kids going on the trip now needed their own seats to fly.
Ewer's dad, Paul Linneman, 71, last visited Ireland more than 30 years ago, when he biked around the island. Now semi-retired, he said savings and investments are helping him afford the adventure. As his daughter played tour guide and worried about making their Chicago connection to Shannon, Ireland, Linneman watched his grandchildren clamber over a mock airplane in the Kansas City airport and reflected on his hopes for their trip.
“It’s like the best dream you’ve ever had, all of these relatives coming together," he said. "We’re having this great adventure."
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UK riots: Why are far-right groups attacking immigrants and Muslims?
Police arrest hundreds as chaos fuelled by hate and misinformation grips the United Kingdom in the aftermath of a tragic stabbing attack.
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As riots continue to rage in the United Kingdom, hotels housing asylum seekers have been torched by far-right agitators.
The Holiday Inn Express hotel in Tamworth, in northern England, was set alight. Rioters also gathered near the Holiday Inn Express hotel used to house asylum seekers in Rotherham. Both incidents took place on Sunday.
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Protests led by far-right groups have escalated into clashes with police in multiple towns, as a wave of unrest, fuelled by xenophobia and misinformation surrounding the tragic killing of three young girls in a stabbing incident, sweeps across the country. About 400 people have been arrested.
“I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, either directly or those whipping up this disorder online,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a televised address on Sunday. He has cast the riots as “organised illegal thuggery” by a minority of Britons.
In the grips of a sixth day of violence, Downing Street held a Cabinet Office briefing room (Cobra) emergency meeting.
Here’s what you should know:
What led to this moment?
Last week, during a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga workshop at a community centre in Southport, England, three young girls were stabbed to death by a 17-year-old suspect, Axel Rudakubana. He was born in Cardiff, the Welsh capital, reportedly to Christian Rwandan parents.
False information on social media claimed the suspect was a Muslim immigrant.
Those rioting are vocal about their hatred of immigrants. But there is also a sense of underlying xenophobia against minority communities in the UK, especially Muslims, said analysts.
Rosa Freedman, a professor at the University of Reading, told Al Jazeera that the riots were a result of the former Conservative government’s complicity with such “racist” far-right groups.
“Instead of hiding their faces, they have now been coming out … we cannot blame a Labour Party that has [only] been in government [for] the past four weeks,” she said.
Meanwhile, agitators like Tommy Robinson are stoking tensions.
Born Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, the far-right activist and co-founder of the English Defence League (EDL), has been busy posting inflammatory video rants to his 800,000 followers on X, decrying Muslims, migrants, the political establishment and police.
He’s posting from afar, reportedly in Cyprus. A High Court judge issued an arrest warrant for Robinson after he failed to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday for a hearing in a contempt of libel court case he lost against Syrian refugee Jamal Hijazi.
Influencer Andrew Tate, who has suggested the Southport suspect arrived in the UK on a boat, and MP Nigel Farage, more on him later, are also accused of stirring division.
Where are the riots?
In multiple cities and towns across the country.
In addition to Southport, Rotherham and Tamworth, clashes have also been reported in Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast in Northern Ireland, and other cities.
Posts are swirling on social media describing other planned far-right events. Al Jazeera could not independently verify these claims.
What has the government said?
Prime Minister Starmer said he “utterly” condemns “far-right thuggery”.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stated in a recent interview with Sky News: “There will be people who were thinking they were going on their summer holidays this week, and instead they will face a knock on the door from the police.”
Nigel Farage, the anti-immigration leader of the populist movement Reform UK who is now a sitting MP, has stoked tensions. In May, he suggested Muslims do not share British values.
“What you’ve seen on the streets of Hartlepool, London or Southport is nothing compared to what could happen over the course of the next few weeks,” Farage said recently.
He’s also justified the riots.
“The far right are a reaction to fear, to discomfort, to unease that is out there shared by tens of millions of people,” he said.
Neil Basu, the UK’s former head of counter-terrorism policing, has accused Farage of not going far enough to condemn the violence.
“Has Nigel Farage condemned the violence? Has he condemned the EDL? Fomenting discord in society is what these people seem to exist for,” Basu stated.
Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson promised consequences and action against those responsible for the disorder and violence in the streets.
“When I saw people looting some of the shops in the city centre, that’s nothing to do with genuine protest or people having different opinions about immigration,” Johnson said.
What’s next?
Police and officials are telling the public that perpetrators of violence and abuse will be punished. Meanwhile, ethnic minority and migrant communities are becoming more fearful.
In a recent news conference, South Yorkshire Police’s Assistant Chief Constable Lindsey Butterfield stated, “If you were there, we will find you and you will be held accountable for yesterday’s violence.”
Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott said on X, “Nationwide anti-immigrant riots on a scale never seen before. Threatening life, property and our police force. We need to recall Parliament.”
Dame Sara Khan, an independent adviser for the review into social cohesion and resilience against extremism, told the Guardian that “extremist and cohesion threats are worsening”.
“Our country is woefully unprepared,” she said. “We’ve got a gap in our legislation which is allowing these extremists to operate with impunity.”
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The ‘Weird’ History of Tim Walz’s Political Put-Down
Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris’s running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound.
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Jason Farago is a critic at large who covers culture and its place in the world.
Two inauguration days ago, after Donald J. Trump had been sworn in and delivered a raw diagnosis of “American carnage,” his predecessor George W. Bush walked off the Capitol dais and said to Hillary Clinton, as she reported it, “Well, that was some weird shit.”
It was a prescient observation! Strange things have taken place in America lately, and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, whom Vice President Kamala Harris selected as her running mate on Tuesday, has made calling them out a rallying cry. “ These guys are just weird ,” he told the “Morning Joe” kaffeeklatsch a few weeks ago, the first of many assertions of abnormality that helped propel a once obscure state leader to the national ticket.
May I briefly observe how curious it has been — how weird, if you prefer — to see this pithy term embraced so quickly? As a matter of political communication, weirdness can be a powerful epithet. But as a matter of cultural prestige, weirdness overtook normality long ago.
It is not so much in the eye of the beholder as the believer, and there are good weirds and bad. Are you fonder of the glamorous weird of Björk or Lady Gaga (who performed at President Biden’s inauguration, for crying out loud), or the peculiar weird of Pee-wee Herman or Napoleon Dynamite? Are you, my dear weirdo, more like the bowling-alley oddballs of “The Big Lebowski” or the banana-nosed, chicken-besotted Muppet named Gonzo? Weirdness, as a cultural marker, is a designation of irregularity that is increasingly self-declared and celebrated. To turn it back to an accusation, as Mr. Walz has done, is wondrous strange.
Weirdness has always been formidable, literally so in centuries past. Before it was an insult (flinged or reclaimed), weird actually signified power — and before it was an adjective, “weird” was a proper noun. In Anglo-Saxon Britain, Wyrd was a pre-Christian personification of destiny, who governed the fate of all things. She is invoked early in “Beowulf,” as the title hero prepares for battle with the monster Grendel. “Fares Wyrd as she must,” says Beowulf to Hrothgar, the king of the Danes. Do not mourn me if I die. The weird is the lord of man.
In later centuries, the Anglo-Saxon Wyrd got tripled, in rough analogy with the three Greco-Roman Fates who spin the thread of human destiny. The Weirds (or Weïrds; the New Yorker-style dieresis signals it was two syllables) became a trio of female seers, most famously in “Macbeth,” whose Weird Sisters foresee that the Thane of Glamis will become king of Scotland. The witches on their blasted heath are weird in the original sense: unearthly, uncanny, what Banquo calls “fantastical.” Their warts and rags may make them scary. Their 5G connection to the spirit realm is what makes them weird.
Even by the 19th century, when “weird” took on its contemporary meaning of oddity or abnormality, it still carried supernatural overtones. Percy Bysshe Shelley writes in one poem of a witch’s tricks as being “A tale more fit for the weïrd winter nights —/Than for these garish summer days.” But we disenchanted moderns, even in weird and wild times, do not have such spooky views of snowstorms. Weirdness lost its paranormal character in the 20th century, and became merely a freakish disruption of the natural order. Norman Bates. Rocky Horror. The outlier, stripped of his eldritch energies, became simply the weirdo.
Yet American artists and writers have always had a soft spot for the maladjusted and maladapted, and the same Hollywood studios that have promulgated our view of the American normal have also made us find our reflection in adorable oddballs. From “Harvey” to “Ghost World,” from “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” to “Mean Girls,” the weirdo more often than not signifies freedom, dissent, imagination, and their normie antagonists smallness, conformity. For Minnesota’s own Prince, and his fellow Midwesterner Michael Jackson, eccentricity was the proof of their innovation, and weirdness the mark of genius.
And in our own underachieving century, weirdness has gone from a possibly lovable quirk to a near obligation. Keep Portland weird, keep Austin weird; match my freak , as Tinashe demands; above all, do not be anything other than yourself, no matter how odd. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” rode its willful adolescent weirdness to the stage of the Oscars, and even in Greta Gerwig’s blue-state-rules “Barbie,” the living doll you’re supposed to like is not Margot Robbie’s pretty but empty Stereotypical Barbie, but Kate McKinnon’s messed-up, Bowie-wigged Weird Barbie. I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo, and I am posting through it.
Mr. Walz offered an inversion of that old Radiohead single at his introductory rally on Tuesday night. “These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell,” he smilingly charged. From his mouth the word comes across as a somewhat spicy Midwestern revision of the coastal freakout, common during the Trump presidency, that almost every day was “ not normal .”
But it only lands with force because of a curious — we might say weird — ambiguity in the language. Today, “be normal” and “be weird” have become both antonyms and synonyms : fun house reflections of a dominant American ideology of standing out to fit right in, and self-acceptance as the highest calling. What Mr. Walz is calling “weird” is not atypicality as such, but an up-in-your-business insolence out of step with his American ideal. Fair is foul and foul is fair, as the sisters in “Macbeth” conjured; to be weird is to be normal, and to want orthodoxy is just weird.
Jason Farago, a critic at large for The Times, writes about art and culture in the U.S. and abroad. More about Jason Farago
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