1. “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
2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc
3. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong
4. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho
5. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin
6. “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
7. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”
8. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
9. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
10. “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
11. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
12. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
13. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction” – Anonymous
14. “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
15. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell
16. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
17. “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
18. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
19. “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
20. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
21. “Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus
22. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” – Anonymous
23. “If you want to go somewhere you like but no one else wants to, go by yourself. You’ll meet people with similar interests as you.” – Anonymous
24. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous
25. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
26. “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
27. “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
28. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins
29. “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
30. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer
31. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
32. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
33. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
34. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
35. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson
36. “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” – Benjamin Disraeli
37. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” – Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
38. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe.” – Jim Rohn
39. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
40. “Add life to your days, not days to your life.” – Anonymous
41. “The potential for adventure makes life worth living.” – Vicki Garside
42. “The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one’s self a fool.” – William Least-Heat Moon
43. “No place, in theory, is boring of itself. Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough.” – William Least-Heat Moon
44. “Nothing breaks down suspicion about a stranger better than curiosity.” – William Least-Heat Moon
45. “I’m all through playing the American. Now, I’m going to live a good, quiet life.” – Jack Kerouac
46. “…no matter where I live, my trunk’s always sticking out from under the bed. I’m ready to leave or get thrown out.” – Jack Kerouac
47. “Can’t describe what my life is like when she asks about it.” – Drake
48. “I realized that if I really intended to do something spectacular with my life I was going to have to put in the legwork myself and stop expecting people to pitch up and do it for me.” – Jess de Boer
49. “I will always remember thinking that this is a moment we will never forget.” – Anonymous street art, Lyon, France
50. “Everybody’s just a stranger but that’s the danger in going my own way.” – John Mayer
51. “I know I’m gonna be alone, I know I’m out on my own. I just gotta hit the road, I just gotta know the road.” – Drake
52. “Of all things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.” – Bill Bryson
53. “All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.” – Jack Kerouac
54. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain’t no where else it can go – right?” – Jack Kerouac
55. “The whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.” – Jack Kerouac
56. “I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks.” – Jack Kerouac
57. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” – Jack Kerouac
58. “Those at the end of their journeys embraced ours.” – Franz Wisner
59. “He also had the confidence and experience of the road.” – Franz Wisner
60. “They say your life doesn’t matter until you do something for someone else that they can never repay you for.” – Lily Dubuc
61. “The edge of nowhere is such a beautiful place.” – The Wombats
62. “We’ll never be as young as we are now.” – Saint Raymond
63. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinions.” – Jack Kerouac
64. “In Epicurean philosophy, the highest goal in life is pleasure.” FUN FACT
65. “You’re never going to be here long enough. . .” – Anonymous
66. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
67. “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.” – Ernest Hemingway
68. “But over the years, I’ve learned to fall in love with the chaos.” – Chris Oldfield
69. “Just like they do in the Mediterranean, spin you around me again and again.” – Ed Sheeran
70. “Some travel is more of a nuisance than a hardship, but travel is always a mental challenge, and even at its most difficult, travel can be an enlightenment.” – Paul Theroux
71. “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.” – Paul Theroux
72. “It is almost axiomatic that as soon as a place gets a reputation for being paradise it goes to hell.” – Paul Theroux
73. “When strangers ask me where I was going I often replied, ‘Nowhere.’ Vagueness can become habit, and travel a form of idleness.” – Paul Theroux
74. “Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.” – Paul Theroux
75. “In the best travel, disconnection is a necessity. Concentrate on where you are; do no back-home business; take no assignments; remain incommunicado; be scarce. It is a good thing that people don’t know where you are or how to find you. Keep in mind the country you are in. That’s the theory.” – Paul Theroux
75 Travel Quotes for Inspiration
100 Best Travel Quotes of All-Time
1. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times” – Anonymous
2. “Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
3. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” -Stephen Covey
4. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac
5. “Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.” – Aristophanes
6. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
7. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
8. “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Anonymous
9. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” -Lawrence Block
10. “Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home.” Eric Weiner
11. ”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous
12. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
13. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.” – Anonymous
14. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost
15. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” – Anonymous
16. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
17. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho
18. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anonymous
19. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
20. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmas
21. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
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.” – Jawaharial Nehru
23. “The journey not the arrival matters.” –T.S. Eliot
24. “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.” – Anthony Bourdain
25. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. ”Life is short and the world is wide.” – Anonymous
27. “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
28. “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
29. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
30. “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
31. “Do not dare not to dare.” – C.S. Lewis
32. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener
33. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Anonymous
34. “Oh the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
35. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
36. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
37. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
38. “I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world.” – George Bailey
39. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery
40. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
41. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
42. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
43. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
44. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
45. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make.”- Wayne Dyer
46. “Collect moments. Not things.” – Anonymous
47. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller
48. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
49. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
50. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
51. “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
52. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
54. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Anonymous
55. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Anonymous
56. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
57. “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
58. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.” – Anonymous
59. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
60. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
61. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.” – Ray Bradbury
62. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.” – Anonymous
63. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepbun
64. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” – Anonymous
65. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
66. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivestor
67. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.” – Anonymous
68. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.” – Anonymous
69. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
70. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.” – Anonymous
71. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins
72. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Anonymous
73. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” -Irving Wallace
74. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
75. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
76. “So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”― Mark Twain
77. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux
78. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan” – Anonymous
79. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
80. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – Anonymous
81. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
82. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” -Roy M. Goodman
83. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
84. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” -Chief Seattle
85. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
86. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
87. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -Suzanne Collins
88. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Agustine of Hippo
89. ”Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
90. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
91. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot
92. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho
93. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
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 sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diole
96. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain
97. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
98. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
99. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
100. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
