Travel quotes can provide great motivation for travelers. Great quotes can enlighten, entertain and often inspire you into action.

If you are preparing or if you are in the midst of travel, quotes can remind you of your own reasons for leaving everything behind. Some may make you cringe, laugh or even disagree but we hope they’ll entertain.

Here are some of our favourite inspirational travel quotes:

100. Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place. — Janna Graber

99. Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere. – Orhan Pamuk

98. Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else. – Tennessee Williams

97. 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

96. The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot. – Bruce Chitin

95. Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. — Susan Magsamen

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

93. Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you. – Ewan McGregor

92. Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. – Dr Seuss

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

90. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognise you as a tourist. – Russell Baker

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

88. Come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. – Peter Pan

87. As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a life time. – Winnie the pooh

86. 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

85. You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. -Daranna Gidel

 

 

84. A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. -Isabelle Eberhardt

83. 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

82. While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. -Anne Tyle

81. Travel brings power and love back to your life. – Rumi Jalalud-Din

80. To travel is to embrace the unknown. – Clemens

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

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

77. If you come to a fork in the road, take it. – Yogi Berra

76. A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd

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

74. 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

73. Life is not what happened to you but what you remember and how you remember it to retell it. – Gabriel García Márquez”

72. I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience—and laughter. – Susan M. Watkins

71. I’d rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity. – Stella

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

69. The common sense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Timothy Ferriss

68. I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value. – Christopher Fry

67. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. – Alan Alda

66. 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

65. Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness. – Ray Bradbury

64. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon

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

62. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. – Andre Gide

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

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

59. Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust

58. Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is. – Mandy Hale

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

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

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

54. Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman

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

52. The journey not the arrival matters. – T.S. Eliot

51. To Travel is to Live – Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

48. People don’t take trips . . . trips take people. – John Steinbeck

47. 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

46. Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. – William James

45. Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before. – Dalai Lama

44. 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

43. You can’t have a narrow mind and a thick passport. – Pauline Frommer

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

41. Travel is like knowledge, the more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen – Mark Hertsgaad

40. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson

39. The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton

38. Adventure is worthwhile. – Aesop

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

36. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. – Ernest Hemingway

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

34. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

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

32. Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination – Roy M. Goodman

31. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

30. 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

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

28. Once in awhile it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

27. The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. – Wallace Stevens

26. Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty

25. 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

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

23. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France

22. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~Aldous Huxley

21. The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. ~ Saint Augustine

20. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

19. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~ James Michener

18. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. ~ Glenn Clark

17. A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. ~ Kahlil Gibran

16. 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 your sails. Explore. Dream. ~ Mark Twain


15. I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~ Caskie Stinnett

14. 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

13. A wise traveler never despises his own country. ~ William Hazlitt

12. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves ~ Euripides

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

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

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

7. It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~ Ursula K. LeGuin

6. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain

4. He who would travel happily must travel light. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

3. 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

2. 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

1. 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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