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206 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes – Pinterest Ready
This curated collection of the best and most inspirational travel quotes will give you that spark to start your next adventure.
Traveling provides individuals an opportunity to escape the norm. Get out of the everyday struggle, the everyday hustle.
Though there are many reasons people travel, some of them can be answered by one travel quote.
Our list of the best travel quotes or slogans were said by people throughout history. But some of them have been altered or have never been said by the supposed author. A few of these quotes were never actually said. Nonetheless, there’s a general consensus to whom the quotes are accredited.
In addition, some of these quotes are used by big brands for their travel slogans.
The 10 Best Travel Quotes
1. “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
2. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
3. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
4. “Show me a poor country and I’ll show you a good time.” – Jack Swenson
5. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
6. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
7. “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.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
8. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
9. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
10. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown
Wanderlust Quotes
11. “Wanderlust is incurable.” – Mark Jenkins
12. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” – Albert Einstein
13. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
14. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
15. “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
16. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
17. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” – Charlotte Eriksson
18. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anotole France
19. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
20. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world.” – Unknown
22. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
23. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Unknown
24. “I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world.” – George Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life
25. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
Adventure Travel Quotes
26. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
27. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
28. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Unknown
29. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
30. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
31. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
32. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
33. “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
34. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” – Johnathan Winters
35. “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
36. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
37. “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
38. “Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.” – Aristophanes
39. “I’m going on an adventure!” – Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
40. “He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
41. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan
Motivational and Inspirational Travel Quotes
42. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
43. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
44. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
45. “It is better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
46. “I want to go see the world and I can’t do it from my office.” – Vincent Croos
47. “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
48. “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
49. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – Unknown
50. “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
51. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.” – Unknown
52. “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
53. “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” – Charlotte Eriksson
54. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley
55. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” – Alexander Sattler
Bucket List Quotes
56. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
57. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – unknown
58. “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
59. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
60. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
61. “Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world.” – Unknown
62. “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” – Henry David Thoreau
63. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Unknown
64. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.” – Unknown
Travel Quotes for Love
65.”Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
66. “I am not the only traveler, who has not repaid his debt. I’ve been searching for a trail to follow again. Take me back to the night we met.” – Lord Huron, The Night We Met
67. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
68. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
69. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
70. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong
71. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
72. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius
Travel Buddy and Friendship Quotes
73. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
74. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
75. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
76. “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
77. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown
78. “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
79. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
Family Travel Quotes for Those Who Travel with Children
80. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Augustine “Og” Mandino
81. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.”– Hodding Carter
82. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
83. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
84. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”– Leigh Hunt.
85. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon
86. “Not all classrooms have 4 walls.”
87. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”
88. “Traveling Is learning.”
89. “A family that travels together stays together.”
90. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.”
Meaningful Quotes for Travel and Everyday Life
91. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” – Paul Coelho
92. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
93. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
94. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
95. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
96. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” – Rick Watson
97. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
98. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – Unknown
99. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
100. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough
101. “Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.” – Mark Jenkins
102. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
103. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.” – Unknown
104. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Unknown
105. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
106. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Unknown
107. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” – Unknown
108. “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
109. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
110. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
111. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
112. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
113. “There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Unknown
114. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
115. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
116. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester
117. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – unknown
118. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
119. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
120. “Collect moments. Not things.” – Unknown
121. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” – Vladimir Nabokov
122. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
123. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” – Unknown
124. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot
125. “What you have to decide…is how you want your life to be. If your ending was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. So, don’t be afraid, be alive.” – Sarah Dessen
126. “Don’t quit your daydream.” – Unknown
127. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
128. “To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself.” – Dag Hammarskjold
129. “To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen.
Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes
130. “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
131. “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.” – Anthony Bourdain
132. “Plans should be ephemeral, so be prepared to move away from them.” – Anthony Bourdain
133. “I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find 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.” – Anthony Bourdain
134. “If you are thirty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn to 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 cook. Learn from them—wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
135. “Drink heavily with locals whenever possible” – Anthony Bourdain
136. “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
137. “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
138. “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.” – Anthony Bourdain
139. “Nothing unexpected or wonderful is likely to happen if you have an itinerary in Paris filled with the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.” – Anthony Bourdain
140. “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain
Mark Twain Travel Quotes
141. “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
142. “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
143. “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.”
144. “Take the universe as a whole, and it is a very clever conception and quite competently carried out, but I don’t think much of this globe as a work of art. It would have been better to take more time to it and do it right, it seems to me, than to rush it through, helter-skelter, in six days, just for reputation.” – Mark Twain
145. “It liberates the vandal to travel—you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” – Mark Twain 149. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” – Mark Twain
146. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” – Mark Twain
Travel Photography Quotes
147. “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” – Annie Leibovitz
148. “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” – Jim Richardson
149. “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” – Steve McCurry
150. “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” – Susan Meiselas
151. “My camera is a good excuse to travel and capture Earth’s beauty — from every angle” – Vincent Croos
Funny Travel Quotes
152. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
153. “I sold my car because it couldn’t take me across the ocean.” – Vincent Croos
154. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M Schulz
155. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
156. “I always like to go to Washington DC, it gives me a chance to visit my money.” – Bob Hope
157. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henny Youngman
158. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.” – Theo Cowan
159. “I wish I had never gone traveling. Said no one ever.” – Nobody
160. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
161. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown
162. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
163. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – Brenna Smith
Short Travel Quotes
164. “Live to travel, travel to live.”
165. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho
166. “The journey is my home.”
167. “I want to make memories all over the world.”
168. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
169. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb
170. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
171. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.”
172. “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” – Aerosmith
173. “Where to next?”
174. “Adventure awaits.”
Famous Travel Quotes
175. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
176. “Little by little, one travels far.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
177. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
178. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
179. “Work, save, travel, repeat.” – Unknown
180. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
181. “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
182. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
183. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
184. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
185. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
186. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
187. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
188. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
189. “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
190. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
191. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
192. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
193. “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
194. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
195. “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
196. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw
197. “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” – Diane Arbus
198. “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
199. “You go away for a long time and return a different person—you never come all the way back.” – Paul Theroux
200. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Unknown
201. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
202. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
203. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
204. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Unknown
205. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
206. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” – Louis Armstrong