Here's a collection of some of the best travel quotes to inspire your travel adventures. These quotes can act as motivation, keep your enthusiasm levels high, and help you dream of travel adventures in exotic places. Just the thing to start off your New Year with a set of fresh goals in mind!
Best Travel Quotes
I love reading travel quotes. I have even set my computer background to display a different one every day. The best travel quotes motivate me on days when I have no choice but to be chained to the PC. They help inspire me, and see the bigger picture. This way, at least I know I am working for a reason!
Here are some of the best travel quotes, which I hope will help motivate and inspire you as well. They come from some of the world's most famous writers, thinkers, explorers, and travellers. The photos are all my own. Please feel free to share them on pinterest, facebook or twitter. Let's work together to help inspire people's travel adventures!
Best Inspirational Travel Quotes
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. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
3. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
4. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
5. “Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – Seneca
6. “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
7. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
8. “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
9. “Travelling 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
10. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
and/or Aesop
11. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
12. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
13. “The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
14. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
15. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
16. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
17. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Mohammed
18. “The world is a book and he who doesn't travel only reads one page.” – St. Augustine
19. “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
20. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
Do you think these are the best travel quotes? Do you have any you might like to add? I would love to hear from you, so please leave a comment below.
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Kieran says
Yep #17 – it doesn’t matter how much you read about something, you’re not truly educated until you’ve experienced it!
Karen says
Great quotes, thank you for sharing.
Robert says
One of my favorites has always been – “Don’t Think About What They Say … Go See!”
Sean says
Great quotes! I’ve seen a lot of them before, and Mark Twain’s (#8) has always been one of my personal mottos. Hopefully these inspire more people to expand their horizons and travel!
Monika says
I think number 7 is the best for me – however I try to avoid it and I’m doing my best to find many things at home – look at them from the different point of view, through the eyes of a traveller in your own city – it’s important, slowly you notice more and more.
Jenna says
I agree–this is definitly a great way to start the year! Really good list of quotes–thanksn for sharing! One of my favorites is always, “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
Joe Ankenbauer says
Great list of quotes! My favorite is the J.R.R. Tolkien quote, “Not all the wander are lost.”
Kate says
I still remember reading Mark Twain’s Explore Dream Discover quote before my first big solo trip and feeling nervous but determined. So many resonate with me now. You have a great collection of them here
Michela says
Great collection of travel quotes. I am always inspired by them, every day I come across new ones, I will pin some of your photos on my Pinterest Board about Travel Quotes!
er says
Beautiful set of quotes with wonderful pictures! I love the first one a lot. I came across it while traveling in Thailand right after graduating from Nursing school. It’s the perfect quote for a fresh new addiction 🙂
Carol Colborn says
Thanks for adding to my list…half of these are new to me! I maintain a Pinterest board of travel quotations. Some of them come from my book, Carolina: Cruising to an American Dream!
Yasha Langford says
Like you, I love and am inspired by travel quotes, and this is a great collection. I’ll be bookmarking this page so I can come back to them.
I have my own travel quote, made up off the cuff during our early days on the road: “We’re not lost because there is nowhere we have to be!” It calms my husband when he thinks we are lost!
Jill Patterson says
Great list. I love travel quotes.