Inspirational Travel Quotes

This collection of inspiring travel quotes is just the thing you need to start planning your next trip or vacation! Here’s 50 of the best inspirational quotes about travel.

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Nothing quite beats a good travel quote to get the imagination fired up as you plan your next trip. Whether it’s a family vacation to Greece or epic bike touring adventure, these quotes will help.

We’ve pulled together 50 inspiring travel quotes, and matched them with gorgeous images. They’ll look great on your Pinterest collection or vision board! Remember, “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams

Inspiring Travel Quotes

Travel is all about pushing new boundaries, and learning new things. Often times, the things you learn when traveling are as much about yourself as the world around you!

Some of these quotes come from movies about travel. Others are from books.

Here’s our first 10 inspiring quotes:


 “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.” – Andre Gide


 “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all”

Helen Keller

 “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all” – Helen Keller


“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher


“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.”

– Mohammed


“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Mark Twain


“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”

– Freya Stark


“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures”

– Anonymous


“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

Lao Tzu


“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign”

– Robert Louis Stevenson


“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

– Saint Augustine

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

When preparing to travel, lay out all of your clothes and all of your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.


All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.


And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.


To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.


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


The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.


Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.


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.


Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.


He who would travel happily must travel light


When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.


Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.


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

Best Travel Quotes

Not all those who wander are lost.

Not all those who wander are lost.


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


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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.


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.


Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Some of these famous travel quotes apply as much to other areas of our life as to travel. Well, they do say that life is a journey after all!

Here’s the next 10 quotes in our inspiring travel collection.

“Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.”

– Dalai Lama

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


“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

– Susan Sontag


“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by”

—Robert Frost


“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”

–Tim Cahill

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill


“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

– Anita Desai

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai


“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”

“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”


“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

– Chief Seattle

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle


“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”

– Lovelle Drachman


“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.”

— Hilaire Belloc

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc


Short Travel Quotes

Why do we like to travel? Is it something deep down inside us that remains from our nomadic hunter gatherer days? Is it just that work sucks, and we like to get away from it?!

Here’s the next 10 quotes that will inspire and motivate you to start planning your next trip!


“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

“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


“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.” ― Melody Truong


“This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.”

– Paulo Coelho


“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet”

– Rachel Wolchin


“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


“Wanderlust:

n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”


“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

– Ray Bradbury


“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.”

― Mark Twain


“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

– John Steinbeck

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck


“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.”

– Paulo Coelho

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho


Famous Travel Quotes

Have you got a favourite travel quote from this collection yet? We love the Mark Twain ones, but Paulo Coelho also as some insightful remarks.

Here’s the next 10 in our collection of inspiring travel quotes. We hope you enjoy them!


“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

– Paulo Coelho


“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.” – Marcel Proust


“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


“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

– John A. Shedd

 


“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”

– Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi


“It feels good to be lost in the right direction”

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction”


 “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

– Henry Miller


 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

– Ibn Battuta

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


“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

― David Mitchell


“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.” – Aldous Huxley


More Travel Captions

Here’s our final selection of travel quotes in this collection. If you’d like to see more of our quotes collections, you’ll find links at the end of the post.


“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

– Lao Tzu


 

“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


“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

– Anonymous

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”


“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

“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


“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.” – Gustave Flaubert


“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret”

Oscar Wilde


“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.” – Anonymous


“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


“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”

–Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”

–Unknown


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