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Best Travel Quotes in the World
Love to travel? This collection of travel quotes by wordsmiths and adventurers will turn up the intensity of your wanderlust!
In this collection, we've curated 50 top quotes in travel and matched them with stunning images. Keep scrolling to find quote after quote of pure travel inspiration.
50 Quotes in Travel
“I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”
— Anonymous
“It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
— Anonymous
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
— Anonymous
“It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.”
— David Brenner
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
— William S. Burroughs
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
— Aesop
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
— Sydney J. Harris
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
— Unknown
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd
“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”
— Matthew Karsten
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Here's 10 more inspiring quotes in travel. I love the next one. Have you seen a travel quote that resonates with you yet?
“Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.”
— Anonymous
“No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.”
— Jewish Proverb
“When in doubt, go on vacation.”
— Unknown
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
— Earl Wilson
“A wise man travels to discover himself.”
— James Russell Lowell
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”
– Anais Nin
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
– Caskie Stinnett
“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
– Paul Theroux
Traveling Quotes
I love this next quote about travel. The reason is, that it can apply as much to everyday life and decisions as to travel itself.
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
– Yogi Berra
“Two great talkers will not travel far together.”
– Spanish Proverb
“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
– Susan Sontag
“If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.”
– Thomas Fuller
“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”
– Chuck Thompson
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”
– Roy M. Goodman
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
“Jet lag is for amateurs.”
– Dick Clark
“He travels fastest who travels alone.”
– Proverb
“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.”
– Euripides
Travel Words from Famous People
Have you found a favourite quote about travel so far? If not, perhaps you'll see one in this next section!
“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”
– Peter Hoeg
“Oh the places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.”
– Karen Gibbs
“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
– Wallace Stevens
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”
– Martin Buber
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
– Cesare Pavese
“Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion”
– Leigh Hunt
“Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show”
– Unknown.
Travel Sayings and Quotes
This is our final section of travel quotes. If you've been left inspired for even more, then take a look at our other great collections listed at the end of this post.
“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”
– Og Mandino
“People do not decided to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things”
– Edmund Hillary.
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings”
– Hodding Carter
IF YOUR SHIP DOESN'T COME IN, SWIM OUT TO IT.”
~ JOHNATHAN WINTERS
“Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience”
– Francis Bacon.
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal”
– Paul Coelho
“In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”
– Kevin Heath
“What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.”
– Anon.
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling”
– Shanti.
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