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Some of the quotes in this list inspired us to quit our scientific careers for a life on the road and we hope to motivate you to live a life of adventure, or at least get bitten by the travel bug and start planning your next trip. If you’re new to our blog, you can read our story here.
Famous Quotes
1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
2. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
3. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins
4. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert
5. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
6. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
7. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
8. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
9. “Life is a journey not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” – John Berryman
11. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
12. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
13. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Robyn Yong
14. “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
15. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
16. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
17. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain
18. “As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne
19. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
20. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
21. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
22. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
Inspirational Travel Quotes
23. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
24. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” – Unknown
25. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
26. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed
27. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein
28. “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Anderson
29. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
30. “Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown
31. “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, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
32. “I love the places that make you realize how small you and your problems are.” – Anonymous
33. “What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.” – Sarah Dessen
34. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
35. “Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” – David Avocado Wolfe
36. “Whatever is good for your soul, do that.” – Unknown
37. “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” – Anonymous
38. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton
39. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester
40. “The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
41. “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown
42. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
43. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
44. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and 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 eat and cook. Learn from them wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
45. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
Funny Quotes
46. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
47. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain
48. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
49. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
50. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
51. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” – Said no one ever
52. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
53. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
54. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
56. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
57. “Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” – Unknown
58. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
59. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henry Youngman
60. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
Couples Travel Quotes
61. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
62. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not live.” – Ernest Hemingway
63. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
64. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
65. “Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.” – Anonymous
66. “I don’t want to be tied down with someone, I want to be set free with someone.” – Anonymous
67. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Lyer
68. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” – Rumi
69. “I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.” – Amit Kalantri
70. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – Leigh Hunt
71. “The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.” – Ritu Ghatourey
72. “Find someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.” – Anonymous
73. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world.” – Unknown
74. “A couples who travels together, grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi
75. “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho
76. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin
77. “But the most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people, and places, and memories, and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter.” – Unknown
78. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro
79. “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Anonymous
80. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes
Short Quotes
81. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” – Anonymous
82. “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”
83. “Backpacking is money spent on education.”
84. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
85. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
86. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
87. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”
88. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
89. “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.”
90. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
91. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
92. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
93. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
94. “A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” – Spanish Proverb
95. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
96. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West
97. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.” – Unknown
98. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
99. “Traveling with kids is not a vacation. It’s an adventure.” – Unknown
100. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous
101. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
102. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Unknown
103. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
104. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan
105. “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”
106. “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.”
107. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
108. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.”
Adventure Travel Quotes
109. “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
110. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
111. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
112. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett
113. “The journey is the destination.” – Dan Eldon
114. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
115. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
116. “Different languages, different cultures, different souls.” – Anonymous
117. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough
118. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina
119. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paul Coelho
120. “Adventure is out there – just waiting for us to find it.” – Ellie Badge
121. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
122. “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” – Patrick Rothfuss
123. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – Jack Dawson
124. “Do not go where the path may lead: go instead where there is no path a leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
125. “Only those who risk going out too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Elliot
126. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
127. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – John Rohn
128. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”
Mark Twain Travel Quotes
129. “I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
130. “I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
131. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
132. “…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” – Mark Twain
133. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
134. “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” – Mark Twain
135. “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
136. “To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.” – Mark Twain
137. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
138. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
139. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
140. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
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We hope our guide featuring the best travel quotes helps with inspiring your wanderlust!
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Happy Travels,
Mark and Kristen
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Mark and Kristen spent 6 years traveling the world, visiting over 40 countries across 4 continents and more than 30 US states. They created Where Are Those Morgans in 2018 to help others plan the best possible vacations by writing authentic travel and hiking guides based on their real experiences.
Since the arrival of baby Maya in late 2024, Mark and Kristen’s extensive travels have slowed down but they still take plenty of trips. Where Are Those Morgans now helps millions of travelers each year to visit new places and hike new trails through information-packed blog posts and expert travel guidebooks. Read more about Mark and Kristen.