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140 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

140 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

Travel has the power to transform your life because just one trip can help you see through a new perspective. The quotes on 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. If you’re new to our blog, you can read our story here.

We’ve organized this guide featuring quotes about travel into various topics so you can easily search for a particular theme.

Famous Travel Quotes

quote about how traveling leaves you speechless and turns you into a storyteller

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

life is a daring adventure said by Helen Keller

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

we travel not to escape life but for life to escape us said by Robyn Young

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

Inspirational travel quote by Dalai Lama

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

don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled inspirational travel quote

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

I love the places that make you realize how small you and your problems are

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

don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life travel quote by Dolly Parton

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

Famous travel quote from Anthony Bourdain

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 Travel 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

I wish I had never gone traveling said no one ever

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

if we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet

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

A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to thing you can control it by John Steinbeck

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

The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.

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

Home is now where you are from, it is where you belong travel quote

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 Travel Quotes

81. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” – Anonymous

82. “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”

83. “Backpacking is money spent on education.”

jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul adventure quote

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.”

Travel is the only things that makes you richer

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

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere said by Mae West

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

don't count the days, make the days count travel quote by Muhammad Ali

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

until you step into the unknown, you don't know what you're made of said by Roy T. Bennett

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

climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you said by David MuCullough

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

Because in the end, you won't remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain famous travel quote by Jack Kerouac

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

do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail quote about travel

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time said by 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

the secret of success in making your vocation your vacation famous quote from 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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see by 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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