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Every Travel Quote Ever

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Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

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

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

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“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

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

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

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“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“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

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

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“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

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

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

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

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“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

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“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

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

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

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“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

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

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

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“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

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“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

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“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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Jackie is a travel-addicted Canadian who currently resides in Vienna, Austria. When she’s not writing travel guides or reading her new favourite book, she’s planning her next weekend getaway somewhere in Europe.

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150 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 150 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 150 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

150 Best Travel Quotes

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown
I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

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Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown
Collect moments, not things. — Unknown
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown
I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

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To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen
Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss
I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost
When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

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• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

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It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige
Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain

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I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

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• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown
Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart
Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

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Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

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A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

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I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

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Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

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Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro
A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

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It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen
It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

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• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein
Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire
To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

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• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia
Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

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Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. 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
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

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• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

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Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

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It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

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The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington
Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

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• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

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When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt
Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

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I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

   

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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.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

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Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

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It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

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I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

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Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

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It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

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1. “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

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

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3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

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5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

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7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

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9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

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13. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

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15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

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17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

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19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

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23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

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27. “Your true traveller 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

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

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29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

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31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

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

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33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

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35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

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37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations...

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

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41. “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

42. “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

Once the travel bug bites inspirational travel quote

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

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

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45. “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

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

There are better things ahead...

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

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49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

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51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

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

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

See the world quote by Ray Bradbury

55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

The journey not the arrival matters

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “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

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61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

“Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

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65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

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67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

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69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

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

Travelling can leave you speechless

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

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73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

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77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

Inspirational travel quote by Stephen Covey

78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

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

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

A travel quote from Moby Dick

83. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

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85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

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87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

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89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

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91. “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

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman

95. “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 (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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Travel quotes are there to express the feeling you experienced while traveling. Combine the best travel quotes with the power of an image and instantly let people have a taste of your travel feelings. This collection of travel quotes is made to inspire and motivate you and others to pack your bags and go explore! Or simply to add as a travel caption under your brand new Instagram post or to pin to your Pinterest . Also read our adventure quotes to spark your wanderlust !

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1. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” 2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” 3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

5. “Travel is my therapy. ” – Travel Quote

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6. “ In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take ” In 2017, we took an exciting and scary step. We decided to turn our travel blog from a hobby into our full-time job. We would’ve had so much regret if we didn’t take this opportunity. Now, each of these travel quotes fit the stories we’ve made.

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7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” 8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” 9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

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11. “Life is short, and the world is wide.” 12. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” 13. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” 14. “Sandy Toes sunkissed nose.”

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15. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. ”

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16. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” 17. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” 18. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” 19. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

20. “Adventures are the best way to learn.”

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21. “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.” 22. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” 23. “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” 24. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Popular Travel Quote

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26. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” 27. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” 28. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” 29. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

30. “Have stories to tell not stuff to show. ”

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31. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” 32. “At the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” 33. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” 34. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

35. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time. ”

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36. “Always take the scenic road.” 37. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” 38. “Go where you feel most alive.”

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39. “I want to make memories all over the world” Every destination you’ll visit leaves its own unique memory. Our travels through Sri Lanka , Myanmar , or Petra in Jordan already give us goosebumps. As this travel quote says: Make memories all over the world!

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40. “Travel is the healthiest addiction ”

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40. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” 41. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” 43. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going. Are you coming with me?” 44. “Let’s get lost.”

45. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”

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46. “Beach please.” 47. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” 48. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” 49. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”

50. “Ocean air, salty hair.”

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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. Walt Whitman
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant. Victor Hugo
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. Jack Kerouac
People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
To travel is to take a journey into yourself. Danny Kaye
A tourist sees what he came to see; a traveler sees what he sees. Thibaut

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I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it. Alexander Sattler
Vagabonding is about time – our only real commodity – and how we choose to use it. Rolf Potts
The slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. Rolf Potts (Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World)
It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. Paul Theroux
Traveling hopefully into the unknown with a little information: dead reckoning is the way most people live their lives, and the phrase itself seems to sum up human existenec. Paul Theroux
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. Voltaire
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta
Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. Antonio Machado
If you really want to learn about a country, work there. Charles Kuralt
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
Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves. Albert Camus
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference . Robert Frost
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they really are. Samuel Johnson
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Michael Crichton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Traveling – it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. Ibn Battuta
Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time. Brenna Smith

Part 2. Travel Quotes That Are…

The most famous (jack kerouac, marcel proust, helen keller, etc.).

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Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves. Euripides
Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
Once a year go somewhere you have never been before. Dalai Lama
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn
He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. Kurt Vonnegut
It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Lao Tzu

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. Elizabeth Gilbert ( Eat, Pray, Love , Amazon book)
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? Stephen Hawking
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. George Harrison (The Beatles, Any Road)
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on. Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
The world is a book and he who don’t travel only read one page. St. Augustine
I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy. Ernest Hemingway
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin (First human to journey into outer space)
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. Christopher Columbus
I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. Marco Polo
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. Asian proverb
Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. Mohammed

Short Travel Quotes

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To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen
All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Rolf Potts
Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli
The journey is the destination. Dan Eldon
Everywhere you travel to, be fully there. Lailah Gifty Akita
Everybody has a unique path to travel. Lailah Gifty Akita
The road never ends… only our vision does. Amit Reddy
No matter where you go, there you are. Buckaroo Banzi
What is life, without a little risk? Sirius Black (Harry Potter)

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Risk is the salt and sugar of life. Freya Stark
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Unknown
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. Unknown
It feels good to be lost in the right direction. Unknown
If not now, when? Unknown
Life is short and the world is wide. Unknown
Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure. Unknown
Work, travel, save, repeat. Unknown
Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world. Unknown
Don’t listen to what they say, go see. Chinese proverb
Adventure is worthwhile. Aristotle
Oh, the places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser
Make voyages! Attempt them. There’s nothing else. Tennessee Williams

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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The goal is to die with memories not dreams. Unknown
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho ( The Alchemist quotes )
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro
Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience, and presumably to become more whole as a human being. Ed Buryn
Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. Rolf Potts
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
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
Part 1. A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea. Tim Cahill
Part 2. Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely. Tim Cahill
What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you’re not in a hurry. Paul Theroux
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. Jack Kerouac
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be. Steve Pavlina
I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place. Rick Steves
And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. Randy Komisar
Travel is a creative act – not simply loafing and inviting your soul, but feeding on the imagination, accounting for each fresh wonder, memorizing, and moving on… and the best landscapes, apparently dense or featureless, hold surprises if they are studied patiently, in the kind of discomfort one can savor afterward. Paul Theroux

Related : The 10 Lessons to Learn From Traveling (huffpost.com)

We travel initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspaper will accommodate. Pico Iyer
Part 1. What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. Albert Camus
Part 2. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. Albert Camus
Leaving home is a kind of forgiveness, and when you get among strangers, you’re amazed at how decent they seem. Nobody smirks at you or gossips about you, nobody resents your successes or relishes your defeats. You get to start over, a sort of redemption. Garrison Keilor
Part 1. Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Victoria Erickson
Part 2. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, content to be spent and consumed. Victoria Erickson
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch
By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone. Tawny Lara
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. John Steinbeck
Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul. Jaime Lyn

Funny And Surprising Travel Quotes

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Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. Bruce Chatwin
Two great talkers will not travel far together. Spanish proverb
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury
I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way. Carl Sagan
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. Bruce Chatwin
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is about to happen. Winnie The Pooh
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Paul Theroux
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. Emile Ganest

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw
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
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James Michener
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. Oscar Wilde
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted my routine. Caskie Stinnett
Jet lag is for amateurs. Dick Clark
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
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
If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. Rachel Wolchin
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. Jack Kerouac
The best tourist is one without a camera. Kamand Kojouri
Let your memory be your travel bag. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Deep Travel Sayings

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson Click to tweet
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things. Kahlil Gibran
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home. Carl Burns
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle. Paul Auster
This is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. Rosita Forbes
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. Paulo Coelho
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. Stephen Covey
As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you . Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. Anthony Bourdin
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. Unknown
Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself. Unknown

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When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. Katherine Mansfield
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life; the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Phil Cousineau
My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world. Marcus Aurelius
Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you. Benjamin Rush
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. Dutch proverb
The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau

Wise Travel Sayings

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Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. Marty Rubin
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. Sandra Lake
Travelling is discovering. Discovering is learning. Learning is living. Maxime Lagacé
It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville
To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself. Marty Rubin
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Lin Yutang
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
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Sinclair Lewis

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Travel’s greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. William Hazlitt
The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home. Rolf Potts
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. Rolf Potts
Travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: on the road, we often live more simple, with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance. This is what Camus meant he said that “what gives value to travel is fear” – disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behing which we hide. Pico Iyer

Related : 20 Unforgettable Lessons You Can Learn From Traveling The World (lifehack.org)

Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. Phil Cousineau
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy
It’s not where you are today that counts. It’s where you are headed. Arthur F. Lenehan
Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experience is not. Dave Levant
A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. Henry Rollins
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. Freya Stark
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. Mark Twain
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
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. Anatole France
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Thomas Fuller
Wherever you go, go with all your heart! Confucius

Part 3. Conclusion

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

Further Readings

  • Topic: Education and Culture
  • 100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing
  • 100 Learning Quotes To Inspire You To Learn (Forever)
  • 100 Knowledge Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective
  • 100 Reading Quotes Every Book Lover Can Relate To
  • 100 Curiosity Quotes To Increase Your Desire To Learn
  • 100 Music Quotes From The Best Musicians In The World
  • 17 Easy Steps for Planning Your Next Trip (nomadicmatt.com)

Do you travel often? What’s your favorite travel quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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It's difficult to put into words just how transformational travel can be. Thankfully, artists, authors, philosophers, and world travelers have captured that essence in inspirational travel quotes that remind us of our past journeys and serve as fuel for future trips. We've rounded up some of the best travel quotes from the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Oprah Winfrey, and more, so you can get excited about your next bucket list trip . These beautiful quotes also make perfect travel captions for Instagram, so add them to your next post to encourage your followers to get out and explore.

Looking for more uplifting and relatable travel quotes? Our collections of Anthony Bourdain quotes , Mark Twain quotes , and Oscar Wilde quotes will motivate you to plan your next trip ASAP.

Inspirational Travel Quotes

"Once a year go somewhere you have never been before." — Dalai Lama

"You lose sight of things…and when you travel, everything balances out." — Daranna Gidel

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." — Moslih Eddin Saadi

"When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you're visiting." — Clint Borgen

"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn." — Anthony Bourdain

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." — Mary Ritter Beard

"Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action." — John Muir

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." — Andre Gide

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." — Lin Yutang

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." — Henry David Thoreau

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." — John A. Shedd

Quotes That Make Perfect Travel Captions for Instagram

"Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour." — Eckhart Tolle

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey

"Robert Frost was right. To take the 'road less traveled by' does make all the difference." — Samantha Brown

"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you." — Anthony Bourdain

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." — Michael Altshuler

"A great way to learn about your country is to leave it." — Henry Rollins

"Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien

"People don't take trips, trips take people." — John Steinbeck

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." — Hilaire Belloc

Best Travel Quotes About the Journey

"I don't know where I am going, but I'm on my way." — Carl Sagan

"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness." — Ray Bradbury

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." — Seneca

"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting." — Sargent Shriver

"Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints." — Chief Seattle

"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror." — Orson Welles

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." — Lao Tzu

"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." — Paul Theroux

Best Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

"The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire." — Robert W. Service

"So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain

"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live." — Hans Christian Andersen

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." — Anaïs Nin

"For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Best After Travel Quotes

"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." — Ursula K. Le Guin

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? ― it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." — Jack Kerouac

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes to Ignite the Wanderlust in You

As a child gazing at a world map, I would daydream about exploring every exotic shore on the horizon. However, embarking on my first transatlantic journey revealed how challenging travel can also be. From navigating unforeseen obstacles to trying new foods, each foray away from home transforms us.

Travel expands perspectives, unravels preconceived notions, and illuminates the rich tapestry of global cultures. These inspirational travel quotes capture the allure of discovering new places, overcoming adversity, and the personal growth inspired by our journeys. May the words ignite your own wanderlust spirit and send you voyaging to far-flung realms!

Key Takeaways:

The call of distant shores: travel quotes about new destinations, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tzu.

The Chinese philosopher highlights how even vast undertakings like world travel start small, with courage and intention. His wisdom inspired me to take my first solo trip to Asia . Though daunting, those initial steps created a path to the most rewarding experience of my life.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

After hiking through jaw-dropping Yosemite Valley , I understood what Flaubert meant. Surrounded by towering granite cliffs and sequoia trees, I felt small yet connected to the grandeur of nature. Travel humbles and exhilarates us.

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Publilius Syrus

The ancient writer cautions that travel alone does not guarantee growth. We must approach our journeys with open minds, curiosity to learn, and critical thinking. Travel reveals our true natures.

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

Twain’s humor gets at a truth – sharing transport and living quarters reveals a travel companion’s character. Challenging situations will expose their integrity, patience, and problem-solving. Choose wisely for smooth journeys.

Embracing the Path Less Trodden: Quotes on Travel and Adventure

“life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller.

Despite blindness and deafness, travel gave Keller fascinating insights into human nature, heightened her remaining senses, and broadened her worldview. She encourages us not to let fear limit our adventurous sides.

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

Many associate wandering with aimlessness. But as Bilbo Baggins of The Hobbit discovered, sometimes finding your way requires getting intentionally lost and following where the road takes you.

“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

No description or photo can ever match being enveloped by the damp heat of the Borneo jungle or deafened by the volcanic eruption in Tonga I witnessed. Some moments must be lived firsthand – so get out there!

“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous

While trying new foods could cause belly issues and hiking the Inca Trail knee aches, staying within our comfort zones can actually shrink our worlds. When we stop challenging ourselves, we stop living and learning.

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

This line from On the Road captures the restless spirit of adventure – to throw caution to the wind and risk it all for the freedom of the open road, come what may. It’s a siren call that tugs at every true wanderer’s soul.

The Gifts of the Journey: Quotes on the Benefits of Travel

“the more i traveled, the more i realized that fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” – shirley maclaine.

MacLaine aptly expresses how travel breaks down the barriers between us, laying bare our common humanity. Prejudices seem to fade when we actually connect with people .

“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage

This quote perfectly captures the sense of returning from a journey feeling more full as a person, with a bank of indelible memories and learnings to enrich daily life. Travel indeed widens our mental horizons.

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

By staying home, we deprive ourselves of the fuller story and limit our knowledge of history, cultures, geographies, cuisines, languages, and more. Travel lets us read every chapter.

“Untouched by the customs and complexities of man, nature patiently waits to unleash her wonders on those who seek adventure.” – Pippa de Bruyn

De Bruyn inspires us to venture into remote corners where, free from human influence, nature surprises and rejuvenates the spirit. My trans-Siberian train journey through the stark Mongolian wilderness quenched my thirst for the rawness of the elements.

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Through constantly navigating new cultures, terrains, people, and languages, travel expands our competence and knowledge. Tackling each unfamiliar situation shapes us through experience. We return home as expanded versions of ourselves.

Unveiling the World’s Secrets: Quotes About Exploring New Places

“a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – oliver wendell holmes, jr..

Holmes reveals how the insights gained through travel permanently change our psychology and worldview. After living in Mumbai , the poverty sharpened my gratitude and showed me how joy transcends wealth. My perspective forever transformed.

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

This quote by the great naturalist makes me think of one of the joys of map-gazing as a child – imagining how much was out there to discover. Muir inspires us to seize the daylight and set off on the ultimate adventure – exploring the planet.

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

The ancient Taoist master understood the magic that happens when travelers remain open to evolving journeys. Chance encounters, spontaneity and newfound freedom await those who let the journey unfold organically.

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

This reminder to tread lightly and respectfully should guide all travels. We take home cherished memories that enrich the soul. What we leave behind is our responsibility. From picking up trash to supporting local businesses, we vote with our actions to protect destinations.

The Tapestry of Global Traditions: Quotes About Different Cultures

“when we reject the single story, when we realize there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.” – chimamanda ngozi adichie.

Nigerian writer Adichie warns about the danger of a “single story” stereotype dominating perceptions of a people or place. By listening directly to locals’ multidimensional stories with empathy, we gain a nuanced cross-cultural understanding.

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

Twain perfectly expresses how living within diverse cultures expands minds and dissolves ingrained biases. Experiential learning fills gaps left by classroom lessons alone. This quote serves as my ongoing anthem for cultivating empathy through travel.

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

Here the author highlights the out-of-body experience of observing one’s own culture from afar for the first time. In a loose sense, travel introduces you to yourself within the tapestry of global diversity. These reflections foster personal growth.

Triumphs on the Trail: Quotes About Overcoming Travel Challenges

“the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.

The French novelist illuminates that transformative travel is not just about seeing sights but gaining new perspectives. Visiting the pyramids shifted my perception of “old” from a negative to a sense of awe about human endurance.

Journeys That Shape Us: Quotes About Travel’s Transformative Power

“travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – anonymous.

This quote elegantly captures how travel enriches us far beyond a monetary value. The memories, knowledge, confidence, friendships, and personal growth sparked by travel develop the spirit in priceless ways.

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

Such a profound distinction – travel engages us far beyond the fleeting pleasures of a vacation. When we open ourselves to unfamiliar people and places, we open doors to transformation.

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

By testing ourselves in unfamiliar environments, the grit of travel reveals our true natures and we gain clearer self-knowledge. My solo backpacking trip helped me shed limiting beliefs about my introversion and capabilities.

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

Beyond sites seen, travel reveals humanity’s connective tissue. The shared joy and tribulations forge fast friendships. I still visit those I met on my very first hostel trip decades ago – they feel like old souls.

Timeless Travel Tales: Quotes on Creating Lasting Memories

“to travel is to live.” – hans christian andersen.

This pithy quote sums it up – immersing ourselves in new places and cultures makes us feel truly alive. Vibrant sights, sounds, and connections create indelible memories that enrich life after the journey ends.

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

Quindlen’s quote reflects how travel allows us to reinvent ourselves and craft new narratives. Career woman becomes nomad. Homebody tastes street food. Daily routines give way to unexpected adventures and discovery.

“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground.” – Paul Bowles

Eloquently put – there is no substitute for personally experiencing the textures and flavors of a place. Travel transforms foreign lands from abstractions into cherished memories that forge human connections.

Lessons Learned on the Road: Quotes About Personal Growth from Travel

“traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – peter hoeg.

The heightened novelty and stress of navigating new places often intensify reactions. Trips reveal the deepest aspects of relationships and force personal evolution at an accelerated pace.

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

Keightley describes the awakening – travel liberates us from cultural conditioning and societal expectations. We relinquish roles to rediscover our authentic selves and what truly matters.

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot reminds us that the magic happens along the open road, with each twist and turn expanding our horizons – not just upon reaching the destination. Travel is about embracing the process, not the outcome.

The Essential Expedition: Quotes About Why Travel Matters

“travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – paulo coehlo.

While finances impact possibilities, at its core, travel demands the courage to venture beyond the familiar and comfortable. As Coehlo says, daring to explore opens our lives and selves.

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener

Michener makes clear that keeping an open mind and embracing cultural differences are prerequisites for meaningful travel that fosters human kinship.

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

By absorbing the diversity of life in unfamiliar realms, we enrich our perspectives and grayscale turns technicolor. Staying put closes the book while travel turns every page.

May these quotes ignite your lifelong quest to boldly venture beyond horizons, open minds to humanity’s mosaic, and discover more authentic selves. Keep collecting inspiring passages to reflect upon while lacing up your boots before the next journey that calls you.

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100 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire you in 2024 (with photos)

Inspiring travel quotes were always something I loved. Even before I travelled the world, I wrote many of the meaningful travel quotes I came across in my diary.

And today, they resonate with me as much as they did back then.

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There are many awesome travel quotes listed in this blog.

Also, my favourite ones in recent years are Anthony Bourdain travel quotes. That man was a huge travel inspiration.

How come so many of us look for travel quotes? They are the perfect way to daydream about travel or reflect on our past adventures.

Choosing your favourite travel quote is a hard task, but I have compiled 100 of the best travel quotes of all time right here with photos as well.

So feel free to share them with your friends or family or just pin them for later. 

100 Inspiring Travel Quotes that you’ll love!

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Best Travel Quotes of all times

1. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

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

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3. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” – Tony Robbins

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4. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.“ – Lao Tzu

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5. “He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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6. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Muhammad

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7. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anonymous

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8. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James A. Michener

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

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10. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous

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Short Travelling Quotes

  • “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen  
  • “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever” – Anonymous
  • “Travel teaches toleration”– Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “People don’t take trips — trips take people”- John Steinbeck
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
  • ”Eat Well, Travel Often.”- Anonymous
  • “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”– Chinese Proverb
  • “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”- Anonymous

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Inspirational Travel Quotes

  • “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide 
  • “Travel is my therapy.” – Dalai Lama
  • “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – 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; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by”- Robert Frost
  • “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou 
  • “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”- Matthew Karsten  
  • “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan!” – Dr. Zelana Montminy
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

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Funny Travel Quotes

  • “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
  • “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
  • “It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!“ – Anonymous
  • “I love my job, only when I’m on vacation.” – Anonymous
  • “You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license!“ -Anonymous
  • “My favourite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.“ – Anonymous
  • Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
  • “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.“ – Anonymous
  • “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.“- Anonymous
  • “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous

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Quotes For Travelling The World

  • “Open your heart to the world. It’ll dazzle you in ways you never thought possible.” – Anonymous
  • “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.“ – Wallace Stevens
  • “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion” – Paulo Coelho
  • “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro
  • “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
  • ”Life is short and the world is wide” – Simon Raven
  • “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”  – Anonymous
  • “Let’s get lost.” – Adi Alsaid
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

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Travelling Quotes With Friends

  • “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”- Anonymous
  • “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
  • “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”- Anonymous
  • “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”- Anonymous
  • “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
  • “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Terry Allison
  • “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”- William Butler Yeats
  • “Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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
  • “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable…it’s being separated and knowing nothing will change.” – Anonymous
  •  “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” –  Tim Cahill

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Adventure Travel Quotes

  • “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
  • “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.“ – Marty Rubin
  • “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
  • “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
  • “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
  • “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Irving Wallace
  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn 
  • “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis

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Solo Travel Quotes

  • “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
  • “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
  • “Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” – Ragnar Lothbrok
  • “Table for one, food for two, please.” – Anonymous
  • “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”- Anonymous
  • “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”- Anonymous
  • “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”- Anonymous
  • “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
  • “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”- Anonymous
  • “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Anonymous

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Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

1. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.” 

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2. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald’s? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

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3. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

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4. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

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5. “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.”

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6. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

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7. “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.”

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8. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”

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9. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

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10. “When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.”

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Wanderlust Travel Quotes that Inspire to Travel

  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
  • “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
  • “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Anonymous
  • “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer 
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber 
  • “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
  • “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” –Randy Komisar

These are my 100 quotes for travelling the world that inspire to travel . Do you have any favourite travelling quotes? Let us know in the comments.

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124 Inspirational Travel Quotes That’ll Make You Want to Travel in 2022

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2021

This is the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. Let wordsmiths such as Stephen King, Mark Twain and the Dalai Lama transport you around the world from your armchair.

Not all inspirational travel quotes are created equal. “You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow.” Ugh! Case and point. With so many of these clichés flying around, we forget the real purpose of an inspirational quote. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire. To resonate with and encourage you to take action.

Whether you’re stuck in a rut, hungry for change and adventure, lacking motivation or self-confidence, the right inspirational quote can give you a well-needed kick up the butt to get you on the right track towards achieving your goals

My favourite kind of inspirational quotes is travel related, obviously! They remind me that following my dreams will always lead to happiness and fulfilment. So, I’ve collated a rather epic list of not just any inspirational travel quotes, but the best travel quotes. Many of these travel quotes describe wanderlust perfectly. You’re going to love them!

There’s a mix of short travel quotes, some would even make perfect travel captions for Instagram, some are funny quotes about travelling with friends, but most of all they are all awesome trip quotes.

Ok, so the length of this list is probably a little overkill, but they are all beautiful travel quotes from some really inspiring authors and legends including Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, John Steinbeck, Lao Tzu, Euripides, Seneca, Dalai Lama, Bill Bryson, T.S Eliot, Oscar Wilde and so so many more.

Here is the ultimate travel quotes list and the only one you’ll ever need. Save and Pin your favourites.

1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. - Franz Kafka

2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment - Hilaire Belloc

3. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru

4. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert

5. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

6. time flies. it’s up to you to be the navigator. – robert orben, 7. the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – w.b. yeats, 8. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 9. the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – oprah winfrey, 10. take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – erick widman.

best inspirational travel quotes - Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what's there in front of you. - Erick Widman

11. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart

12. living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – unknown, 13. it doesn’t matter where you are. you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – bob proctor, 14. if we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – unknown, 15. it is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of america – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – dwight d. eisenhower, 16. travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – peter hoeg, 17. when a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- drew bundini brown, 18. ‘i’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of. – louis c.k..

best inspirational travel quotes - ‘I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen non-percent of. - Louis C.K.

19. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

best inspirational travel quotes - I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. - Susan Sontag

20. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy

best inspirational travel quotes - Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. - Constantine Cavafy

21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you. – Unknown

best inspirational travel quotes - 21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.

22. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain

best inspirational travel quotes - Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. - Anthony Bourdain

23. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

best inspirational travel quotes - To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

24. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen

best inspirational travel quotes - To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. - Hans Christian Andersen

25. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

26. though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- ralph waldo emerson.

best inspirational travel quotes - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime. – G Adventures

28. there is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. and you ask “what if i fall” oh but my darling, what if you fly – erin hanson.

best inspirational travel quotes - There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson

29. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

best inspirational travel quotes - The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. - G.K. Chesterton

30. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein

31 .the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – helen keller.

best inspirational travel quotes - The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

32. Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien

33. paris is always a good idea. – audrey hepburn, 34. own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. let your memory be your travel bag. – alexander solzhenitsyn, 35. our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. they always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – winnie the pooh, 36. 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..

best inspirational travel quotes - 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.

37. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

38. nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – gayland anderson, 39. life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – unknown, 40. it is a big and beautiful world. most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. i don’t want to be most of us. – oberyn martell, game of thrones, 41. if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a movable feast. – hemingway, 42. if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – anon, 43. i’m not lost, i’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – unknown.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - I'm not lost, I've just temporarily lost sight of my destination. - Unknown

44. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

45. i love to travel, but hate to arrive. – albert einstein.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - I love to travel, but hate to arrive. - Albert Einstein

46. I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

47. how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world i never knew – ernesto che guevara., 48. experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – euripides.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. - Euripides

49. A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

50. A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins

51. 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, 52. what you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road.” – william least heat moon, 53. travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – paul theroux.

best inspirational travel quotes - Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

54. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

55. to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – aldous huxley, 56. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 57. the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – rudyard kipling, 58. not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – henry david thoreau.

best inspirational travel quotes - Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. - Henry David Thoreau

59. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

60. i have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. i have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. so, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – rowland waring-flood.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. - Rowland Waring-Flood

61. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya.

62. adventure is a path. real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. the world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. in this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. this will change you. nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – mark jenkins, 63. a wise traveler never despises his own country. – carlo goldoni.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni

64. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

best inspirational travel quotes - A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships were built - John A. Shedd

65. 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

66. why do you go away so that you can come back. so that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. and the people there see you differently, too. coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – terry pratchett, a hat full of sky, 67. when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. cool, unlying life will rush in. – d. h. lawrence, 68. we travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. we travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. we travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. and we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more. – pico iyer, why we travel, 69. we must not cease from exploration. and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – t. s. eliot.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

70. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharial Nehru

71. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

best inspirational travel quotes - Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

72. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

best inspirational travel quotes - Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

73. 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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

74. trust me, it’s paradise. this is where the hungry come to feed. for mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. so never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. and if it hurts, you know what it’s probably worth it. – richard, ‘the beach’ (alex garland), 75. 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, 76. travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – miriam beard, 77. travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – seneca, 78. tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – paul theroux, 79. too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – elizabeth drew, 80. to those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. but to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. – unknown, 81. 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, 82. to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – freya stark, 83. there is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – charles dudley warner.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – Charles Dudley Warner

84. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

85. the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – st. augustine, 86. the use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – samuel johnson, 87. the journey, not the arrival matters. – t. s. eliot, 88. stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – ray bradbury, 89. to travel is to live. – hans christian anderson, 90. so much of who we are is where we have been. – william langewiesche 91. somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – unknown, 92. there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – beverly sills, 93. perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – maya angelou, 94. people travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – dagobert d. runes, 95. don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. – mohammed, 96. our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life. – jack kerouac, 97. one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – henry miller.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

98. Once you have traveled , the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy 99. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

100. no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – lin yutang, 101. never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – dolly parton, 102. man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – andre gide..

Best inspirational travel quotes - Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide.

103. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

104. life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “wow what a ride” – hunter s. thompson, 105. blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – lovelle drachman., 106. if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – james michener, 107. i want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. i want to explore the world. i want to watch tv in a different time zone. i want to visit strange, exotic malls. – homer simpson, 108. i have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – mark twain.

Best inspirational travel quotes - I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain

109. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca

110. he who does not travel does not know the value of men. – moorish proverb, 111. travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer, 112. 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, 113. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – ralph waldo emerson, 114. all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – samuel johnson, 115. all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – paul fussell, 115. all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – martin buber.

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

116. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

117. a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – lao tzu, 118. a journey is like marriage. the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – john steinbeck, 119. a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – tim cahill, 120. a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – lao tzu.

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

121. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain

122. you will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. that is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – miriam adeney.

Best inspirational travel quotes - You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. - Miriam Adeney

123. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G. K. Chesterton

124. travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – gaby basora.

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. - Gaby Basora

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Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure

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Cant really travel due to the pandemic so ill just read travel quotes 🙂

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Hi, there are some great quotes here, all make you stop and think – which is always a good thing! I think my favourite is ‘I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list’

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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world :)) I saw it on profile on Worldee.com and its my favourite one!

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Yes, it’s really inspiring, but it’s a sad thing you can’t go anywhere at the moment…

Thanks Jenny 🙂 When borders open up again, we will be able to appreciate travel even more 🙂

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You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney

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My favourite is Anderson’s “to travel is to live” . In a lack of travel opportunities sometimes i feel i just exist ,not live. Crying:'((((

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Thank you for this post. I loved it. Reading the quotes made me reflect on the feelings and experiences of my travels and made me long for more 🙂

Thank you, Allison, it’s my pleasure. It’s so wonderful to hear that you enjoyed it. I get a tad emotional myself every time I look back through this post. It’s definitely one of my favourites 🙂

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The Winnie the Pooh one was good. Clever little bear , isn’t he. ?

Thanks for the amazing post. Some made me laugh, some made me think but all of them makes me want to travel more.

Thanks Basil 🙂 Did you have a favourite?

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Short quotes about travel are the easiest way to get travel inspiration since they pack a lot of meaning into very few words. Sometimes, all you need is a short and sweet simple travel quote to start thinking about your next adventure.

This collection of short travel sayings has something for just about every travel lover. You’ll find some of the best short travel phrases , of course, but I’ve also included some short travel quotes with friends , short travel quotes for couples , short adventure quotes , and more. Get ready to be inspired by these incredible short travel quotes !

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  • Short travel quotes for couples
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  • Short family travel quotes

As you’re reading through this list of short vacation quotes , don’t forget to save your favorites and share them with your friends and family to pass the inspiration along. If you’re interested in checking out some longer travel sayings, our collection of the top 100 quotes about travel has exactly what you’re looking for .

Best Short Travel Quotes

The best short quotes on travel exemplify the idea of quality over quantity: you’ll get tons of inspiration from just a few words!

1. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage

As this short holiday quote points out, you don’t have to be rich to travel. You can have a fantastic trip on a budget as long as you’re brave enough to get out there!

2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment

This short travel saying is a fantastic reminder of how impactful exploring can be on our lives.

3. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy Goodman

Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination

This simple travel quote shows that attitude is everything. The way we approach life, especially when it comes to travel, can make the difference between having a decent trip and having the trip of a lifetime.

4. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret

These wise words from the famous Irish writer are the perfect inspiration for an adventure. Ready to start planning your next getaway?

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

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer

As this quick trip quote wisely points out, travel enriches our lives in many ways: culturally, gastronomically, emotionally, and more.

6. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls

This adventure short quote reminds us that we travel for many different reasons. Whether you travel because you’re curious about the world or because you want to find yourself, any and all travel reasons are valid!

7. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.” – Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote

Anyone who loves travel will relate to this wanderlust short travel quote . I know we do!

8. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

To travel is to live

This short quote on travel is simple but effective: travel really is a key part of truly living life to its fullest.

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

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

This famous short travel saying is well-known for a reason. The metaphor of the world being a book works so well for expressing the idea that travel expands our minds.

10. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb

Don’t listen to what they say. Go see

This short travel caption provides the ultimate travel inspiration. It’s great to hear other people’s travel stories, but if you’re curious about what’s out there, why not go see it for yourself ?

Short Adventure Quotes

These incredible adventure quotes will inspire you to see the world and keep exploring!

11. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you

This short travel saying reminds us that we don’t always need to go looking for adventure to find it.

12. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within

As this short travel quote argues, we all have the spirit of adventure within us. We just have to embrace it!

13. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure

This short vacation quote makes it clear that a positive attitude can turn a mishap into a grand adventure. Try it the next time you’re traveling!

14. “Adventure is out there!” – Up

Adventure is out there!

This short and simple travel quote from the beloved Pixar movie is the perfect inspiration for your next big getaway. Go find that adventure!

15. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

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

This short adventure saying will resonate if you feel like exploring is in your DNA.

16. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” – Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure

This short trip quote encourages us to see adventure as an important part of being alive. Maybe, deep down, we’re all explorers.

17. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Oh, the places you’ll go

As this famous short quote about travel reminds us, it’s so exciting that there are tons of amazing places in the world to see. Why not get started on seeing them all?

18. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be – then adventures should be a top priority.” – Richard Branson

If happiness is the goal – and it should be – then adventures should be a top priority

This simple travel quote has one basic message: adventures equal happiness. If you have an incurable case of wanderlust, this saying will probably resonate with you.

19. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong

Travel can be crucial for helping us understand more about ourselves. Let your adventures be your guide!

20. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul

As this life is short travel quote shows, adventures fulfill us in ways that money simply cannot.

Short Solo Travel Quotes

If you’re planning a solo adventure and need some motivation, these short travel alone quotes are just what you need!

21. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone

If you’re a frequent solo traveler, you’ll probably relate to the idea that places seem more beautiful when you’re by yourself. After all, solo travel gives you the chance to fully appreciate the sights around you.

22. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice

I love this short vacation quote because I really relate to it. To me, travel is absolutely priceless and always worth it.

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

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

As this travel short caption points out, sometimes travel has to get put on the back burner, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop dreaming about or planning where we’ll go next!

24. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine

Anyone who likes to stay in motion and keep exploring will relate to this short quote about adventure . Routines definitely aren’t for everyone!

25. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself

This short quote on travel is all about discovering the beauty of the world for ourselves.

26. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

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

As this short travel phrase shows, travel can and should change us forever. Enjoy the unforgettable memories you make along your journey!

27. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

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

This short solo travel quote points out the pleasures of traveling alone, including having a whole bed to yourself!

28. “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends

The best thing about traveling solo is that you can easily make friends along the way. Take the opportunity to spend time with new people so you can turn strangers into friends!

29. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more

This short trip quote reminds us that one huge advantage of traveling alone is the chance to be introspective and think deeply about your trip. It might even be helpful to keep a journal or jot down some notes to keep track of your thoughts.

30. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone

This quick trip caption is a great reminder that not everyone travels well together. The best travel buddy will always be yourself!

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

These short travel quotes for couples will help set the mood for a romantic getaway. After all, love and travel make the perfect pair!

31. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion

This romantic short travel quote makes a great point that traveling with loved ones can turn any place into somewhere that feels like home.

32. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen

If you’ve ever looked at someone and known you were in for a lifetime of adventures together, then this short travel saying is for you. It doesn’t get any better than having a partner who’s also a fantastic travel buddy – take it from us!

33. “A couple who travels together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

A couple who travels together, grow together

Travel is not only an incredible way to achieve personal growth, but also a fantastic way to grow as a couple. Spending day after day together in an unfamiliar place can really bring you closer together.

34. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare

I would not wish any companion in the world but you

Trust one of the world’s most famous poets to have written a beautiful short travel phrase about love. Be sure to share this romantic quote with your travel soulmate!

35. “In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz

In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with

As this short quote for travel reminds us, our travel companions can make all the difference in how we feel about our journey. Traveling with a loved one is sure to make your trip that much more fun!

36. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – An African Proverb

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

This short holiday quote shows that love and support can take us far, both in life and as travelers.

37. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

This short holiday quote is great advice for anyone planning a vacation. Traveling involves spending a lot of time together, so it’s always best to go on a trip with someone you already know you like!

38. “I would go everywhere and anywhere with you.” – Cassandra Clare

I would go everywhere and anywhere with you

This short travel saying perfectly captures the excitement of exploring the world with the person you love.

39. “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman

Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

I love this short trip quote because it’s so beautiful and poetic. These lines would make perfect wedding vows for a travel-loving couple!

40. “It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another.” – Roger Moore

It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another

This simple travel quote is a straightforward expression of the joy and beauty that come from traveling with your partner.

Short Travel Quotes with Friends

Good friends will always have your back, so it makes sense to bring them along on your biggest adventures. These short travel quotes with friends capture all the highs of traveling with your best pals.

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

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles

As this short vacation saying expresses, in addition to the friends you bring with you, you’ll often make friends along the way as you travel.

42. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown

A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you

Share this short trip quote with a best friend you’ll be traveling with soon, and get ready to have the time of your life together!

43. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah

There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with

As this short adventure saying points out, traveling together is a great way to strengthen a friendship and grow even closer. After all, every night will be like a sleepover!

44. “It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.” – Anonymous

It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey

Sometimes, you don’t realize how far you’ve come until you look back and see all the friends you’ve made along the way.

45. “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter

In other words, time flies when you’re having fun! This short travel phrase shows how much joy friends can add to an adventure.

46. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” – Unknown

You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!

This short quote for travel reminds us that good friends will always make a trip better.

47. “Good friends follow you anywhere.” – A.A. Milne

Good friends follow you anywhere

This short travel saying offers some great advice about friendship: quality friends will always support you, no matter what.

48. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – Unknown

Life was meant for great adventures and close friends

This short unique travel quote is all about priorities. If you love going on trips with your closest friends, this saying will definitely resonate with you.

49. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma & Louise

Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas

As this short road trip quote points out, it doesn’t take much to go on an adventure. Grabbing your best friend and hopping in the car is all you need.

50. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face

This short quote about travel offers a beautiful way of looking at the world: seeing everyone as a potential friend rather than as a stranger or enemy.

Short Family Travel Quotes

These short family vacation quotes are just what you need to get the whole family excited for some time away together.

51. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Anonymous

Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them

This short travel quote with family reminds us that traveling is the best way for kids to learn more about the world around them. Exploring is a valuable part of any child’s education.

52. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams

My ideal travel companions are my family

This short, simple travel quote is a very sweet way of expressing your appreciation for traveling with family. Share this with your family so they know how much you enjoy exploring together!

53. “Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective

This travel short caption applies not only to family, but also to any traveler looking to expand their worldview.

54. “Travel is not reward for working; it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

Travel is not reward for working; it’s education for living

This iconic quick trip quote shows how travel and learning more about the world can make us all better human beings. Traveling allows us to make the world our classroom.

55. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience

As this short journey quote expresses, children and parents can experience travel a little differently. After all, seeing a place for the very first time is very different from a repeat visit.

56. “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children

This short unique travel quote is a great reminder that your kids will cherish the wonderful memories of family vacations.

57. “Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.” – Unknown

Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most

There’s no better feeling than sharing an incredible view or new experience with the people you love the most. Luckily, family vacations are the perfect time to create new memories together.

58. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million

As this short travel caption points out, children are so curious and excited about the world around them that anything new will seem wonderful.

59. “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.” – Steve Harvey

A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime

This short trip quote sums up the best reasons to plan a trip as a family.

60. “Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.” – Anonymous

Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love

I love this short vacation quote because it captures the many facets of going on an adventure as a family. The crazy and the loud moments are all part of the fun, too!

I hope these short travel quotes have sparked your wanderlust and gotten you ready to start planning your next trip! Whether you’re a solo traveler who’s just found inspiration or one half of a couple trying to find the perfect caption for a vacation photo, be sure to save and/or share your favorite short unique travel quotes .

Let me know in the comments which short travel sayings resonated with you the most. Happy travels!

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101 of the Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Amazing Adventures

I’ve put together 101 of the best travel quotes as a reminder, motivation, and remembrance for the reasons why we travel.

I’m not just talking about the sightseeing and beach vacations. Travel is about the journey as much as the beautiful destination.

We learn about the world by experiencing new cultures and ways of living, in turn learning about ourselves.

I’ve been traveling the world for a few years – Will has been traveling for over 9 years – and the rest of the Broke Backpacker crew has put quite a dent in their passports too. I think these awesome quotes about traveling highlight some of the magnificent journeys and lessons we’ve experienced along the way.

Why? Because Travel quotes provide inspiration and capture truths about travel, adventure, and life.

Just like travel, words have the power to open our minds to completely new perspectives, which is why I hope this collection of quotes about travel and powerful words will inspire you to get out there and experience some adventurous travel yourself.

101 Best Travel Quotes

Some last words….

From funny travel quotes to inspiring words from legends past and present, here are the 101 best:

1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra, The Cultureur

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2. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

This is one of my favorite quotes about traveling. A lot of people think that one travels to escape life, or that long-term travelers are running away from reality. The way I see it – sure – maybe vacations are a quick escape from the real world, but traveling is a way to embrace life’s grandest adventures. Traveling is a way for life not to escape us.

3. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

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4. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” – Marty Rubin

5. “to live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” – t.l rese.

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6. “Travel often; Getting lost will help you find yourself.” – Holstee Manifesto

Some of my best travel experiences were not necessarily butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes they were uncomfortable and painful. Sometimes I have quite literally gotten lost, but in the end, these experiences have helped me find myself.

I think that is what traveling is often about: finding – or at least rediscovering – aspects of yourself.

7. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

8. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george a. moore, 9. “sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” –   drake.

This is one of the most important travel quotes. Doesn’t matter how long you’re traveling for, you’ll see new cultures, open your mind and change your way of thinking – even if it’s just a little bit. Traveling shows us sides of the world but also about yourself that you’ve never seen before. Having a different view on things helped a lot of people when it comes to making hard decisions.

10. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey

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11. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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

I love this traveling the world quote from Cesare Pavese. Having been on the road for the last few years, he nailed my experience spot on. Nothing is certain – except air, sleep, the sea, the sky – but that is what traveling is about: embracing the unknown and trusting the process. The way I see it, the only thing for certain is what is happening in the now.

12. “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

13. “culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – thomas wolfe, 14. “traveling — it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – ibn battuta.

This is one of the most beautiful travel quotes. Meeting so many new people, making new friends and even finding a second family, has to be one of the best aspects of traveling. Having traveled quite a bit, I can say that having multiple homes is definitely an amazing feeling, although it can also create some distance between you and your original home.

15. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” – Malcolm Bradbury

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

Probably one of the best travel quotes I’ve heard – the play on words, the sincerity, and the capture of what it means to travel. Traveling will undoubtedly leave you speechless, surprised, and lost for words, but those words will be found, and you will have epic stories to tell.

18. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

19. “every journey is personal. every journey is spiritual. you can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. you can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – diana ambarsari, 20. “the perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. there is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – rosita forbes, 21. “travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – ella maillart.

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22. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” –  Roy M. Goodman

I think this is one of my favorite quotes about travel. Having been to 30 or so countries, and plenty of destinations among them, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that happiness does   not come from beautiful destinations any more than the concept that money can buy happiness…

It’s easy to assume that if money can’t buy happiness, surely experiences can, but you can be in the most beautiful place on earth having some crazy experience, and not be happy. We tend to always be in search of the next big thing – the most beautiful beach or bigger mountain – without realizing that it is the journey there that matters, not the destination.

Happiness is hard to define of course, but I think happiness lies in your outlook and present state of mind. To be happy is to be in the present moment, no matter what you own or where you are.

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23. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict

24. “we must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – john hope franklin, 25. “though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – ralph waldo emerson.

Walking on the globe with your head down will never open up all views and beautiful things to see. In order to enjoy traveling, you have to keep your mind and heart open, accept different cultures and traditions and simply try to adapt. Keep a positive mindset and you’ll see the beauty of the world.

26. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha

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27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown

Both of these travel quotes (#26 and #27) encapsulate that sometimes we travel to learn more about ourselves. A large aspect of traveling is, of course, visiting places, but sometimes you end up visiting parts of yourself too.

28. “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” – Hans Christian Andersen

29. “traveling outgrows its motives. it soon proves sufficient in itself. you think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – nicolas bouvier, 30. it is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – ursula k. le guin, 31. “the best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” – rick ridgeway.

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32. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” –   Gayle Forman

This is one of my favorite travel quotes! It reminds me of something I read in the book  Shantaram , about an ex-convict on the run and his adventures in India. In the book, he was given similar advice: to surrender to India and accept his experience for what it was.

You have to surrender to the chaos and enjoy/endure the experiences as they come. While this is applicable to many aspects of life, it is definitely applicable to travel. You can’t try to force itineraries and plans or work hard to fulfill some high expectations in your mind. Doing so will only tire and disappoint you.

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33. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”  – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

34. “travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” – janna graber, 35. “life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” –   oliver goldsmith, 36. “focus on the journey, not the destination. joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – greg anderson.

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37. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

I can relate to this quote about travel quite well actually. The longer and more that I travel, the more I find myself self-analyzing and observing my own thought and emotional processes.

Traveling has a funny way of throwing you out into the world with the intention of discovering more about everything around you, only to realize you will discover far more about yourself. It is why traveling can be the most rewarding form of introspection.

38. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

39. “once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. the mind can never break off from the journey.” – pat conroy, 40. “travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – seneca, 41. “a man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – wilfred peterson.

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42. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

I can relate to these words quite a bit as I try to find the balance between preparing and planning for the future, reaching goals, and just enjoying the ride and staying present in the moment.

Having goals and an endpoint in sight is good; however, I don’t think it will be as satisfying if you don’t enjoy the moments that take you there. If you only focus on the destination you’ll miss everything that matters – the journey along the way.

43. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber

44. “life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” – debasish mridha, 45. “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”- izaak walton.

Whether it’s long, annoying bus trips, a shabby hostel or simply somewhere you don’t necessarily feel comfortable, it’s always better to have great company by your side. Going through the rough times together makes the whole experience more endurable.

46. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

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47. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

I love this quote about traveling. With age, comes wisdom. Wisdom isn’t something you can read about, it is something you learn through experience. The same goes for travel. You can read and hear about places and people that are different than you, but sometimes it takes experiencing those places and meeting those people for yourself to truly understand them.

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48. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

49. “travel opens your mind as few other things do. it is its own form of hypnotism, and i am forever under its spell.” – libya bray, 50. “half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – ray bradbury, 51. “travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – francis bacon.

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52. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain will always be remembered for his adventurous spirit and ability to share some of the most remote and fascinating corners of this planet with the rest of the world. His words ring true. Travel is not pretty, and it’s definitely not always comfortable.

Sometimes you’ll deal with awful buses and missed flights, sleep in strange places, be confronted with challenging and stressful situations, or encounter experiences that break your heart. But that’s okay because the journey will make you stronger, and ultimately make you a better person.

53. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

54. “it is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. such are the melancholies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” – gustave flaubert, 55. “all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – samuel johnson, 56. “uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” –  ken hundert.

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57. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” –  Dalai Lama

58. “investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – matthew karsten.

Rather than investing in the latest technology, do yourself the favor and take yourself on a little trip. Clear your mind, learn new things and experience different cultures and people. You won’t regret it!

59. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” – Margot Fonteyn

60. “certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – miriam beard, 61. “culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.” – karl kraus.

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62. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

63. “travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – sheda savage.

There are so many things to see and learn. The more you know, the more open your mindset and view will be. If you feel like you’re missing someone, invest in yourself and go on a trip to experience new things – you won’t regret it, we promise!

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64. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes

65. “if you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – cesare pavese, 66. “of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – richard francis burton.

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67. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

68. “when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road.” – william least heat moon, 69. “i soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – lillian smith, 70. “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, 71. “conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. i’m not so sure. travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to cleveland and is never heard from again.” – eric weiner.

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72.  “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

73. “travel is like love, 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 iyer, 74. “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, 75. “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – maya angelou, 76. “travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – freya stark.

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77. “The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” – Freya Stark

78. “you will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.” – freya stark, 79. “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.

This another one of the most important travel quotes, especially in nowadays time. When traveling, always keep your mind open, be respectful towards other people and try new things. Just because your believes, expectations and values work for you, doesn’t mean that it works for others too. Watch, experience and keep the critical thoughts to yourself if you don’t want to make enemies in a different country.

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80. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine

81. “travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – paul sheehan.

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82. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

83. “we travel because we need to because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. when we get home, home is still the same. but something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” – jonah lehrer, 84. “travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet’s blurred reality.” – andrew solomon, 85. “ i travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – nyssa p. chopra, the cultureur, 86. “travel is the best teacher. the only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” – c. joybell c..

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87. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

88. he who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – moorish proverb, 89. “travel is like an endless university. you never stop learning.” – harvey lloyd.

Whether it’s about a new recipe, a new language or as simple as the fancy toilets in Japan, there’s ALWAYS something new and exciting for you to learn. That is the beauty of travel, just make sure you keep your mind open!

90. “ The symbol of joy to-day is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood.” – Rollin A. Sawyer

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91. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

92. “nothing develops intelligence like travel.” –  emile zola, 93. “the value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – rolf potts, 94. “there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” – david mitchell.

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95. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Forman

96. “no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – lin yutang, 97. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george moore, 98. “all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – paul fussell.

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99. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” – Nancy Petralia

100. “travel molds a man, people mold his wisdom and experiences mold his life” – sujit lalwani, 101. “travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. one looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. good travelers are heartless.” – elias canetti.

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71+ Best Destination Quotes To Help You Enjoy The Journey

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Best Destination Quotes

Destination quotes, journey and destination quotes, destination quotes from movies, book quotes on destination.

Life is a journey and everyone has a destination.

Travelling and journeying to a specific place also requires a destination. Even though it's said that the journey is the important part, we most definitely enjoy the destination too.

We always fix a destination before going on a journey. So, it's the most important part. In the same way in life, we have goals.

If you think life to be a journey, then those goals are our destination and it's equally important to have them. Otherwise we are lost in life. Read up on these destination quotes below to know more about it.

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Travel around the world and reaching one's destination is the best feeling. Here we have the best and most beautiful of destination quotes like from Martin Buber and more for your every day inspirational dose.

1. "Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education."

- Burk Hudson.

2. "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

- Burton Hill.

3. "Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come."

- Zig Zigler.

4. "The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

- Carl Rogers.

5. "My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."

- Marcel Proust.

6. "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

- Jim Rohn.

7. "You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly."

- Icelandic Proverb.

8. "You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today."

- Guy Finley.

9. "One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

- Henry Miller.

10. "I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean.

11. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou.

12. "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale.

13. "The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."

- Charles DeLint.

14. "When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart."

- Allen Walker, 'D-gray Man'.

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

- Martin Buber.

The path to one's destination is not easy and change on it is the only constant. These positive destination quotes below depicts that change and importance of destination.

16. "You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

- Stephen King.

17. "Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."

- Steve Jobs.

18. "The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day."

- Tenzin Gyatso.

19. "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day."

- Marlon Wayans.

20. "You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination."

- W. Clement Stone.

21. "Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

- Alain de Botton.

22. "It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."

- Brian Eno.

23. "What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."

- Barbara Kingsolver.

24. "In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train."

- Bruce Catton.

25. "Certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination."

- A. R. Rahman.

26. "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."

- Winston Churchill.

27. "Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all."

- Garrett Hardin.

28. "By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."

- Christopher Columbus.

29. "Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination."

- Diane Sawyer.

30. "Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."

- Eudora Welty.

31. "Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination."

- Sushant Singh Rajput.

Journeys are a part and end step of the way to destination. Here's some journey not the destination quotes and why do we travel quotes that you'll love.

32. "Winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome."

- Alex Morgan.

33. "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

- T. S. Eliot.

34. "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home."

- Anna Quindlen.

35. "The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."

- Marion Zimmer Bradley.

36. "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

- Ursula K. Leguin.

37. "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

- Paul Theroux.

38. "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

- Greg Anderson.

39. "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

- Yogi Berra.

40. "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."

- Lyndon B. Johnson.

41. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step."

42. "Sometimes, it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination."

43. "The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

- Don Williams Jr.

44. "Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination."

- Chris Hadfield.

45. "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

- Arthur Ashe.

46. "We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, we are confident and believe we are going to succeed."

- Orison Swett Marden.

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47. "Death... doesn't like to be cheated."

- William Bludworth, 'Final Destination 5', 2011.

48. "There are seven billion people in the world. So when one of them behaves badly toward you, he's actually doing you a great favor because he's saving you time. He's telling you that he's not worth your while."

- Frank , 'Destination Wedding', 2018.

49. "General Thayer: On the Moon! Jim, Doc, we're on the Moon!

Joe Sweeney: And we're alive - holy cow! General, the next time you tell me you can get to the Moon, I'll believe you!"

- 'Destination Moon', 1950.

50. "I'm going to make the most of every moment I have left. So I'm gonna do what I do best … If I'm dying, I'm trying."

- Hunt Wynorski, 'The Final Destination', 2009.

51. "It's human nature to find pain in any situation however relatively fortunate."

- Lindsay, 'Destination Wedding', 2018.

52. "By the grace of God, and the name of the United States of America, I take possession of this planet on behalf of, and for the benefit of, all mankind."

- Dr. Charles Cargraves, 'Destination Moon', 1950.

53. "Equal... in death's eyes? All of us? How can you say that? Dude, think it through: Charlie Manson, made it to 70. Where's the equality in that?"

- Ian McKinley, 'Final Destination 3', 2006.

54. "I consider it a triumph of the will that there aren't shallow graves dotting my back yard."

- Frank, 'Destination Wedding', 2018.

55. "I can remember a time when every city street would lead me back to you. When the road signs guided me home and I was never lost."

- Jon, 'Destination Anywhere', 1997.

56. "Some people say there's a balance to everything. For every life there's a death, for every death, there is a life. But the introduction of life that was not meant to be, that can invalidate the list, force Death to start anew."

- William Bludworth, 'Final Destination 2', 2003.

57. "Lindsay: Why didn't we meet seven years ago?

Frank: Just lucky I guess."

- 'Destination Wedding', 2018.

58. "Life is about courage and going into the unknown."

- Cheryl, 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty', 2013.

59. "In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes."

- Bludworth, 'Final Destination 1', 2000.

60. "I believe that there is nobody for anyone."

61. "To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."

- Walter Mitty, 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty', 2013.

Lastly we have some quotes on destination from various books.

62. "Even at time of fear and uncertainty, I never went to the darkness. Light was always my destination- the light at the end of the tunnel."

- Chaker Khazaal, 'Ouch!'.

63. "When things don’t go as planned in the journey to your destination, don’t give up. Defy defeat. Resist submission. Hold onto hope."

64. "Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination; doesn’t hurt to be in your Sunday clothes."

- Anurag Shourie, 'Half A Shadow'.

65. "I don't know whether you can look at your past and find … the path that will point to your final destination."

- Jodi Picoult, 'Handle With Care'.

66. "When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable."

- Steve Maraboli, 'Life, The Truth, And Being Free'.

67. "Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map."

68. "She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me."

- Kami Garcia, 'Beautiful Darkness'.

69. "Even a snail will eventually reach its destination."

- Gail Tsukiyama, 'The Street Of A Thousand Blossoms'.

70. "I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey."

- David Archuleta, 'Chords Of Strength'.

71. "There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination."

- Charlotte Eriksson, 'Empty Roads And Broken Bottles: In Search For The Great Perhaps'.

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80+ Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure

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Between vacations, many daydream about what adventures the next trip holds. You can spend your days switching back and forth from looking at your favorite travel photos to trying to go about your day to day life. But a few friendly reminders that the next adventure is closer than you think can help you put your wanderlust to rest. And one of the best distractions comes with this list of travel quotes. Pick your favorite from the collection below and use it to inspire your next trip!

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Once you find your top picks from the quotes listed below, make sure to put them to use. Consider creating something special that will help you keep your favorite travel memories alive with the project ideas below:

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  • Travel Gifts : Personalized gifts and keepsakes make perfect opportunities to highlight your favorite travel quotes.
  • Travel Photo Books : Once you’re ready to fill the pages of a photo book with all your favorite vacation photos, consider adding a few of your top quote picks for captions!
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These travel quotes are as hilarious as they are true. Pick your favorite to send to a friend or to use in your next Instagram caption.

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  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
  • “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” – Unknown
  • “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
  • “Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown
  • “Vacation calories don’t count. Right?” – Unknown
  • “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown
  • “I need six months of vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown
  • “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
  • “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope
  • “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” – Susan Sontag

These inspirational travel quotes will remind you of the transformational experience traveling can be. They also look great on a travel mug .

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  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
  • “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
  • The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
  • “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
  • “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
  • “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
  • “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
  • “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
  • “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

They’re short, they’re sweet, and they’re oh-so-true. These short travel quotes will have you wanting to be back on a beach in no time.

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  • “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
  • “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
  • “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
  • “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
  • “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
  • “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Unknown
  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

These famous minds knew exactly how addicting travel can be, and we want to share their insights with you.

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  • “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
  • “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
  • “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
  • “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
  • “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
  • “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

Mark Twain Travel Quotes

  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
  • “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
  • “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
  • “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

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

  • “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
  • “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
  • “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” – Anthony Bourdain
  • “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

Do you love solo travel? If so, these adventure quotes were made just for you. And don’t be afraid to share them with other fellow travelers who don’t mind the occasional solo adventure.

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  • “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert
  • “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
  • “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins
  • “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
  • “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
  • “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – The Dhammapada

Whether it’s with your Dad, your sister, your friend, or your significant other– these travel together quotes are sure to remind you of all the wonderful memories you shared together.

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Couple Travel Quotes

  • “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” – Anonymous
  • “It doesn’t matter where you are going. It matters who is beside you.” – Anonymous
  • “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman
  • “What we find in a soul mate is not something to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault
  • “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” – Anonymous
  • “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we ‘ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – Anonymous

Family Travel Quotes

  • “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes
  • “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
  • “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll
  • “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
  • “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories” – Og Mandino

Travel With Friends Quotes

  • “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
  • “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
  • “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
  • “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
  • “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Anonymous
  • “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Anonymous

If you want to document your travel experiences on social media, we have the Instagram captions for you. Use these short and fun travel captions for Instagram to share how you spent your vacation.

  • An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.
  • Left my heart in [insert city here].
  • Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
  • I have not been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list.
  • The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever.
  • “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
  • I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.
  • Life is not meant to be lived in one place.
  • Always say yes to new adventures.
  • BBN: Be back never.
  • Always take the scenic route.
  • Eating my way through [or insert city or country here]
  • “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller

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by The Travel Sisters | Feb 24, 2018 | Travel Inspiration | 9 comments

Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

Best Travel and Vacation Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

1. “i travel not to go anywhere, but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson.

Best Inspirational Travel and Vacation Quotes: “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. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

3. “if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – james michener, 4. “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tzu, 5. “wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – confucius, 6. “the more i traveled the more i realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – shirley maclaine, 7. “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.” one of the best Inspirational travel quotes of all time

8. “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

9. “travel isn’t always pretty. it isn’t always comfortable. sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. but that’s okay. the journey changes you; it should change you. it leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. you take something with you. hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –  anthony bourdain, 10. “remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – roy m. goodman, 11.”perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” —maya angelou, 12. “live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – stephen covey.

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

14. “i am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -mary anne radmacher, 15. “i’m in love with cities i’ve never been to and people i’ve never met.” – melody truong.

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16. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

17. “our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – lawrence block, 18. “not all those who wander are lost.” – j.r.r. tolkien, 19. “take only memories, leave only footprints.” ― chief seattle, 20. “we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — anais nin.

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21. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” ― Miriam Beard

22. “when preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -susan heller, 23. “one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― henry miller, 24. “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, 25. “stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” -ray bradbury, 26. “all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -samuel johnson, 27. “travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” -seneca, 28. “i have wandered all my life, and i have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” -hilaire belloc, 29. ”the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -marcel proust, 30. “to travel is to take a journey into yourself.”― danny kaye, 31. “the journey not the arrival matters.” – t.s. eliot, 32. “the gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – sir richard burton, 33. “do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – ralph waldo emerson.

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“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.”

This quote is so true!

I love these!! A few old favorites and a few new ones I have never heard, and loved!

I personally love 12. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” Stephen Covey but I also love #20 by Anais Nin and #29 by Proust because they perhaps describe the items on my Travel Bucket list. Its not always about a vacation from life but rather to learn and discover life.

Love reading quotes, they definitely are inspiring and humbling. Great list!

Amazing Quotes. I love this one “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― Henry Miller I believe that “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

*sigh* I love travel quotes.

Hi, your list of quotes is really very impressive. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite is ‘Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer’. So true and a great reply to those who think you should travel less!

My favorite travel quote is an unintentional one: “No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”

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100 travel captions to take with you on the road

Greetings from Destination Fabulous!

Wherever in the world you are — Hawaii, Europe , the Grand Tetons — it’s undoubtedly amazing.

Naturally, you want to share all the best moments with your friends and family on Instagram, and we’ve got just the travel captions you’re looking for to top off those once-in-a-lifetime photos.

Since vacations come but once or twice year, it’s important to make the most of your time away from the daily grind. While you’re at it, savor and preserve those special memories with plenty of pictures.

Once you’ve decided which ones to post, use one of these short sayings, funny quotes or cute captions listed in the collection below to take your snaps to the next level.

Whether your photos require a short message like “Live, laugh, relax, adventure, repeat” or something funny like “Vacation greetings from an introvert: I don’t wish you were here,” you’re sure to find the Instagram caption you’re looking among these trip-inspired messages.

And since you’re on vacation and all, we’re guessing you probably don’t want to do any more work than you absolutely have to, which is what makes this treasure trove of captions the perfect travel accessory.

From cute travel captions for couples to song quotes that dovetail nicely with your weekend getaway, you’re sure to find exactly what you need to, ahem , seas the day.

Best travel captions

  • The first rule of Vacation Club: There are no rules in Vacation Club.
  • Are we there yet?
  • Time flies when you're having fun!
  • Forget about the journey. It's definitely the destination.
  • Greetings from the land of sunshine.
  • Hello from heaven.
  • Officially in Airplane Mode.
  • Collecting moments, not things.
  • Keep on travelin'.
  • Adventure awaits.
  • It's not the journey, but the friends we make along the way.
  • Travel: The only thing you buy that makes you richer.
  • Excuse me while I travel the world.
  • On indefinite break.
  • Sorry, no one's available to take your call right now ...
  • Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.
  • Welcome aboard!
  • Taking the long way home.
  • Just here for the snacks.
  • Wan·der·lust (n.): a strong desire to travel
  • Travel: Cheaper than behavioral therapy
  • If you don't go, you'll never know.
  • The ocean made me salty.
  • Interim president of the beach council.
  • This way to the Port-O'-Party.

Short travel captions

  • Officially on Island Time.
  • Suite dreams.
  • Basic beach.
  • This calls for a shell-abration!
  • Live, laugh, relax, adventure, repeat.
  • Catch the wave.
  • Sun + Sand = Vacay
  • Be patient. I’m in the middle of an altitude adjustment.
  • Carpe diem.
  • Better vacay than sorry.
  • Feelin’ blue in all the right ways.
  • Whatever floats your boat. But, like, for real.
  • Follow your bliss and your destination will be delightful.
  • This is just plane awesome!
  • Current coordinates: Off the grid.
  • Inhale. Exhale. Relax.
  • Sand is all you need.
  • Life’s a beach, especially when you’re sitting on one.
  • The best thing about being on vacation? Being on vacation.
  • Having a boatload of fun!
  • Don’t mind me, I’m just wingin’ it.
  • Feeling pretty shell-fish right now.
  • Only good vibes allowed.

Funny travel captions

  • I love vacation. It’s other people I don’t like.
  • Indulging in some liquid therapy.
  • Just me and my beaches.
  • Windmills? Sure, I’m a big fan.
  • Karma is a beach.
  • Resting beach face.
  • Vacation greetings from an introvert: I don’t wish you were here.
  • Road trips are great, but they sure are tire-ing.
  • Sun’s out, buns out.
  • The airline lost my emotional baggage.

Cute travel captions for couples

  • Nomad-er where you go, I will follow.
  • Everything’s better with you.
  • Staying together is a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.
  • Love is what makes the trip worth taking.
  • Every amazing vacation begins with you.
  • I’m never lost when we’re together.
  • And they traveled happily ever after.
  • Don’t play koi with me.
  • Destination bucket list: wherever you are.
  • Share my beach blanket?

Captions for international travels

  • I’ve been waiting my entire life to cross the Finnish line.
  • Havana really good time.
  • What do I like about Switzerland? IDK, but the flag is certainly a plus.
  • My favorite place is with EU.
  • Hey, Czech this out!
  • Looks like you Tokyo sweet time getting here.
  • Sometimes you just gotta say, “Phuket.”
  • Rome is where the heart is.
  • There’s no place like Rome.

Travel captions inspired by song lyrics

  • “Don’t go chasin’ waterfalls.” — “Waterfalls,” TLC
  • “Vacation, all I ever wanted / Vacation, had to get away.” — “Vacation,” The Go-Go’s
  • “I’ve been everywhere, man / I’ve been everywhere.” — “I’ve Been Everywhere,” Johnny Cash
  • “On an island in the sun / We’ll be playing and having fun / And it makes me feel so fine.” — “Island in the Sun,” Weezer
  • “Holiday / Celebrate!” — “Holiday,” Madonna
  • “Some beach / Somewhere / There’s a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair.” — “Some Beach,” Blake Shelton
  • “I’m gonna soak up the sun.” — “Soak Up the Sun,” Sheryl Crow
  • “Oh, Mexico / It sounds so simple, I just got to go / The sun’s so hot I forgot to go home.” — “Mexico,” James Taylor
  • “I’m sailing away / Set an open course for the virgin sea / ‘Cause I’ve got to be free / Free to face the life that’s ahead of me.” — “Come Sail Away,” Styx
  • “Life is a highway / I want to ride it all night long.” — “Life is a Highway,” Tom Cochrane
  • “I’ve got two tickets to paradise / Won’t you pack your bags, we’ll leave tonight.” — “Two Tickets to Paradise,” Eddie Money
  • “Wastin’ away again in Margaritaville / Searchin’ for my long lost shaker of salt.” — “Margaritaville,” Jimmy Buffett
  • “New friends and blue skies that never end / Hey, that’s the way we like it / Good times, sunshine and summertime.” — “Sunshine and Summertime,” Faith Hill

Travel quotes

  • “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” — Robert Orben
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, “Lord of the Rings”
  • “Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
  • “Wake up and live.” — Bob Marley
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle
  • “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” — Martin “Chief” Brody, “Jaws”
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley

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Google Flights says these are the top summer travel destinations of 2024

From london to new york and more, see the hottest summer 2024 flight destinations.

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Are you looking to book a vacation this summer? 

Google Flights has revealed the top searches on its platform by people in the U.S. who are looking to travel between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2024.

Check out the full list below and some popular recommendations for each.

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Top Summer 2024 destinations on Google Flights

London Tower Bridge

The most searched travel destination for summer 2024 is just across the pond — London, England. (iStock / iStock)

Apparently, London is calling.

The most searched destination on Google Flights for summer 2024 is at the ready. 

Along with arts and culture aplenty, shop ‘til you drop in the land of Big Ben on Sloane Street.

This drag in the Knightsbridge neighborhood has the famed department store Harrods, along with the city’s flagship Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani and more. 

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Post up at The Carlton Tower Jumeirah. Where you can also experience an afternoon tea and enjoy access to private Cadogan Gardens with tennis courts. 

Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

The Olympics are going to be in Paris, France, this summer, which may be one of the reasons it has taken the No. 2 spot. (iStock / iStock)

This year, it’s Google Flights' number two most-searched-for destinations for summer 2024 is Paris, likely thanks to the Olympics taking place there in July and August. 

To get to the City of Light, you might want to consider booking on a smart-cost long-haul airline like French bee, which also offers flight and train packages if you want to say, "Cheers" in Champagne and clink Cabernet Sauvignon glasses in Bordeaux.

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In Paris, consider making your stomping grounds the InterContinental Paris Le Grand or Kimpton St Honoré Paris, both veritable jewels in this romantic city.

Busy street in Tokyo

Tokyo has made the top three with a variety of cultural and historical locations that you will want to experience. (iStock / iStock)

Last year, the cherry blossom season in Japan reportedly brought in the highest number of travelers since the country re-opened its borders to travelers following the coronavirus pandemic. 

But Tokyo is just as exciting and vibrant in the summer, where you can visit Imperial Palace, the primary resident of the Emperor of Japan in tranquil park-like environs; scope out the Kanda Myojin, a shrine created some 1,270 years ago; partake in a traditional tea experience and much, much more. 

Call it a night at Hoshinoya Tokyo, which bills itself as a "high-rise ryokan." (A ryokan is a type of traditional Japanese Inn.)

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Colosseum in Rome, Italy

Enjoy the ancient architecture and stunning sights in ancient Rome and don't forget to leave room for some tasty pasta. (iStock / iStock)

In Rome, travelers may plan on stuffing themselves with spaghetti and gelato.

You’re also at one of the world’s cultural capitals. 

Here, you may want to visit the Palazzo Massimo (National Museum of Rome), which has great Classical sculptures and art, the Capitoline Museums atop Capitoline Hill and the Ara Pacis Museum, which is designed by the architect Richard Meier. 

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Consider reserving plenty of time for the Borghese Gallery, tucked inside the serene Borghese Gardens, which has some of the most spectacular surviving Bernini sculptures around, including his "Apollo and Daphne."

To up your cultural ante, head to the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, a private art collection in the ornate Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and the National Museum of the Palazzo di Venezia, a Renaissance-era palace with bucolic gardens and a museum. 

5. New York

Manhattan Bridge

There is so much to see in NYC — whether you are looking for something budget-friendly, or to enjoy afternoon tea at the Plaza Hotel. (Julienne Schaer / Fox News)

Whether you fly into LaGuardia Airport or John F. Kennedy International in New York or Newark Liberty International Airport in neighboring New Jersey, some say there’s no place like New York. 

There’s no shortage of things to do here, but some suggest the newly-launched Ghostbusters Guide to NYC (NYCTourism.com/Ghostbusters) in partnership with Sony Pictures on the recent debut of, "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?"

Consider staying at the Plaza Hotel and round out your NYC experience with the property’s famed afternoon tea in the magnificent Palm Court. 

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For something more budget-friendly, try the Moxy NYC Times Square or the Freehand New York in the Flatiron District.

Waldorf Astoria Cancun resort

Sit back and relax by the pool or the stunning beaches bordering the Caribbean Sea in Cancun. (Waldorf Astoria Cancun / Fox News)

You may decide to plop down at Waldorf Astoria Cancun or Hilton Cancun, at this beach destination in Mexico that lands on Google Flights' number six spot.

At the Waldorf Astoria Cancun, you’re in an oasis of mangroves that's located 15 minutes from Cancun International Airport.

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If you choose, you could also settle into all-inclusive mode at Hilton Cancun, which boasts 12 dining experiences, nightly activities and a kids' club and teen zone, according to Google Flights.

Orlando resort pool

Whether you spend a day at a theme park or chill by the pool at your dreamy hotel, there is something for everyone in Orlanda. (Evermore Orlando Resort / Fox News)

Whether you’re venturing to Orlando for Walt Disney World or zooming through the headwaters of the Florida Everglades on an airboat tour, there’s no shortage of things to see and do in these parts. 

Catch shut-eye at Evermore Orlando Resort, a new $1.5 billion luxury resort that opened this year and brings a dreamy, man-made beach to the landlocked city.

8. Las Vegas

The Venetian pool

Everyone can't stop talking about the Sphere in Las Vegas and now is your chance to take a look at it for yourself on a vacation to Sin City. (The Venetian / Fox News)

The biggest draw in Sin City these days seems to be the Sphere, a high-tech, dome-shaped entertainment venue that opened in 2023. 

But arguably, Vegas wouldn’t be Vegas without living it up on The Strip. 

To do that, you may want to stay at the pyramid-shaped Luxor, where you can catch the Blue Man Group performing or people-watch at the outdoor pool.

There’s also the Play Playground, an adults-only hub that is brimming with fun physical games, team games, puzzles and more. 

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Or, set up shop at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, which has a five-acre pool, a spa and TAO Beach Dayclub. 

Aerial of Seattle, Washington

Summer may be the perfect time to enjoy all that Seattle has to offer with its stunning trails and tasty dining locations. (iStock / iStock)

Seattle is a city of many wonders. 

The home of Starbucks and Amazon, stroll around the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Pop Culture or Chihuly Garden and Glass located next to the Space Needle at Seattle Center. 

Or, enjoy more active hiking at the Burke-Gilman Trail, the Seward Park outer loop, or the Snow Lake Trail, less than an hour away from downtown Seattle.

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Plus, Seattle really shines in the summer thanks to its gorgeous weather, waterfront happenings and walks along the Puget Sound, and Pike Place Market’s outdoor dining coming to life.  

Acropolis at sunset

The final spot on the top 10 list goes to Athens, Greece, a city filled with so much culture and history you will want to make sure you give yourself enough time to see it all. (iStock / iStock)

Sneaking into the top 10 is Greece’s largest and capital city.

Upon arrival at Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" (ATH), you’re likely going to be hungry. 

Though you’d be hard-pressed to find a meal that doesn’t dazzle your taste buds, some options include Volvi Souvlaki for its affordable and souvlaki (meat skewers) and gyros (souvlaki stuffed in pita with accouterments like tomatoes, onion and tzatziki), Stone Athens for seafood and Acropolis scenic vistas and Abibayio for delectable Greek fare. 

You may want to visit the Acropolis and the Parthenon, so try a pit-stop at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in less touristy Kallithea and then cross the bridge and browse the eateries and boutiques along the pier. 

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Check out the most popular places for summer vacations in 2024 that can take you around the world, according to Google Flights. (iStock; The Venetian / Fox News)

Or, opt to visit the Archaeological Museum of the Athenian Agora, located in the ancient Agora where you can also see the Temple of Hephaestus, which is one of the best preserved temples in Greece and the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, a dazzling collection that includes Cycladic and Minoan art as well as Mycenaean art, including the so-called "Mask of Agamemnon," which any classics PhD or history buff will deem "extremely cool." 

When the sun sets in the Mediterranean, consider reserving your digs at The New Hotel Athens, where you can experience the aromatic salt scrub or hot seashell massage to revive your muscles after long days of sightseeing. Visit thepointsguy.com to see the full list of Google Flights' top summer destinations of the year.

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LUXlife, a premium travel magazine, has honored Visit Glenwood Springs with the title Best Destination Marketing & Management Organization 2024.

Glenwood Springs, Colorado, April 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the eighth consecutive year, LUXlife magazine has recognized those across the travel sector who strive to provide tourists with the trip of a lifetime. Visit Glenwood Springs was chosen by LUXlife’s judging panel and research team who considered the commitment, expertise and innovation shown through nomination information, votes, and supporting evidence, along with the results from their own comprehensive fact-checking and research process. The merit-driven approach has brought much success and commendation throughout its use and enforces LUXlife’s stance that victors are not determined by popularity of votes, but by their contributions.

Located in the picturesque Rocky Mountains, Glenwood Springs is a vibrant city of eclectic attractions and incredible outdoor recreation. As the contracted destination marketing and management organization for the City of Glenwood Springs, Visit Glenwood Springs provides the city with responsible marketing to promote the local economy, enhance residents’ quality of life, and protect the area’s natural resources. Glenwood Springs is a captivating location that offers endless fun and excitement for travelers.

With 73 years of combined experience in tourism, marketing, and public relations, Lisa Langer, Director of Tourism and Heidi Pankow, Tourism Project Manager, are the team behind Glenwood Springs’ management and marketing. Visit Glenwood Springs has been involved with two major statewide industry collaborations including the Colorado Historic Hot Springs Loop and the Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance. Lisa and Heidi actively participate in state boards and commissions such as the Colorado Association of Destination Marketing Organizations among others.

“Visit Glenwood Springs works in a nimble and flexible style that allows us to shift our resources and messages, when necessary,” Langer said. She cites occasional challenges that sometimes affect vacation travel in the mountains. “We have faced wildfire, weather, and other natural events in recent years and have been able to offer valuable, timely information for the best outcomes for our cherished guests,” Langer said. “Whatever the challenges, we are committed to excellence in all we do.”

As a result of a CO Tourism Office Management Grant, Glenwood Springs Visitor Center is receiving a refresh with ‘Do Colorado Right’ messaging that educates visitors and promotes responsible tourism. As part of this grant, a Wander Maps wayfinding platform, aimed at enhancing visitor experiences and promoting sustainable travel within the city, has been added to Visitglenwood.com. This forward-thinking initiative underscores Visit Glenwood Springs’ dedication to protecting Glenwood Springs’ natural environment and heritage. Its website houses the reservation system for the Hanging Lake Trail to assist in over-visitation of this National Natural Landmark. This year, the Hanging Lake Trail will be undergoing a rebuild as the trail was damaged by recent major mudslides.

LUXlife Magazine is a premium lifestyle publication which was founded in 2014 by the UK publishing company AI Global Media Ltd. Distributed to a circulation of 94,000 globally, LUXlife focuses on a range of topics within the luxury lifestyle industry, featuring articles on, fashion, beauty, fine dining, travel, luxury real estate and much more. The LUXlife Travel & Tourism Awards sets out to recognize the excellence of the sector’s best enterprises, from luxurious resorts to quaint campsites to unique tour operators. The winners go above and beyond for their clients, providing them with unforgettable experiences that will stay with them forever.

To find out more about Glenwood Springs’ prestigious award, visit https://www.lux-review.com/issues/travel-and-tourism-awards-2024/ , where you can view all the 2024 winner profiles.

About Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Glenwood Springs, where year-round adventures meet world-class wellness. Located in the heart of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains along the Interstate 70 corridor, Glenwood Springs is an easy scenic three-hour drive west of Denver and 45 minutes north of Aspen. Outdoor enthusiasts will discover breathtaking vistas and historic mountain-town charm. In this home of famed hot springs attractions (there’s a reason it’s called the Land of Water), soak, swim and dive into the world’s largest mineral hot springs pool or steam in natural vapor caves. Hike to Hanging Lake, a National Natural Landmark, raft or kayak on the Colorado or Roaring Fork Rivers or enjoy a stunning mountain biking experience on the Red Mountain, CMC Spring Valley or South Canyon trail systems or a more laidback cycle ride along the Roaring Fork River via the Rio Grande Trail or adjacent the Colorado River on the Glenwood Canyon Recreation Path. Plan your vacation at www.VisitGlenwood.com . 

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