155 Travel Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You to Travel

155 of the Most Inspiring Travel Quotes of All Time

Sometimes, all we need is life is a bit of motivation to accomplish the things we desire. In that regard, I have spent two days collecting inspirational, famous and simply stunning travel quotes that will surely inspire you to plan your next trip. Regardless of whether you want to travel solo or with friends, I’m certain that you will find your next favorite travel quote below.

I did my best to categorize the travel quotes and make them easier to read. I really hope you’ll have a great time reading these and get inspired to go on an adventure as soon as possible. After all, you know what they say:

“Traveling is the perfect mix of adrenaline, food, and experience.”

Just kidding, I just made that up. Enjoy!

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

1. “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” ― Ross Morley
2. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ― Dalai Lama
3. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” ― Anonymous
4. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ― Ibn Battuta
5. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” ― Anonymous
6. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” ― Antoine de Saint Exupéry
7. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi
8. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” ― Wallace Stevens
9. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” ― Lewis Carroll
10. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― Henry Miller
11. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” ― Lawrence Durrell
12. “Travel is like knowledge, the more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen” ― Mark Hertsgaard
13. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Neale Donald Walsch
14. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” ― Ray Bradbury
15. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” ― Carew Papritz

    

Travel Quotes with Friends

16. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ― Tim Cahill
17. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” ― Winnie The Pooh
18. “Friends that travel together, stay together.” ― Anonymous
19. “Travel is better with friends.” ― Anonymous
20. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.” ― African proverb
21. “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.” ― Anonymous
22. “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, ‘Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.’” ― Anonymous
23. “Friends, sun, sand, and sea – that sounds like a summer to me.” ― Anonymous
24. “As with any journey, who you travel with is more important than the destination.” ― Anonymous

    

Best Wanderlust Travel Quotes

25. “Wanderlust (n.): a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.” ― The Dictionary
26. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” ― Pico Iyer
27. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled. “ ― Mohammed
28. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.” ― Anonymous
29. “Adventure is worthwhile.” ― Aesop
30. ‘‘Where curious and curiosity keep leading us down new paths.” ― Walt Disney
31. “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

    

32. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” ― Mark Jenkins
33. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” ― Buddha
34. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― Anais Nin
35. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” ― Rudyard Kipling
36. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
37. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ― Anatole France
38. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ― Hilaire Belloc
39. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmache

Famous Travel Quotes

40. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
41. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” ― Asian Proverb
42. “The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.” ― Buddha
43. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” ― Chinese Proverb
44. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” ― Moorish proverb
45. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu

    

46. “A true traveler’s journey is never complete.” ― jda
47. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” ― Anonymous
48. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo
49. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost
50. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” ― Anonymous
51. “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard
52. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. “ ― Anonymous

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Short Travel Quotes

53. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” ― Buddha
54. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” ― Anonymous
55. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” ― Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
56. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” ― Anonymous
57. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” ― Anonymous
58. “A bad day in Paris is still better than a good day anywhere else.” ― Anonymous
59. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.” ― Wendell Berry
60. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ― Confucius
61. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu

    

62. “Wherever you look, there you will fly.” ―Thai Proverb
63. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
64. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ― Chief Seattle
65. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” ― Jamie Lyn Beatty
66. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” ― Stephen Covey
67. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” ― Amelia Earhart
68. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” ― Caskie Stinnett
69. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ― Aldous Huxley

Travel Quotes by Celebrities

70. “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
71. “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
72. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey

    

73. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” ― Shirley MacLaine
74. “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake
75. “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
76. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― John Green
77. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” ― Chuck Thompson
78. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell
79. “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” ― Chris Humphrey

Travel Quotes by Public and Political Figures

80. “One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.” ― Thomas Jefferson
81. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
82. “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” ― John D. Rockefeller
83. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
84. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” ― Roy M. Goodman
85. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
86. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” ― Babs Hoffman
87. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” v Martin Buber
88. “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

    

Travel Quotes by Famous Authors and Poets

89. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” ― Walt Whitman
90. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ― Ernest Hemingway
91. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. “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 out the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain
95. “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
96. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ― Mark Twain
97. “The journey not the arrival matters.” ― T.S. Eliot
98. “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
99. “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
100. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” ― Jack Kerouac
101. “Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” ― Jack Kerouac
102. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ― John Steinbeck
103. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ― John Steinbeck
104. “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
105. “Life isn’t about the number of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.” ― Maya Angelou
106. “Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

     

107. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” ― Oscar Wilde
108. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.“ ― Oscar Wilde
109. “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” ― Paul Theroux
110. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ― Paul Theroux
111. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” ― Paul Coelho
112. “One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” ― Charles Dickens
113. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” ― Henry David Thoreau
114. “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
115. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” ― Seneca
116. “Ultimately, I have come to think, travel teaches us about love. It teaches us that the very best we can do with our lives is to embrace the peoples, places, and cultures we meet with all our mind, heart, and soul, to live as fully as possible in every moment, every day. And it teaches us that this embrace is simultaneously a way of becoming whole and letting go.” ― Don George
117. “One person’s Nowhere is another person’s Everywhere.” ― Don George
118. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Andre Gide
119. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ― Susan Sontag
120. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” ― Shakuntala Devi
121. ‘”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
122. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” ― Moslih Eddin Saadi
123. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” ― Herman Melville
124. “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
125. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” ― Anna Quindlen
126. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustav Flaubert
127. “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 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
128. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” ― Cesare Pavese

     

Awesome Travel Quotes

129. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ― Lin Yutang
130. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” ― Elizabeth Drew
131. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” ― James Michener
132. “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
133. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” ― William Least Heat Moon
134. “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
135. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” ― Marty Rubin
136. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
137. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
138. “Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” ― Simon Raven
139. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
140. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark
141. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” ― Gayle Foreman
142. “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
143. “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
144. “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

     

145. “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” ― Frank Herbert
146. “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
147. “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
148. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
149. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ” ― Dagobert D. Runes
150. “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
151. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” ― Charles Dudley Warner
152. “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
153. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” ―Carlo Goldoni
154. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” ― William Hazlitt
155. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently” ― Shane Koyczan

After reading all these travel quotes, if you feel ready for your next adventure you may want to check out an exotic place such as Greece or have a dreamy journey to the Bavarian Castles in Germany.