The Top 68 Travel Quotes to Inspire You

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Do you like traveling? Travelling is a great way to better understand yourself through discovering new people, places, and culture. With that in mind, check out the top 68 travel quotes.

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#68 – 60. Travel Quotes

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

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

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

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

64. “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

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

62. “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

61. “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

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

#59 – 50. Travel Quotes

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

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

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

56. “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

55. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens

54. “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen

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

52. “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

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

50. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”-Anaïs Nin

#49 – 40. Travel Quotes

49. “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

48. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

44. “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

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

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

41. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

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

#39 – 30. Travel Quotes

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

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

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

36. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

35. “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

34. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Agustine of Hippo

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

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

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

30. “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

#29 – 20. Travel Quotes

29. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

28. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho

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

26. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

25. “All that is gold does not glitter; just as not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien

24. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

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

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

21. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

20. “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

#19 – 10. Travel Quotes

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

18. “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

17. “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

16. “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

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

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

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

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

11. “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

10. “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