As many of you know, I love to use quotes on my blog. Like a good photo, a good quote can stop you in your tracks and fill you with wonder. And when it comes to travel quotes, a good quote can make you stop what you’re doing, buy a plane or a train ticket, pack your suitcase, and run out the door for your next adventure.
So here are 50 of my all-time favorite travel quotes.
Hope you enjoy them!

The Eifel Tower as seen from Trocadéro at dawn
- “To Travel is to Live”
~ Hans Christian Andersen - “Travel makes you modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world”
~ Gustave Flaubert - “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.”
~ Henry Miller - “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
~ Henry David Thoreau - “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness., and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
~ Mark Twain - “The journey not the arrival matters.”
~ T.S. Eliot -
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain - “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust - “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber - “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.”
~ Paul TherouxActor staging a reenactment of a scene from the Arab revolt of 1916-1918
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - “The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page.”
~ St. Augustine - “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
~ Freya Stark - “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
~ Andre Gide - “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Once you have travelled, 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 -
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
~ Chief Seattle - “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
~ Ibn Battuta - “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”
~ Stephen Covey - “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
~ Dalai LamaThe historic town of Hallstatt in Austria
- “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.”
~ John A. Shedd - “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 - “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”
~ Ray Bradbury -
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
~ Jack Kerouac - “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
~ Helen Keller - “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 - “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
~ Matsuo Basho - “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”
~ Confucius - “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.”
~ Nyssa P. ChopraBlue hour in Lofoten, Norway
- “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 - “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”
~ Anais Nin - “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”
~ Tim Cahill - “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
~ Mary Anne Radmacher - “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
~ Seneca -
“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 - “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
~ Susan Sontag - “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 - “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
~ Herman Melville
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson - “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
~ Lin Yutang - “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 -
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
~ Neale Donald Walsch - “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
~ James Michener - “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
~ Oscar Wilde - “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 - “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
~ Erol Ozan - “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”
~ Lawrence Durrell - “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
~ John D. Rockefeller - “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
~ Robert FrostFrozen fairytale scene on Lake Bled in Slovenia
And there we have it – 50 great quotes from famous novelists, businesspeople, explorers and travelers, philosophers, and religious leaders. I hope these quotes inspire you to plan your next adventure!

Hi Ken, I also love quotes (not just travel quotes) and use them on my blogs and journeys too. Some true classics in here. Thanks for sharing and Happy October! Jonny
Thanks for writing this awesome article and examples helped a lot…You definitely made my day with this awesome post. please keep on writing. Thank you for sharing information
Hey Ken,
I love to read and write quotes.
Thanks for sharing
Brilliant post. I have came across a few of them before, but the rest, is pretty new to me.
Hey, u have amazing quotes collections. Thanks for sharing.
Great Work!
Keep it up!
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Thanks for this list! I needed some travel quotes to put in my notebook. Saving this :)
Seems like you did some research. Thanks for sharing these quotes, just found the one I was looking for.
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All quotes are worth sharing….but i like most “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”
Thanks for the inspiring quotes.
Awesome job with this! All great quotes.
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Awesome quotes with this! All great Job