50 Awesome Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

1. “To Travel is to Live”
   ~ Hans Christian Andersen

2. “Travel makes you modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world”
   ~ Gustave Flaubert

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

4. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
   ~ Henry David Thoreau

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness., and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
   ~ Mark Twain

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

7. “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

8. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
   ~ Marcel Proust

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

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

    Actor staging a reenactment of a scene from the Arab revolt of 1916-1918

    

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

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

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

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

15. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “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

17. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
    ~ Chief Seattle

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

19. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”
    ~ Stephen Covey

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

    The historic town of Hallstatt in Austria

21. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.”
    ~ John A. Shedd

22. “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

23. “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

24. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”
    ~ Ray Bradbury

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

26. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    ~ Helen Keller

27. “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

28. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
    ~ Matsuo Basho

29. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”
    ~ Confucius

30. “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.”
    ~ Nyssa P. Chopra
    

    Blue hour in Lofoten, Norway

    

31. “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

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

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

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

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

36. “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

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

38. “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

39. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
    ~ Herman Melville
    
    
40. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
    ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

42. “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

43. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
    ~ Neale Donald Walsch

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

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

46. “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

47. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
    ~ Erol Ozan

48. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”
    ~ Lawrence Durrell

49. “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
    ~ John D. Rockefeller

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

    Frozen 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!

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