There’s something about travel quotes, why most of us find it powerful and inspiring. Well, Travel quotes remind you that following your dreams will always lead to happiness and fulfillment.
So, here’s the 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes perfectly for you. It inspires and fuels the wanderlust in you. You’re going to love them, that’s for sure!
1. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
2. “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
3. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert
4. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
5. “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
6. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
7. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
8. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
9. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
10. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
11. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
12. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
13. “You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.” – Franz Kafka
14. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
15. “Do not dare not to dare.” – C.S. Lewis
16. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
17. “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
18. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats
19. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage
20. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
21. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” –
22. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester
23. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
24. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
25. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
26. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
27. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
29. “For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” – Aldous Huxley
30. “Life is Either Daring Adventure or Nothing at All.” – Helen Keller
31. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut
32. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
33. “Wherever you go becomes part of you somehow.” – Confucius
34. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
35. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
36. “Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.” – Miguel de Unamuno
37. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho
38. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donal Walsh
39. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
40. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
41. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
42. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” Sandra Lake
43. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
44. “Never go too long without watching a sunset.” -Atticus
45. “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
46. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
47. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
48. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
49. “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
50. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
51. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
52. “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
53. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
54. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
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. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
57. “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
58. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
59. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
60. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown
61. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
62. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
63. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
65. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” – Dr. Seuss
66. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Unknown
67. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
68. “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
69. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
70. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
71. “Experience travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides
72. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
73. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
74. “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
75. “If not now, when?”
76. “Travel is an investment in yourself.” – The Cultureur
77. “The Road Is There, It Will Always Be There. You Just Have To Decide When To Take It.” – Chris Humphrey
78. “Design a life you are inspired to live.” – Annette White
79. “Travel Can Be One Of The Most Rewarding Forms Of Introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
80. “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
81. ”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
82. “Man Cannot Discover New Oceans Unless He Has The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore.” – Andre Gide
83. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
84. “We’re lost but making good time.” – Yogi Berra
85. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
86. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
87. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
88. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain
89. “Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.”
90. “Little By Little, One Travels Far.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
91. “Travel as much, as far, and as long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” – Unknown
92. “Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
93. “The reason for why I travel is the same for why I write – to find the place in this world that feels most like home.” – Hilary Saunders
94. “Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen.” – Mark Hertsgaad
95. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.” – Unknown
96. “The soul of the journey is liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.” – William Hazlitt
97. “Travel is like a university without walls.” – Anita Roddick
98. “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” – Martin Buber
99. “I choose to collect memories instead of things.” – Elena Levon
100. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Martin Buber
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Christian Petzold is a successful touristic entrepreneur, experiential traveller and round-the-world backpacker. He holds an academic degree in tourism management.
His touristic expertise has been covered in radio, newspaper and television.