50+ Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Wanderlust (Ultimate List)
By: Matthew Karsten
Top 50 Travel Quotes Of All Time
1. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop. It doesn’t get more simplistic.
2. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
3. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin . Desire to keep learning through experiences.
4. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
5. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard BurtoN
6. “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
7. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
8. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
9. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
10. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
11. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
12. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
13. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
14. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
Preconceived notions are usually false.
16. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
17. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
18. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
19. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
20. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain (?) Mark Twain never said this. The real author is H. Jackson Browne Jr. in his book PS I Love You, about letters written to his mom.
21. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
Anonymous Quotes On Traveling
22. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous
23. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
24. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
25. “Work, save, travel, repeat.” – Anonymous
26. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
27. “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
28. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
29. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
30. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
31. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
32. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
33. “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
34. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
35. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho
36. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
37. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
37. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
38. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
39. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
40. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
41. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
42. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
43. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
44. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
45. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
46. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
47. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
48. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
49. “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
50. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
51. “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
52. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
52. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
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. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
55. “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
56. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
57. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
58. “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
59. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
60. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
62. “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
63. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
We’re all shaped by each of our experiences.
64. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury