As cheesy as it may sound, I love inspirational travel quotes!
Whether youβre planning a trip, battling post-trip blues, or just aimlessly scrolling through your phone, you can be sure there is a quote about travelling somewhere out there that will hit the spot for you.
There are travel quotes about finding yourself, travel quotes to inspire your next trip, great travel quotes that push you to live your best life and more.
We can all relate to inspiring travel quotes, which is what makes them so fun to read.Β In this post Iβve put together some of the most famous travel quotes (and my personal favourites).
I hope you will find these awesome travel quotes inspiring and they will make you want toΒ head out and see some more of the world!
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Famous travel quotes
1. βMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.β βΒ Andre Gide
2. βLife is either a daring adventure, or nothing at allβ βΒ Helen Keller
3. βI am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.β βΒ Mary Anne Radmacher
4. βDonβt tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.β βΒ Mohammed
5. βTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.β β Mark Twain
6. βSurely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.ββ Freya Stark
7. βTravel isnβt always pretty. It isnβt always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But thatβs 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.β βAnthony Bourdain
8. βA good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.β βLao TzuΒ
9. βThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreignβ βRobert Louis Stevenson
Short travel quotes
10. βThe world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.β β Saint Augustine
11. βLife isΒ meant for good friends and great adventuresβ βΒ Anonymous
12. βI havenβt been everywhere, but itβs on my list.β β Susan Sontag
13. βTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I βΒ I took the one less traveled byβΒ β Robert Frost
14. βOnce a year, go somewhere you have never been before.β β Dalai Lama
15. βA journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.β β Tim Cahill
16. βWherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.βΒ βAnita Desai
17. βDonβt listen to what they say. Go see.β
18. βTake only memories, leave only footprints.β βChief Seattle
19. βCollect Moment, Not Things.β
20. βBlessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.β βLovelle Drachman
Travel the world quotes
21. βWe wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.βΒ βΒ Hilaire Belloc
22.Β βFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travelβs sake. The great affair is to move.β βRobert Louis Stevenson
23.Β βIβm in love with cities Iβve never been to and people Iβve never met.βΒ βΒ Melody Truong
24. βThis wasnβt a strange place; it was a new one.β βPaulo Coelho
25.Β βIf we were meant to stay in one place, weβd have roots instead of feetβ β Β Rachel Wolchin
26. βOnce the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.β βΒ Michael Palin
27. βWanderlust: n.Β a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the worldβ
28. βWe travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.β βRay Bradbury
Adventure travel quotes
29. βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnβt do than by the ones you did.βΒ βΒ Mark Twain
30.Β βPeople donβt take trips, trips take people.β βJohn Steinbeck
31.Β βIf you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. Itβs lethal.βΒ βPaulo Coelho
32.Β βTravel is never a matter of money but of courage.βΒ βPaulo Coelho
33. βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.β βMarcel Proust
34. βI travel because it makes me realize how much I havenβt seen, how much Iβm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.β βCarew Papritz
35.Β βA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.βΒ βJohn A. Shedd
36. βJobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.β βJamie Lyn BeattyΒ Thi
37. βIt feels good to be lost in the right directionβ
Quotes about travelling & coming home
38. βWhy do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.β βTerry Pratchett
39.Β βOneβs destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.β βHenry Miller
40.Β βTraveling β it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.β βIbn Battuta
41.Β βTravel far enough, you meet yourself.ββΒ David Mitchell
42. βTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.βΒ βΒ Aldous Huxley
43. βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepβ βLao Tzu
Inspirational travel quotes
44. βDo you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?βΒ βΒ Caroline Myss
45.Β βTravel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.β βAnonymous
46. βWe live in a 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.β βΒ Jawaharial Nehru
47.Β βBecause in the end, you wonβt remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.βΒ βJack Kerouac
48.Β βTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.β βGustave Flaubert
49. βLive life with no excuses, travel with no regretβ βOscar Wilde
My personal favourite travel quotes
50. βWe travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.β βΒ Anonymous
51. βAnd then there is the most dangerous risk of all β the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.βΒ β Randy Komisar
52. βI always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.βΒ β Harun Yahya
53. βActually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.βΒ β Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
54. βFill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.βΒ β Unknown
55. βNot all those who wander are lost.β βΒ J.R.R. Tolkien
Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel
I hope youβve enjoyed these awesome travel quotes and youβre feeling inspired and full of wanderlust after reading them!
This is just a compilation of my own personal favourite quotes about travel, if youβre still looking for more awesome travel quotes, check out theseΒ 111 travel quotesΒ and 100+ quotes perfect for InstagramΒ by other awesome content creators.
What are your favourite inspirational travel quotes? Let me know in the comments below!
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