I absolutely love travel quotes. They are perfect if you need a bit of inspiration or to feed your wanderlust. There is such a huge selection of travel quotes out there that I decided to pick the most inspiring ones and add them all to one blog post. You’ll find quotes to inspire your next trip, travel quotes about finding yourself and quotes that will motivate you to live your life to the fullest.
In this post, I gathered the most famous quotes and the most inspiring travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find this post inspiring!
The most inspiring travel quotes
1. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed
2. “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
3. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
4. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama
5. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
6. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
7. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
8. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong
9. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin
10. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin
11. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain
12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
13. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
14. “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
15. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
16. “Why 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.” – Terry Pratchett
17. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
18. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell
19. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
20. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
21. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
22. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
23. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
24. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
25. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
26. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
27. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius
28. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
29. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
30. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
31. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
32. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous
33. “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times” – Asian Proverb
34. “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
35. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
36. “The best view comes after the hardest climb” – Anonymous
37. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
38. “Paris is always a good idea” – Audrey Hepburn
39. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
40. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
41. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
42. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins
43. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
44. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
45. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
46. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
47. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust
48. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
49. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
50. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
51. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
52. When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
53. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
54. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
55. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” ― Isabelle Eberhardt
56. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” ― Pascal Mercier
57. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” ― Judith Thurman
58. “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
59. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
60. “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
61. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
62. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
63. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
64. “It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” ― Gustave Flaubert
65. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
What’s your favourite travel quotes? Let me know in the comments below.
