124 Inspirational Travel Quotes That’ll Make You Want to Travel in 2022
This is the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. Let wordsmiths such as Stephen King, Mark Twain and the Dalai Lama transport you around the world from your armchair.
Not all inspirational travel quotes are created equal. “You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow.” Ugh! Case and point. With so many of these clichés flying around, we forget the real purpose of an inspirational quote. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire. To resonate with and encourage you to take action.
Whether you’re stuck in a rut, hungry for change and adventure, lacking motivation or self-confidence, the right inspirational quote can give you a well-needed kick up the butt to get you on the right track towards achieving your goals
My favourite kind of inspirational quotes is travel related, obviously! They remind me that following my dreams will always lead to happiness and fulfilment. So, I’ve collated a rather epic list of not just any inspirational travel quotes, but the best travel quotes. Many of these travel quotes describe wanderlust perfectly. You’re going to love them!
There’s a mix of short travel quotes, some would even make perfect travel captions for Instagram, some are funny quotes about travelling with friends, but most of all they are all awesome trip quotes.
Ok, so the length of this list is probably a little overkill, but they are all beautiful travel quotes from some really inspiring authors and legends including Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, John Steinbeck, Lao Tzu, Euripides, Seneca, Dalai Lama, Bill Bryson, T.S Eliot, Oscar Wilde and so so many more.
Here is the ultimate travel quotes list and the only one you’ll ever need. Save and Pin your favourites.
1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka
2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc
3. 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
4. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
5. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage
6. time flies. it’s up to you to be the navigator. – robert orben, 7. the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – w.b. yeats, 8. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 9. the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – oprah winfrey, 10. take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – erick widman.
11. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart
12. living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – unknown, 13. it doesn’t matter where you are. you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – bob proctor, 14. if we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – unknown, 15. it is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of america – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – dwight d. eisenhower, 16. travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – peter hoeg, 17. when a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- drew bundini brown, 18. ‘i’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of. – louis c.k..
19. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
20. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy
21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you. – Unknown
22. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain
23. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
24. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen
25. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde
26. though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- ralph waldo emerson.
27. This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime. – G Adventures
28. there is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. and you ask “what if i fall” oh but my darling, what if you fly – erin hanson.
29. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton
30. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein
31 .the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – helen keller.
32. Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien
33. paris is always a good idea. – audrey hepburn, 34. own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. let your memory be your travel bag. – alexander solzhenitsyn, 35. our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. they always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – winnie the pooh, 36. 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..
37. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama
38. nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – gayland anderson, 39. life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – unknown, 40. it is a big and beautiful world. most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. i don’t want to be most of us. – oberyn martell, game of thrones, 41. if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a movable feast. – hemingway, 42. if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – anon, 43. i’m not lost, i’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – unknown.
44. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde
45. i love to travel, but hate to arrive. – albert einstein.
46. I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
47. how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world i never knew – ernesto che guevara., 48. experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – euripides.
49. A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
50. A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins
51. when you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. it is designed to make its own people comfortable. – clifton fadiman, 52. 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, 53. travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – paul theroux.
54. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark
55. to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – aldous huxley, 56. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 57. the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – rudyard kipling, 58. not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – henry david thoreau.
59. 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
60. i have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. i have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. so, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – rowland waring-flood.
61. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya.
62. adventure is a path. real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. the world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. in this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. this will change you. nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – mark jenkins, 63. a wise traveler never despises his own country. – carlo goldoni.
64. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd
65. Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley
66. 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 colours. and the people there see you differently, too. coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – terry pratchett, a hat full of sky, 67. when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. cool, unlying life will rush in. – d. h. lawrence, 68. we travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. we travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. we travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. and we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more. – pico iyer, why we travel, 69. we must not cease from exploration. and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – t. s. eliot.
70. 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
71. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France
72. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
73. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
74. trust me, it’s paradise. this is where the hungry come to feed. for mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. so never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. and if it hurts, you know what it’s probably worth it. – richard, ‘the beach’ (alex garland), 75. travelling 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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – cesare pavese, 76. 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, 77. travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – seneca, 78. tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – paul theroux, 79. too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – elizabeth drew, 80. to those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. but to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. – unknown, 81. 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, 82. to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – freya stark, 83. there is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – charles dudley warner.
84. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
85. the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – st. augustine, 86. 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, 87. the journey, not the arrival matters. – t. s. eliot, 88. stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘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, 89. to travel is to live. – hans christian anderson, 90. so much of who we are is where we have been. – william langewiesche 91. somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – unknown, 92. there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – beverly sills, 93. 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, 94. people travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – dagobert d. runes, 95. don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. – mohammed, 96. our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life. – jack kerouac, 97. one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – henry miller.
98. Once you have traveled , 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 99. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien
100. no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – lin yutang, 101. never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – dolly parton, 102. man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – andre gide..
103. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli
104. life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “wow what a ride” – hunter s. thompson, 105. blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – lovelle drachman., 106. if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – james michener, 107. i want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. i want to explore the world. i want to watch tv in a different time zone. i want to visit strange, exotic malls. – homer simpson, 108. 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.
109. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca
110. he who does not travel does not know the value of men. – moorish proverb, 111. travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer, 112. 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, 113. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – ralph waldo emerson, 114. 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, 115. all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – paul fussell, 115. all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – martin buber.
116. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
117. a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – lao tzu, 118. a journey is like marriage. the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – john steinbeck, 119. a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – tim cahill, 120. a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – lao tzu.
121. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain
122. you will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. that is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – miriam adeney.
123. 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
124. travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – gaby basora.
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Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure
Cant really travel due to the pandemic so ill just read travel quotes 🙂
Hi, there are some great quotes here, all make you stop and think – which is always a good thing! I think my favourite is ‘I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list’
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world :)) I saw it on profile on Worldee.com and its my favourite one!
That’s beautiful 🙂 Thanks for sharing Tomas
Yes, it’s really inspiring, but it’s a sad thing you can’t go anywhere at the moment…
Thanks Jenny 🙂 When borders open up again, we will be able to appreciate travel even more 🙂
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney
I love this a lot, thanks for sharing Love from Indonesia
This is so true. Thanks for sharing Adi 🙂
My favourite is Anderson’s “to travel is to live” . In a lack of travel opportunities sometimes i feel i just exist ,not live. Crying:'((((
Thank you for this post. I loved it. Reading the quotes made me reflect on the feelings and experiences of my travels and made me long for more 🙂
Thank you, Allison, it’s my pleasure. It’s so wonderful to hear that you enjoyed it. I get a tad emotional myself every time I look back through this post. It’s definitely one of my favourites 🙂
The Winnie the Pooh one was good. Clever little bear , isn’t he. ?
Thanks for the amazing post. Some made me laugh, some made me think but all of them makes me want to travel more.
Thanks Basil 🙂 Did you have a favourite?
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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned
Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…
For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.
Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.
When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.
It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).
Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.
With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.
inspirational travel quotes
1. “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
2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson
12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
13. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd
17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama
22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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
24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
29. “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
30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs
32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
37. “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
38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
41. “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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
42. “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
43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
50. “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
51. “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
52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
54. “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
55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
60. “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
61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller
62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya
67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw
68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
72. “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
73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
74. “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
75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl
81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
83. “We 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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens
85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)
87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
88. “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
89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton
91. “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
92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman
95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )
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101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures
Written By: The Planet D
Inspiration
Updated On: April 7, 2024
We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.
101 Best Travel Quotes
Famous travel quotes, adventure travel quotes, funny travel quotes.
- Inspirational Travel Quotes
- Short Travel Quotes
- Meaningful Travel Quotes
Happy Travel Quotes
- Unique Travelling Quotes
Travel Quotes by Famous People
Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, we’ve been inspired to travel, and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .
Favorite Travel Quotes
Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,
- “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles,” by Tim Cahill reminds us that experiences and connections matter more than distances traveled.
- Another stirring quote is “Life is short and the world is wide,” attributed to Simon Raven, emphasizing our limited time to explore a vast world.
- The wisdom in St. Augustine’s words, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” encourages us to broaden our horizons through travel.
- John Steinbeck’s famous saying, “People don’t take trips, trips take people,” reflects the transformative power of travel.
- “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, suggests that even in the absence of physical travel, we can journey through the pages of a good book.
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” ~ Lao Tzu
Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.
Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up these best travel quotes around your house for inspiration!
1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine
Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.
This is definitely one of the best travel quotes of all time, but it certainly reads true. One of our favorite travel quotes is “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
When you travel, the whole world opens up. Travel has helped us to understand the meaning of life and it has helped us become better people. Each time we travel, we see the world with new eyes. Just like reading a book, when you travel, you experience more than only one page of life. Make your life a novel, not a page.
2. “Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
This is one of our favorite travel quotes because it gets us. Throughout our lives, people have thought that because we keep traveling and searching for new things to do, we are not focused.
They have often thought we were flaky or unfocused. But travel helped us find our purpose and put focus into our lives. The more we got lost in our travels, the richer our lives became.
Seriously people, not all those who wander are lost. That’s a statement and a quote.
So when you think that the travelers in your life are flighty remember, “not all who wander are lost “
3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” ~ Helen Keller
If Helen Keller can look at life as a great adventure, what excuse do the rest of us have? Take a chance and live life to the fullest. When we are at our most daring is when we feel the most fulfillment.
When we think of this travel quote, we live by it. Adventure is different for everyone, but we try to treat each day by doing something daring and adventurous, it keeps things exciting.
I wonder what she would think now knowing that she is quotes as having one of the most popular travel quotes in the world.
4. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle had many inspiring quotes, but this is probably the most famous of travel quotes, it is also a motto everyone should live by in life.
We need to give back to this world. People often feel they can take home a trophy, sneak a piece of stone from a historic site , or take something from nature.
Travel isn’t about taking, it is about absorbing the beauty of the world. So remember, sometimes only memories are all you need. They are your only private moments to enjoy. So try to take only memories.
5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain
Travel opens our minds and heart and makes us better people. One of our favorite travel quotes by Mark Twain.
6. ” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
When thinking about travel quotes, we often look to the most popular ones, but quote really make me think. Sure, we can set sail to different lands, but until you change your mind set, you’ll never really immerse in a voyage of discovery.
7. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
Traveling quotes often mention the fact of how travel makes you humble and how life experiences are more important than accumulating things.
8. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
This doesn’t necessarily need to be related to travel quotes it can work for life quotes too. It can be scary to try something new, take a chance, and step out of your comfort zone. But when looking back on life, it’s the chances you didn’t take that you’ll regret.
9. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway
As a travel couple, this is one of those travel quotes that is close to our hearts. We love traveling together and couldn’t imagine doing it alone.
10. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
This is one of those travel quotes that sum up a traveler perfectly. Over the years, our memories of our travels change and our stories become larger than life. Not only do we forget the bad and remember only the good, but the senses stick with us.
11. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
Before we started traveling in 2000, I only dreamed of writing for a living. But after our travels, I was so moved by many of our experiences I started writing stories to my friends and family.
When we first set off to begin our travel blog, a friend shared the works and travel quotes of Ibn Battuta with me it was through these early recommendations inspired me to become a storyteller.
No best travel quotes list would be complete without adventure quotes. Travel is an adventure and they go hand in hand. These are some of our favorite quotes about the adventure that we’ve collected over the years.
12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho
Travel quotes about adventure are our favorite because we are always pushing our boundaries and when we’re feeling a little afraid or lazy, we always think of this quote. Plus, I like this much better than his other quote: “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.”
13. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous
It’s true! Of all the travel quotes in this list, I really feel that it rings true to life. Even if you are not traveling, you need to step out of your comfort zone.
Be it taking on a new project, opening a business, or enrolling in a course. When you do something that scares you a little, you can do something great.
14. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou
When looking for travel quotes about adventure travel, this one really stuck out by Maya Angelou. It wasn’t until we started to live a life less ordinary that we understood how much control we had over our lives and just how amazing we could make it.
15. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman
This doesn’t only have to be one of those quotes on travel alone. Life itself has a lot of potholes. Whether you are traveling or at home working at your job, you should definitely enjoy the journey.
16. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”
Are you wanting to travel the world but are afraid to take the next step? The travel quote above says it all. Fear is only temporary , but if you don’t follow your dream, you may regret it forever.
We are not saying to follow travel quotes like this blindly. Don’t put yourself in dangerous situations, but don’t let being afraid of the unknown consume you either.
17. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
This is one of my favorite travel quotes on adventure travel. It’s scary to step out of your comfort zone, but if you do so with proper training and guidance, a whole new life will begin!
18. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind”
Well to me this quote means you have to leave your burdens, your stress, and your preconceived notions behind. To understand travel, you must be open to new possibilities and it will change your life.
19. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough
This is one of those quotes about travel that has never rung truer than in today’s society. Everyone is traveling to show off and brag or catch a selfie rather than to have an experience. But its the experience that you’ll remember, not the social share.
20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty
It’s true, we all have to do our job and have our careers. And that is important we need to make money to be able to live. But it is also important to take time to smell the roses and let go of work when you are not in the office.
We have always looked at our lives this way, jobs fill your pocket so that you can spend your down time having a great adventure. Be it travel or at home, life begins outside the office.
I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.
21. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
We all have worries every day and more than ever the state of the world is in question. But travel makes you forget your troubles and Charles Schulz couldn’t have said it better. It’s the funniest of travel quotes.
22. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate people than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
We have always given the advice that if you want to test to see if you are compatible in your relationship, go and travel together for a while.
Mark Twain could not be more correct. If you can travel with someone you’ll be friends for life! So put these travel quotes to the test and travel with someone right now!
23. “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck
When traveling, things are often out of our control and we have found that it is better to relax and let go. And that is true for our marriage as well. We can’t always be in control and that is half the fun!
24. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
This is a rather funny travel quote by Anthony Bourdain, but it is also very true. Some of our best travel experiences have been when having a few drinks with the locals.
So when we are out late at night, we look to these types of travel quotes for justification. hah!
25. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman
This quote reminds me of my dad. He’s always telling silly jokes like this and I love it!
26. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa
For those of you who are afraid to fly, I am afraid that you are not going to find the humor in this travel quote, but I find it quite cheeky.
27. “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope
This one made me chuckle because we were just in Ottawa (Canada’s National Capital) and we made a point of saying “ Now we know where our taxes go, look at all the beautiful museums and buildings in this city! ”
And even though Bob Hope was talking about his home country of the USA, it certainly rings true anywhere. So, we put it in our best travel quotes list, because everyone can relate!
28. “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark
While I think it’s a funny travel quote, I tend to disagree with Dick Clark. It seems that the more I travel, the worse jet lag gets. But then I suck it up and think of him and then I say “Deal with it Deb, Jet Lag is for amateurs.” See, travel quotes can be motivating!
29. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux
I love this travel quote so much because it is very true. When we come home from our travels, we always forget the tough times and difficult experiences.
We only remember the beautiful things about our travels and the bad stuff fades away. But let me tell you, we’ve had some very unglamorous travels in our lives.
30. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.
I don’t know who said this travel quote, but it is straightforward and to the point. If you are looking for travel quotes that capture the feeling of travel, this is it!
Inspirational Quotes About Travel
Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.
31. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide
I am going to update this quote though and say Woman and Man Cannot discover new oceans until they lose sight of the shore.
When Dave and I first started our careers in travel, we kept one toe in our careers and one toe in travel. It wasn’t until we finally let go of our safe life in the film industry and took a chance to go all into our new adventure travel careers that everything changed.
32. “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha
33. “it is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ penelope riley.
We all make mistakes in life and travel. Travel quotes can be relatable in life as well. And it really is the mishaps and adventures you have along the road of life and travel that make for everlasting memories.
34. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein
35. “travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”.
Okay so maybe it isn’t exactly the truest of travel quotes because if you buy a house, it may grow in value and if you buy stocks, you may get lucky and hit the jackpot, but you can never go wrong with travel.
But travel brings riches in life with experiences, learning, and making new friends.
36. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler
Quotes about traveling often have a message of being free from possessions and things, and instead of having life experiences instead. It think this travel quote says it the best.
37. “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
When we saw the Taj Mahal for the first time, we had heard about it many times. We had read about it and people had told us all about it. But it wasn’t until we saw it that we really understand its beauty and meaning.
38. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow
We agree with this travel quote indeed. Travel changes a person and it is because of the people you meet and the experiences you have. It is true that you take a piece of a place home with you.
39. “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous
We have found that travel gives us the courage to try new things. When we are home in our routine, we become comfortable. But when we travel, we are inspired by others and inspired by the destination.
40. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”
Before we started traveling full time we felt trapped. When we started putting our minds to living a life of travel, we felt the barriers break and soon we were living our dream. This quote is very close to our hearts.
41. “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon
Travel brings people together. It helps people understand other cultures and religions. What we think we know about other places is thrown out the window, once we land on their soil.
So get out there, meet other people and you’ll soon see that people around the world are just like you and me.
Short Travel Quotes Captions
Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.
These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .
42. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde
For life and travel, we all must follow our path without making excuses and we should never live with regrets.
43. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”
Many people think traveling quotes are all about people escaping and dreaming. But to us, this quote captures exactly the essence of travel. We never traveled to escape life, we always traveled to find ourselves.
44. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck
We all take trips, but most of the time the trip ends up taking a life of its own.
45. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb
Perhaps people tell you not to go to a place because they think it is awful when it is really beautiful. Or perhaps someone constantly tells you how wonderful a destination is.
Go and see for yourself and make up your own mind. That’s what this says to me.
46. “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”
One of my favorite quotes about wanderlust. One of the things Dave and I are most thankful for is the fact that we never stopped dreaming.
If we settled (like we were supposed to in life) we’d still be working at our jobs thinking we weren’t allowed to have dreams once we reached a certain age. Never stop dreaming.
47. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”
Isn’t this just the dream? I love it when I take a trip and clearly do not have a plan. That is when the real adventures happened in our travels.
48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss
It’s a short one, but oh it’s a good one. Whenever we meet someone that is starting to travel or is thinking of traveling, we always think of this quote by Dr. Suess.
These words make us think of adventure. Oh the Places You’ll Go! Doesn’t this make you excited to get out and explore thw world?
49. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
50. “life’s a journey, not a destination” ~aerosmith.
Okay so maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson deserves the credit for Life is a journey, not a destination, but we heard it first through Aerosmith, so I’m giving it to Aerosmith. Because I couldn’t find the proof anyway.
I’ll never forget being in Vietnam in 2003 and while sitting in a bar, they encouraged travelers to write their favorite quotes on its wall.
What did Dave choose? Life’s a journey, not a destination naturally. We have always lived by this motto and of course adventure is for everyone.
51. “Where to next?”
“Where will you travel next? How will travel change you and how will you change the world?”
52. “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson
Why does this travel quote resonate so much with us? Before we traveled, we felt that we never truly lived. The more we worked, the more exhausted and disconnected we felt. When we introduced travel into our lives, we felt alive again.
53. “I want to make memories all over the world”
To us, memories mean more than things. When we are out with friends, we have so much to talk about. It’s way more meaningful to have a memory to share than to show off a “thing.”
Meaningful Quotes About Travel
54. “whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ mark twain.
Mark Twain is one of the greats when it comes to creating famous quotes about travel. We have always tried to live a life less ordinary and think outside the box. I do believe this has helped us have success in our business and our relationship.
55. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho
I think in today’s society this travel quote couldn’t be truer. Many people are quick to attack others through social media and everyone has an opinion.
But what about “being the change?” Positive leadership can be powerful.
56. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley
We often have preconceived notions of what other countries are like. But once we visit a destination, we realize that we have it all wrong.
Travel helps us to understand and learn about different cultures and ways of life. We always encourage people to visit other countries to understand the people and cultures around the world.
It’s impossible to truly understand a place until you have met the people, and immersed in the culture.
57. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
Travel often opens our eyes to different ways of thinking and understanding the world. We as travel bloggers love to preach what we have learned to the world, but we also need to live by example.
58. “There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
59. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
I’ll never forget saying to Dave “I need meaning to my travels” when we first started traveling. It was by creating this blog, creating our videos, and creating our purpose to share our experience that I finally created myself.
60. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters
This is certainly one of the best motivational quotes that have to do with travel.
I often hear people complaining that they can never catch a break. But you know what? You can’t wait for things to happen, you have to make them happen.
61. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”
Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!
62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson
Don’t get lost in the crowd. Be an individual. Think big and be brave. Stand out and live life to the fullest.
63. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”
All my life, I worked hard and dreamed of what I might do one day when I retire. Once I learned that doing what you love is happiness. We don’t have to dream about what might be one day.
64. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”
Do you ever just stop and take a breath and look around? I am amazed at the little things. Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and start living today. From home!
65. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”
Dave and I feel that our hearts were truly made to travel the world. Even when we worked in the film industry, we were always planning our next trip.
66. “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”
It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.
67. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”
Do you get lost when you travel? Or are you a planner? Here, the anonymous traveler quotes an idea to go with the flow, just the way we like it.
68. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ~ John Green
69. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith
71. “The journey is my home.”
Dave and I were on the road for seven solid years. We didn’t have a home. People often said to us that they couldn’t imagine not having a home base, but we felt at home on the road. We actually felt more at home on the road than at home.
Unique Travel Quotes
Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!
71. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”
We got this traveling quote from our friend JD of EarthXplorer. Well said JD! There is no better piece of advice. I wish my niece and nephews listened to me when I told them this.
72. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”
Whenever I read this quotation on travel, I always think of the singer Dido. Do you know that song ? “I’ve still got sand in my shoes and I can’t shake the thought of you.” When traveling to islands and beaches , this one always pops into my mind.
73. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous
Over the years we have had many people ask us, “how did we have the courage to do what we do.” Truthfully, we never thought too much about what could go wrong.
When we knew we wanted to cycle Africa or climb a mountain, we didn’t focus on what could go wrong, instead, we focused on the excitement and challenges ahead. So we recommend using this travel quote to help you overcome the “what ifs in life.”
74. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
When we first started traveling, people thought we were running away from things. But in truth, we were finding ourselves and we ran right toward our purpose in life. We have never felt so fulfilled as when we do when we’re traveling.
75. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”
We love traveling together and this is our favorite of all couple travel quotes. While we admire solo travelers we are so grateful to having someone to share special moments together.
76. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” ~ Gayle Foreman
People often say to us “Oh, you must be such great travelers!” and we say, It’s not about being good at something, it is about enjoying what you do. If you enjoyed your travels and if you have a good time, you did a good job!
77. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
As we get older, we have developed a deeper appreciation of the time we have on earth. After spending many years doing something we did NOT love, we realized that time goes by quickly and we have to make the most of our time.
Now that we have a passion for our careers and adventures, we understand even more how true this quote is.
78. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”
Dave and I often get lost when traveling and it is usually the times that we take a wrong turn that we have our greatest adventures.
Getting lost is part of the fun of travel, so don’t over plan too much when planning your travels.
79. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”
When we started traveling we discovered so many new things about ourselves and each other.
By stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things, travel helped us become better people and this quote is definitely true for us.
80. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw
Travel expands the mind and without having to study or read books or take a course. We learn and grow without even trying when we travel.
81. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France
Wow, this is certainly one of those deep travel quotes. But it is true! Humans are connected to the universe, when we get out and really travel, we feel that connection stronger.
82. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
How many times have you gone traveling and thought that you have it all planned out? But it’s the surprises and secret destinations along the way that really stick with you for the rest of your life.
83. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill
People really do make the journey. We may only meet someone for a fleeting moment, but they often stay in our memories forever.
84. “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”
Each day we are grateful that we get to live in this beautiful world.
Not only is the earth’s scenery awe-inspiring, but there is a beauty in the people, culture, and wildlife that we have experienced.
I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.
85. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We just love to travel. It doesn’t matter where. No matter where we go, we always learn something new.
86. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them — wherever you go.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
87. “because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. climb that damn mountain.” ~ jack kerouak.
We have our tasks and chores to do each day, but it is the unique challenges that come with an adventure that we will remember at the end of our lives. I want to be able to say “I climbed the mountain and I lived well.”
88. Paris is Always a Good Idea ~ Audrey Hepburn
89. You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back ~ Paul Theroux
90. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ mae west.
Ah, Mae West. I can just hear her saying this quote in that fabulous accent. I am sure she wasn’t talking about travel, but we can make anything related to travel quotes.
91. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” ~ Robert Frost
Robert Frost said it best, if you take the road less traveled in life, you will probably see success. And when it comes to travel, you can find something amazing if you go off the beaten path.
92. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer
93. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ dalai lama.
94. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. “the only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ henry david thoreau.
96. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
My favorite part of traveling is the anticipation. This captures that perfectly.
97. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
98. “keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ walt whitman.
I have found that travel has helped me become an optimist. The more experiences I have, the more positive my life becomes.
99. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
100. “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, 101. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams” ~ oprah winfrey.
It was Oprah Winfrey that got us hooked on inspiring quotes so how could we not finish off our best travel quotes list with words of wisdom by the Grand Dame of Show Biz, inspiration, and philanthropy? And it is definitely a great way to end.
Bonus Travel Quotes
And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money” – Susan Heller .
Not truer words have been said about packing. The best way to travel is to travel light. You can always buy something if you forgot it or need it, but seriously, chances are you probably won’t.
You’ll be surprised just how few clothes and accessories you’ll need to travel. So when packing for your next trip remember… When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. ~ Sir Richard Burton
It’s getting more difficult to find unknown lands as the world shrinks in the age of Instagram and TikTok. But it is still possible so, start searching for those unknown lands today.
And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.
When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!
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145 thoughts on “101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures”
Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”
Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.
Hi Dave and Deb,
I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.
Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.
great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..
Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks
Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.
Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.
What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!
The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.
Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.
Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.
I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂
It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/
It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.
Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.
Great! Thanks for sharing really
Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks
My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..
Who said so?
Great Words
I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!
Wonderful collection
I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.
Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure.
My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page
Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.
These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “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.”
These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks
Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”
Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!
Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!
Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?
These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.
Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”
Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.
I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority
Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again
Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you
traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post
I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.
Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?
I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!
Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)
I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!
Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”
I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.
My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!
Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.
I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.
Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.
Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.
Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.
Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂
Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)
This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂
Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.
We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.
I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.
wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“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 iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR
Those are fantastic! My favourite is “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” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀
Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:
“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.
Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.
One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.
Why not take the high road?”
Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic
Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.
travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore
Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.
My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)
Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.
I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.
Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!
Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.
Thank you very much! all the best to you!
Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.
nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…
Lovely collection of travel quotes, but you miss something in this. So, i share the new collection of Travel Quotes and Sayings. Please check and share your reviews.
Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .
These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff
thank you for giving me wonderful information
Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!
Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.
Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.
Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You
“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer
I love this! Thank so much for sharing.
Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.
Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes
Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.
Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!
Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer
Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!
A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.
I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.
Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!
Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.
Great list of quotes for travelers.
Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.
All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.
This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.
This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work
Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.
I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.
I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…
First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.
Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”
We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!
Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …
These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again
Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up
1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.
Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.
Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.
this whole post was amazing especially the pictures
Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano
Great list of travel quotes!
Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.
Very nice quotes.
Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!
Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!
Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,
I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!
inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.
”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……
Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.
Thank you! Really good post and alive.
I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.
Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too
” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it
Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/
Thanks for this nice post!
You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.
That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.
Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂
Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.
Travel is the best form of education!
Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!
Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂
Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!
Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.
So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.
Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!
Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.
A couple on here I’ve not heard before.
My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂
That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂
Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes
152 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World
We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.
What follows is a complete collection of 152 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.
Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!
Table of Contents show 152 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips
152 Best Travel Quotes
• famous travel quotes.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown
I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash
Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown
Collect moments, not things. — Unknown
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown
I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen
Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss
I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost
When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens
• Mark Twain Travel Quotes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.
It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
• Funny Travel Quotes
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige
Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow
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
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
• Short Travel Quotes
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown
Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart
Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai
Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir
A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir
A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho
Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro
A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu
It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen
It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier
• Misc Travel Quotes
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein
Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire
To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe
• Inspirational Travel Quotes
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia
Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
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
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
Once you have traveled, 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
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss
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
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson
• Travel With Friends Quotes
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Adventure Travel Quotes
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey
Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington
Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley
• Solo Travel Quotes
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark
When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt
Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman
• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.
Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.
At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.
Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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.
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130 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust
There are so many quotes that inspire wanderlust and travel that I wanted a place to put all my favorites. This will be updated regularly as I come across new quotes (or as you tell me your favs!) This is an ongoing updated this to create the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire you – to book the ticket, take the adventure, and to check off that bucket list (so I’ve tried to avoid cliche’s as much as possible).
There’s a mix of short travel quotes, long travel quotes, travel quotes by famous travelers (like Anthony Bourdain) and some lesser-known. Some are funny travel quotes while others are a bit more serious travel quotes. Some are quotes about traveling with friends or traveling with family, and others are about solo travel – you can do both! I hope this list inspires you to get out and explore the wonderful world we live in.
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- “You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ~ Miriam Adeney This is my ultimate favorite quote – I even got it tattooed on my back! I have pieces of my heart all over the world!
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2. Live your life by a compass, not a clock ~ unknown There is something about travel that destroys our routine – and it’s amazing. It’s something I try to do once in a while even when I’m not traveling.
3. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey ~ Babs Hoffman There are always potholes, but trying to enjoy the journey despite them is important.
4. “ I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro I’ve come to accept that I’ll get lost wherever I am, so I just have to keep going!
5. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes- Marcel Proust
7. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ~ Omar Khayyam
8. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Unknown
9. Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. ~Anonymous
10. 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
11. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~ Anita Desai
12. 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
13. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. ~ Unknown
14. A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. ~Tim Cayhill
15. Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind. ~ Unknown
16. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller
17. It’s a big world out there, would be a shame not to experience ~ JD Andrews
18. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. ~ MelodyTwong
19. Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time. ~Breanna Smith
20. We travel, some of us forever, to see other places, other lives, other souls. ~ Anais Nin
21. Fill your life with adventures, not thing. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. ~ Unknown
22. It’s a big and beautiful world. Most of us live & die in the same corner where we were born & never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. ~Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
24. I want to make memories all over the world – Unknown
25. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. – David McCullough Jr.
27. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love – Hemingway
28. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man & the universe – Anatole France
29. The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein
30. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life – Agnes Repplier
31. You only live once, but if you do it right, once in enough. – Mae West
32. The journey is my home – Unknown
33. It’s not the destination where you end up… but the mishaps and memories you create along the way – Unknown
34. Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view – Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
35. Great things never came from comfort zones – Anonymous
37. You can shake the sand from your shoes, but you can’t shake it from your soul. – Anonymous
38. Don’t quite your day dream – Unknown
39. Fear is only temporary. Regret lasts forever. – Anonymous
41. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain
42. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
43. Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Unknown
44. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world – Mary Anne Radmacher
45. Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. – Unknown
46. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years. – Unknown
47. The ‘traveler’ rush that hits you upon arrival to a new place is like a drug. And like a drug, the more you expose yourself to it, the more you want it. – Clayton B. Cornell
48. Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living – Anthony Bourdain
49. We travel, some of forever, to see other places, other lives, other soulds – Anais Nin
51. The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself – Andrew McCarthy
52. Stop dreaming about your bucket list, and start living it! – Annette White
53. Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell. – Paula Bendfelt
54. The ideal is to feel at home, anywhere – everywhere – Geoff Dyer
56. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T.S. Eliot
57. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain
58. You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ~ Eugene Fodor
59. Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. ~ Jennifer Lee
60. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. ~ Muhammed Ali
61. You need not even listen, just wait .. the world will offer itself freely to you, unmaking itself. ~ Frankz Kafka
62. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart.
63. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
64. 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.
65. Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – Gayland Anderson
66. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen – Benjamin Disraeli
67. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharp – WB Yeats
68. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor
69. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown
70. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
71. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Way and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while, you fumble for words, trying to vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it. – Anthony Bourdain.
73. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper – WB Yeats
74. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert
75. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Erick Widman
76. Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Anthony Bourdain
77. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves, we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown
78. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
79. 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
80. When a man is a traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family. – Peter Hoeg
81. Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
82. Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman
83. I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro.
84. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. An in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain
85. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
86. Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – Peter Hoeg
87. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – Secret Life of Walter Mitty
88. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
89. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson
90. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
91. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life – Marcel Proust
93. How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? – Ernesto Che Guevara
94. Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has a very little to do with the food itself. – Anthony Bourdain
95. 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
96. Travel, not to escape life, but so life does not escape you. – Unknown
97. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
98. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark
99. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
100. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
101. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling
102. Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau
103. 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
104. 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
105. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain
106. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
107. We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot
108. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
109. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
110. I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breathe in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood
111. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question – Harun Yahya.
112. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
113. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
114. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
115. 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
116. One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. – Edith Wharton
117. We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. – Ray Bradbury
118. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. – A. A. Milne
119. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
120. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. – Lawrence Block
121. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
122. All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell
123. 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
124. He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish proverb
125. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten
126. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener
127. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman.
128. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson
129. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton
130. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
131. No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: This is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.” – Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules.
132. The World is a Book, and those who do not Travel, Read only one page. – Agustine of Hippo
133. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. – Oscar Wilde.
134. The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty wallet. – English proverb
135. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
136. Better to travel hopefully than to arrive. – English Proverb
137. The Journey itself is my home. – Bash ō Matsuo
138. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
139. In the desert of life, the wise travel by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone. – Arab Proverb
139. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo
140. So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac
141. The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. – Don Williams, Jr.
142. Arriving there is what you are destined for. Ithaka gave you the Marvellous Journey – C.P. Cavafy
143. I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. – Marco Polo
144. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd
145. We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parentheses in eternity. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
146. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot
147. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. – Diane Von Furstenberg.
148. Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. – Irving Wallace
149. The life you have led does not need to be the only life you have. – Anna Quindlen
150. 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
151. The true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. it’s the symbol of his liberty- his excessive
152. 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
153. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: The desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. – Paul Theroux
154. 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
155. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. – Paul Theroux
156. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
157. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – Unknown
158. Plane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. – Al Gore
159. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. – Brian Chesky
160. He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook. – African Proverb
161. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. – Thomas Jefferson
162. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies du voyage: Perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. – Gustave Flaubert
163. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it – John Steinbeck
1 64. Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time. – Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye
165. If you are planning to travel where corn grows, you should take a sickle with you. – Ethiopian Proverb
166. You go away for a long time and return a different person – You never come all the way back – Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari
167. The traveler sees the world in its true proportions: Small enough to hold within his arms, yet large enough to encompass him. He feels himself part of the universe, instead of separate and apart from it – James Michener
So there you have it – 167 incredibly inspirational travel quotes (so far) to get you to live your best life.
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow is my favourite. It’s so true
I love travel quotes. They are so inspirational. Since I’m a solo traveller, #35 really resonates with me.
This is a hard one! Which would my favorite be…? I’m between my compatriot Rosalia de Castro and the unknown “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, quote number one hit differently! Pieces of my heart have been left in nearly every place I’ve ever visited, any place I’ve ever made a memory with new or old friends.
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” I think that pretty much sums up why I’m driven to travel 😀 Great list!
Thanks for sharing these quotes! “Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” is one that resonates with me most strongly. It is such an important reminder that sometimes when we’re traveling we need to put down our tour book and busy agenda and just stop to appreciate the new and exciting surroundings around us. Thanks for the reminder!
Absolutely! It’s easy to get swept up in all the “must sees” instead of what the destination is trying to show us!
Traveling is an adventure that comes with a breathtaking view is my favorite. Cant wait to travel again. Hope this pandemic ends soon
I completely love the first quote you mentioned!! I can see why you got it tattooed. After reading them all, the other one which stands out to me the most is the one about us being the foreigners!
So many beautiful quotes! I can’t wait to be able to travel again
Oh I just loved these quotes. Thanks for the great post!! I miss traveling so much!
Same here! Glad you enjoy them!
I love these! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
This is so inspirational! Love it!
Love these inspirational travel quotes! My favourite is number 11. It’s so true that a destination stays with you long after you leave it whether it’s a smell, a dish etc.
So many beautiful quotes! Love the positivity and inspiration during this crazy time we are in 🙂
So many great quotes, thanks for sharing. It reminds me of travel days.
This is a fantastic list of inspiring travel quotes! I’ve heard of most of them but also there a few that are new to me, so I really appreciate this! This one is one of my all time favorites –“Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living” – Anthony Bourdain
Thanks for including that one on this ultimate list!
Haha that’s my favorite reminder that work is just work. – Which (at least in America) is often forgotten.
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- Updated November 1, 2023
Traveling is not just about moving from one place to another; it’s an exploration of the world and yourself. It opens doors to new cultures, perspectives, and experiences, and forms memories and valuable lessons that last a lifetime. In the following collection of best travel quotes, we’ll delve into the inspiring words of explorers, adventurers, and writers who remind us of the magic that lies beyond our comfort zones.
So, let’s embark on this literary expedition and leave you with an unquenchable thirst for exploration!
These travel quotes will ignite your wanderlust and inspire you to pack your bags and set forth on a new adventure. They capture the essence of travel—the exhilarating journey of self-discovery and the discovery of the world.
The Best Travel Quotes
Get inspired by these 85 quotes about traveling:
- “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
- “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
- “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
- “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
- “Collect moments, not things.” – Anonymous
- “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” ― Sudha Murty
- “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” – Anonymous
- “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
- “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
- “Go where you feel most alive.” – Anonymous
- “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” – Anonymous
- “Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” – Anonymous
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
- “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take” – Lewis Carroll
- “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
- “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”
- “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
- “I want to make memories all over the world” – Anonymous
- “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
- “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
- “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” ― Jaime Lyn Beatty
- “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.” ― Aliyyah Eniath
- “Let’s get lost.” – Anonymous
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
- “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
- “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” – Anonymous
- “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Anonymous
- “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous
- “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
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
- “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
- “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
- “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
- “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
- “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
- “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
- “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
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey.
- “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
- “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” – Anonymous
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
- “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
- “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
- “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
- “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
- “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
- “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
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
- “Travel is an investment in yourself.” – Anonymous
- “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
- “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
- “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
- “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
- “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” – Anonymous
- “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
- “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
- “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
- “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
- “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
- “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
- “Work, save, travel, repeat.” – Anonymous
- “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
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I was a voracious reader when I was growing up, typically reading two books a week on average.
My lower-middle class family didn’t have the money to do much in the way of traveling, outside of the occasional camping trip in North Georgia . Both my parents worked, and my dad worked multiple jobs to support his family of five.
The furthest we ever traveled was a trip to visit my godparents in Virginia when I was 14. So instead I read books about travel and adventure long before I had the financial means to start taking adventures of my own.
It was the written word that originally fueled my travel dreams, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books to Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea .
It was through Henry David Thoreau’s Walden , John Muir’s Our National Parks , and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature that I developed a passion for the environment. Without them, who knows if I would’ve become the advocate for ecotourism and wildlife conservation I am today.
And when I finally started traveling, the work of travel writers such as Jon Krakauer , Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux greatly influenced the way I did it.
But the first classic quote I remember having a significant impact on me came in the form of a Robert Frost poem: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” This idea influenced many of my choices, setting me on the path to becoming a full-time professional writer in my twenties.
For me, these inspirational travel quotes aren’t just words: They are the distillation of a philosophy that continues to drive my life and work today. I hope they will prove equally influential for you… –Bret Love; photos by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett
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Inspirational Travel Quotes
1. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust
2. “Once you have traveled, 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
3. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” –Freya Stark
4. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” –Mark Twain
5. “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
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6. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” –Paul Theroux
7. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy .” –Sir Richard Burton
8. “I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.” – Rick Steves
9. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust
10. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
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Quotes About Adventure Travel
11. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Andre Gide
12. “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
13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.
14. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” –Hans Christian Andersen
15. “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
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16. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho
17. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain . Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles in life.’’ –John Amatt
18. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” –Ray Bradbury
19. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” –Irving Wallace
20. “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.” —Robert W. Service
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21. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” –Anonymous
22. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –Helen Keller
23. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” –Saint Augustine
24. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” –Rumi
25. “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” –Norwegian Proverb
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26. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu
27. “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” –Tennesee Williams
28. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” –Anais Nin
29. “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” – Irish proverb
30. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” –Roy T. Bennett
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31. “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch , or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed better because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –Lin Yutang
33. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” –Mark Paterson
34. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” –Harvey Lloyd
35. “If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” –Alex Day
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36. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle
37. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” –John Hope Franklin
38. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –Hodding Carter
39. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life.” –Pamela T. Chandler
40. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill
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41. “The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy
42. “A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess
43 “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious wherever you stand.” –Shannon L. Alder
44. “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer
45. “How will I know who I can become if I don’t give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?” ― Eileen Cook, With Malice
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46. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I– I took the one less traveled by… And that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost
47. “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley
48. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty
49. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada
50. “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money, or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In Search For The Great Perhaps
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Couples Travel Quotes
51. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
52. “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
53. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
54. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer
55. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
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56. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll
57. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
58. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” — Robert Brault
59. “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Anonymous
60. “To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” — Rebecca Solnit ( A Field Guide to Getting Lost )
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61. “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
62. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a Ride!'” — Hunter S. Thompson ( The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 )
63. “If you reject the food , ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
64. “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
65. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all the familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things– air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky– all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
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66. “ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
67. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult
68. “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
69. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen
70. “Be spontaneous, never be afraid to try new things or find new ways. Don’t let overplanning and routine poison your life.” ― Mouloud Benzadi
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71. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
72. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
74. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” –Neale Donald Walsch
75. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
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76. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
77. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the Universe.” –Anatole France
78. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –St. Augustine
79. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in P.S. I Love You
80. “I find the great thing in this world is not so much about where we stand, as in what direction we are moving… We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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81. “Stop creating a life that you need a vacation from. Instead, move to where you want to live, do what you want to do, start what you want to start, and create the life you want today. This isn’t rehearsal, people. This is YOUR life.” –Dale Partridge
82. “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
83. “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
84. “Travel is the antidote to fear. It makes you see the similarities and differences that exist around the world, and it opens your eyes– and mind– to new and different approaches.” –Julia Cosgrove
85. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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86. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure . The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” —Christopher McCandless
88. “Travel while you are young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” — Anonymous
89. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food , it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain
90. “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
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91. “Look deeper into nature , and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein
92. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.” –Sylvia Plath
93. “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” –Schopenhauer
94. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir, The Mountains of California
95. “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you– it is YOU who belongs to this land.” –Native American proverb
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96. “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” –Cree Indian Proverb
97. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” –Henry David Thoreau
98. “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep , and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more.” –Lord Byron
100. “We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” ―David Attenborough
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120 Best Travel Quotes (with Photos) to Fuel Your Wanderlust
Travel quotes possess a unique power, encapsulating the essence of our journeying experiences. Whether they are motivational quotes about traveling or inspirational travel quotes on exploration, these words often resonate deeply within us. I have curated a collection of inspiring quotes paired with captivating images to convey the profound sentiments evoked by travel.
When merged with striking visuals, these quotes possess the ability to transport others to the essence of your travel encounters. My selection of travel quotes is designed to ignite inspiration and drive, urging you and fellow wanderers to embark on new explorations. Whether as travel quotes for Instagram or Pinterest , these words are crafted to accompany your travel stories seamlessly. For an extra dose of wanderlust, explore my adventure quotes as well!
Prepare to be stirred by a fusion of my cherished travel quotes and poignant photographs captured during my journeys. Let these words and images kindle your wanderlust!
120 Best Travel Quotes
Travel adventure quotes.
1. “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
2. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
3. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
4. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
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5. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
6. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
7. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
8. Is there something you want to do that freaks you out? Go for it! Sometimes, the scariest ideas turn into the best travel memories.
11. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
12. “Great things never came from comfort zones.”
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13. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
14. “The travel route to wisdom starts with the first step, even if it is taken in the wrong direction.” – Paulo Coelho
15. “The best trips are the ones where you don’t make any plans and just see where the wind takes you.”
16. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”
Famous Travel Quotes
17. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
18. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
19. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
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20. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
23. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle
24. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
25. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
26. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
27. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
28. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
29. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
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30. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
31. “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
32. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
33. “Traveling is like an adventure where you don’t know what’s going to happen next, but you’re excited to find out.”
34. “The world is a magical place, and it’s full of adventures waiting to be had.”
35. “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.”
36. “I want to make memories all over the world.”
37. “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
Inspirational Travel Quotes
38. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
41. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
42. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must be awakened.”
44. “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”
45. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” -H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Travel Quotes for Couples
46. “Adventures are best served together.”
47. “Let’s get lost.”
48. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
49. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” — Rumi
50. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll
51. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Margaret Mitchell
53. “Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze
54. “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E. Grin
55. “A couple who travel together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi
Memory Travel Quotes
56. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
57. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
58. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
59. “Traveling- it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Battuta
60. “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
61. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.”
62. “Traveling is a way to discover new cultures and ways of life, to learn about the world and ourselves, and to create lasting memories.”
63. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” -Oscar Wilde
64. “Girls just wanna have sun.”
65. “Culture shock is feeling homesick but not knowing where home is.” – Rick Steves
66. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
67. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
Short Travel Quotes
68. “The world is a canvas to the imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
70. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. “I’m not a tourist, I’m a traveler.” – Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in 24
72. “Backpacking is money spent on education.”
73. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
74. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
75. “The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
76. “Never stop doing things for the first time.”
77. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” -Harvey Lloyd
78. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
79. “Travel is my therapy.”
80. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
81. “Do not dare not to dare.”
82. “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”
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83. “I Googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.”
84. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
85. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one, EVER!
86. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”
89. “I am not a great reader. I am more of a man of action. But I do like a good book about travel and adventure.” – Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)
90. “I’ve got 99 problems. But I’m on vacation, so I’m ignoring them all!”
Funny Travel Quotes
91. “This is my resting beach face.”
92. “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.”
93. “The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and beer.”
94. “I followed my heart, and it led me to the airport.”
95. “I’m getting used to wearing flip-flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show up to a board meeting in sandals.”
96. “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
97. “You know it’s time for vacation when you start looking like the person on your driver’s license.”
98. “In Travel Mode. Do not disturb.”
99. “Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore. They pack and travel the world.”
Solo Travel Quotes
100. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
101. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
102. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
103. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
104. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world.”
105. “My Friend: I’m getting a house. Another Friend: I’m having a baby. His Friend: I’m getting married…Me: I’m headed to the airport.”
107. “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
108. “The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
109. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
110. “I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport.”
Family Travel Quotes
111. “Traveling with kids is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”
112. “Traveling with kids is not a vacation. It’s an adventure.”
113. “Traveling with kids is like taking a time machine back to when you were a kid and experiencing everything with them.”
114. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” -Hodding Carter
115. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” -Leigh Hunt
116. “The world is a playground, and traveling with kids is like having a VIP pass.”
117. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” -Og Mandino
118. “Forget toys. It’s time to travel.”
119. “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” -Charles R Swindoll
120. “Making memories one family trip at a time.”
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“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” ~ Freya Stark
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” ~ Henry Miller
“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
“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
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” ~ Lao Tzu
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” ~ Shirley MacLaine
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” ~ Lawrence Block
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac
“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings” ~ Moslih Eddin Saadi
Final Thoughts on the Best Travel Quotes
May these travel quotes ignite a passion within you to embrace life to the fullest and perceive the world through a lens of excitement. Whether you seek a respite from the rigors of office life or embark on a thrilling backpacking expedition, each encounter you face will serve as invaluable lessons and cherished memories.
Incorporate these travel quotes into your journal entries, share them across your social media platforms to rally friends to join your adventures, or use them as captivating captions for your upcoming posts. Let the spirit of wanderlust proliferate and inspire a wave of exploration!
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✈ 100 Ultimate Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See the World
Published January 19, 2023 · Updated January 24, 2023
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It leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller . Travel lover : I don’t need much motivation or inspiration to get me traveling and if you’re a fan of this site, chances are you don’t either. It’s naturally a way of life for us travellers and a part of who we are . But, every once in a while a travel quote has a way of expressing in words the way you fell deep inside.
Every time I’ve stumbled across such a quote for traveling the world, I’d smile , make a note, write it down, or take a screenshot.
Over the years I’ve amassed quite the list…
These are my favourite Journey Quotes
also affectionately referred to as:
The Best Quotes About Traveling the World
Whether you enjoy short travel quotes , longer inspirational journey quotes for travelling the world, funny travel quotes , solo traveller quotes, or widely quoted travel phrases, I’m almost certain a couple of these quotes about world travel will speak to your love for exploring the world, discovering new destinations, and of life in general. Many of these travel sayings also make for great traveling questions , traveling lover quotes for Instagram, and as lyrics to your favorite songs about travel .
If you often find yourself saying, “ can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world? ” continue reading ↓↓
Are you ready? Let’s get into it guys…
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more — Pico Iyer
Not all those who wander are lost — J.R.R. Tolkien
I haven’t been everywhere , but it’s on my list — Susan Sontag
For once you have tasted flight , you will walk the Earth looking skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return — Leonardo Da Vinci
We travel not to escape life but life not to escape us.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself — Danny Kaye
Travel far enough, you meet yourself — David Mitchell
The joy is in the journey — Quotes about a journey
Wherever you go, go with all your heart — Confucius
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves. In finding themselves — Andre Gide
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes — Marcel Proust
You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a plane ticket and that’s kind of the same thing
The only way to way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion — Albert Camus
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all — Helen Keller
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
May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — Edward Abbey
Travel brings power and love back into your life — Rumi
No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. Into the Wild
Our greatest purpose in life is simply to align with what makes our heart sing — Emmanuel
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving — Lao Tzu
Adventure is worthwhile — Aristotle
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world — Mary Radmacher
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places — Isabelle Eberhardt
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe — Anatole France
I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. — Mexican quote for travel
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home — Rumi
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If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling — Margaret Runbeck
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question — Harun Yahya
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to — JRR Tolkien
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step — Lao Tzu
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart — Julien Green
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else — Lawrence Block
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 — Jawaharal Nehru
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
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love — Rumi
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it — Rosalia de Castro
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To travel is to live — Hans Christian Anderson
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
I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way – Carl Sagan
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see – G.K. Chesterton
Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free — famous travel quote
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey – Fitzhugh Mullan
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls — Anais Nin
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference — Robert Frost
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover — H. Browne Jr.
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding — Sandra Lake
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world — Scott Cameron
Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you , but I have to go ; this is my station — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent — Paulo Coelho
There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn’t that what we’re all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the “now” — Jon Krakauer
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled — Prophet Mohammed
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck
Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness — Ray Bradbury
Once a year go somewhere you have never been before — Dalai Lama
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life — Agnes Repplier
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not — Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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
The world is a book and he who doesn’t travel reads only one page — St. Augustine
Throw away your brilliant career and start living — World travelling quotes to inspire
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world — Freya Stark
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing” — Daniel J. Boorstin
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean , at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering — St. Augustine
The journey is the destination — Dan Eldon
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train — Oscar Wilde
No matter where you go, there you are — Buckaroo Banzi
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself — William Least Heat Moon
When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon — Paulo Coelho
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for — John A. Shedd
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him — Dutch Proverb
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things – Henry Miller
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling – Rumi
Travel is the best way to get lost and be found at the same time
He who does not travel does not know the value of men — Moorish proverb
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself — Ella Maillart
Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves — Euripides
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living — Nelson Mandela
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary — Steve Jobs
Once you have traveled, 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
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? — Rumi
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment — Hilaire Belloc
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 — Gilbert Chesterton
He who chooses his own path needs no map. African Quote
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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it — Cesare Pavese
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow — Lin Yutang
Certainly, 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
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. — Dagobert Runes
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. — James Michener
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. — Paul Theroux
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you — Rumi
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
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings — Moslih Saadi
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves — Henry David Thoreau
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy — Richard Burton
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions — Peter Hoeg
Not I – Not anyone else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself — Walt Whitman
It is better to travel well than to arrive — Buddha
If a donkey goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse — Thomas Fuller
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life — Jack Kerouac
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart new vigor to the mind — Seneca
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place — Rumi
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness — Mark Twain
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car — Emile Ganest
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 your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind — Anthony Bourdain
Travel teaches toleration — Benjamin Disraeli
People don’t take trips… Trips take people — John Steinbeck
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them — Amelia E. Barr
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears — Cesare Pavese
Paris is always a good idea — Audrey Hepburn —> Quotes about Paris
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles — Tim Cahill
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey — John Hope Franklin
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends — Shirley MacLaine
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears — Rumi
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad — George Bernard Shaw
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
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen — Benjamin Disraeli
The journey not the arrival matters — T.S. Eliot
Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God — Kurt Vonnegut
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware — Martin Buber
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it — John Steinbeck
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign — Robert Stevenson
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end — Pico Iyer
I love to travel, but hate to arrive Albert Einstein
It feels good to be lost in the right direction — short traveling quote
Oh the places you’ll go — Dr Seuss
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
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
I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding! I’m on the road to the airport
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries — Aldous Huxley
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine — Caskie Stinnett
To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. — C Cooley
It is not down in any map; true places never are — Herman Melville
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation — Elizabeth Drew
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time — Andre Gide
I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met — Melody Truong
It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times — quote about wanderlust
Jet lag is for amateurs — Dick Clark
If you look like your passport picture, you probably need a trip — funny quote about travelling the world
Travelling – It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller — Ibn Battuta
A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions — Oliver Wendell
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal — Paulo Coelho
Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.
— quote for traveling the world
I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places — Henny Youngman
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful , we must carry it with us or we find it not — Ralph Emerson
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost — Henry David Thoreau
You go away for a long time and return a different person. You never come all the way back — Paul Theroux
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
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination — Roy M. Goodman
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
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home — James Michener
Live your life by a compass, not a clock — Stephen Covey
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Wanderlust quote travel love
Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost.
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage — Paulo Coelho
Travel has a way of stretching the mind — Ralph Crawshaw
Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better — Simon Raven
If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together . — African Proverb
I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it — Alexander Sattler
I have found out that there ain’t a no surer way to find whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them — Mark Twain
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
Travelling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.
Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets — Oscar Wilde
Let’s find someplace beautiful to get lost. Inspirational travel quote
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow — Anita Desai
Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing — Gayle Foreman
If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a priority.
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white — Mark Jenkins
Many of these quotes on traveling the world have inspired me to keep exploring our planet. I hope they inspire you too and give you that wanderlust motivation. Over to you guys… What are some of your favourite travel quotes about a journey, wanderlust quotes, and world traveling quotes? Do you also have a list? Let me know in the comments below.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these wanderlust quotes. I will use all of them. Regards
Glad to hear. Thank you
Amazing article, Thanks for sharing these quotes on travel and adventure! I will use all of them
You’re welcome. Keep coming back as I add more to this
Great article. I was constantly checking your site and I am impressed! Extremely helpful information throughout 🙂 I was looking for travel quotes for a very long time. Thank you and good luck.
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54 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust (Shareable Images!)
The wonderful thing about traveling is that it takes you out of your comfort zone and pushes you into new situations that can challenge and change you. Travel quotes are designed to help inspire just that.
It’s OK to struggle and have bad days when traveling because more often than not, those turn into the most captivating stories; but it’s always nice to have a handy quote to help re-inspire you and pick yourself back up.
Here are some of our most beloved travel quotes for your travel life. I hope some of these will encourage you to take the first step, and explore beyond your front doorstep. Have courage and diverge.
There is a whole world of adventure and marvel out there waiting to be discovered.
Travel Quotes: Our Personal Favorites
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. – (Movie) Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. – Unknown
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
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a ride! – Hunter S Thompson
More Great Travel Life Quotes
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine
Not all those who wander are lost. – JRR Tolkein
Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. – Unknown
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Unknown
You weren’t born to just pay bills and die. – Anonymous
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
A journey is best measured in friends, not miles. – Tim Cahill
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. – Amelia Earhart
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
You don’t have to be rich to travel well. – Eugene Fodor
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anaïs Nin
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell
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
To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. – James A. Michener
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non percent of. – Louis C.K.
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama
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
Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. – Robert Orben
Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman
You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. -Miriam Adeney
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi
He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish Proverb
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca
Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – Unknown
So much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away. – Anonymous
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde
Life is short and the world is wide. – Simon Raven
Travel as much as you can, as far as you can, as long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.- Anonymous
Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul. – Jaime Lyn Beatty
If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet, he said. – Rachel Wolchin
The trouble is, you think you have time. – Buddha
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. – Saber Ben Hassen
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac
Every hundred feet the world changes. – Roberto Bolaño
Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Gaby Basora
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting. – Clint Borgen
He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de St. Exupery
Those who are afraid of death are afraid of life. – François Lelord
Oh, the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
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65 Inspiring & Uplifting Travel Alone Quotes for Solo Travel
When you’re on the road solo or planning to travel alone, quotes can help to inspire and uplift you. These 65 beautiful solo travel quotes from literature, pop culture and history make the perfect solo travel captions for social media.
You only need to search the internet to see there are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling out there. Solo travel quotes have a special ingredient – not only can they ignite wanderlust and stoke passion for the great unknown, they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to a solo traveller who is facing the world alone.
Solo travel is a life-changing experience . As with all travel, it’s often difficult to find the right words to describe your trip, or to convey how travel has altered your life once you get back home.
To give your confidence and boost and help you share your solo travel experience with the world, I’ve curated this epic list of 65 meaningful and insightful travel alone quotes.
Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. However you choose to use these solo travel quotes, they are guaranteed to inspire and delight!
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Short and sweet solo travel quotes
Short travel alone quotes are perfect for social media, including solo travel announcements (that exciting moment when you make your trip official!), or your first travel solo travel update from the road.
These popular and not-so-famous quotations beautifully capture what it’s like to travel alone, with only yourself for company.
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.”
– Freya Stark
“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”
– Storm Jameson
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”
– Hannah Arendt
“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”
– Isabelle Eberhardt
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.”
– Debasish Mridha
“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.”
– Gina Greenlee
“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”
– John Mayer
“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!”
– Ken Poirot
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”
– Mandy Hale
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg
“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”
– Daphne Du Maurier
“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.”
– Timi Nadela
“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.”
– Aisha Mirza
“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.”
“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”
– Paul Theroux
“I used to be a pedestrian before, now I am the rider on the same road.”
– Piyush Paudyal
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
– Anaïs Nin
Motivational quotes for planning a solo trip
When you’re planning to visit a new country or a foreign city by yourself for the first time, the hardest part can be finding the inner courage to pack your backpack and make your solo travel dreams a reality.
These travel alone quotes speak to the very heart of solo travel – the push and pull between indecision , wanting to do the right thing while also finding freedom and empowering yourself to spread your wings.
You may feel nervous – that’s totally normal – but have faith that a well-planned solo journey is almost always a step in the right direction.
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
– Erol Ozan
“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”
– Nitin Namdeo
“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.”
– Anthon St. Maarten
“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”
– Holly Morris
“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
– Gael Attal
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain
Poetic quotes about solo travel
These longer solo travel quotes are nothing short of art.
“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendour and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.”
– Kilroy J. Oldster
“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”
– Mitali Meelan
“It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… “Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”
– Alain de Botton
“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.”
– Micheline Jean Louis
“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.”
– David Baldacci
“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”
Solo female travel quotes
Solo female travel is becoming more and more popular. I’ve done a few solo trips in recent years, and it never ceases to amaze me how different my travel experience is when I’m alone rather than with my partner or friends.
These quotations capture the independent spirit of solo female travellers.
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.”
– Nico J. Genes
“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
– Lalah Delia
Quotes that prove solo travel makes you stronger
Solo travel often starts with taking a leap of faith. If it’s your first solo trip, you must actively work on believing in yourself and trusting your instincts.
Sometimes in travel (and in life), the only certainty is uncertainty. Things won’t always be easy, things wont’ always go to plan. Barriers and hurdles are almost guaranteed – but these experiences are likely to make you stronger and more resilient.
These travel alone quotes are all about testing your limits.
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”
“It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”
– Mae Chevrette
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.”
– David Cuschieri
Quotations that prove solo travel changes your perspective
I’ve never met anyone who decided to solo travel and came back the same person. Travel changes you – that’s undeniable – and often travel alone can shape you in ways you never could have anticipated.
One of the greatest lessons travel can teach you is to be humble. Travel helps you find your place in the world. A solo trip can give you the tools you need to tackle all of life’s adventures – and misadventures, too.
These solo travel quotes refer to self-discovery, breaking through your comfort zone, and seeing travel as a motif for the journey of life.
“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
– Pico Iyer
“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”
– Grace Lichtenstein
“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.”
– Pablo Holmberg
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
– Marty Rubin
“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”
– David McCullough Jr.
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
– Gustav Flaubert
“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”
– Angela Vallely
“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.”
– Helen S. Rosenau
Remember, your trip might start out as a solo adventure but it might not end that way! It’s the bonds you form along the way that often make travel truly memorable.
For more inspiration, check out these beautiful quotes about travelling with friends .
“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”
– Jacqueline Boone
Coming home: Solo travel quotes to mark the end of a journey
All good journeys must come to an end! It feels like just yesterday friends and family were wishing you a safe journey , and now it’s time to go back to the people you love.
These quotes sum up the bittersweet feeling of coming home after a solo trip.
“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”
– A.J. Hartley & David Hewson
“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”
– Jewel E. Ann
“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”
– Ron Franscell
“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.”
– Louise Arner Boyd
“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.”
– Becca Lee
“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.”
– Elizabeth Lim
“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”
– Katharine McGee
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
– Mary Oliver
That’s a wrap! I hope these 65 travel alone quotes have made you see solo travel in a new light, or perhaps motivated you to take the leap into solo travel.
Do you have any more inspiring quotes to share? I’d love to hear them in the comments below!
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Who are the Chase transfer partners? Everything to know
Ultimate Rewards points are the currency of most Chase-branded credit cards. You can earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points for everyday spending and then redeem them for a wide range of rewards.
Despite increasing competition from American Express Membership Rewards points , Citi ThankYou Rewards points and Capital One miles , Chase Ultimate Rewards points have maintained their place as one of the most valuable and useful points currencies — especially with valuable products like the Chase Sapphire Reserve® , Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card and Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card .
Transferring Ultimate Rewards to travel partners is often the most valuable way to redeem your hard-earned points. With 14 different transfer partners, you have plenty of options, since you can keep your Chase points in your Ultimate Rewards account until you can transfer them.
Related: The best Chase credit cards
Here is everything to know about Chase Ultimate Rewards' transfer partners.
What are the Chase transfer partners?
You can transfer Ultimate Rewards points to 11 airline programs:
- Aer Lingus AerClub
- Air Canada Aeroplan
- Air France-KLM Flying Blue
- British Airways Executive Club
- Emirates Skywards
- Iberia Plus
- JetBlue TrueBlue
- Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer
- Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
- United Airlines MileagePlus
- Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
Chase also partners with three hotel programs:
- IHG One Rewards
- Marriott Bonvoy
- World of Hyatt
All transfer ratios are 1:1 (though there are occasional transfer bonuses ), and you must transfer points in 1,000-point increments.
How long do Ultimate Rewards transfers take?
Most transfers from Chase Ultimate Rewards to its partner programs are instantaneous , with two exceptions. In our testing, transfers to both Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer and Marriott Bonvoy can take up to two business days.
We've heard anecdotal stories of delays with other programs, but as long as the name on your Ultimate Rewards account matches that on your loyalty program account, these should process immediately.
Note that transfer bonuses can also be inconsistent. For example, when TPG's Nick Ewen recently transferred points to Aeroplan to take advantage of a 20% bonus, the base points arrived immediately, but it took three days for the bonus points to post.
How do I transfer Chase points to partners?
You can easily transfer Chase points online. First, log in to your Chase account and navigate to the Ultimate Rewards portal. Under the Travel drop-down, select "Transfer to Travel Partners" to access the main transfer page.
You will then see the list of transfer partners. Any current transfer bonuses will also be shown (note that the screen shot below may show outdated offers). Select your desired transfer partner, link your external account if you have not already done so, select the number of Ultimate Rewards points you wish to transfer and then submit the transfer.
Remember, Ultimate Rewards transfers cannot be reversed, so it's best to wait until you have a specific use before transferring them.
What are the best Chase transfer partners?
Given the low award chart rates of the World of Hyatt program, many TPG staffers believe Hyatt is the best hotel transfer option for Ultimate Rewards points.
If you would prefer to transfer to one of the 11 different airline program partners, the best option may depend on which airlines fly to and from the destinations you wish to travel, who the program partners with and which airlines you like to travel with.
There are sweet spots to be found in most airline transfer options, especially those programs that have retained award charts .
Here are some of our favorite Ultimate Rewards sweet spots .
Top-tier Hyatt hotels
The World of Hyatt award chart has two appealing factors. First, its mere existence is notable, given most other hotel programs (including IHG One Rewards and Marriott Bonvoy, the other Chase hotel partners) have shifted to dynamic pricing .
Beyond that, Hyatt award rates can be incredibly low compared to some competitors. You can book some of the fanciest Park Hyatt properties in the entire portfolio, including the Park Hyatt New York and Park Hyatt Sydney , for just 35,000 points per night during off-peak dates. TPG values Hyatt points at 1.7 cents each, so 35,000 points are worth $595.
That's a great deal for hotels that sell for close to $1,000 per night, even when demand is low.
There's also great value at the lower end of the Hyatt award chart. Category 1 hotels range from 3,500 to 6,500 points per night, depending on whether you travel on peak, standard or off-peak dates.
Iberia flights to Madrid
Round-trip, off-peak flights from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to Spain's capital will only set you back 34,000 Avios in economy, 51,000 in premium economy or 68,000 in business when you transfer your Chase points to Iberia Plus. Considering that most airlines charge at least 60,000 miles for a one-way business-class award to Europe, you're essentially getting a 50% discount.
Related: 7 of the best airline award chart sweet spots
Flights to Hawaii with Alaska and American
By transferring your Ultimate Rewards to British Airways, you can book awards with Oneworld partners American Airlines and Alaska Airlines . As long as your nonstop flight distance is under 3,000 miles each way (and saver-level award space is available), you can leverage British Airways' distance-based award chart to fly from any West Coast gateway to Hawaii for only 32,000 Avios round-trip — after a December 2023 devaluation that saw prices increase by up to 32%.
ANA flights booked through Virgin Atlantic
For just 145,000 miles, you can fly round-trip in All Nippon Airways first class between the West Coast and Tokyo. Flights from other U.S. gateways only cost an extra 25,000 miles (170,000 miles round-trip). Business-class redemptions are an even better deal, costing just 90,000-95,000 miles round-trip, depending on your U.S. departure airport. If possible, you'll want to route through New York-JFK and fly ANA's new industry-leading "The Room" business class , which is only available on select routes.
However, availability can be difficult to come by.
Short-haul flights to Canada
Aeroplan stuck to an award chart for partner redemptions but added dynamic pricing for Air Canada flights. As a result, you can often find super-cheap short-haul tickets from the U.S. to Canada. For example, New York to Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) can be booked for under 6,000 miles one-way on many dates.
However, you can also find very reasonable award rates on Star Alliance partners through Aeroplan — including Lufthansa, Swiss and EVA Airways.
Related: Your complete guide to Star Alliance benefits
What are Chase Ultimate Rewards points worth?
TPG values Ultimate Rewards points at 2.05 cents apiece in our monthly valuations, and we believe you will receive the best value by transferring the points to partners.
However, you'll get varying values for Chase points if you pursue other redemption opportunities. For example, Ultimate Rewards points are worth 1.5 cents apiece through the Chase travel portal for Sapphire Reserve cardholders or 1.25 cents for those with the Sapphire Preferred or Ink Business Preferred . You'll also have access to Chase Pay Yourself Back as a cardholder of any of the above cards, and there are occasionally offers to use Chase points for Apple products or gift cards at an enhanced value.
Finally, Chase points are worth 1 cent apiece if used for simple cash back.
How do I earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points?
There are many ways to earn Chase points at 1-10 points per dollar spent, depending on the specific Chase credit card you carry.
The first three cards below earn fully transferable Ultimate Rewards points by themselves, while the remaining four are technically billed as cash-back credit cards .
However, if you have an Ultimate Rewards-earning card, you can effectively convert your cash-back rewards into Ultimate Rewards points. For this reason, having more than one Chase card can make sense to maximize your earning and redeeming potential.
Here are the cards that allow you to earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points.
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card
Welcome bonus: 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first three months from account opening
Why you want it: This is a fantastic all-around travel credit card . It earns points at the following rates:
- 5 points per dollar on Lyft (through March 2025)
- 5 points per dollar on all travel purchased through Chase Travel
- 3 points per dollar on dining, including eligible delivery services, takeout and dining out
- 3 points per dollar on select streaming services
- 3 points per dollar on online grocery purchases (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 2 points per dollar on all other travel
- 1 point per dollar on all other purchases
The Sapphire Preferred has no foreign transaction fees and has many travel perks , including delayed baggage insurance, trip interruption/cancellation insurance and primary car rental insurance .
Annual fee: $95
Application link: Chase Sapphire Preferred Card
Chase Sapphire Reserve
Welcome bonus: 75,000 points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first three months from account opening
Why you want it: The Sapphire Reserve offers earning power paired with travel perks that can easily cover the annual fee. It earns points at the following rates:
- 10 points per dollar on Lyft (through March 2025)
- 10 points per dollar on Chase Dining booked through Ultimate Rewards
- 10 points per dollar on hotel and car rental purchases through the Chase Travel
- 5 points per dollar on airline travel booked through Chase Travel
- 3 points per dollar on travel not booked through Chase
- 3 points per dollar on other dining purchases
- 1 point per dollar on all other eligible purchases
Other perks include an easy-to-use $300 annual travel credit , a fee credit for Global Entry or TSA PreCheck (up to $100 once every four years) and Priority Pass Select lounge access as well as the growing list of new Sapphire lounges . This is one of the few cards that allow you to use your Priority Pass membership for discounted meals in airport restaurants . Cardholders also get primary car rental coverage , trip interruption/cancellation insurance and other protections .
Annual fee: $550
Application link: Chase Sapphire Reserve
Ink Business Preferred Credit Card
Welcome bonus: 100,000 points after you spend $8,000 on purchases in the first three months from account opening
Why you want it: This is one of the best credit cards for small-business owners , earning 3 points per dollar on the first $150,000 spent in combined purchases on travel, shipping purchases, internet, cable and phone services, advertising made with social media sites and search engines each account anniversary year. You earn 1 point per dollar on all other purchases, and points don't expire as long as your account is open.
Application link: Ink Business Preferred Credit Card
Cash-back Chase credit cards
Four Chase credit cards are technically billed as cash-back products. However, suppose you have one of the three cards noted above. In that case, you can combine your points in a single account, converting these cash-back rewards into fully transferable Ultimate Rewards points.
Even better? None of these cards charge an annual fee.
Here are the four cards that offer this functionality:
- Chase Freedom Flex : Earn $200 after you spend $500 in the first three months of account opening. Earn 5% back on select bonus categories, which rotate every quarter and apply on up to $1,500 in combined spending (activation required). Plus, earn 5% on travel purchased through Chase Travel , 3% on dining at restaurants (including takeout and eligible delivery services) and 3% on drugstore purchases.
- Chase Freedom Unlimited : Earn an additional 1.5% cash back on everything you buy (on up to $20,000 spent in the first year), worth up to $300 cash back. Plus, earn 5% on travel purchased through Chase Travel , 3% on dining at restaurants (including takeout and eligible delivery services) and 3% on drugstore purchases. Earn 1.5% on all other purchases.
- Ink Business Cash Credit Card : Earn up to $750: $350 bonus cash back after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first three months, and an additional $400 when you spend $6,000 on purchases in the first six months from account opening. Earn 5% cash back on the first $25,000 in combined purchases at office supply stores and on internet, cable and phone services each account anniversary year (then 1%). Earn 2% cash back on the first $25,000 spent in combined purchases at gas stations and restaurants each account anniversary year (then 1%).
- Ink Business Unlimited Credit Card : Earn $750 cash back after you spend $6,000 on purchases in the first three months from account opening. Earn unlimited 1.5% cash-back rewards on every purchase.
Note that Chase also issues the Ink Business Premier® Credit Card . However, the earnings on this card can't be combined with others in the Ultimate Rewards ecosystem.
Read more: Your guide to the Chase Ink Business credit cards
Bottom line
If you value the flexibility of choosing from 11 airline partners and three hotel partners, Chase Ultimate Rewards is one of our favorite credit card programs at TPG.
In the age of no-notice devaluations by some loyalty programs, it is smart to earn Ultimate Rewards via the range of credit card welcome bonuses, category bonuses and everyday spending, and then keep your Ultimate Rewards points until you are ready to transfer and book with an airline or hotel partner.
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