Life and travel are about the journey. Travel quotes motivate us to live with a purpose, seek out new experiences, and enjoy every moment of our journey. Let these travel quotes to inspire you to welcome the world with open arms and treat each day as a new adventure.
Traveling allowing you to experience the richness of different cultures, people, and landscapes. These travel quotes reminds us that life is an adventure waiting to unfold. Each journey brings a new chapter of self-discovery. The experiences you gather during your travels creating lifelong memories that shape your perspective on life.
Travel Quotes
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
Herman Melville
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”
John Green
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”
Oscar Wilde
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
Dalai Lama
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
John Steinbeck
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
Lao Tzu
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
“I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.”
Carl Sagan
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
Ray Bradbury
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
Seneca
“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.”
Sargent Shriver
“Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”
Chief Seattle
“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.”
Orson Welles
“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
Paul Theroux
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
David Mitchell
“The journey not the arrival matters.”
T.S. Eliot
“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.”
Seth Godin
“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.”
Harvey Lloyd
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
Shirley MacLaine
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
Henry Miller
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.”
Babs Hoffman
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”
Edith Wharton
“Not all who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”
Stephen Covey
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Confucius
Short Travel Quotes
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”
Jamie Lyn Beatty
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Helen Keller
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”
Lovelle Drachman
“Oh the places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
Aesop
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“Jet lag is for amateurs.”
Dick Clark
Inspirational Travel Quotes
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Neale Donald Walsch
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
Chinese Proverb
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
Anita Desai
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
Paulo Coelho
“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 Terán
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.”
Sheda Savage
Family Travel Quotes
“I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.”
Anonymous
“It doesn’t matter where you are going. It matters who is beside you.”
Anonymous
“Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?”
Walt Whitman
“What we find in a soul mate is not something to tame, but something wild to run with.”
Robert Brault
“Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.”
Anonymous
“Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we ‘ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.”
Anonymous
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything, especially when exploring new places.”
Michael J. Fox
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Travel Quotes for Couples
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.”
John A. Shedd
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”
Mark Jenkins
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
Cesare Pavese
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
Freya Stark
“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”
The Dhammapada
Road Travel Quotes
“Life is a highway, and I want to drive it all night long.”
Tom Cochrane
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
Aerosmith
“On the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again.”
Willie Nelson
“The journey is the destination.”
Dan Eldon
“It’s not the destination, but the journey.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.”
Confucius
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous, and absolutely liberating.”
Aaron Lauritsen
“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”
William Least Heat-Moon
Wanderlust Quotes
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
Susan Sontag
“To travel is to live.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Saint Augustine
“The mountains are calling, and I must go.”
John Muir
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta
Solo Trip / Travel Quotes
“Sometimes the best adventures are the ones you take alone.”
Unknown
“Solo travel: because life is too short to wait for someone else to join your adventure.”
Unknown
“Traveling solo doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”
Jacqueline Boone
“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.”
Unknown
“Sometimes the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in a new city.”
Unknown
“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 am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”
Storm Jameson
“If you never go, you will never know.”
Unknown
“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
“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”
Suzy Strutner
“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”
John Mayer
