120 Travel Quotes to Inspire You for Travelling Across The World

Travelling is crucial part of life as it changes your perception towards life helps you to re-discover yourself. It is like food for thought to your brain. Travel isn’t just about fun and exhilaration. A significant amount of scientific research suggests that exploring a new place can do wonders to your emotional and mental health. Travelling is beneficial for your physical health is a well known fact. Travelling and exploring new places also enhances your creativity, happiness and satisfaction. It strengthens your bond in different relationships. Keeping in mind so many benefits of travel, I have curated my favorite travel quotes which will inspire you to travel too.

Travel Quotes to inspire you

1. “When you travel alone, you get the opportunity to meet yourself.” ~ Invajy

2. “Traveling allows you to explore different versions of yourself.” ~ Invajy

3. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lau Tzu

4. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” ~ Eugene Fodor

5. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” ~ Wallace Stevens

6. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself” ~ David Mitchell

7. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine

8. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ~ Rachel Wolchin

9. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu

10. “A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” ~ Albert Einstein

Best Travel Quotes

11. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller

11. “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
12. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ~ Chief Seattle
13. “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
14. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ Dalai Lama
15. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” ~ Prophet Muhammad
16. “Live to travel. Travel to live.” ~ Earth Trekkers
17. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~ Lin Yutang
18. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley
19. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life” ~ Agnus Ripplier

Inspirational Travel Quotes

21. “Solo Travelling fulfils the need for solitude.” ~ Invajy
22. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams” ~ Anonymous
23. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ~ Ibn Battuta
24. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” ~ Robert Frost
25. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac
27. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho
28. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~ Earnest Hemmingway
29. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” ~ Stephen Covey
30. “Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R Tolkien

Traveling quotes

31. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ~ Paul Theroux
32. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times” ~ Anonymous
33. “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
34. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ~ John Steinbeck
35. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn
36. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
37. “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
38. “Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home.” ~ Anatole France
39. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cahill
40. ”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” ~ Anonymous

Quotes about Travelling

41. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” ~ Sir Richard Burton
42. “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
43. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
44. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
45. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” ~ Oscar Wilde
46. “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry” ~ Jack Kerouac
47. “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
48. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” ~ Edith Wharton
49. “The journey itself is my home.” ~ Matsuo Basho
50. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” ~ Anonymous

Short Travel Quotes

51. “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
52. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” ~ Jennifer Lee
53. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins
54. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” ~ Dutch Proverb
55. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
56. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
57. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” ~ Oscar Wilde
58. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux
59. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” ~ Peter Hoeg
60. “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

Travel Quotes

61. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
62. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler
63. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” ~ Charlotte Erikkson
64. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
65. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ~ George A. Moore
66. “Focus on the journey, not the destination, joy is found not in finishing the activity, but in doing.” ~ Greg Anderson
67. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” ~ Paul Theroux
68. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ~ Matthew Karsten
69. “Once you have travelled, 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
70. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Miller

Quotes about Travelling

71. “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
72. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” ~ Suzy Strutner
73. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” ~ Ray Bradbury
74. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.” ~ Ken Poirot
75. “A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much committed to movement as committed to transformation.” ~ Pico Iyer
76. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” ~ Margaret Storm Jameson
77. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
78. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before.” ~ Anonymous
79. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” ~ David McCullough Jr.
80. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

Famous Travel Quotes

81. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac
82. “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.” ~ William Least Heat Moon
83. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ~ Rumi
84. “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
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
86. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman
87. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ~ Anais Nin
88. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ~ Martin Buber
89. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
90. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” ~ Izaak Walton

Travel Quotes

91. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else” ~ Lawrence Block
92. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” ~ William Langewiesche
93. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. “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
95. “The journey not the arrival matters.” ~ T.S. Eliot
96. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” ~ Seneca
97. “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
98. “Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith
99. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
100. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Quotes about Travel

101. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~ Lewis Carroll
102. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” ~ Henry Rollins
103. “Travel is my therapy.” ~ Anonymous
104. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone” ~ Katie Thurmes
105. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” ~ Tony Robbins
106. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves” ~ Pico Iyer
107. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” ~ Anonymous
108. “A change of latitude would help my attitude.” ~ Anonymous
109. “Adventure is our there.” ~ Charles Muntz
110. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” ~ Anonymous

Travel Quotes

111. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” ~ Anna Quindlen
112. “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” ~ Sir Richard Burton
113. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” ~ Jack Kerouac
114. ”Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” ~ Thomas Fuller
115. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
116. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” ~ Irving Wallace
117. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad” ~ George Bernard Shaw
118. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life” ~ Dolly Parton
119. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting” ~ Clint Borgen
120. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” ~ Shirley MacLaine

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