100+ Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure
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Who doesn’t enjoy a good, inspiring quote? Especially when paired with a pretty picture! I compiled a list of quotes below. Some that speak to me, and some that are just fun. Feel free to take these and share the inspiration with those around you!
1. “Jobs fill your pockets; adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Roy Goodman
3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Richard Lassels, adapted
4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
5. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”
6. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take”
7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.”
8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
10. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.”
12. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
13. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” – Karen Salmansohn
14. “And then I realized, adventures are the best way to learn.” - Joel Annesley
15. “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
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16. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”
17. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
18. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
19. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”
20. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt
21. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”
22. “Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
23. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
24. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.”
25. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” – Carew Papritz
26. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.”
27. “Always take the scenic road.”
28. “Go where you feel most alive.”
29. “I want to make memories all over the world”
30. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger
31. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
32. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.”
33. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” – Zelana Montminy
34. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra
35. “Running to the boarding gate is my favorite workout.”
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36. “People forget years and remember moments.” – Ann Beattie
37. “Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.” – Guy Laliberte
38. “Live that life people write novels about.”
39. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.’’
40. “I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.”
41. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
42. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
43. “The world is too big to stay in one place. Life is too short to do just one thing.”
44. “And so, the adventure begins.”
45. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh
46. “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
47. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
48. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
49. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
50. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
51. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
52. “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
53. “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.
54. “With age comes wisdom. With travel comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
55. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
56. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
57. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
58. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
59. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
60. “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
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. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
63. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
64. “Life is short, and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
65. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
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66. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
67. “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
68. “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
69. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
70. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”
71. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
72. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
73. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
74. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
75. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
76. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
77. “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
78. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin
79. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
80. “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
81. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
82. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
83. “Blessed are the curious, for they will have adventures.”
84. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
85. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” - Melody Truong
86. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”
87. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before.”
88. “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
89. “Conventional wisdom tells us… We take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” – Eric Weiner
90. “The goal is to die with memories, not dreams”
91. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
92. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
93. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale
94. “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
95. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die”
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96. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make” – Wayne Dyer
97. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
98. “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
99. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs
100. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
101. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret”
102. ”Veni, Vini, Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved.”
103. ”I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life, and I decided to live it”
Happy travels!
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