The Best Travel Quotes Ever

If you want to travel, but whenever you plan a trip, something goes happen in your life which distracts you from traveling to another thing. So here I am going to share with you the best and most inspirational travel quotes that will motivate you and help you remain focus on traveling.

1. “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” Chinese proverb

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

3. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”

4. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” Roy M. Goodman

5. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” Herman Melville

6. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”

7. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”

8. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” Anonymous

9. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

11. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” Hilaire Belloc

12. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” Robert Louis Stevenson

13. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer

14. “Blessed are curious for they shall have adventures.” Lovelle Drachman

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

16. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” John Green

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

18. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho

19. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” Jamie Lyn Beatty 

Most Famous Travel Quotes

20. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

21. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeld

22. “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

23. “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 

24. “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

25. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”

26. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” Aldous Huxley

27. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

28. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin

29. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” Freya Stark

30. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” Roy M. Goodman

31. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd

32. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” Ray Bradbury

34. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

35. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” Robert Frost

36. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”

Short Travel Quotes

37. “To Travel is to Live” Hans Christian Andersen

38. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” Chief Seattle

39. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”

40. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

41. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

42. “Oh the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

43. “Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

44. “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect” Paul Theroux

45. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”

46. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”

47. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

48. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

49. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” Stephen Covey

Inspirational Travel Quotes

50. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

51. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustav Flaubert

52. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” Lao Tzu

53. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

54. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus

55. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” Dalai Lama

56. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” Marcel Proust

57. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” Gayle Foreman

58. “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

59. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” Andre Gide

60. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

61. “Adventure is a path. The real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” Mark Jenkins

62. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to” Alain de Botton

63. “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

64. “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

65. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide

Funny Travel Quotes

66. “I need vitamin SEA.”

67. “Work hard, travel harder.”

68. “Everybody need 6 months of vacation, twice a year.”

69. “It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!”

70. “Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.” – Dave Barry

71. “Education is important. But travel is the most importanter!”

72. “You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” Margaret Thatcher

73. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.”

74. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Unknown

75. “Vacation calories don’t count. Right?”

76. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”  Russell Baker

Quotes on travel with Friends And Family

77. “Friends that travel together, stay together.”

78. “Travel is better with friends.”

79. “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” Shirley MacLaine

80. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” Tim Cahill

81. “Life was meant to great adventure and close friends.”

82. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

83. “You and me, we are more than friends. We are like a small travel gang!”

84. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”

85. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.”

86. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” Kristen Sarah

87. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good kind people there are.” Edith Wharton

88. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.” African Saying

89. “Life by the water is always better, especially with a few good friends in tow.” – Unknown

90. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and thirst for adventure.”

91. “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.”

Quotes About Travel for Couples

92. “Travel brings power and love back into your life” Rumi

93. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius

94. “No road is long with good company.” Turkish Proverb

95. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca

96. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” Anatole France

97. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” Ernest Hemingway

98. “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” Drake

99. “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

100. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck

101. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” Helen Hayes

102. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

Travel Quotes by Mark Twain

103. “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

104. “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” Mark Twain

105. “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

106. “There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.” Mark Twain

107. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” Mark Twain

108. “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

109. “It liberates the vandal to travel––you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” Mark Twain

110. “Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except Heaven and Hell and I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.” Mark Twain