Travel Quotes inspire us & is a great way of encouragement to take the leap to travel. If you are looking for Inspiration then you have come to right place as we have compiled an Ultimate list of our’s top 100 travel quotes. These top 100 quotes can also go with your Instagram, Facebook or Twitter posts to inspire your friends.
Top 100 Quotes:
- “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
- “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “”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
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” – Amelia E. Barr
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
- “Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “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
- “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
- “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
- “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
- “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
- “Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.” — Howard Gardner
- “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark
- “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
- “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” – Britney Spears
- “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
- “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” – Elizabeth Drew
- “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
- “There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!” – Brähmann
- “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
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron
- “He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” – Sinclair Lewis
- “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
- “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart
- “I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.” – Philip Glass
- “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Andre Gide
- “Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections.” – Augustus Hare
- “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” – Martin Yan
- “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there”. – Yogi Berra
- “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Ganest
- “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
- “Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” – Sargent Shriver
- “To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.” – Philip Andrew Adams
- “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
- “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
- “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
- “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw
- “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
- “I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” – Steve McQueen
- “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Pamela Goldoni
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
- “Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.” – Robin Leach
- “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland
- “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” – Norma Shearer
- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
- “If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport”. – George Winters
- “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
- “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt
- “No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzi
- “While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.” – Anne Tyler
- “We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character” – Henry David Thoreau
- “People don’t take trips . . . trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
- “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
- “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
- “There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.” – Thomas Wolfe
- “NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
- “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
- “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
- “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd
- “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “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
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon
- “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
- “I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” – David Attenborough
- “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “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
- “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
- “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
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
- “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides
- “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
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
- “Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” – W. H. Auden
- “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor” – Seneca
- “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel
- “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 think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany
- “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
- “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
- “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” – Anatole France
- “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller
- “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
- “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
- “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
- “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
- “After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.” – Jim Harrison
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
- “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
- “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams
