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Best Travel Quotes To Fuel Your Wanderlust
In order to spread good travel spirit, we have created an ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes, that would let you travel the world as you scroll down and read the beautiful words shared by talented wordsmiths such as Mark Twain, the Dalai Lama, Paulo Coelho, and Helen Keller, amongst others.
Sometimes, all we need is a little external motivation and a leap of faith!
There’s something incredibly beautiful about travel quotes. No matter whether you’re stuck at home or at work, or juggling with life’s challenges, or maybe daydreaming about an escape – travel quotes can always lighten up your mood, tickle your wanderlust and inspire you to break free from the mundane, to explore the world out there.
Time and again, authors and philosophers, novelists and politicians, actors, and social workers have always agreed that one can’t live a sedentary life and traveling is an essential human activity to be indulged in.
Sometimes, their words can just motivate you to take a step out of your comfort zone, and once you hit the road, you’d cherish every moment of your journey.
Here are the best travel quotes for you:
1. “The World Is a Book and Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only a Page.” – Saint Augustine
2. “Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost” – J.r.r. Tolkien
3. “Life Is Either a Daring Adventure or Nothing at All” – Helen Keller
4. “Take Only Memories, Leave Only Footprints” – Chief Seattle
5. “The Real Voyage of Discovery Consists Not in Seeking New Landscapes, but in Having New Eyes.” – Marcel Proust
6. “Never Go on Trips with Anyone You Do Not Love.” – Hemmingway
7. “Traveling – It Leaves You Speechless, Then Turns You into a Storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
8. “If You Think Adventure Is Dangerous, Try Routine, It’s Lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
9. “Stop Worrying About the Potholes in the Road and Enjoy the Journey.” – Babs Hoffman
10. “Jobs Fill Your Pocket but Adventures Fill Your Soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
11. “A Good Traveler Has No Fixed Plans, and Is Not Intent on Arriving.” – Lao Tzu
12. “There Are No Foreign Lands. It Is the Traveler Only Who Is Foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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13. “Two Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I Took the One Less Traveled By.” – Robert Frost
14. “Once a Year, Go Somewhere You Have Never Been Before.” – Dalai Lama
15. “Wherever You Go Becomes a Part of You Somehow.” – Anita Desai
16. “I’m in Love with Cities I’ve Never Been to and People I’ve Never Met.” – Melody Truong
17. “This Wasn’t a Strange Place; It Was a New One.” – Paulo Coelho
18. “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
19. “We Travel for Romance, We Travel for Architecture, and We Travel to Be Lost.” – Ray Bradbury
20. “People Don’t Take Trips, Trips Take People.” – John Steinbeck
21. “Travel is Never a Matter of Money but of Courage.” – Paulo Coelho
22. “A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step” – Lao Tzu
23. “Live Life with No Excuses, Travel with No Regret” – Oscar Wilde
24. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
26. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
27. “Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you.” – Erick Widman
28. “It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor
29. “If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer.” – Unknown
30. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage
31. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
32. “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” – Seneca
33. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
34. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
35. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
36. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
37. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
38. “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
39. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage
40. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
41. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
42. “Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you.” – Erick Widman
43. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
44. “If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer.” – Unknown
45. “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 Andersen
46. “When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” – Drew Bundini Brown
47. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
48. “Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.” – Unknown
49. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” – Anthony Bourdain
50. “To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life.” – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
51. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
52. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
54. “Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
55. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
56. “Our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. They always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going.” – Winnie the Pooh
57. “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.
58. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” – Oberyn Martell
59. “Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” – Gayland Anderson
60. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away.” – Unknown
61. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
62. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
63. “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
64. “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
65. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
66. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
67. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni
69. “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
70. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
71. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
72. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
73. “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
74. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
75. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
76. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
77. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
78. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
79. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
80. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Anderson
81. “Somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.”– Unknown
82. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
83. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
84. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
85. “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
86. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
87. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide.
88. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
89. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman.
90. “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer!” – unknown
91. “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
92. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. “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
94. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
95. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
96. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
97. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
98. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
99. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
100. “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
101. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Gaby Basora
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