Inspirational Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

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Are you feeling the wanderlust and itching to explore new places? These travel quotes will ignite your passion for adventure and inspire you to pack your bags and hit the road. From famous explorers to modern-day adventurers, these quotes will remind you of the beauty and excitement that awaits you on your next journey.

  • “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.”Chinese Proverb
  • “The journey not the arrival matters.” –T.S. Eliot
  • ”Life is short and the world is wide”
  • “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck
  • “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” –Martin Buber
  • “Collect moments, not things.” – Unknown

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  • “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
  • “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmache
  • “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
  • ”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
  • “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” –Henry Miller
  • “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius

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  • “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
  • “Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” Marcel Proust
  • “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
  • “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than i have seen.” –Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
  • “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
  • “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
  • “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”

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

  • “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” –James Michener
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –Helen Keller
  • “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”  ―Mary Ritter Beard
  • “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”  travel quote

  • “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.”Charles Dudley Warner
  • “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown
  • “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” – J.K. Rowling
  • ”Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
  • “The road is there, it will always be there. you just have to decide when to take it.” –Chris Humphrey
  • “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
  • “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
  • “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

  • “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
  • “He who would travel happily must travel light.” –Antoine de St. Exupery
  • “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”– William Hazlitt
  • “The journey not the arrival matters.”T. S. Eliot
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.”Ross Morley
  • “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” -Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
  • “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” –Martin Buber
  • “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tzu

travel quote “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

  • “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”Moslih Eddin Saadi
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
  • “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” –Lawrence Block
  • “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
  • “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • ”No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
  • “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
  • “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” –Wallace Stevens
  • “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”

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

  • “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
  • “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” Tim Cahill
  • “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

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  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
  • “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”
  • ” Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” –James Michener
  • “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”Wallace Stevens
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –Gustav Flaubert
  • “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” –Jack Kerouac
  • “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
  • “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

One of my favorite travel quotes of all time:

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Agustine of Hippo

  • “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” Lillian Smith
  • “Traveling is 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
  • “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
  • “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
  • Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”. – Anatole France
  • “Travel opens us up, exposes us to new people and places. New thoughts, new ways of being and a larger feeling of connection. And, the best part is, that it makes us appreciate our home that much more.” ― Erin Kouvas
  • ”Where curious and curiosity keep leading us down new paths” – Walt Disney
  • “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” –Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
  • “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
  • “The journey not the arrival matters.” –T.S. Eliot
  • “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

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

  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –Gustav Flaubert
  • “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.”Thomas Jefferson
  • “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
  • ”Life is short and the world is wide.”
  • “Adventure Is Worthwhile In Itself.” Amelia Earhart
  • “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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