An inspiring list of more than 99 travel quotes, each with a unique picture quote.
I have picked the BEST travel quotes and compiled them into this master collection for you.
Traveling means to dream and to invoke wanderlust. Not every destination is mapped and crystal clear and each may turn into a daring adventure in this wonderful world.
Find inspiration with these incredible quotes about travel which come from the biggest thinkers of our time.
I know that travel quotes encourage me to see brand new landscapes with fresh new eyes and I hope that they will help you on your pursuit of happiness on your journey to perhaps the biggest adventure yet.
Browse through our themed travel quote posts:
- 27 Exploration Quotes
- 22 Family Vacation Quotes
- 21 Quotes about Adventure and Love
- 24 Couple Travel Quotes
- 19 Funny Road Trip Quotes
- 21 Getaway Quotes
- 20 Safe Travel Quotes
- 19 Homesick Quotes
- 20 John Muir Travel Quotes
- Mark Twain Travel Quotes
Below you will find a rich selection of short travel quotes, such as family travel quotes, solo travel quotes, funny travel quotes, travel adventure quotes, travel quotes for couples, and famous travel quotes.
The photos are all from our travels and a few link in the captions to each destination. We made them vertical so that you can pin them to Pinterest. You are free to use them on Instagram, just make sure to tag us @paulmarina_ .
Table of Contents
1. Travelling- It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Quote by Ibn Battuta
2. Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.
Quote by Thomas Fuller
3. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Quote by Mark Twain
4. A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Quote by Carlo Goldoni or William Hazlitt
5. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Quote by Samuel Johnson
6. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Quote by Elbert Hubbard
7. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Quote by John Muir
8. The journey itself is my home.
Quote by Matsuo Basho
9. There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Quote by Kate Douglas Wiggin
10. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
Quote by John Lubbock
11. We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
Quote by John Muir
12. The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.
Quote by Sir Richard Burton
13. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Quote by Herman Melville
14. To travel is to live.
Quote by Hans Christian Andersen
15. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
Quote by John Muir
16. A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. Travel is fatal to prejudice…
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.
The Innocents Abroad (1869), Marc Twain
18. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
19. Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
20. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Quote by Leo Tolstoy
21. Do the difficult things while they are easy…
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
22. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
Quote by W.B. Yeats
23. Life is a great adventure … accept it in such a spirit.
Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
24. Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
Quote by Henry David Thoreau
25. There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
Quote by Charles Dudley Warner
26. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Quote by Izaak Walton
27. Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
Quote by Euripides
28. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers…
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Cesare Pavese
29. Travel widely, experiment boldly, love deeply.
Quote by Winslow Homer
30. If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Quote by Anatole France
31. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Quote by Rudyard Kipling
32. This world is like a shadow…
This world is like a shadow: run after it and you will never be able to catch it; turn your back against it and it has no choice but to follow you.
Quote by Ibn al-Qayyim
33. Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
Quote by John Muir
34. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
Quote by Seneca
35. I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
36. Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.
Chinese Proverb
37. Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Quote by Henry David Thoreau
38. No road is long with good company.
Quote by Turkish Proverb
39. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Quote by Agnes Repplier
40. I have found out…
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
41. Only the road and the dawn…
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, and the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
John Masefield
42. A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.
Quote by John A. Shedd
43. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Quote by Francis Bacon
44. After all, the best part of a holiday…
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame
45. A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. The mountains are calling and I must go.
Quote by John Muir
47. Modern traveling is not traveling at all…
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin
48. Adventure is worthwhile.
Quote by Aesop
49. Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Quote by Seneca
50. You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Quote by William Hazlitt
51. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Quote by Henry David Thoreau
52. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
53. Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Quote by Amelia Earhart
54. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Quote by Mark Twain
55. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Quote by Confucius
56. Keep close to Nature’s heart…
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
57. Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,…
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Walt Whitman
58. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Quote by Jean de la Fontaine
59. The foolishness of people…
The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.
Marcus Aurelius
60. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
Quote by Moslih Eddin Saadi
61. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Quote by Leigh Hunt
62. We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way…
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.
Kahlil Gibran
63. Alles nahe werd fern ~ All that is near becomes far.
Quote by Goethe
64. Between every two pines, there is a doorway to a new world.
Quote by John Muir
65. Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.
Quote by Confucius
66. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Quote by Mark Twain
67. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Quote by Lewis Carroll
68. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Quote by Rumi
70. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
Quote by Robert Benchley
71. Live in each season as it passes…
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
72. To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
Quote by Mark Twain
73. Most people are on the world, not in it.
Quote by John Muir
74. Who ranks higher than an emperor? The traveler, when he has completed his journey.
Zen Quote
75. Nothing so liberalizes a man…
…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
Quote by Mark Twain, letter to the San Francisco newspaper Alta California
76. Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.
Quote by Unknown (wrongfully attributed to Lewis Carroll and Henri Frederic Amiel).
77. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Quote by Andre Gide
78. The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
Quote by John Muir
79. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.
Quote by A. A. Milne
80. Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.
Quote by Mark Twain
81. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Quote by Marcel Proust
82. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Quote by Confucius
83. When we walk…
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
Henry David Thoreau
84. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Quote by Blaise Pascal
85. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
Quote by G.K. Chesterton
86. One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.
Quote by Edith Wharton
87. 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.
Quote by Rosalia de Castro
88. It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
89. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
Quote by Mark Twain
90. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Quote by John Muir
91. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Quote by Hilaire Belloc
92. One must travel, to learn.
Quote by Mark Twain
93. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
94. Whoever travels without a guide needs two hundred years for a two-days journey.
Quote by Rumi
95. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
96. I was once young…
I was once young. I was traveling alone, and lost my way; I thought myself rich when I met another: Man is the Joy of man.
Hávamál
97. Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Quote by Chief Seattle
98. Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Quote by Mark Twain
99. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
100. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Quote by George Moore
101. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Quote by John Muir
102. A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Quote by Lao Tzu
Famous Travel Quotes without Photos
Here are some more famous travel quotes that don’t have a picture because we respect copyright laws. Most are contemporary quotes from more recent famous people.
- All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber
- The more I travelled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
- 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
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark
- One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller
- I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
- There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac
- You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back. – Paul Theroux
- When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. – Clint Borgen
- 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
- Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn
- 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
- Live your life by a compass, not a clock. – Stephen Covey
- 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. – Anthony Bourdain
- Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman
- The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams – Oprah Winfrey
- Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. – Lawrence Block
- Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France
- 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 – H. Jackson Brown Jr. (mis-credited to Mark Twain)
