49 Inspiring Travel Quotes

We worry about the money, planning, and time that we need to travel. Sometimes, all it takes is a little inspiration to do it and the rest will just happen. Here are 49 Travel Quotes from people we all know, we probably know and who on Earth knows. Enjoy, be inspired and these might help you start planning your next trip!

1. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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

2.  ”I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ” – Hilaire Belloc

3. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” — Glenn Clark

4. “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.” – Marcel Proust 

5.  “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert

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

7.  I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

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

9.  “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

10.  “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ― Christopher McCandless

11.  “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

12.  “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life” ― Jack Kerouac

13. If you haven’t gotten to where you’re going, you aren’t there yet. – George Carlin

14. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel

15. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

16. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

17. “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

18. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!”― Kenneth Grahame

21. If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widerly as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. – Anthony Bourdain

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

23. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”― Bill Bryson

24. “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

26. Sometimes it’s time to get away from it all and experience things in a completely different way. – Kim Mance

27. “It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”― Gustave Flauber

28. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conro

29. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.”― Proverb

31. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us…”

32. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” — Oscar Wilde

33. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” — Eudora Welty

34. “Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”― Alex Garland

35. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”― Kate Douglas Wiggi

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

37. “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

38. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”― Anthony Bourdain

39. There must be more to life than having everything. – Maurice Sendak

40. 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

41. “Travel is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases,” – William Hazlitt 

42. “Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.”

43. ”If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right.” — Roland Gau

44. “I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.”― Justina Chen Headley

45. “Own only what you can carry with you, know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

46. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

47. “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” — Ross Morley

48. Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in. – Andrew Zimmern

49. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”― Ray Bradbury