“Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.”
With my sister and I on a two-wheeler (You could do that in India in the 1980s!!) or Sleeping in a Dharamshala or going on budget treks, my parents had perfected the art of traveling and adventuring on a shoestring budget.
I would eagerly wait for the summer holidays to come so that we could head somewhere exciting!
So if you are awaiting your next adventure and need a boost to your itchy feet, here are the best quotes about travel to fire up your wanderlust.
It’s surprising how top travel adventure quotes, melodious songs and anecdotes can swing our moods!
Here are 77 best quotes on travel to inspire, motivate, and encourage you. Hope these quotes will ignite your wanderlust and make you pack your bags with essentials and go – Explore!
Browse through them now, reread when you need motivation and re-reread when you need the inspiration to make your travel plans!
1. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
This quote is from Roald Dahl‘s last children’s story, The Minpins.
During one of our travels in Meghalaya we found a place called Kongthong where people did not have names but only tunes to be addrssed with! Who would have thought such a place even existed in India?
2. “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.
3. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings.
This is such an awesome Family Travel Quote. If you travel with family (like me) here are 10 top tips for Planning (and Surviving) a multigenerational family trip!
4. “There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
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5.“He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” – Chinese proverb.
For me my trip to Varanasi was a very surreal experience.
6. “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe “Sparky” Schulz, was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts.
7. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher.
8. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
Anaïs Nin, was a French-American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
9. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” ―Moslih Eddin Saadi
Moslih Eddin Saadi whose pen-name was Saadi was a Persian poet and literary of the medieval period. He is known for the depth of his social and moral thoughts.
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10. “The journey is the reward.”— Chinese proverb
The Journey Is the Reward also happens to be the title of the biography of the life and career of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. This Chinese proverb often gets attributed to Steve Jobs.
11.”Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta is known as the greatest traveller of premodern times.
12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
13. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
14. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
Shakuntala Devi gave us one of the most famous travel quotes.
15. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat!” – Unknown
If traveling India is on your mind then fuel your wanderlust by reading about 30 breathtaking places you must visit in India before you die!
16. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”- Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. His philosophy is known as Confucius.
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17. “I Haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist.
As I draft this Photo Blog, I am reminded of Susan Sontag’s yet another famous quote…
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
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18. “The journey not the arrival matters” – T.S.Elliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
This is one of the most awesome trip quotes!
19. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and a travel writer.
20. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar.
Paul gave us one of the great travel captions and exploring quotes.
21. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” – Dr. Seuss
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is a book written and illustrated by children’s author Dr. Seuss. It is his last book to be published during his lifetime.
From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch, Dr. Seuss addresses life’s ups and downs with his trademark humorous verse and illustrations, while encouraging readers to find the success that lies within.
22. 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
Bill Bryson is a bestselling American non-fiction author of several travel and academic books.
23. “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
Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women’s suffrage movement.
Do you agree with this fantastic wander quote
24.“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
John Augustus Shedd was an American author and professor. He wrote these lines in his book Salt from My Attic (1928), a collection of quotes and sayings he loved and lived by.
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25.“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle.
Chief Seattle was a Suquamish and Duwamish chief. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him.
26. “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.
María Rosalía Rita de Castro, was a Galician romanticist writer, poet with a rebellious spirit . She was one of the first female authors in Spain who published her texts under her real name, rather than under a pseudonym.
27. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” – Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II, is a retired United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon.
I love exploring the Himalayas and Climbing Mount Kanamo at 19600 feet was a very adventurous trek.
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28.“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling traveled widely and wrote about many places and cultures. So it is not surprising that he is cited as the author of this popular quotation:
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
There is however, no book, poem or essay which can be traced back to say that Kipling indeed write those lines.
Kipling wrote these well known olfactory lines:
Smells are surer than sounds or sights
To make your heart-strings crack—
They start those awful voices o’nights
That whisper, “Old man, come back!”
They are the opening stanza of the poem Lichtenberg.
Set in South Africa during the Boer War, it’s about an Australian trooper who smells the blossoms of a tree called Golden Wattle and is reminded of his home in New South Wales. (Source)
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29.“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.
I love this quote and also cycling. If you like cycling perhaps my post on Cycling from Manali to Leh, my TransHimalayan experience will interest you. On that note comes my next quote…
30. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho
31.“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves” – Henry David Thoreau
This quote is one of the most epic old world traveling quotes!
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
Dan Rather has given us one of the best quotes about wanderlust.
32. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather
Dan Rather is an American newscaster and author who covered some of the most important historical events of his time, including the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal, during his four decades with CBS.
33. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism.
34. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.
This is such a fantastic quote about travel!
35. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Here are ten books by Lawrence Durrell you need to read.
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36. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
“No Reservations” is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels throughout the world.
The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and oddball mementoes.
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37. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
“No Reservations” is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels throughout the world.
The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and oddball mementoes.
38. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
39. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
40. “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
This one is one of my favorite travelling quotes.
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I asked Travel Bloggers from around the globe about their favourite famous travel quotes and here is what they had to say…
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41. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change!” – Wayne Dyer
This famous quote by Wayne Dyer is Packed Again’s favourite. She says –
“I believe it says it all in the quote.
We tend to judge and rush around. We already look at things mostly with an opinion already made.
BUT STOP.
Take more time and REALLY look at something, no matter what.
It can be a view, an object or a person. I am sure you can find the beauty in a lot of things which at first seemed flat, grey and uninteresting.”
42. “Traveling – it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – Ibn Battuta
This famous travel quote by Ibn Batuta is Nuraini’s favourite. She says –
“It may be odd to have such a poignant choice for a favourite travel quote, but this is it.
It’s my favourite, because it tells of something inescapable to the traveller. Traveling does both, and beneath this is a deeper truth – when you grow one way, often you must release another.”
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43. “We live to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.” – Khalil Gibran
This introspective quote about traveling by Khalil Gibran is Iuliana Marchian’s favourite. She says –
“An old friend had told me this travel quote many years ago.
A few years after that, when I was trying to figure out my life concept, this quote came to my mind right away.
Ever since I’ve been telling this quote to myself whenever I feel confused or without motivation in life.”
44. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between
the pages of a passport.” – Unknown
Or Amir says her favorite travel quote has to be “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between
the pages of a passport.”
She says, “It captures perfectly one of the main reasons why I love traveling which is creating memories, and collecting beautiful moments and stories.”
45. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Dr Stephen Covey
This short travel quote by Stephen R. Covey about the value of being wanderlust is Nancie’s favourite. She says –
“This quote inspired me to find a way to make travel a priority in my life. That’s something I have never regretted.”
Gustave Flaubert has coined an amazing travelling caption.
46.“Travel makes one modest.You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”– Gustave Flaubert.
Of all the travelling quotes, this famous travel quote by Gustave Flaubert is Manon van Schagen’s favourite. She says –
” The reason this is one of my most favourite quotes is that it’s the reality.
This world has billions of people, trillions of animals, plenty of ecosystems and exists out so many more parts than just me.
It’s refreshing.”
47. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
Of all the traveller quotes out there, Mario finds this travel quote by Jack Kerouac very inspirational. He says –
“Kerouac is generally considered to be one of the creators of the Beat movement, and with this restless personality, he did a lot of crazy stuff in his life.
To be honest, this quote captures quite exactly the way I feel about challenges – not just while travelling – but in general.
I may not be really prepared, not perfectly informed or have the stamina to tackle a challenge… like going on an exhausting hike or climbing that said mountain…
But heck, I’m here, the adventure is here and I’d regret not doing it.
Yes, I’m stubborn.
Having sore muscles and being tired as hell afterwards have never stopped me – I’ll complain for sure on the way – but will it be worth it?
You bet it will.”
48. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail!” – Muriel Strode
This famous travel quote about adventure by Muriel Strode is Noraly’s favourite. She says – “I love this quote because it captures what I love most about traveling: exploring new territories and having experiences that are incredible and not common! I try to avoid the big crowds and find the travel gems instead 🙂 “
INTERESTINGLY This famous travel quote is often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A close semblance of the above words were written by a poet named Muriel Strode which first appeared in print in 1903 in a religious publication and then again in her own book titled My Little Book of Prayer published in 1904.
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
— Muriel Strode
Source: Quote Investigator
49. “It’s bad manners to keep vacation waiting” – Unknown
This fun travel quote is Kimaya’s favourite. She says –
“The quote, even if has a humorous tinge to it, slips right through one of my habits of waiting for someone rather than to keep one waiting.
So if I can do this for a person then why not to a vacation as it is, since the beginning of time, an integral part of homo sapiens’s well being.”
Time for some adventure quotes!
50. “oh darling, let’s be adventurers” – Unknown
51. “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
52. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
53. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
54. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashō, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.
55. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll
Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations.
56. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
57. “The more I traveled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine.
58. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” -Sandra Lake
59. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
60. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
61. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter
62. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
63. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
The above mentioned inspirational travel quote is by David Mitchell. This wanderlust quote is from his book Cloud Atlas which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is the winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year.
64. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.
65. “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, ‘Around the world in 80 days.’
Michael Palin established his reputation with MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS and RIPPING YARNS.
‘Around the world in 80 days‘, is Michael Palin’s unparalleled tribute to man’s ability to make life difficult for himself.
66. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb
67. “To travel is to possess the world.” – Burton Holmes
68. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” —Leonardo Da Vinci
This quotation was created by John H. Secondari who was attempting to portray the thoughts of Leonardo Da Vinci in an educational film in 1965. The statement was incorrectly reassigned directly to Leonardo by 1975. (Source)
69. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Uzbek Proverb
70. “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
71. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch.
Neale Donald Walsch is an American author of the series Conversations with God. He is also an actor, screenwriter, and speaker.
72. “He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.” – Arab proverb
73. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
74. “If there is a nice place, and the place does not come to you – you have to come to the place.” – Tony Wheeler
75. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese proverb.
Neale Donald Walsch is an American author of the series Conversations with God. He is also an actor, screenwriter, and speaker.
76. “The wise man’s home is the universe.” – Democritus
77. “Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” Rick Steves.
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Nice quotes with nice pics.we will like to read more and more.
I am so glad to read this 🙂
Well… I don’t know about the sister being a natural writer part being true… but the quotes were definitely inspiring! Although why RK I want to ask. Maybe he’s the answer to ‘who you travel with matters’! 😛
ha ha you have a point there 😉
What a great compilation of quotes! Never hurts to remind ourselves to be adventurers now and then 🙂
So many beautiful quotes but this has always been my favourite: Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
Richa! How much time did you spend on this post??? So many amazing quotes, I am thinking of taking print outs of a couple that you have as a vertical image. Thanks for this!
A great collection you have there, and I appreciate your efforts for making pins for them. Keep up the good works!
As someone who loves to travel, these really speak to me. My fav is 25! Keep up the great work inspiring people to follow their dreams :).
“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness”…so true! So many great and true quotes like travelling makes you discover that you’r wrong about other countries. how I felt about Cuba when I visited.
What a wonderful mix of quotes – including lots of my favourites – and yes reading through these has inspired me to travel more. Thanks so much for sharing – I have also shared on twitter and pinterest 🙂
I love Hodding Carter’s quote. I am trying to give my baby wings, and I would love for her to inherit my love of travel. And your post did, in fact, give me wanderlust! 🙂 I really need to plan a vacation for this year.
What a great compilation of quotes. It’s always fun to find some new ones and you have done a great job with your choice of quotes. I enjoyed reading them.
Wowzers! It’s the most beautiful and exhaustive compilation of travel quotes I’ve ever come across. I particularly loved the quote by Dorothy L. Sayers: ‘I have the most … “I always have a quotation for everything–it saves original thinking.” It’s a Show Stopper, you see 🙂
I love this! “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
I think to enjoy our travel, we should just totally let go of all our worries and inhibitions and totally bask on the beauty and experience.
Really nice selection! I love Mark twain’s quotes. Oh, and Steinbeck’s quote, comparing travel to marriage, too.
All of quotes are very motivating and tempts me to go again for a trip. I totally believe in T.S. Elliot’s quote that journey matters a lot instead of arrivals.
Wow, what a great list of travel quotes you’ve had in your blog post. Anyway, of everything you’ve shared in your post, this is by far my favorite quote “”Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta.
If ever there was a quote that unites the entire community of travel writers… that would be it.
heart touching words
thank you for sharing
Thanks for your encouraging words Shivangi 🙂
Such beautiful and inspiring quotes. Loved your hard work and writing style 😄 keep it up 👍🏻🤗
Stay Inspired, Stay Calm and Travel on 🙂
Great Travel Quotes In Your Blog Post and Images beautiful thanks for sharing with us.
beautiful website and amazing content.
keep up the good work 🙂
Aww, thanks Shivangi 🙂
Great blog thanks for sharing
Glad you liked it 🙂
I Like The Way You Are Sharing Your And Travellers Experience On Your Blog. People Are Really Very Excited To Explore New Areas And Funlands. They Are Now Much Aware Of All The Things Related To Travelling And Adventures.
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Glad you found it helpful Riya 🙂
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