Best Travel Quotes: 215 of the Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time with Photos [UPDATED 2019]

Best Quotes About Travel for 2019

  • ​Short travel quotes
  • Famous quotes about travel
  • Travel the world quotes
  • Inspirational quotes about travel
  • Funny travel quotes
  • Travel with friends quotes
  • Travel quotes for couples
  • Quotes about traveling with family
  • Travel quotes for kids
  • Other quotes & captions for traveling
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Short travel quotes

  1. ​“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
  2. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”
  3. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
  4. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho
  5. “Jobs fill your pocket, Adventures fill your soul” ― Jaime Lyn Beatty
  6. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” -Confucius
  7. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” -Chief Seattle
  8. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde
  9. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
  10. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself” -David Mitchell
  11. “My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been”
  12. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ” – Eugene Fodor
  13. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
  14. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  15. “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
  16. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
  17. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
  18. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
  19. “Some people are so poor, all they have is money” – Patrick Meagher
  20. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
  21. ”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
  22. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
  23. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” -Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
  24. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
  25. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”
  26. “The journey not the arrival matters.” –T.S. Eliot
  27. ”Life is short and the world is wide”
  28. ”Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
  29. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
  30. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
  31. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
  32. “Oh the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
  33. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
  34. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan”
  35. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams”
  36. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” -Stephen Covey
  37. ”Life is a journey, not a destination.”
  38. ”Veni, Vini, Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved.”
  39. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction”
  40. “The best view comes after the hardest climb”
  41. “Paris is always a good idea” -Audrey Hepburn
  42. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten
  43. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
  44. “It feels good to be in the right direction.”

Famous quotes about travel

  1. “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.
  2. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  3. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
  4. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
  5. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
  6. “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness., and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain
  7. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
  8. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
  9. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
  10. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
  11. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
  12. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
  13. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
  14. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
  15. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
  16. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
  17. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
  18. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
  19. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Agustine of Hippo
  20. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  21. ”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
  22. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
  23. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener
  24. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that 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
  25. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”-Anaïs Nin
  26. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
  27. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
  28. “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
  29. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”
  30. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
  31. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
  32. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
  33. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going” - Paul Theroux
  34. ”I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” - Albert Einstein

Travel the world quotes

  1. ​“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong
    “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
  2. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
  3. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
  4. “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
  5. “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
  6. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
  7. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
  8. “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
  9. “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
  10. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
  11. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
  12. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
  13. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
  14. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
  15. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”
  16. “Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand" -  Karl Schmidt
  17. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.”
  18. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone”

​Inspirational quotes about travel

  1. ​“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
  2. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
  3. “Never Let Your Memories Be Greater Than Your Dreams.” – Doug Ivester.
  4. “Travel Is Not Reward For Working, It’s Education For Living.” – Anthony Bourdain.
  5. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
  6. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  7. “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
  8. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
  9. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
  10. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that 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
  11. “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
  12. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
  13. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
  14. “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect” – Paul Theroux
  15. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
  16. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
  17. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
  18. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
  19. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
  20. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
  21. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
  22. “With the right mindset and spirit, only the sky is the limit”
  23. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make”- Wayne Dyer
  24. ”Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen” - Benjamin Disraeli
  25. “Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count.” – Muhammad Ali.
  26. ‘Let’s wander where the WiFi is weak’
  27. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience’ – Francis Bacon
  28. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

​Funny travel quotes

  1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
  2. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
  3. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
  4. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
  5. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
  6. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
  7. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
  8. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
  9. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die”
  10. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde
  11. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”
  12. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin
  13. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra
  14. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G. K. Chesterton
  15. It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!
  16. Work hard, travel harder.
  17. ​I need 6 months of vacation, twice a year.
  18. “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” –Bob Hope
  19. “In America, there are two classes of travel— first class, and with children.” –Robert Benchley
  20. ”A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it” - John Steinbeck
  21. “Don’t live the same year 75 time and call it a life” – Robin Sharma

Quotes about traveling with friends

  1. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
  2. “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
  3. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
  4. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
  5. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh
  6. “Life was meant to great adventure and close friends.”
  7. “You and me, we are more than friends. We are like a small travel gang!”
  8. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.”
  9. “Friends that travel together, stay together.”
  10. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”
  11. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
  12. “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.”
  13. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.” - African Proverb
  14. “As with any journey, who you travel with is more important than the destination.”
  15. “Travel is better with friends.”
  16. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway


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​Romantic travel quotes for couples

  1. “It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you.”
  2. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
  3. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
  4. Let's run away together
  5. “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.”
  6. We are the luckiest people in the world. How many couples get to travel together and spend quality time like we do? – Lindsey Gormley
  7. Let's find some beautiful place to get lost together.
  8. Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.
  9. I just want to hold your hand and wander the streets with you.
  10. Oh darling, let's be adventurers
  11. Love is being with you anywhere.
  12. You keep me safe, I'll keep you wild.
  13. “In life, it’s not where you go, It’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz
  14. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare
  15. A couple who travel together grow together. – Ahmad Fuadi
  16. I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.
  17. I love your feet because they wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me. – Pablo Neruda
  18. You can always make money, but you can’t make memories with your love.
  19. It’s wonderful to travel with somebody you love and we never travel anywhere without one another. – Roger Moore

​Quotes about traveling with family

  1. ”A Family That Travels Together Stays Together.”
  2. “Traveling In The Company Of Those We Love Is Home In Motion.” – Leigh Hunt.
  3. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way” – Dave Willis
  4. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home” – Trenton Lee Stewart
  5. “Time is precious. Waste it wisely.”
  6. “Memories made together last a lifetime”

​Travel quotes for kids

  1. “The Greatest Legacy We Can Leave Our Children Is Happy Memories.” – Og Mandino.
  2. "Kid, you’ll move mountains” - Dr. Seuss
  3. "Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children" – Charles R Swindoll
  4. “Two Of The Greatest Gifts We Can Give Our Children Are Roots And Wings.” – Hodding Carter.
  5. “Not All Classrooms Have 4 Walls.”
  6. “It Is Never Too Early To Begin Exploring The World.”
  7. “Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Sandy.”
  8. “Having kids is a reason to travel. Never a reason to stop”
  9. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television”
  10. Kids need more adventures, not more toys

​Other Cute Quotes & Captions for traveling

  1. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins
  2. “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
  3. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.”   -Eric Weiner
  4. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
  5. “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
  6. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux
  7. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” -Mark Jenkins
  8. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” –Arthur Frommer
  9. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
  10. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.” -John A. Shedd
  11. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
  12. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
  13. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs
  14. “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – Nyssa P. Chopra
  15. ”I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it”
  16. Travel is Addictive!
  17. Catch flights, not feelings.
  18. Travel is Addictive!
  19. Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.

Final Thoughts On Traveling

​Hopefully, these travel quotes have given you some inspiration to travel the world and keep exploring this big beautiful world that we live in.

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