Travel Quotes
Travel Quotes
This is a collection of my favourite travel quotes. Some are inspirational, some funny and some thought provoking.
A few are so Delphic that I struggled to understand them but I liked them anyway. I hope you feel inspired or entertained by them.
“No one forgets the first glimpse of Venice. Whether arriving by plane, boat, train, or car, there is that startling moment when one looks across the waves and finds what should not be there – stone towers, rich churches, and packed buildings rising out of the sea. The extraordinary beauty of Venice only adds to its improbability. How does such a city exist?” Thomas F. Madden
“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” – Lao Tzu
“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” – Tim Cahill
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it” – John Steinbeck
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
“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
“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
“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
“Beach please.”
“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
“Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” – David McCullough Jr.
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t listen to what they say, go see” – Chinese Proverb
“Don’t quit your day dream” – Anonymous
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled” – Muhammad
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
“Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show” – Unknown
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
“Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous
“Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.”
“He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad” – George Bernard Shaw
“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”
“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
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive” – Albert Einstein
“I need a six month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” – Oscar Wilde
“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman
“I want to make memories all over the world”
“I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords.” – Unknown
“I wish I had never gone travelling.” Said no one ever.
“I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met” – Melody Truong
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho
“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
“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself” – Matthew Karsten
“Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar
“It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction” – Unknown
“It is better to see something once, than to hear about it a thousand times” – Asian Proverb
“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ Penelope Riley
“It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it” – J. D. Andrews
“Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark
“Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.”
“Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”
“Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
“Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.” – Mark Twain
“My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway
“Not all those who wander are lost” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”
“Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”
“Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.”
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
“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.”
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
“Paris is Always a Good Idea” – Audrey Hepburn
“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
“Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” – Tony Robbins
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” – Babs Hoffman
“Take only memories, leave only footprints ” – Chief Seattle
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it” – Rudyard Kipling
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands” – Sir Richard Burton
“The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life” – Agnes Repplier
“The journey not the arrival matters” – T.S. Eliot
“The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost” – Henry David Thoreau
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page” – St. Augustine of Hippo
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowan
“This heart of mine was made to travel this world”
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure” – Freya Stark
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going” – Paul Theroux
“Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – Seneca
“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” – Mark Twain
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho
“Travel is the healthiest addiction”
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” – Anonymous
“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
“Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world” – Gustave Flaubert
“Travel teaches toleration” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.”
“Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“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.
“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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less travelled.” – Robert Frost
“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
“We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting” – Clint Borgen
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
“Where to next?”
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius
“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding” – Sandra Lake
“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul” – Unknown
“You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back” – Paul Theroux
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” – Mae West
”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you” – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
”A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life “- Dolly Parton
“Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
“No one forgets the first glimpse of Venice. Whether arriving by plane, boat, train, or car, there is that startling moment when one looks across the waves and finds what should not be there – stone towers, rich churches, and packed buildings rising out of the sea. The extraordinary beauty of Venice only adds to its improbability. How does such a city exist?” Thomas F. Madden
"When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now." Bert Hellinger
“Paris is Always a Good Idea” – Audrey Hepburn
