Start Your Journey With These 99 Inspiring Travel Quotes

1. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ” – Saint Augustine

2. “Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. ” – A. R. Rahman

3. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ” – Matsuo Basho

4. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ” – Charles Spurgeon

5. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ” – Marcel Proust

6. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ” – George A. Moore

7. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ” – Frank Borman

8. “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

9. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ” – Lao Tzu

10. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ” – Martin Buber

11. “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. ” – Diane von Furstenberg

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

13. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ” – John Steinbeck

14. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. ” – Lawrence Durrell

15. “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ” – John D. Rockefeller

16. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ” – T. S. Eliot

17. “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. ” – Leonardo da Vinci

18. “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ” – Susan Sontag

19. “I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun. ” – Guy Laliberte

20. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

21. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ” – Confucius

22. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself. ” – Danny Kaye

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23. “It is better to travel well than to arrive. ” – Buddha

24. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ” – Ernest Hemingway

25. “Paris is always a good idea. ” – Audrey Hepburn

26. “Travel teaches as much as books. ” – Youssou N’Dour

27. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive. ” – Hernan Cortes

28. “Spontaneity is what travel is all about. ” – Zach Anner

29. “Time travel is such a magic concept. ” – Matt Smith

30. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson

31. “Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. ” – Giotto di Bondone

32. “The best education I have ever received was through travel. ” – Lisa Ling

33. “I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice. ” – Linda McCartney

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

35. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson

36. “Travelling expands the mind rarely. ” – Hans Christian Andersen

37. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ” – Anais Nin

38. “I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world. ” – Pooja Hegde

39. “People will travel anywhere for good food – it’s crazy. ” – Rene Redzepi

40. “The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. ” – Werner Herzog

41. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ” – Swami Vivekananda

42. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ” – John Hope Franklin

43. “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. ” – John Muir

44. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

45. “The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around… and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore! ” – Laura Marano

46. “Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ” – John Steinbeck

47. “I think it’s part of my personality – I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things. ” – Martin Henderson

48. “The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage. ” – John Mackey

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49. “If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. ” – Alphonse de Lamartine

50. “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. ” – Truman Capote

51. “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ” – Thomas Jefferson

52. “Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world. ” – Damon Albarn

53. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ” – Benjamin Disraeli

54. “The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots. ” – Bob Dylan

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

56. “Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ” – Nelson Algren

57. “To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. ” – John Muir

58. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. ” – Al Gore

59. “I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don’t get to travel as often as I would like but I love it. ” – Edi Gathegi

60. “The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. ” – Xun Kuang

61. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ” – Cesare Pavese

62. “The travel and tourism industry, it’s just a huge part of our economy. ” – Karen Hughes

63. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ” – Mary Ritter Beard

64. “Some people are drawn naturally – there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. ” – Hugh Laurie

65. “I like to travel any chance I get, even if it’s just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world. ” – Christa B. Allen

66. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ” – Rudyard Kipling

67. “Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ” – Aristophanes

68. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. ” – Nikos Kazantzakis

69. “I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. ” – John Muir

70. “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing.’ ” – Daniel J. Boorstin

71. “The traveller has reached the end of the journey! ” – Edmund Burke

72. “Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. ” – Ramakrishna

73. “I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. ” – Tim Cahill

74. “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

75. “I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens? ” – William Shatner

76. “The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who… looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space… on the infinite highway of the air. ” – Wilbur Wright

77. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson

78. “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone. ” – Leonardo DiCaprio

79. “There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller’s being. ” – Patrick MacGill

80. “Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. ” – Terry Brooks

81. “We must travel in the direction of our fear. ” – John Berryman

82. “‘Closed timelike curve’ is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. ” – Kip Thorne

83. “I want to travel. Maybe I’ll end up living in Norway, making cakes. ” – Eva Green

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

85. “I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that’s not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face. ” – Irina Shayk

86. “If you’re successful, it’s important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can. ” – Suresh Raina

87. “Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. ” – Henny Youngman

88. “We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays – I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want – but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit. ” – Michelle Dockery

89. “I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit. ” – Jacqueline Cochran

90. “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. ” – Britney Spears

91. “People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel. ” – Theresa May

92. “Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work. ” – Chief Joseph

93. “The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ” – Charles Kuralt

94. “I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It’s just so much better here than anywhere else. It’s better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. ” – Curtis Stone

95. “Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That’s my motto. ” – Greg Gutfeld

96. “I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. ” – Michael Palin

97. “Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible. ” – Stephen Hawking

98. “A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. ” – Lin Yutang

99. “When I haven’t been working I’ve tried to travel a lot. ” – Emma Watson