81 Inspiring Quotes for Travel Lovers

What is it about travel that we fall in love with? Sometimes it is hard to articulate why we love to travel, so rather than doing it ourselves, we’ve turned to the experts who have summed it up rather nicely. We’ve found 81 inspiring quotes for travel lovers that will inspire wanderlust and remind you why you love to travel.

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Quotes About Travel

To start things off, we’ve gathered some of the most beautiful quotes about travel. They delve into why we should travel, why we love to travel and touch on the benefits of travel.

1. It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. – Asian Proverb

2. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. – Saint Augustine

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

4. Don’t listen to what they say, go see. – Chinese Proverb

5. Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing. – Gayle Foreman

Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

7. I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. – Robert Louis Stevenson

8. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

9. Just Go. Go see all the beauty in the world. – Anonymous

10. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

11. I read, I travel, I become. – Derek Walcott

Quotes About Adventure

One of the reasons we love to travel is because we love an adventure. These quotes are guaranteed to ignite your sense of adventure, while reminding you that life is one big adventure and you should embrace that.

12. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

13. Great things never came from comfort zones. – Anonymous

14. If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and 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.

15. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho

16. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

17. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. – Marty Rubin

18. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anaïs Nin

20. What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. – Jack Kerouac

Travel Quotes About Journeys

Travel is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. These quotes remind us to acknowledge that and take a little while to appreciate the view along the way. Journey’s don’t always go smoothly, but they should be enjoyed as part of the overall travel experience.

21. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. – George Fairman

22. It’s better to travel well than to arrive. – Buddha

23. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

24. It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way. – Penelope Riley

25. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Babs Hoffman

26. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

28. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. – Ma Jian

Travel Quotes About Learning

There is a lot we can learn from traveling. These quotes encourage us to be open to learning from our expriences. Interestingly, a lot of the time, this means learning more about ourselves.

29. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert

30. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

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

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

David Mitchell

33. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

34. I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
– Mary Anne Radmacher

Travel Quotes About Life

Travel and life are so intrinsically linked. These quotes remind us that travel is an important component of life, which in itself, if a journey. They also remind us how travel contibutes to a sense of fulfilment and happiness.

35. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous

36. The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. – Paulo Coelho

37. To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson

38. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

39. Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

40. Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi Jalalud-Din

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

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

David McCullough Jr.

Travel Quotes About Growth

Like with the lessons we learn from travel, travel also helps us grow. We grow through the new experiences that travel brings. These quotes perfectly capture how travel helps us change a little and grow a lot.

43. Travel has a way of stretching the mind. – Ralph Crawshaw

44. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

45. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – Terry Pratchett

46. Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself. – Anonymous

You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.

Paul Theroux

48. We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. – Pascal Mercier 

Travel Quotes About Money

No matter how cheap you can make your travel buget, taking a trip is always an investment. However, these quotes explore what it is we are buying in return for our money. They remind us that it is experiences, not money, that makes us rich.

49. Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty

50. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. – Anonymous

51. There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. – Jo Walton

I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.

Alexander Sattler

53. To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. – Elizabeth Gilbert

Quotes About Getting Lost

It would be remiss of us not to call out those quotes about getting lost. To us, getting lost is about the ability to escape and lose ourselves in the beauty of the world. These quotes perfectly capture our philosophy and remind us why getting lost is never a bad thing.

Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.

Brenna Smith

55. Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost. – Anonymous

56. The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. – Henry David Thoreau

57. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves. – Pico Iyer

58. It feels good to be lost in the right direction. – Anonymous

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Marin Buber

60. Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan

Funny Travel Quotes

So, we all know that there are elements of travel that just never go to plan or are just not enjoyable. These quotes find a lighthearted way of capturing those moments and we can’t help but smile at them!

61. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.’ – Douglas Adams

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

63. Jet lag is for amateurs. – Dick Clark

64. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

If you’re anything like us, you won’t need much to motivate you to jump on a plane to a new destination. If you do need any further prompting, these quotes for travel lovers are bound to light up your wanderlust. You’ll be booking your next flight after reading these!

65. I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.

John Green

67. Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta

68. Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. – Jack Kerouak

69. You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul. – Anonymous

70. Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn

71. Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down. – Ryu Murakami

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Travel Quotes About Dreams

And finally, quotes that talk about travel and dreams. Travelers are innately dreamers and these quotes capture those dreams of travel, adventure and discovery.

73. Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. – Judith Thurman

74. Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets. – Oscar Wilde

75. I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. – Brian Selznick

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

77. I want to make memories all over the world. – Anonymous

78. Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world. – Anonymous

79. Don’t quit your daydream. – Anonymous

80. This heart of mine was made to travel this world. – Anonymous

81. Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling. – Roman Payne

Quotes For Travel Lovers

So these are our top 81 inspirational quotes for travel lovers! Overall, they all capture the essence of what drives us to travel; the sense of adventure, self-discovery, growth, fun, escape and wanderlust. We hope you love these quotes as much as we do; let us know which one is your favourite!

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