50 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Pack Your Bags

Travel Quotes to Inspire You

Some simple travel quotes and phrases can be all that we need to inspire action in our daily lives.

We are always looking for inspirational words. So we thought it would fun to share some of the quotes that have inspired our past. We hope that one or two of these quotes will give you the inspiration you need to start planning your next adventure. Enjoy!

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes 

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“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.” – Mark Twain

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller

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

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

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

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

“You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.” – Zig Ziglar

“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.” – Orison Swett Marden

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” – Anthony Bourdain

“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

“Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Barbara Hoffman

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford

“Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better” – Simon Raven

“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.” – Tim Cahill

More famous travel quotes to inspire you 

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

“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

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

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” – A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

“It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” – Buddha

“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

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

“Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

“When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.” – Anthony Bourdain

“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

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

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“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

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” – Gloria Gaither

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Gandhi

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

“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

“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

“A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person.” – Mongolian Proverb

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky

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

“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“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

“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain

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

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