Travel has a way of enriching our lives and making us grow as a person. Sometimes, all that it takes to get on the road and begin traveling are a few inspiration quotes that will give you the little push you need to hit the road while summer is still in full force. Happy traveling!
40 Inspirational Travel Quotes
1. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”
― Susan Heller
2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
― Hilaire Belloc
3. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
― Paul Theroux
4. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Anderson
5. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
6. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
― St. Augustine
7. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
― Seneca
8. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”
― Moslih Eddin Saadi
9. “Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
― Ray Bradbury
10. “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
11. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper
12. “Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.”
― Winna Efendi, The Journeys
13. “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
14. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
15. “NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.”
― Walt Whitman
16. “You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
17. “My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”
― Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty
18. “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
19. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai
20. “I read; I travel; I become.”
― Derek Walcott
21. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”
― Shane Koyczan
22. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust
23. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
24. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway
25. “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
26. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert
27. “A good traveler leaves no track.”
– Lao Tzu
28. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
29. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller
30. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”
— Edith Wharton
31. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
32. “I love to travel, But hate to arrive.”
― Albert Einstein
33. “Every hundred feet the world changes.”
― Roberto Bolaño
34. “Paris is always a good idea.”
― Audrey Hepburn
35. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
― Anonymous
36. “I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.”
― Justina Chen
37. “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.”
― Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies
38. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!”
― Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities
39. “Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”
― Alex Garland, The Beach
40. “Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.”
― Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place
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