We would not shy in conceding that we find some of our travel motivation in inspirational travel quotes.
Here we present you our list of the most inspirational travel quotes from famous travellers and philosophers.
Come and get inspired to come out of your comfort zone and go experience places as we consistently do.
Travel Quotes for Travel Inspiration
Travelling – It leaves you Speechless…
1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
2. “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
3. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
5. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
Not all those who wander are lost…
6. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
7. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
8. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley
9. “The journey not the arrival matters.”- T.S. Eliot
10. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
We travel not to escape life…
11. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
12. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
14. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
15. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
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A good traveler has no fixed plans…
16. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
17. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
18. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
19. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
20. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost Emerson
21. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
22. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
It is better to travel well than to arrive…
23. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
24. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut
25. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
26. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
27. “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. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
29. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
30. “The best traveler is one without a camera.” – Kamand Kojouri
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page…
31. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
32. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
33. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
34. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
35. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart…
36. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
37. “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
38. “I read; I travel; I become” – Derek Walcott
39. “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
40. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” – Ma Jian
42. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
43. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
44. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…
45. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
46. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” – Pico Iyer
47. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
48. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
49. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” – Charlotte Eriksson
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Do not follow where the path may lead…
50. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo
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