54 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

The wonderful thing about traveling is that it takes you out of your comfort zone and pushes you into new situations that can challenge and change you. Travel quotes are designed to help inspire just that. 

It’s OK to struggle and have bad days when traveling because more often than not, those turn into the most captivating stories; but it’s always nice to have a handy quote to help re-inspire you and pick yourself back up.

Here are some of our most beloved travel quotes. I hope some of these will encourage you to take the first step, and explore beyond your front doorstep. Have courage and diverge.

There is a whole world of adventure and marvel out there waiting to be discovered.

Travel Quotes: Our Personal Favorites

To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. – (Movie) Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. – Unknown

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

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a ride! – Hunter S Thompson

More Great Travel Quotes

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

Not all those who wander are lost. – JRR Tolkein

Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. – Unknown

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

You weren’t born to just pay bills and die. – Anonymous

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. – Amelia Earhart

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

You don’t have to be rich to travel well. – Eugene Fodor

• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anaïs Nin,

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

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

To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson

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

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac

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

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non percent of. – Louis C.K.

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

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru

Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. – Robert Orben

Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.  -Miriam Adeney

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish Proverb

I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca

Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – Unknown

So much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away. – Anonymous

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

Life is short and the world is wide. – Simon Raven

Travel as much as you can, as far as you can, as long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.- Anonymous

Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul. – Jaime Lyn Beatty

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet, he said. – Rachel Wolchin

The trouble is, you think you have time. – Buddha

Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. – Saber Ben Hassen

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac

Every hundred feet the world changes. – Roberto Bolaño

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Gaby Basora

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

When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. – Clint Borgen

He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de St. Exupery

Those who are afraid of death are afraid of life. – François Lelord

Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

Have any favorite travel quotes that didn’t make the list? Let us know in the comments!

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