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54 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

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By Lina Stock on November 17, 2019 • Last updated November 18, 2019 • Leave a Comment
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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

Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustSometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. – Unknown

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustPerhaps 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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustLife 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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustNot all those who wander are lost. – JRR Tolkein

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustFill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. – Unknown

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustWe travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Unknown

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustYou weren’t born to just pay bills and die. – Anonymous

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustLife begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustWe wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustA journey is best measured in friends, not miles. – Tim Cahill

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustAdventure is worthwhile in itself. – Amelia Earhart

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.–  Andre Gide

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustYou don’t have to be rich to travel well. – Eugene Fodor

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTravel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustWe 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 to Inspire Your WanderlustTo travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustOne’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustIf you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.  – James A. Michener

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustI’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.

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustOnce a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustWe 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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTime flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. – Robert Orben

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTake the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustYou 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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustA traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustHe who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish Proverb

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustI am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustSomewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – Unknown

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustSo much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche

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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTravel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Inspirational Travel Quote

 

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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustThe traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustLife is short and the world is wide. – Simon Raven

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTravel 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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustJobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul. – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustIf we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet, he said. – Rachel Wolchin

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustThe trouble is, you think you have time. – Buddha

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustOf all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. – Saber Ben Hassen

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustBecause 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

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustEvery hundred feet the world changes. – Roberto Bolaño

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustTravel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Gaby Basora

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustWhen overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. – Clint Borgen

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustHe who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de St. Exupery

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustThose who are afraid of death are afraid of life. – François Lelord

Travel Quotes to Inspire Your WanderlustOh 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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Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

Article by Lina Stock

Lina is an award-winning photographer and writer that has been exploring the world since 2001. She has traveled to 100 countries on all 7 continents.

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