I love to get my day started by reading or posting motivational quotes. It helps to gets my mind in the right track and feel inspired to deal with whatever challenge comes my way. Off course, motivational travel quotes is right up my alley so I wanted to share a collection of the 111 best travel quotes to inspire and motivate you to pack your bags and start exploring the world! (111 is my magic number… )
Here is my favorite one to get started:
“Quit your job, buy a ticket and never return!”
I hope you get inspired by these motivational travel quotes and start living the life you always wanted, whether it is by traveling more often, more open minded, or by making travel a way of living.
1. “For the born traveler, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” – Aldous Huxley
2. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
Henry David Thoreau
4. “Once you have travelled, 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
5. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.”
Mohamed
6. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
7. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber
8. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
9. “Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
10. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.”
Hilaire Belloc
11. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
Henry David Thoreau
12. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
Anatole France
13. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
14. “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal.”
Paulo Coelho
16. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
Sir Richard Burton
17. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”
Jennifer Lee
18. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustav Flaubert
19. “I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
Caskie Stinnett
20. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
Susan Sontag
21. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
Sir Richard Burton
22. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
Jack Kerouac
23.“All you need to know is that it’s possible.”
Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
24. “To Travel is to Live”
Hans Christian Andersen
25. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
26. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
Wallace Stevens
27. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
William Least Heat Moon
28. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
Seneca
29. “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
30. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta
31. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
Randy Komisar
32. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
James Michener
33. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
Martin Buber
34. ” Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.”
Thomas Fuller
35. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Agustine of Hippo
36. “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
37. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
38. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”
Lawrence Block
39. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”
Ray Bradbury
41. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”
Pico Iyer
42. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
Cesare Pavese
43. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.”
Irving Wallace
44. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin
45. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
Lao Tzu
46. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
47. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Benjamin Disraeli
48. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”
Roy M. Goodman
49. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
Chief Seattle
50. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”
Confucius
51. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”
Henry Rollins
52. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
Paulo Coelho
53. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
Robert Frost
54. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Jack Kerouac
55. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.”
Mandy Hale
56. “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
57. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
Paul Theroux
58. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
59. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
Freya Stark
60. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.”
John A. Shedd
61. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag”
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
62. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
Anita Desai
63. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret”. – Oscar Wilde
64. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustav Flaubert
65. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”
66. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”
67. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
68. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
69. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan”
70. “It feels good to be in the right direction.”
71. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”
72. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.”
73. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams”
74. “I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it”
75. “Life is short and the world is wide”
76. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
77. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
78. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see!”
79. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
80. “I need vitamin SEA!”
81. “10 ways to live an extraordinary life: Travel!”
82. “If you think travel is dangerous… try routine. It is lethal”
83. “Let’s wander where the Wi-Fi is weak”
84. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”
85. “When in doubt… go travel!”
86. “I regret going traveling… said nobody!”
87. “I’m a travel addict on the way to recovery, just kidding, I’m on my way to the airport.”
88. “5 things I like just as much as travel:
1- Thinking about traveling
2- Talking about traveling
3- Watching TV shows talking about people traveling
4- Reading blogs and books about traveling
5 – Food”
89. “It is always summer in my heart!”
90. “Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead!”
91. “The journey, not the arrival, matters.”
92. “Most things in life people are worried about, never happen anyway!.”
93. “Never stop doing things for the first time.”
94. “I want to make memories all over the world.”
95. “Don’t be a tourist, be a traveler.”
96. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
97. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return”
98. “I’m in love with places I’ve never been to.”
99. “If you don’t belong, don’t be too long.”
100. “Every day can be an adventure.”
101. “A change of latitude would help my attitude.”
102. “Suitcases are for princesses!”
103. “I don’t know what’s coming, but I already know it’s gonna be awesome!”
104. “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine!”
105. “A coconut a day keeps the doctor away.”
106. “Work, save, travel, repeat”
107. “Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.”
108. “All you need is love a passport.”
109. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
110. “Words and images are powerful. They have the power to shift perspectives and ignite change. Here is a collection of the 100 best travel quotes to inspire and motivate you to pack your bags and start exploring! From century old explorers to modern day sayings, let these words inspire you to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
111. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
I hope you enjoyed. Let me know what is your favorite one on the comments below. 🙂
