Travel quotes have the ability to say so much with just a few words.
Some evoke a sense of urgency in us to act on our dreams, while others push us to rearrange our priorities – towards making memories instead of chasing stuff and material items. It’s not wrong to chase some stuff, but too much stuff can distract you from your dreams and purpose.
So, let’s get going and look at these inspiring 100 best quotes and saying. Feel free to share them with friends and family:
1. Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude – W.W. Ziege
2. Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller – Ibn Battuta
3. Try not to compare yourself to others, you don’t have to follow the crowd – Unknown
4. He is only bright that shines by himself – George Herbert
5. Hitch your wagon to a star – Emerson
6. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might be better stay home – James Michener
7. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things – Henry Miller
8. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes – Marcel Proust
9. Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul – Jaime Lyn Beatty
10. Travel brings power and love back to your life – Rumi
11. Never take advice from someone you wouldn’t trade places with – Kelly Clarkson
12. Our old older, Our new newer,
Our kind kinder –
Welcome to Japan. – The sign of Makita Power Tools, Greeting Arrivals in Osaka Airport taken from Pico Iyer’s book The Lady and the Monk
13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become character;
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Author Unknown
14. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will find it not – Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu
16. For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn’t matter much what else they find- James Michener
17. Never underestimate your ability to learn and adapt quickly – and don’t waste your time fretting about every possibility that might come your way on the road. Simple courage is worth far more than detailed logistics and a confident, positive, ready-to-learn attitude will make up for any travel savvy your lack at the outset – Rolf Potts from Vagabonding
18. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great – Mark Twain
19. Some men see things as they are and say why; I dream things that never were and say why not? – George Bernard Shaw
20. Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry – Jack Kerouac
21. The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man – Pico Iyer
22. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list – Susan Sontag
23. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore – Andre Gide
24. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars – Jack Kerouac
25. Travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: On the road, we often live more simply, with no more possessions than we carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance. This is what Camus meant when he said that “what gives value to travel is fear” – disruption, in other words (or emancipation), from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide – Pico Iyer from Why We Travel
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26. No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward – Booker T. Washington
27. It’s not our experiences that form us but the ways in which we respond to them – Pico Iyer
28. Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain – Jack Kerouac
29. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end – Ernest Hemingway
30. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them – Mark Twain
31. I read, I travel, I become – Derek Walcott
32. To travel is to live – Hans Christian Andersen
33. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen – Unknown
34. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world – Helen Keller
35. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing – Aristotle
36. My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau
37. He who would travel happily must travel light – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
38. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert
39. A man of ordinary talent will alway 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
40. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. then take half the clothes and twice the money – Susan Heller
41. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train – Oscar Wilde
42. I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time – Charles Dickens
43. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves – Henry David Thoreau
44. If you really want to learn about a country, work there – Charles Kuralt
45. All problems become smaller if, instead of indulging in them, we confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and the spines crumble – William S. Halsey
46. Wanderlust (n): A strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.
47. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine: it’s lethal – Paulo Coelho
48. Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but it is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey – Pat Conroy
49. The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them – Amelia E. Barr
50. Travel far enough, you meet yourself – David Mitchell
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51. At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding – Arthur Frommer
52. Everything you want is on the other side of fear – Jack Canfield
53. For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you will long to return – Leonardo da Vinci
54. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all – Oscar Wilde
55. Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before – Dalai Lama
56. Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel it yourself – Walt Whitman
57. 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
58. Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it more from his wandering – Charles Dickens
59. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all – Helen Keller
60. You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so…Get on your way! – Dr. Seuss
61. There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own – Albert Einstein
62. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of land remote, to travel is to live- Hans Christian Andersen
63. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no securities – Ray Bradbury
64. To improve the golden moments of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life – Samuel Johnson
65. Act your part with honor – Epictetus
66. The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark – John Muir
67. Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times – Asian Proverb
68. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us – Unknown
69. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women in it are merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts – William Shakespeare
70. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes your richer – Unknown
71. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert
72. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for – John A. Shedd
73. Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless – John Steinbeck
74. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing- Aristotle
75. You are not only good to yourself, but the cause of goodness in others – Socrates
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76. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman – Willa Cather
77. Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved – Beethoven
78. Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn’t hit fully until you’ve been in a place for a long time – Henri Cartier-Bresson
79. When we see men of worth, we should think of becoming like them; when we see men of contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves – Confucius
80. Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place – Barbara Kingsolver
81. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse – Thomas Fuller
82. Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens conversation – Elizabeth Drew
83. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land – G.K. Chesterton
84. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it – Rudyard Kipling
85. Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries – Rene Descartes
86. To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It’s futile to gaze at the world through a car window- Albert Einstein
87. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen – Benjamin Disraeli
88. Good company in a journey makes the way much shorter – Izaak Walton
89. You can’t see the whole sky through a bamboo tube – Japanese saying
90. Two great talkers will not travel far together – Spanish saying
91. People don’t take trips, trips take people – John Steinbeck
92. Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective – Rick Steves
93. He who does not travel does not know the value of men – Moorish saying
94. Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still – Chinese saying
95. Talk doesn’t cook rice – Chinese saying
96. Travelers never think that they are foreigners – Mason Cooley
97. On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy – Spanish saying
98. Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking – Rick Steves
99. Globetrotting destroys ethnocentricity, helping us understand and appreciate other cultures. Rather than fear the diversity on this planet, celebrate it. Among your most prized souvenirs will be the strands of different cultures you choose to knit into your own character. The world is a cultural yarn shop, and Back Door travelers are weaving the ultimate tapestry.
100. Some men see things as they are and say why; I dream things that never were and say why not? – George Bernard Shaw
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