101 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

Travel quotes inspire me to remember why it was all worth it it in the first place.

Travel can seem like this glamorous adventure filled with perfect Kodak moments without a care in the world.

Any real traveler knows that this could not be further from the truth.

Traveling involves money, planning, creativity, energy, and a willingness to be uncomfortable.

To be a clean slate and allow the realities of the world to teach you something you cannot learn in a book.

I hope that these travel quotes inspire your wanderlust, and ignite your passion to see the world.

I scoured the internet and handpicked 101 travel quotes that spoke to me the most!

1. “Not all those who wander are lost.”― J.R.R. Tolkien
2. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
3. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” –Unknown
4. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustav Flaubert
5. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
6. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”― Terry Pratchett
7. “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
8. “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
9. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
    

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11. “Paris is always a good idea.”―  Audrey Hepburn
12. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
13. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
14. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
15. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― Agustine of Hippo
16. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
17. “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
18. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
20. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
    

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21. “The journey is the destination.” ― Dan Eldon
22. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
23. “Oh the places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
24. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
25. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
26. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― K. Chesterton
27. “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
28. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
30. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    

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31. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” ― Bill Bryson
32. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
33. “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
34. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
    To gain all while you give,
    To roam the roads of lands remote,
    To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
35. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
36. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
37. “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
38. “The journey itself is my home.” ― Matsuo Basho
39. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.” ― Anthony Bourdain
40. “One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” ― Sarah Glidden
    

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41. “Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” ― Thor Heyerdahl
42. “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!”― Kenneth Grahame
43. “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” ― Jodi Picoult
44. “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” ― Tahir Shah
45. “Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.”― Paul Theroux
46. “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.” ― Elizabeth Bishop
47. “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, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” ― Pico Iyer
48. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” ― Gayle Forman
49. “The best traveler is one without a camera.” ― Kamand Kojouri
50. “While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.” ― Whitney Otto
    

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51. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” ― Antoine de St. Exupery
52. One’s destination is never a place. It’s a new way of seeing things. ― Henry Miller
53. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. ― Dr. Suess
54. There’s the whole world at your feet. ― Mary Poppins
55. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
56. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”― Henry David Thoreau
57. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”― Agnes Repplier
58. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
59. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
60. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
    

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61. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
62. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
63. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
64. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ― Saint Augustine
65. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
66. “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
67. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” — Robert Frost
68. “The best education I have ever received was through travel.”― Lisa Ling
69. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
70. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
    

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71. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc
72. “I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.” —  Karamo Brown
73. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
74. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
75. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed
76. “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”―  Hypatia
77. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
78. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
79. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
80. “What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It’s to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.” ― Chris Pavone
    

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81. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
82. “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” ― Chris Humphrey
83. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
84. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
85. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ― Matthew Karsten
86. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
87. “Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it’s actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.”― Meghan Markle
88. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
89. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss
90. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” ― John Hope Franklin
    

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91. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
92. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
93. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
94. “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
95. “There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.” ― Emilio Estevez
96. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
97. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown
98. “Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.” ― Anthony Bourdain
99. Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.” ― Virginia Postrel
100. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” ― Unknown
101. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” ― Ray Bradbury

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