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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “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

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

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

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

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

13. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

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

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

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

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

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

37. “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

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

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort 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

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “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

51. “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

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

54. “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

55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

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

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “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

64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

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

70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “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

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “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

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

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

77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

83. “We live in a 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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

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

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “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

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “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

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman

95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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43 Captions For Throwback Travel Pictures And The Pretty Mems On Your Phone

For when you’re ready to do it all over again.

It may be harder to travel now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reminisce about some of your favorite throwback travel memories by scrolling through your camera app. You may dream about the wild summer you lived on the West Coast, and the week-long adventure you had amongst Bali’s lush landscapes. After favoriting selfies and artsy candids, you may decide to finally post these hidden gems to your socials with sweet captions for when you miss traveling.

Especially now, those long-lost memories from a tropical vacation deserve better than to sit in your camera roll. A fun or wistful throwback travel captions will add a little something special to your memories, especially when you can’t jet off on a whim just yet. Not to mention, you wouldn't ever pass up the opportunity to show your loyal followers a glimpse of the weekend you toured the national parks in the cutest campervan or danced in the salty waves in southern France. That would be travesty, especially when your wanderlust is patiently waiting for the moment when you can travel again — when you can throw your carry-on bag in an overhead container, put in your headphones, and fly above the clouds.

Having the perfect caption for when you’re missing the vacation life is almost as important as the photo itself. You definitely don’t want captions that are super cheesy, overused, or don't make sense for your pics. To prevent a lost opportunity, choose from these captions for throwback travel pics and watch the likes come rolling in.

• "Waiting to travel again like..."
• "Throwing it back to the very best trip."
• "We loved those warmer days."
• "The happiest wherever I'm with you."
• "An oldie but goodie pic from my travels."
• "The world is such a wildly beautiful place."
• "Big fan of catching flights and finding cute cafés."
• "This is, without a doubt, my happy place."
• "Time flies when you're having fun, right?"
• "Palm tree appreciation post!"
• "To the other side of the world and beyond."
• "She's got her head in the clouds."
• "Remember when we were getting kissed by the sun?"
• "Daydreaming about this day."
• "Sunshine and good feelings."
• "Oh, this time and this place."
• "Nothing but blue skies and good vibes."
• "I have a whole world in my camera roll."
• "Slow down, sit down, and just be."
• "Just wishing we were here."
• "Beach days, always."
• "Things I'm grateful for: my passport, my pals, and the world."
• "Pretty excited that I found this pic from ages ago."
• "I could go for another morning like this."
• "The world looks beautiful on you."
• "Travel buddies for life."
• "If you were looking for a cool travel pic, here's one."
• "Found something magical there."
• "Will I ever stop posting pictures from this trip? Probably not."
• "Tangled up in trip memories."
• "My camera and passport. That's all I need."
• "Live a life that you love."
• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet." — Rachel Wolchin
• “Still wandering. Still wondering.”
• “My wanderlust is calling.”
• “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “ Take me back.”
• “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
• “Time flies…until you’re counting down the days to your next vacay.”
• “ Restless between adventures.”
• “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Can’t wait to do it all again.”

This article was originally published on 05.05.20

Travelling Without a Passport

Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

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

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, 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

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

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“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

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“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

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

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

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“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

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

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

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

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

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

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“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

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

• Quotes , Travel Tips
• November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
• 12 min read

If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.

Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.

In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.

Famous travel quotes

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

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain

6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

7. “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

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

9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous

12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” —Robert Frost

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  – Anita Desai

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”-Anonymous

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc

22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

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

26. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

27. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain

29. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

30. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

32. “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

33. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

34. “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

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

36. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell

38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

39. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

40. “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

41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

42. “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

43. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

44. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

46. “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

47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” –Harun Yahya

48. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” –Unknown

49. “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

50. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

51. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

52. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

54. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

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

56. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

57. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

58. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

59. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

60. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

61. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

62. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

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

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

65. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

66. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

67. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

68. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

70. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

71. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

72. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

78. “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

79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

80. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

81. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

82. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

83. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

84. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

85. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

86. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery

87. “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

88. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

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

90. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli

91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

92. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”   -Susan Heller

93. “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

94. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.”   -Eric Weiner

95. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost

96. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

97. “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

98. “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

99. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde

100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde

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117 Inspirational Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Who doesn’t love a good travel quote? When I’m feeling a bit glum or stressed (let’s face it, we all do from time to time), I love reading inspirational travel quotes from travellers of centuries past.

I’ll admit – I used to dismiss travel quotes as trite sayings that were clichéd and overused – and you know what, some are. But there’s a lot to be learned from the words of Maya Angelou, Ibn Battuta, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck and their ilk.

Somehow, there’s always that one travel quote that is just what you are looking for to brighten your day, the one that reminds us we can really go out and conquer the world – or that taking that first solo trip is never as scary as it seems.

So here we are, the best travel quotes, inspirational travel quotes, journey quotes , adventure quotes and solo travel quotes to help perk up your day. Are you ready?

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“The World is a Book and Those Who do not Travel Only Read One Page.” – Saint Augustine

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.” William Hazlitt

“For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known.” Alfred Tennyson

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.”  The Prophet Mohamed

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”  John Steinbeck

“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

“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.

“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd.

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin.

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – JRR Tolkien

“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut.  

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“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

“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.

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.  You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

“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.

“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”  – Gustave Flaubert

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”  Mark Twain

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

“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon.

“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

“You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” –  William Hazlitt

“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.” –  Alain de Botton

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” –   Dagobert David Runes

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”  – Henry David Thoreau

“How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.” –  Sarah Reijonen

“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

“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” –  Aldous Leonard Huxley

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less travelled by.”  Robert Lee Frost

“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

“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber.

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“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.

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

“Travel is only glamorous in retrospect” –  Paul Theroux

“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

“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

“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

“Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard.

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”- Greg Anderson

“The journey itself is my home.” – Bashō Matsuo

“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.” – Wolfgang Goethe

“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

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

“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

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

“Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine

“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

“Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand?” – Richard Aldington

“I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.”-  William Hazlitt

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” –  Cesare Pavese

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –   Ralph Emerson

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” – Brian Selznick.

“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” –-Aldous Huxley

“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – Nicolas Bouvier

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” – Roman Payne

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” – Vera Nazarian

“The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“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.

“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” –  Charles Horton Cooley

“Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour.

“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

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir

“People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” – Martin Yan

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” – Norma Shearer

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

“ Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

“In travelling, I shape myself betimes to idleness and take fools’ pleasure.”- George Eliot

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

“In Life, It’s Not Where You Go, It’s Who You Travel With” –   Charles Schulz

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” –  Anais Nin

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” –  Herman Melville

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”  – Oscar Wilde

“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home.” – Carl Burns

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnet

“Traveling 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

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” –  Paul Theroux

“Remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.” – Ryszard Kapuściński

 “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –  Tim Cahill

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Dame Freya Madeline Stark

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Star

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” – Anderson Cooper.

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

“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”- Christopher McCandless

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf

“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

“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

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Fuel Your Wanderlust With These 25 Inspirational Travel Quotes

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Are you searching for the best inspirational quotes to fuel your upcoming adventures? I’ve compiled a list of 25 of my favorite inspirational travel quotes that will make you want to buy that plane ticket!

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Inspirational Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

They’re not lost, they’re just out writing inspirational travel quotes….

There is so much truth in this inspirational quote…

I’m already disappointed by the things I didn’t do yesterday…

Such a sad but true inspirational quote…

I try to live this inspirational quote every day…

That inspirational quote inspired me to get rid of my unnecessary junk that was weighing me down…

If Helen Keller isn’t an inspiration, who is…

More of a love story inspiration than travel inspiration…

Hope these are inspiring you to get out and see the world…

1999 is a complete blank…

Nick bought me a travel journal before our first big trip and wrote this inspirational travel quote on the first page. It’s been my favorite ever since…

Inspirational life quote…

Another inspirational quote that is so sad but so true…

I have to recite this inspirational travel quote to myself during every difficult hiking adventure…

Especially when traveling solo…

Mine was last week…

This inspirational travel quote describes my greatest fear…

I’d like to think that Nick says this about me…

The best girl power inspirational quote of all time…

All I want for Christmas…

Plus I want to go back to all the places I’ve been…

Inspiration to stop being so serious…

I love this one so much…

And make your life an inspiration…

Hope you’re planning your next trip…

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117 Best Travel Quotes in History

Travel quotes can best be described by Isaac D’Israeli, who noted that, “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

In no more than a sentence, a quote can capture much of spirit and desire which makes so many people want to go out and explore.

In addition to the best travel quotes below, I’ve also provided my own commentary on some of the quotes, offering my perspective after 11 years of traveling around the world. I hope you find these travel quotes inspiring and use them to help further traveling the world for the rest of your life!

1. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Author Robert Louis Stevenson practiced what he preached. Born in Scotland , he died in Samoa and I had the honor of visiting his tomb. He traveled halfway around the world to live on an island that few people at the time, or even today, have even heard of.

2. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

Frey Stark was a travel writer who traveled extensively in the Middle East and wrote several books about her adventures. She lived to the age of 100 and lived an incredible life. Only someone as well traveled as she can know the freedom and exhilaration of waking up someplace you have never been before.

3. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd

This quote comes from the 1928 book, “Salt from My Attic.” Fear is the single greatest thing stopping people from traveling more. Even if staying at home can reduce your risk, that doesn’t mean you should stay home. Humans are explorers and we have the spirit of exploration inside all of us. Staying at home your whole life makes you as useful as a ship that goes nowhere.

4. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

If you haven’t traveled before, you will not understand the truth of this quote. There are certain cities which have a unique smell and the moment I smell it, I know I am there. Bangkok has a unique smell. Many European cities do as well. It might come from many sources including street food, sewage, pollution, flowers, and people. Stories and images can easily be shared, but smells are something which is only for those who actually travel.

5. “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

When I hear people who complain or object to people in other countries, my first question is always “when were you last there?”. Almost always, their answer is “I’ve never been there”. It is easy to develop prejudices from afar, but it is difficult to do when you have met these people and have looked them in the eye.

6. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley, the author of a Brave New World, knew that to truly understand something, you need to see it for yourself. All of the books and experts in the world are no substitute for actually going somewhere and seeing it for yourself.

7. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was a philosopher who lived in the 15th and 16th Century in England . He was influential in the development of the Scientific Revolution. I’ve met people in their 20’s who have been traveling and I have met people in their 90s. Even though they might get different things out of travel, travel has something for everyone.

8. “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

After traveling around the world for 3 years, I returned to my home country and I was a very different experience. After seeing so many different places, it made my look at my own country in a totally different light. It is a perspective I never would have had if it wasn’t for travel.

9. “I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” – David Attenborough

At the end of the day, we travel to go places. Few people truly wander aimlessly. They travel to a destination and for a purpose. Airports and hotels are not the purposes of traveling. They are simply the means to the end of being able to see the rest of the world.

10. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

The ideas of acceptance and toleration are a common theme in travel quotations. Benjamin Disraeli was the British Prime Minister in the 19th Century who understood that the only way to tolerate other ideas and beliefs is to encounter them in the course of traveling. If you never go anywhere, it is hard to understand why other people behave and believe what they do.

11. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson was an 18th Century British writer. I can confirm what he says first hand. I’ve seen small things in my travels, from light switches to toilets, which I’ve often wondered “why don’t we do that?” Humanity has advanced through the millennia by exchanging goods and most importantly, ideas. As good ideas flow from culture to culture, everyone’s life improves.

12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” –T.S. Eliot

I’ve had plan journeys which have taken more than 2 days to get from place to place when you include all the flights and layovers. While I hate it at the time, I often look back on them and realize it was the difficulty in getting somewhere which made the end all that much better.

13. “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

This is one of the popular and widely cited travel quotes in history. Saint Augustine lived in the 4th and 5th Century and lived in northern Africa and Italy. In an age when few people traveled more than a few kilometers from where they were born, Augustine saw more of the world than all but a few people during his life.

14. “Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – JRR Tolkien

In Tolkien’s Middle Earth universe, the Hobbits were quiet people who shunned any sort of travel. That made the characters of Bilbo and Frodo that much more heroic given the culture which they came from. Likewise, I came from a family which never traveled much. I never left North American until I was 29 years old and I never even saw salt water until I was 21! Just because you come from a place where people don’t travel much, doesn’t mean you have to as well.

15. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

Proust was a French novelist in the 19th Century. He knew that the transformative changes which travel brings are the greatest gift of travel.

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

Even though Lao Tzu lived 2,500 years before me, I found out learned what he meant. Early in my travels, I learned to keep my plans flexible and to not keep too rigid of a schedule. You never know what you will encounter when you are on the road, and keeping things flexible allows you to discover things you might never have.

17. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

Without getting into a discussion of tourists vs travelers, there is certainly a difference in how people can view the world when they travel. Many people will only see what they want to see and will try to make their experiences conform to their worldview. Others will be open to experiencing and learning what the world has to offer and shape their worldview around it.

18. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

Euripides was an ancient Greek playwright. Even more than 2,000 years ago he knew that travel was the greatest school in the world. I have learned more in the years I have been traveling than I have in the rest of my life combined. Every day you are traveling, you are learning something new.

19. “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

John Hope Franklin was a 20th Century historian. Like Euripides, he knew that learning wasn’t confined to textbooks and classrooms.

20. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

This is a quote from a well-known poem, but most people don’t consider the travel implications of it. There are a small number of places which tend to get all of the visitors. A few major cities and resort areas get the vast majority of tourists. However, the best experiences I’ve had traveling were in places which hardly anyone ever visits.

21. “Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” – W. H. Auden

Traveling is all about stories and storytelling. That is why so much of travel throughout history has been conveyed through writing. Travel photography is certainly a popular art form, you are usually capturing the place or destination, not the actual act of traveling.

22. “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor” – Seneca

Writers often go somewhere new to get inspiration. Being somewhere new invigorates you in a way that being a home cannot. Even though I’ve been to over 130 countries, I still feel energized when I visit someplace new.

23. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel

Daranna Gidel is an author whose novels often contain a travel component. She knew that when we travel, we tend to focus on what matters and lose the distractions which otherwise rob of us focus in our lives.

24. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

25. “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany

26. “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

27. “Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.” – Yogi Berra

28. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

29. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” – Anatole France

30. “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller

31. “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

32. “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley

33. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

34. “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

35. “After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.” – Jim Harrison

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

37. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

38. “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

39. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

40. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

41. “Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour

42. “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

43. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

44. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

45. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

46. “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir

47. “Without travel, I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

48. “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

49. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

50. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

51. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

52. “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

53. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

55. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

56. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

57. “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” – Amelia E. Barr

58. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

59. “Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine

60. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

61. “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.” – Jawaharal Nehru

62. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

63. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

64. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

65. “Once you have traveled, 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

66. “Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.” — Howard Gardner

67. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark

68. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

69. “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” – Britney Spears

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

71. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” – Elizabeth Drew

72. “Certainly, 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

73. “There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!” – Brähmann

74. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” – Richard Burton

75. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

76. “He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” – Sinclair Lewis

77. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

78. “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart

79. “I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.” – Philip Glass

80. “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Andre Gide

81. “Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections.” – Augustus Hare

82. “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” – Martin Yan

83. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

84. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there”. – Yogi Berra

85. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Genest

86. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

87. “Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” – Sargent Shriver

88. “To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.” – Philip Andrew Adams

89. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide

90. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

91. “In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.” – Ivanka Trump

92. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

93. “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

94. “I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” – Steve McQueen

95. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Pamela Goldoni

96. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

97. “Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.” – Robin Leach

98. “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

99. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” – Norma Shearer

100 . “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

101. “If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport”. – George Winters

102. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

103. “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt

104. “No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzi

105. “While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.” – Anne Tyler

106. “We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character” – Henry David Thoreau

107. “People don’t take trips . . . trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

108 . “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

109. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

110 . “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine

111. “There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.” – Thomas Wolfe

112. “NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

113. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

114.   “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -Tim Cahill

115. “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

116. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

117. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

120 Best Travel Quotes (with Photos) to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Travel quotes possess a unique power, encapsulating the essence of our journeying experiences. Whether they are motivational quotes about traveling or inspirational travel quotes on exploration, these words often resonate deeply within us. I have curated a collection of inspiring quotes paired with captivating images to convey the profound sentiments evoked by travel.

When merged with striking visuals, these quotes possess the ability to transport others to the essence of your travel encounters. My selection of travel quotes is designed to ignite inspiration and drive, urging you and fellow wanderers to embark on new explorations. Whether as travel quotes for Instagram or Pinterest , these words are crafted to accompany your travel stories seamlessly. For an extra dose of wanderlust, explore my adventure quotes as well!

Prepare to be stirred by a fusion of my cherished travel quotes and poignant photographs captured during my journeys. Let these words and images kindle your wanderlust!

120 Best Travel Quotes

Travel adventure quotes.

1. “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

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

3. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

4. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha

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5. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

6. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

7. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain

8. Is there something you want to do that freaks you out? Go for it! Sometimes, the scariest ideas turn into the best travel memories.

11. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

12. “Great things never came from comfort zones.”

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

14. “The travel route to wisdom starts with the first step, even if it is taken in the wrong direction.” – Paulo Coelho

15. “The best trips are the ones where you don’t make any plans and just see where the wind takes you.”

16. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”

Famous Travel Quotes

17. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

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

19. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”

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20. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

23. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle

24. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

25. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

26. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”

27. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

28. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

29. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

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30. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

31. “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

32. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

33. “Traveling is like an adventure where you don’t know what’s going to happen next, but you’re excited to find out.”

34. “The world is a magical place, and it’s full of adventures waiting to be had.”

35. “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.”

36. “I want to make memories all over the world.”

37. “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

Inspirational Travel Quotes

38. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”

41. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

42. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

43. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must be awakened.”

44. “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”

45. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Travel Quotes for Couples

46. “Adventures are best served together.”

47. “Let’s get lost.”

48. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

49. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” — Rumi

50. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll

51. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Margaret Mitchell

53. “Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze

54. “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E. Grin

55. “A couple who travel together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

Memory Travel Quotes

56. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

57. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

58. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

59. “Traveling- it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Battuta

60. “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

61. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.”

62. “Traveling is a way to discover new cultures and ways of life, to learn about the world and ourselves, and to create lasting memories.”

63. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” -Oscar Wilde

64. “Girls just wanna have sun.”

65. “Culture shock is feeling homesick but not knowing where home is.” – Rick Steves

66. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

67. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

Short Travel Quotes

68. “The world is a canvas to the imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau

70. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. “I’m not a tourist, I’m a traveler.” – Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in 24

72. “Backpacking is money spent on education.”

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

74. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

75. “The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

76. “Never stop doing things for the first time.”

77. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” -Harvey Lloyd

78. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

79. “Travel is my therapy.”

80. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

81. “Do not dare not to dare.”

82. “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”

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83. “I Googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.”

84. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

85. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one, EVER!

86. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

89. “I am not a great reader. I am more of a man of action. But I do like a good book about travel and adventure.” – Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

90. “I’ve got 99 problems. But I’m on vacation, so I’m ignoring them all!”

Funny Travel Quotes

91. “This is my resting beach face.”

92. “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.”

93. “The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and beer.”

94. “I followed my heart, and it led me to the airport.”

95. “I’m getting used to wearing flip-flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show up to a board meeting in sandals.”

96. “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

97. “You know it’s time for vacation when you start looking like the person on your driver’s license.”

98. “In Travel Mode. Do not disturb.”

99. “Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore. They pack and travel the world.”

Solo Travel Quotes

100. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

101. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

102. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

103. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

104. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world.”

105. “My Friend: I’m getting a house. Another Friend: I’m having a baby. His Friend: I’m getting married…Me: I’m headed to the airport.”

107. “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

108. “The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

109. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

110. “I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport.”

Family Travel Quotes

111. “Traveling with kids is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”

112. “Traveling with kids is not a vacation. It’s an adventure.”

113. “Traveling with kids is like taking a time machine back to when you were a kid and experiencing everything with them.”

114. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” -Hodding Carter

115. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” -Leigh Hunt

116. “The world is a playground, and traveling with kids is like having a VIP pass.”

117. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” -Og Mandino

118. “Forget toys. It’s time to travel.”

119. “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” -Charles R Swindoll

120. “Making memories one family trip at a time.”

Travel Captions

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“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” ~ Freya Stark

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” ~ Henry Miller

“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

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” ~ Lao Tzu

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” ~ Shirley MacLaine

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” ~ Lawrence Block

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

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings” ~ Moslih Eddin Saadi

Final Thoughts on the Best Travel Quotes

May these travel quotes ignite a passion within you to embrace life to the fullest and perceive the world through a lens of excitement. Whether you seek a respite from the rigors of office life or embark on a thrilling backpacking expedition, each encounter you face will serve as invaluable lessons and cherished memories.

Incorporate these travel quotes into your journal entries, share them across your social media platforms to rally friends to join your adventures, or use them as captivating captions for your upcoming posts. Let the spirit of wanderlust proliferate and inspire a wave of exploration!

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150 Best & Inspirational Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Last Updated on: Sep 21, 2023  

Are you looking for travel quotes and travel captions for Instagram? You have come to the right place. Everyone needs a bit of motivation and inspiration now and then. Words have the power to make changes and shift perspectives. A wonderful travel quote is sometimes the best way to get inspired. We love to read travel quotes! The explorers and adventurers of yore have given us much food for thought in the form of best travel quotes, Instagram captions and inspirational travel quotes!

Here are some inspirational travel quotes about journey, adventure, friends and destinations and some famous travel quotes from movies. From explorers of the past to modern-day gurus, we have tried to cover a few of our favourite and best travel quotes.  It might make you pack your bags and set out to see the world around you. For those who have already been bitten by the travel bug, some extra stimulation doesn’t hurt! Finally, even if not travel, these sayings might inspire you to come out of your comfort zone and do something that you are born to do!

And yes, you can use these awesome travel captions for Instagram as well!

Inspirational Travel Quotes & Captions for Instagram

1. When was the last time you did something for the first time. – John C. Maxwell

This travel quote inspires us to do all the crazy stuffs we have done. I am very scared of water. Agni simply inspires me with this quote before I go all out for any water sports. Before doing the scuba diving at Andaman , I was out of my wits. But I did it. Be it playing with the snow at Tsomgo Lake near Gangtok or shouting at top of our lungs at the Rupin Pass summit, we try to do things that we have not done before.

2. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel for the simple joy of it. Not for the reasons like peer pressure, getting the best social media posts or simply because everyone is doing so. There is a subtle joy in the journey. Travel without prejudice and without being judgmental .

3. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert

Only when you see the mighty mountains, the vastness of the seas and the magnanimity of nature, only then you can truly understand our place in the world. Travel has made us grow, it has made us grateful and humble – something no other thing could have done.

5. 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

This is perhaps one of the best quotes by Bourdain . It portrays all that is true about travelling without glorifying the glamour that is associated with travel these days. Travel is not about the perfect Instagram pictures where ladies sway around in their beautiful looking dresses and men looks perfect in with their six-pack abs. Travel is not only about taking the perfect sunset photos. Travel is not about glamour and fashion. Travel is anything but all these.

The photographs that you see everywhere are the best ones. Even this blog puts up only the best ones. But there are moments in travel that are not that great. There are long queues, missed flights, no sleep, dirty toilets and other mishaps. But whatever the experience is, good or bad, it shapes us into the person we are .

6. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.― Mark Twain

Yes, I had been waiting long for the perfect moment to do what I loved to. That moment actually never came until I realized that each moment is perfect for doing the thing I love. You just have to start off, begin the journey. Rest all will fall into place. This happens to be one of my favourite travel quotes.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. – Ernest Hemingway

12. All men dream, but no equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -T.E. Lawrence

13. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

14. Travelling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – Cesare Pavese

15. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime. – Mark Twain

You cannot really sit at a corner and learn about the world and its people. Mark Twain has such great insight into travel and it shows in his quotes.

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

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

18. 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

Do not lose you sense of wonder. Marvel in the little joys of life. Not only it will mak you travel better, but also your life. Nothing can beat the thrill of travelling for us. We are happiest when we are travelling and exploring the world.

19. 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

20. There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson

21. The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

22. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The quote by Erick Widman is directed to all those who have forgotten the simple joys of travelling while trying to capture and document the destinations. Once in a while, put away the camera or phone, stop taking down notes, and simply soak in the place.

24. If we travel imply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown

25. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

26. Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. ― Michael Palin

Best Travel Quotes Showing the Importance of Travel

27. We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. – Ray Bradbury

28. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. — Lawrence Block

29. Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. – Simon Raven

30. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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

We totally agree with Michener. If we do not meet new people, reject their customs and traditions, we better remain at home. If e choose to live in our own castle, then it is no point in travelling to a new place. You can simply do that by a flick of a channel nowadays. We travel to meet new people, experience a new culture and taste various cuisine. And of course, in all our explorations, respect the people and their traditions .

Short Travel Quotes & Travel Captions for Instagram

32. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

33. Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta

The famous Moroccan scholar and explorer had widely travelled the medieval. His thirty years of journey has been chronicled in A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling.

While travelling, we are often wonderstruck at the beauty of the nature or cultural heritage of the place. There are times we think that that we can neither express these feelings by words, nor can capture the marvel on camera. But travelling has its own way of expression. It finds its way through the words of the traveller and we, ordinary people become extraordinary storytellers .

34. Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman

35. The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. – Wallace Stevens

36. Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty

37. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. To travel isto take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye

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

40. The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.

41. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson

42. It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

43. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. – Frank Borman

44. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

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

46. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

47. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. – Izaak Walton

48. The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have –   Anna Quindlen

49. All you need to know is that it’s possible. – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

50. It feels good to be lost in the right direction. – Anonymous

51. Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. – Anonymous

52. The goal is to die with memories not dreams

53. Live your life by a compass not a clock. – Stephen Covey

54. Collect moments, not things. – Anonymous

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

56. Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac

57. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. – T. S. Eliott

58. What is life but one grand adventure? – Unknown

59. Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. – Paulo Coelho

We love this quote by Coelho. Well, money does make things easier and we need it to visit places. But even with all the money in the world we will not be able to travel if don’t have the courage to go out of our comfort zone.

59. It is better to travel well than to arrive. – Buddha

60. Backpacking is money spent on Education.

61. Veni Vidi Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved. – Roman proverb.

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

63. There are seven days in a week and “someday” isn’t one of them. – Benny Lewis

64. The journey, not the arrival matters. – T.S. Eliot

65. Spontaneity is what travel is all about. – Zach Anner

66. Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde has summarized life and travel so well in this small line.

67. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

68. Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. – Bob Bitchin

69. I’m in love. Again. How on earth do people pick a favourite travel spot? – Jen Malone.

70. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – W.B. Yeats

71. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

Funny Travel Quotes

72. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

This is perhaps one of the most appropriate quote of current times. With so much political confusion and religious hatred all around, it is very easy to form an opinion about a place and its people. Travel, because it is by visiting the place, you will come to know how wrong an opinion you had of that country!

73. I always want to wear flip flops, but my boss doesn’t like it…guess, I’ve to travel then!

74. Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.

75. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. – Susan Heller

76. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. – Robert Benchley

77. I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal! – Jarod Kintz

78. You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux

79. All you need is love a passport.

80. There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous. – Theo Cowan

81. Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place and very little different from becoming a parcel. – John Ruskin

82. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. – Ed Viesturs

83. When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. – Helen Hayes

Top Journey Quotes – Life is a journey after all!

84. If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. – Dan Rather

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

This is the motto that we follow while travelling. We do have a rough plan in mind, but we are always flexible. Who knows that there might be one more beauty just round the corner that is not written in the guidebooks? When we travelled to Nepal, we completely overhauled our travel itinerary only to see the BistekJatra and SindurJatra at Bhakatpur. And believe me, it was an amazing experience.

86. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

87. A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. – Pico Iyer

88. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. – Marty Rubin

89. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

90. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Babs Hoffman

If we had to worry about the mishaps that might happen on road, then we probably could never have travelled. Even when we started travelling together, I never used to worry much about what might happen on the road. The joy of discovering the new path, crazier experiences always made me excited before a trip. Hoffman has just hit the nail on head with this quote.

91. 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

93. Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing. – Gayle Foreman

94. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

95. Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle

The quote by Seattle holds true even more nowadays. This one should be followed by all. Travelling is about making memories and not throwing your trash; Clean and green environment always helps

96. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

Though we do not believe in lists, but we totally agree with Susan Sontag. We do not know whether we will be ever able to complete our list in this lifetime, but we do not lose hope. Given a chance, we will visit everywhere!

97. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – John Green

John Green just resonates my feeling. Agni and I totally love to meet new people, talk to them and share life stories with each other.

98. I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro

99. I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures. – Conny Cernik

Travel Quotes from Movies

100. Carpe Diem. Seize the Days boys. Make your lives extraordinary. – Dead Poets Society

101. Live moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

102. So, do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone. – Saito, Inception

103. You get only one life. Its actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. – Will Traynor, Me Before You

104. The core of man’s spirit comes from new experiences. – Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild

105. I think if you wanted to you could board the train. And where it would take me? On. – Dumbledore and Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

106. I didn’t know where I was going until I got there. – Cheryl Strayed, Wild

107. 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. – Walter Mitty, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

108. I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And most surprising of all, that I could carry it. – Wild

109. I would rather have 30 minutes of “wonderful” than a lifetime of nothing special. – Shelby, Steel Magnolias

110. Life is about courage and going into the unknown. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

111. As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh just steals my heart with this quote. And I always keep telling this to Agni while reminiscing the first time we met!

112. I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. – Jack Dawson, Titanic

Some Other Famous Travel Quotes

113. Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. – Unknown

114. If you want to succeed you should strike out new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockefeller

115. Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. – Mercedes Lackey

116. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

117. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

118. Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you. – Ewan McGregor

119. Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

120. 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

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

122. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. – Mark Twain

123. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

124. To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. – Charles Horton Cooley

125. A wise traveller never despises his own country. – William Hazlitt

126. I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. – Laurel Clark

127. 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

128. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

129. I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. – Michael Palin

130. Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels. – Nikos Kazantzakis

131. You get educated by travelling. – Solange Knowles

133. Travelling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

134. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes

134. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

135. 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

136. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

137. The more we travelled, the more we learnt new things. More boundaries were broken, horizons broaden. Once you have travelled, you cannot go back to the confined cubicle of yours.

138. The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

139. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

140. Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. – Rick Steves

141. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

142. Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. – Santosh Kalvar

143. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot

144. 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

145. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber

146. TRAVEL!! Before you run out of time…

147. Travel far enough to meet yourself – David Mitchell

148. An investment in travel is an investment into yourself – Matthew Karsten

149. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer – Unknown

150. Cover the earth before it covers you. – Dagobert D. Runes

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40 Best Travel Quotes

Travel quotes inspire and remind us of the simplicities of the world, lead us to adventure, and reveal truths about life. We have pulled together 40 of our favorite travel quotes that we hope motivate you to challenge yourself and explore the world around you.

1. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ~ Matthew Karsten

2. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

3. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

4. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

5. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

6. “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

7. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

8. "Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care.” - Earl Shaffer

9. "I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

10. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

11. “Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.” - Carrie Latet

12. "Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

13. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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

15. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

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

17. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

18. "Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

19. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

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

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

22. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

23. "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

24. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

25. "It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary

26. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” - Frank A. Clark

27. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

28. "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle

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

30. "We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down." - Robert Sweetgall

31. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

32. "To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live." - Tenzing Norgay

33. "Anywhere is 'within walking distance'." - Anonymous

34. “When everything feels like an uphill struggle, Just think of the view from the top.” - Anonymous

35. "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread." - Edward Abbey

36. "Anywhere is 'within walking distance'." - Anonymous

37. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

38. "Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street." - William Blake

39. "If the winter is too cold and the summer is too hot, you are not a hiker." - Anonymous

40. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir

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75 Quotes About Family Travel To Cherish The Memories!

Family travel can be stressful . It doesn’t matter if you are the parent or the child , there are plenty of ways it could go wrong. After all, you don’t always have the same interests and lifestyle. There is nothing worse than having one bad family vacation and having everyone not willing to go to another one. However, there are many good  benefits of family travel . Whether that is bonding with some of the dearest people in your life or just exploring somewhere new together, family travel isn’t always so bad. That is why we have written this post on the 70 best quotes about family travel, so you can be inspired to travel with your family and cherish the precious memories . You will also find some excellent travel with kids quotes!

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Our Favorite Traveling With Family Quotes

These are our 10 favorite traveling with family quotes. Not only do these resonate with us, but they are also very insightful and inspirational !

1. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

2. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

3. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”

4. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

5. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali.

6. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

7. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

8. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis

9. “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll

10. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

Short Family Trip Quotes

Short family trip quotes are perfect if you don’t want to have long captions that might sound a little too cheesy. They are perfect for every occasion!

1. “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” – Walt Whitman

2. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams

3. “Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” – Joan Rylen

4. “A family that travels together stays together.”

5. “Adventure awaits.”

6. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

7. “Travel to unravel.” – Richie Norton

8. “To travel is to live. Life’s a trip.” – Richie Norton

9. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”

10. “No road is long with good company.”

Funny Quotes About Family Travel

Nothing is easier to remember than humor ! Use one of these funny quotes about family travel to remember those loving memories.

1. “I don’t want to go to Peru.” How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.” – Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower (2005)

2. “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley

3. “Are we there yet?”

4. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

5. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

6. “My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.”

7. “Education is important but travel is importanter!”

8. “I need Vitamin Sea.”

9. “No WiFi out here, but I found a better connection.”

10. “Now is the time to seas the day.”

Inspirational Family Vacation Quotes

Sometimes family travel isn’t all glamorous. In fact, it probably isn’t most of the time. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t travel! Take in some of these inspirational family vacation quotes and push yourself to do what needs to be done!

1. “Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember, is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.”

2. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

3. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” – Mehmet Murat ildan”

4. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

5. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson

6. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

7. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart

8. “Live in this belief: “I am not born for any one corner of the universe; this whole world is my country.” – Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

9. “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” – Barbara Bush

10. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides

Happy Family Travel Quotes

Cherish those special memories of your vacation using one of our favorite happy family travel quotes! 

1. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

2. “Happiness [is] only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

3. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”

4. “Suntans and sandcastles.”

5. “I live to explore the world with the people I love the most.”

6. “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.” – Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (2018)

7. “Joy is portable, bring it with you.”

8. “What’s your favorite place?” “I don’t have a favorite place. I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.”

9. “Oh, the places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss

10. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

Profound Travel Quotes With Family

Family travel is more than what you see on the surface. Our profound travel quotes with family will you understand why this is such an incredible experience !

1. “Not all classrooms have 4 walls.”

2. “Adventures are the best ways to learn.”

3. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

4. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

5. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

6. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.”

7. “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself.” – Richie Norton

8. “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

9. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

10. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

Simple Family Adventure Quotes

Simple family adventure quotes are the best captions for remembering your family vacation memories. Easy and simple , they are perfect for social media !

1. “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

2. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

3. “Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to kids.”

4. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ” – Anita Desai

5. “If you don’t try new things, you stay stupid.” – Alexander Watson

6. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.”

7. “People forget the years and remember moments” – Ann Beattie

8. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.”

9. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

10. “Always say yes to family travel!” 

Bonus Family Outing Quotes!

Did you think we were done? Here are 5 bonus family outing quotes that will help you describe that special bonding time on your family vacations!

1. “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

2. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

3. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

4. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.”

5. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

How Do You Caption a Family Trip?

Captioning a family trip can be both fun and memorable, allowing you to express the joy and experiences of the journey. Selecting the perfect caption for your family trip photos can be difficult, but we recommend you to select a quote that evokes emotions.

Look for the following characteristics in the quotes:

• Something that emphasizes the significance of shared experiences in strengthening familial bonds
• Something that encapsulates the essence of a family vacation, focusing on love and happiness as the core of a memorable trip
• Something that is humorous and reflects the chaos and fun of traveling with children
• Something that captures the excitement and anticipation of a family trip
• Something that emphasizes the joy of creating lasting memories together

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100 Incredible Quotes About Missing Friends

Missing a friend? Looking for quotes about missing friends to put how you feel into words? Check out these 100 heartfelt missing a friend quotes.

Danny Newman

Looking for some good quotes about missing friends? I hope this post helps!

Having spent the last 5+ years on the road , I’m no stranger to missing friends.

It’s a natural part of an itinerant lifestyle. But that doesn’t make it any easier!

If you’re in a similar position, the internet’s best quotes about missing friends could be a valuable source of comfort.

Whether you’re homesick, grieving, or simply unable to see your mates, here are 100 “I miss you quotes for friends” that might help.

[Last updated: June 2023]

Here we go then: 100 of the best quotes for missing friends!

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My Favourite Quotes For Missing Friends

I thought I’d start with the quotes about missing friends that stood out to me from the rest. Thought-provoking, meaningful, and memorable, here are 20 amazing missed friends quotes for all occasions.

1. “If it’s real they’ll find you no matter how far you go.” – R.M. Drake

2. “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.” – Alcibiades

3. “In times of separation, I affirm that our connection remains intact through spirit. Spirits lead our loving hearts and spirit knows no distance or separation.” – Julia Cameron

4. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anaïs Nin

5. “My world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.” – Sanober Khan

6. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” – A. A. Milne

7. “The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?” – Nicholas Rowe

8. “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” – Dodinsky

9. “Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown

“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.”

11. “When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I’m like a star; sometimes you can’t see me, but I’m always there.” – Jayde Nicole

12. “Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful ‘I miss you.’” – Richelle E. Goodrich

13. “Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is.” – Helen Fielding

14. “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” – Kay Knudsen

15. “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” – W.S. Merwin

16. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley

17. “I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

18. “Ocean separates lands, not souls.” – Munia Khan

19. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A. A. Milne

20. “It’s wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye.” – Elizabeth Acevedo

Some of the most valuable quotes about friends that you miss provide comfort when you’re feeling down.

Comforting Quotes About Missing a Friend

Some of the best quotes on missing friends provide a valuable sense of comfort when you’re feeling low. Here are 20 quotes that (in my opinion!) fit this description:

21. “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” Robert Louis Stevenson

22. “Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.” – Peyton Sawyer

23. “Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.” – Rachel Wolchin

24. “I don’t know what they are called the spaces between seconds- but I think of you always in those intervals.” – Salvador Plascencia

25. “Missing someone doesn’t always mean you need to have them back in your life. Sometimes you just feel their absence in present.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

26. “I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.” – Donna Lynn Hope

27. “There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you’ll miss their companionship and you’ll also miss their disrespect.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

28. “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” – Steve Maraboli

29. “Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

“And now, even without seeing you, we go our own way hand in hand, in our realm that is an everlasting spring.”

31. “That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.” – Kaui Hemmings

32. “When you miss someone in your life, just close your eyes and think the things that you do when you are with each other.” – Jeramae Panabia

33. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to be much more than reality would ever allow.” – Coco J. Ginger

34. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but your know they’re always there.” – Unknown

35. “And perhaps some will never understand. It is mostly the farewells that unite us, and last in our memory forever. Even more than the first meeting.” – Mimi Novic

36. “When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.” – William Hazlitt

37. “When you miss your loved one, remember the beautiful moments you’ve had with them. And when your heart swells, cuddle your pillow and let your tears soothe the pain.” – Anoir Ou-Chad

38. “If you think about someone you’ve loved and lost, you are already with them.” – Jodi Picoult

39. “You can never love someone as much as you miss them.” – John Green

40. “Every ray of sunshine, every drop of rain, every tear that falls, you are with me for I carry you in my heart forever.” – Heather Wolf

If insightul and inspiring missing a friend quotes are more what you’re looking for, then be sure to check out this next section!

Insightful Missing a Best Friend Quotes

Many quotes for missing a friend shed light on why you’re missing them so much! You learn the reasons behind your feelings, which, like a diagnosis, sometimes helps alleviate the strain. Here are 20 of these kinds of insightful quotes!

41. “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” – Tryon Edwards

42. “Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

43. “It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered.” – Robin Roe

44. “A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and specially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim Morrison

45. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau

46. “Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.” Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

47. “You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them.” – John Cena

48. “You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t.” – Kenny Rogers

49. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

51. “Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.” – Samuel Johnson

52. “The scary thing about distance is you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” – Nicholas Sparks

53. “When we miss someone, often what we really miss is the part of us that this someone awakens.” – Luigina Sgarro

54. “Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.” – Frank Ocean

55. “How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.” – Karen Harrington

56. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

57. “It’s hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you’re lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.” – Nikki Schiefelbein

58. “I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found.” – Helen Oyeyemi

59. “…Time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.” – Jamie Ford

60. “That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.” – Pittacus

Not all quotes about missing a friend have to go on forever and a day to make a difference to your mood. Here are some short ones to prove it!

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Short Quotes About Friends That You Miss

Some of the best “I miss you quotes for a friend” are short, sweet, and to the point. Here are 20 of them:

61. “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” – Richard Wilbur

62. “I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

63. “Half of me is missing…and the other half is missing you.” – Ranata Suzuki

64. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn

65. “I wake to you everywhere. Yet you are not here.” – Nayyirah Waheed

66. “If I miss you any harder my heart might come looking for you.” – Gemma Troy

67. “I only miss you when I’m breathing/ I only need you when my heart is beating.” – Jason Derrulo

68. “It is lonely here and I miss your light.” – Ranata Suzuki

69. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Old stories are like old friends…You have to visit them from time to time.”

71. “Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” – Calla Quinn

72. “Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.” – John Green

73. “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse De Lamartine

74. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” – Tom NcNeal

75. “How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

76. “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E. E. Cummings

77. “…no matter how strong the reason is, nobody deserves the long farewell.” – Robi Aulia Abdi

78. “Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” – Caroline George

79. “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” – Tryon Edwards

80. “Missing someone is the same as breathing, I suppose. It continues until the end.” – Caroline George

What better way to finish this post than with some beautiful I miss you quotes for friends?

Beautiful Missing a Friendship Quotes

Last but not least, here are 20 of the most beautiful missed friendship quotes I came across while researching this post:

81. “Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold.” – Joseph Parry

82. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey

83. “Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!” – Francis Kazinczy

84. “All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” – William Shakespeare

85. “If I had a single flower for every time, I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Grandi

86. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known – and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

87. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

88. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” – C.S. Lewis

89. “When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night.”

91. “In French, you don’t really say ‘I miss you’, you say ‘Tu me manques’ which means ‘You are missing from me’.” – Unknown

92. “Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.” – George Linley

93. “I miss you a little since you’ve been gone/ A few little memories keep hangin’ on/ I miss you a little, I guess you could say/ A little too much, a little too often/ A little more every day” – John Michael Montgomery, “I Miss You a Little”

94. “No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories. There is so much goodness that we shared together.” – Lucy Aims

95. “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki

96. “I have discovered gloomy hues, of life that I never knew. Now I understand our friendship’s value, from the bottom of my heart I miss you.” – Unknown

97. “I heard someone whisper your name, but when I turned around to see who it was, I was alone. Then I realized that it was my heart telling me that I miss you.” – Unknown

98. “…I think of you. Sometimes. In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine on a winter night.” – Sreesha Divakaran

99. “I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

100. “A thousand moments have flown past our eyes and with each caress of the wind, it carries a prayer, whispering…Oh how I miss you.” – Mimi Novic

Don’t Forget These Quotes about Missing Friends

Having had plenty of first-hand experience on the topic, I can safely say that missing friends is never fun.

Regardless of why you can’t see one another, it always sucks!

If you’re lucky, you can video call and catch up over the airwaves. But it’s still not the same as hanging out in person, face-to-face, spinning yarns, reminiscing, and having a good time in each other’s company.

Know the struggle? Well, I really hope these quotes about missing friends have provided some semblance of comfort and assurance.

With any luck, committing one or two missing friend quotes to memory will take the sting out of the experience whenever you’re next unable to see someone.

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A cruise vacation can take much of the stress out of planning a vacation. With a pre-set itinerary on the high seas, you don't have to worry about how you're getting to your destination and what you're going to do there. However, an unexpected emergency can take the wind out of your sails and money out of your travel budget. So you'll want to ensure you have the best cruise insurance plan that won't leave you high and dry in an emergency.

Our top picks for the best cruise insurance

• Best Overall: Nationwide Travel Insurance
• Best for affordability: AXA Assistance USA
• Best for seniors: Seven Corners Travel Insurance
• Best for expensive trips: HTH Worldwide Travel Insurance
• Best for exotic locations: World Nomads Travel Insurance

How we rate cruise insurance companies »

Best overall: Nationwide

Nationwide Travel Insurance  is a long-standing and reputable brand within the insurance marketplace that offers cruise insurance plans with solid coverage and reasonable rates.

It has three cruise insurance options: Universal, Choice, and Luxury. The Nationwide Choice plan, for example, offers $100,000 in emergency medical coverage and $500,000 in emergency medical evacuation coverage.

The right plan for you depends on your budget and coverage needs. But each plan offers cruise-specific coverages like ship-based mechanical breakdowns, coverage for missed prepaid excursions if your cruise itinerary changes, and covered service disruptions aboard the cruise ship.

Read our Nationwide Travel Insurance review here.

Best for affordability: AXA

AXA Assistance USA  offers three comprehensive coverage plans: Gold, Silver, and Platinum. Each of these plans offers coverage for issues like missed flights, medical emergencies, lost luggage, and more.

The highest-tier Platinum plan provides $250,000 in medical emergency coverage and $1 million in medical evacuation coverage. The baggage loss coverage is $3,000 per person, and their missed connection coverage is $1,500 per person for cruises and tours.

In addition, travelers can take advantage of AXA's concierge service, which provides an extensive network of international service providers. They'll be able to assist you with things like restaurant reservations and referrals, golf course information, and more. This service could come in handy if you're stopping at a variety of unfamiliar destinations during your cruise.

The coverage limits on AXA's policies are on the higher end compared to other providers. And you can buy coverage for a little as 4% of your trip cost depending on your age, travel destination, and state of residence.

Read our AXA Travel Insurance review here.

Best for seniors: Seven Corners

Seven Corners Travel Insurance lets cruisers enjoy traveling in their golden years with the knowledge they're covered in the event of an accident or emergency. While other providers do offer coverage to those 80+ years old, Seven Corners is known for its affordable premiums while offering above-average medical expenses and medical evacuation coverage limits — two areas of travel insurance coverage that are even more important as we get older.

Seven Corners also offers the option of a preexisting conditions waiver and CFAR insurance at an additional cost, plus "Trip Interruption for Any Reason" coverage, which you won't find on many policies.

You can choose between the Trip Protection Basic or Trip Protection Choice plans, with the higher-tier Choice plan costing more but providing more coverage.

Read our Seven Corners Travel Insurance review here. 

Best for expensive trips: HTH Worldwide

HTH Worldwide Travel Insurance  offers three levels of trip protection: TripProtector Economy, Classic, and Preferred. The higher the tier, the more coverage you'll get for things like baggage delays, trip delays & cancellations, and medical expenses. But their premiums remain reasonable even at the highest tier of coverage.

Not only does the HTH Worldwide Trip Protector Preferred plan offer higher-than-average medical emergency and evacuation coverage limits ($500,000 and $1 million, respectively), but you'll also get a baggage loss coverage limit of $2,000 per person and coverage for trip interruption of up to 200% of the trip cost. You also have the option to add CFAR coverage for an additional cost.

Read our HTH Worldwide Travel Insurance review here.

Best for exotic locations: World Nomads

World Nomads Travel Insurance  has been a top choice for comprehensive travel insurance for many years now. And it's a great option when it comes to cruise coverage, too.

Even the most basic Standard Plan comes with $100,000 in medical emergency coverage and $300,000 in emergency evacuation coverage. And you'll get higher coverage limits with their Premium Plan. Plus, unlike many other providers, World Nomads trip cancellation and emergency medical coverage include COVID-19-related issues.

What sets World Nomads apart from many other insurance companies is that its policies cover 200+ adventure sports. This can be important for adventurous cruisers who plan to take part in activities like jet skiing, scuba diving, or parasailing during their cruise.

Read our World Nomads Travel Insurance review here.

Introduction to Cruise Insurance

Cruise insurance may offer unique coverage like missed port of call and medical evacuation coverage. You might not need the flight protections of a regular travel insurance plan if you're catching a cruise at a port near you, but medical and cancel for any reason coverage could be critical. The best travel insurance plans will provide flexibility to add coverage options to fit your travels needs.

Understanding the Basics of Cruise Insurance

At its core, cruise insurance is your financial lifeboat, designed to protect you from unforeseen events that could disrupt your sea voyage. Whether it's a sudden illness, adverse weather, or other unexpected occurrences, having the right insurance can make a world of difference.

Why Cruise Insurance is Important

Picture this: You're all set for your dream cruise, but a sudden family emergency means you can't set sail. Or worse, you fall ill in the middle of the ocean. Without cruise insurance, you're not just missing out on an adventure, but also facing potentially huge financial losses. That's why securing cruise insurance isn't just recommended; it's a crucial part of your cruise planning.

Types of Cruise Insurance Coverage

Cruise insurance isn't a one-size-fits-all life jacket. There are various types of coverage, each tailored to protect different aspects of your cruise experience.

Trip Cancellation and Interruption Coverage

This coverage is like your safety net, catching you financially if you need to cancel your trip last minute or cut it short due to emergencies, be it due to personal, health-related, or even certain work conflicts.

Medical Coverage

Being on a cruise shouldn't mean being adrift from medical care. Medical coverage ensures that if you fall ill or get injured, your medical expenses won't sink your finances.

Emergency Evacuation Coverage

In the rare case that you need to be evacuated from the ship due to a medical emergency or severe weather, this coverage ensures you're not left adrift in a sea of expenses.

Baggage and Personal Effects Coverage

Imagine reaching your dream destination only to find your luggage lost at sea. This coverage ensures that lost, stolen, or damaged baggage doesn't dampen your cruise experience.

Buying Cruise Insurance

Securing the best cruise insurance isn't just about finding the best price; it's about ensuring it covers all your potential needs. 

When to Purchase Cruise Insurance

Timing is everything. Purchasing your insurance soon after booking your cruise can often provide additional benefits and ensure you're covered for any early surprises. As you get closer to your trip your coverage options may get more expensive, and certain providers may not be able to offer you coverage.

How to Find the Best Deals on Cruise Insurance

Keep a lookout for deals, but remember, the cheapest option isn't always the best. Balance cost with coverage, and ensure you're getting the protection you need at a price that doesn't rock your financial boat. A travel insurance comparison site like SquareMouth is a good place to compare multiple quotes from all of the major carriers at once.

How we reviewed cruise insurance plans

When comparing cruise travel insurance providers, we evaluated them based on the following criteria to come up with our list of top picks:

Customer Satisfaction

We look at ratings from JD Power and other industry giants to see where a company ranks in customer satisfaction. We also look at customer review sites like Trustpilot and SquareMouth.

Policy Types

We look at policy types and offerings, from standard travel protections to adventure sports coverage. We look at the amount of insurance offered

Average Premiums

We compare average premiums per trip. Some companies also offer annual plans, and we compare policies accordingly.

Claims Paid

How frequently do companies pay claims easily and quickly? We check customer reviews and other resources to see which companies honor policies most effectively.

We look at the company's overall behavior. Is it operating ethically? Companies can earn additional points for such behaviors.

You can read more about how Business Insider rates insurance here.

How much does insurance cost for a cruise?

As a rule of thumb, you can expect to pay between 5% and 10% of your prepaid, nonrefundable trip expenses for cruise insurance coverage. The price will vary depending on factors like your age, your travel destination, and whether you require additional coverage.

When is the best time to buy cruise insurance?

If you're booking a cruise, we recommend purchasing travel insurance when you make your first trip payment. That could be for the cruise itself or an expense like airfare to get you to your cruising destination. This way, if you have to cancel your trip, you'll have the most extended coverage period possible.

Can I buy my own cruise insurance?

You can buy your own cruise insurance that isn't offered directly through the cruise line operator. In fact, this could be a better option if you want coverage for your travel to the cruise's departure point, not just for the cruise itself.

What is the difference between travel insurance and cruise insurance?

The difference between traditional travel insurance and cruise insurance is that cruise insurance offers more specialized coverage, for situations such as missing a departure port and more coverage for medical evacuations, since it's more expensive to evacuate someone at sea than on land. 

Can I claim for missed ports on a cruise?

Most cruise insurance includes coverage for missing a departure port, so you should be able to claim for a missed port. Just make sure you check the details of your policy before you file a claim, and before you travel so you know what compensation you're entitled to.

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