100 of the Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust


LAST UPDATED: 5/26/23 – Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

If you are like me and travel is always on your mind, then you probably get as restless as I do in between trips.Β  Travel is that whisper in the back of your mind reminding you of how much you feel alive when you are visiting foreign places, learning about different cultures, and sharing new adventures.Β  Like the authors of these travel quotes, something deep inside of you awakens each time you embark on a new trip. Something wonderful.

Travel is one of those things that transcends boundaries and cultures and is something that we can all share a passion for as human beings.Β  No matter where you live, you are likely as curious about my homeland as I am about yours.Β  By sharing and learning thru travel, we all get a little bit closer. I think these wonderful travel quotes capture the essence of that.

Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

If you aren’t like me and you don’t constantly dream about travel, then fear not.Β  I have put together a collection of some of the most inspiring travel quotes that I could find that are sure to stir the wanderlust within you.Β  Hopefully these travel quotes help awaken the wanderlust within you.

If these travel quotes from some of the most adventurous spirits to walk this planet don’t stir your soul, then nothing will.Β  If you have a favorite travel quote that I have left off this list, please be sure to share it in the comments section below for others to enjoy!

Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

1.

β€œI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

2.

β€œThe core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.” – Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)

3.

β€œThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.

β€œTraveling 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

5.

β€œA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

6.

β€œTravel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

7.

β€œYou don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

8.

β€œWhat you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do β€” 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

9.

β€œCertainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Mary Ritter

10.

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

Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

11.

β€œOh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

12.

β€œThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

13.

β€œPerhaps 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

14.

β€œConventional 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

15.

β€œA journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

16.

β€œBe fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

17.

β€œ…there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)

18.

β€œTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

19.

β€œPeople do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary

20.

β€œI 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

Hans Christian Anderson

21.

β€œTo Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

22.

β€œI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

23.

β€œWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

24.

β€œTwo years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ’cause the West is the best’. And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” – Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)

25.

β€œI learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.” – Anthony Bourdain

Paul Theroux

26.

β€œTravel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

27.

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

28.

β€œThe first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

29.

β€œMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

30.

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

Dalai Lama

31.

β€œOnce a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

32.

β€œBecause 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

33.

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

34.

β€œIf you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.” – Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)

35.

β€œTraveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

36.

β€œIf I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. It’s a plus for everybody.” – Anthony Bourdain

37.

β€œIt is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

38.

β€œAdventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins

39.

β€œTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

40.

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

Chief Seattle

41.

β€œTake only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

42.

β€œTwo roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

43.

β€œWe 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

44.

β€œThe travel bug gets in you, and it’s got you.” – Scott Wilson (Departures)

45.

β€œLive life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

46.

β€œThe 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

47.

β€œRemember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

48.

β€œI’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

49.

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

50.

β€œLike all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

Audrey Hepburn Travel Quote

51.

β€œParis is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

52.

β€œLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

53.

β€œIf you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho

54.

β€œWe 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

55.

β€œA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

Stephen Covey Travel Quote

56.

β€œBlessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

57.

β€œTravel 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

58.

β€œTo awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

59.

β€œTraveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

60.

β€œOne day I hope to say I have seen the world, but that day is not here yet.” – Scott Wilson (Departures)

Paolo Coelho Travel Quote

61.

β€œTravel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho

62.

β€œThe pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

63.

β€œIt’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

64.

β€œUltimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.” – Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)

65.

β€œYour body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quote

66.

β€œAll you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

67.

β€œTwenty 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

68.

β€œNot all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

69.

β€œThe world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

70.

β€œOnly 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

Marty Rubin Travel Quote

71.

β€œTravel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

72.

β€œLife is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” – Hypatia

73.

β€œAnd then there is the most dangerous risk of all β€” 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

74.

β€œAdventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

75.

β€œWe wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc Travel Quote

76.

β€œWe travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

77.

β€œWe travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

78.

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

79.

β€œIf 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

80.

β€œTravel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

Augustine of Hippo Travel Quote

81.

β€œThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo

82.

β€œI will go anywhere, provided it is forward.” – Dr. David Livingstone

83.

β€œA great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins

84.

β€œEvery day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Basho

85.

β€œPeople don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Travel Quote

86.

β€œNever go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemmingway

87.

β€œTo travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

88.

β€œI always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.” – Karamo Brown

89.

β€œWe 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. Eliott

90.

β€œThe most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

T.S. Eliot Travel Quote

91.

β€œThe journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

92.

β€œThe life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

93.

β€œI 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

94.

β€œJobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

95.

β€œMake each day a new horizon.” – Christopher McCandless (Alexander Supertramp)

Christopher McCandless Travel Quote

96.

β€œA person susceptible to β€œwanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

97.

β€œRemember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

98.

β€œIt is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha

99.

β€œLive your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

100.

β€œOne travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” – Thomas Jefferson


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11 comments

  1. I love so many of these quotes, no matter how many times I see them.

  2. Love this post!! So many great ones, especially # 35, 49, 53, and 83. Laughed out loud at #40! Also love #51 – “Paris is always a good idea” – couldn’t agree more. And then there’s my all-time favorite, #81: The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Very inspiring Josh. Thank you.

  3. Brilliant — hard to pick but my favourites include 1,30,35,40,67 and 81!!!

  4. A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is from – Alain de Botton β€œThe pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to” Looking forward to hearing from you more

  5. wow Nice travel quotes

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