60+ Inspirational Travel Quotes

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Who doesn’t love getting lost in a collection of powerful and inspirational travel quotes that speak to the soul? Our ever-growing list of inspirational quotes is here to ignite your sense of adventure, whether you’re planning your next journey, reflecting on a recent one, or simply in need of a little motivation to keep exploring. These are the quotes that resonate with us deeply, capturing the essence of what it means to wander and discover.

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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

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. ~Dalai Lama

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

The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.~Anonymous

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

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

All you’ve got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over. ~ Tony Wheeler

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

It feels good to be lost in the right direction. ~ Unknown

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. ~ Lovelle Drachman

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a while. Including you. ~Anne Lamott

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. ~George Bernard Shaw

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take. ~Sheridan Anderson

Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself. ~Anonymous

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

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

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step ~ Lao Tzu

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

Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. ~ Anonymous

Travel is a part of education ~ Francis Bacon

A rough day at sea is better than any day in the office.  ~ Unknown

Cover the earth before it covers you. ~ Dagobert D. Ru

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

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~ Anita Desai

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. ~ Edith Wharton

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. ~ Rachel Wolchi

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a matter of traveling. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

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

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ~ St. Augustine

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. ~ Anonymous

Don’t count the days. Make the days count. ~ Muhammad Ali

Travel teaches toleration. ~ Benjamin Disrael

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. ~ Dalai Lama 

All glory comes from daring to begin. ~ Eugene F. Ware

Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. ~ Harvey Lloyd

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road ahead of you. ~ Brad Paisley

Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t. ~ Anonymous

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. ~ Anonymous 

Sometimes, the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. ~ Angela N. Blount

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

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

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times ~ Anonymous

The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder. ~ Suzy Kassem

Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time. ~ Aliyyah Eniath

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. ~ Cindy Lovell

Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~ Gustav Flaubert

All you need is a good dose of vitamin sea. ~ Unknown

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ~ Wallace Stevens

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ~ Jack Kerouac

I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can. ~ Charles Finch

Collect moments. Not Things. ~ Unknown

Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them. ~ Unknown

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~ Charles Kuralt

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. ~ Anthony Bourdain

Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

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

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs

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

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