Lucky are those who have traveled the globe. Most of us count the days until our yearly vacations, where we get to experience new places and expand our minds. Here’s a list of travel quotes we love, that capture the sentiments of getting away perfectly.
50 Travel Quotes We Love:
1. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” Helen Hayes
2. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” Dick Clark
3. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” Henry Rollins
4. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” Cesare Pavese
5. “The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a f@@king tourist.” Guillermo del Toro
6. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” Dalai Lama
7. “See the world, it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury
8. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” Sir Richard Burton
9. “If 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. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” Anthony Bourdain
10. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” Unknown
11. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” Babs Hoffman
12. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Saint Augustine
13. “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag
14. “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” Asian Proverb
15. “The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.” Zach Braff
16. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” Matthew Karsten
17. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” Paul Theroux
18. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Scott Cameron
19. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” Susan Heller
20. “Jobs fill your pockets; adventures fill your soul.” Jaime Lyn Beatty
21. “Not all those who wander are lost”. J.R.R. Tolkien
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. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” Aldous Huxley
24. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” Mark Twain
25. “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
26. “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.
27. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
29. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharlal Nehru
30. “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
31. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart
32. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” Chief Seattle
33. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” Paul Coelho
34. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
35. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets. “Oscar Wilde
37. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” John Steinbeck
38. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” John Green
39. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” Gayle Foreman
40. “I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.“ Sylvia Plath
41. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin
42. “The journey is my home.” Muriel Rukeyser
43. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” Anonymous
44. “Worst thing about being a tourist, is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!” Russell Baker
45. “I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” Bob Hope
46. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck
47. “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” Erma Bombeck
48. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo” – Al Gore
49. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli
50. “Traveling, it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta.
We’ve shared some of our favorite travel quotes to tickle your wanderlust. There are funny, thought-provoking, and inspirational travel quotes here. If there are other quotes that have motivated you to go traveling the world, do let us know and we’ll share your favorite travel quote here too.
Check out more blogs for info on finding top-rated airport parking, the best parking spots in your city, the most affordable insurance for your car, and top-rated car washes near you.
