100 Inspiring Travel Quotes To Fuel Your Wanderlust

Some people think quotes, especially motivational ones can be corny and to be honest, we often agree. However, when it comes to inspiring travel quotes we find that some really do fuel our wanderlust and push us to book our next adventure. Some we enjoy just for the entertainment factor, but the majority do resonate with us. With that in mind, we have scoured the internet and found 100 inspiring travel quotes that we really like, find to be true or simply make us smile.

We hope these inspiring travel quotes fuel your wanderlust too. Who knows one may even inspire you to travel.

Inspiring Travel Quotes

“A Good Traveler Has No Fixed Plans And Is Not Intent On Arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“A Journey Is Best Measured In Friends, Rather Than Miles.” –Tim Cahill
“A Journey Is Like Marriage. The Certain Way To Be Wrong Is To Think You Control It.” – John Steinbeck
“A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Must Begin With A Single Step.” – Lao Tzu
“A Traveler Without Observation Is A Bird Without Wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
“A True Traveler’s Journey Is Never Complete” – Jda
“A Wise Traveler Never Despises His Own Country.” – Carlo Goldoni
“Adventure Is A Path. Real Adventure – Self-Determined, Self-Motivated, Often Risky – Forces You To Have Firsthand Encounters With The World. The World The Way It Is, Not The Way You Imagine It. Your Body Will Collide With The Earth And You Will Bear Witness. In This Way You Will Be Compelled To Grapple With The Limitless Kindness And Bottomless Cruelty Of Humankind – And Perhaps Realize That You Yourself Are Capable Of Both. This Will Change You. Nothing Will Ever Again Be Black-And-White.” – Mark Jenkins
“Adventure Is Worthwhile In Itself.” —Amelia Earhart
“All Journeys Have Secret Destinations Of Which The Traveler Is Unaware.” – Martin Buber
“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
“And If Travel Is Like Love, It Is, In The End, Mostly Because It’s A Heightened State Of Awareness, In Which We Are Mindful, Receptive, In Dimmed By Familiarity And Ready To Be Transformed. That Is Why The Best Trips, Like The Best Love Affairs, Never Really End.” ― Pico Iyer
“As The Traveler Who Has Once Been From Home Is Wiser Than He Who Has Never Left His Own Doorstep, So A Knowledge Of One Other Culture Should Sharpen Our Ability To Scrutinize More Steadily, To Appreciate More Lovingly, Our Own.” – Margaret Mead
“Bizarre Travel Plans Are Dancing Lessons From God.” -Kurt Vonnegut
“Discovery Consists Not In Seeking New Lands But In Seeing With New Eyes.” Marcel Proust
“Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t Tell Me How Educated You Are, Tell Me How Much You Have Traveled. “–Mohammed
“For My Part, I Travel Not To Go Anywhere, But To Go. I Travel For Travel’s Sake. The Great Affair Is To Move.” – R. Stevenson
“He Who Does Not Travel Does Not Know The Value Of Men.” – Moorish Proverb
“He Who Returns From A Journey Is Not The Same As He Who Left.” – Chinese Proverb
“He Who Would Travel Happily Must Travel Light.” – Antoine De Saint Exupéry
“I Am Not The Same Having Seen The Moon Shine On The Other Side Of The World.” – Mary Anne Radmache
“I Soon Realized That No Journey Carries One Far Unless, As It Extends Into The World Around Us, It Goes An Equal Distance Into The World Within.” – Lillian Smith
“I Take To The Open Road, Healthy, Free, The World Before Me” – Walt Whitman
“If You Reject The Food, Ignore The Customs, Fear The Religion And Avoid The People, You Might Better Stay At Home.” – James Michener
“If You Want To Succeed You Should Strike Out On New Paths, Rather Than Travel The Worn Paths Of Accepted Success.” – John D. Rockefeller
“If You Wish To Travel Far And Fast, Travel Light. Take Off All Your Envies, Jealousies, Unforgiveness, Selfishness And Fears.” – Cesare Pavese
“It Is Not Down In Any Map; True Places Never Are.” – Herman Melville
“Life Isn’t About The Number Of Breaths You Take. It’s The Moments That Take Your Breath Away.”
“Like All Great Travelers, I Have Seen More Than I Remember, And Remember More Than I Have Seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“Little By Little, One Travels Far.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“Man Cannot Discover New Oceans Unless He Has The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore.” – Andre Gide
“Nature Always Wears The Colors Of The Spirit.” — Ralph Waldo
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
“No One Realizes How Beautiful It Is To Travel Until He Comes Home And Rests His Head On His Old, Familiar Pillow.” –Ling Yutang
“Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost.” –J. R. R. Tolkien
“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
“One Always Begins To Forgive A Place As Soon As It’s Left Behind.” – Charles Dickens
“One Does Not Discover New Lands Without Consenting To Lose Sight Of Land For A Very Long Time.” – Andre Gide
“One Travels More Usefully When Alone Because He Reflects More.” – Thomas Jefferson
“One’s Destination Is Never A Place, But A New Way Of Seeing Things” – Henry Miller
“Paris Is Always A Good Idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
“People Don’t Take Trips – Trips Take People.” – John Steinbeck
“People Travel To Faraway Places To Watch, In Fascination, The Kind Of People They Ignore At Home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
“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
“Sometimes It’s The Journey That Teaches You A Lot About Your Destination.” – Drake
“Stop Worrying About The Potholes In The Road And Celebrate The Journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
“Take Only Memories, Leave Only Footprints.” – Chief Seattle
“The Journey Not The Arrival Matters.” –T. S. Eliot
“The Most Beautiful Thing In The World Is, Of Course, The World Itself.” – Wallace Stevens
“The Open Road Is A Beckoning, A Strangeness, A Place Where A Man Can Lose Himself.” – William Least Heat Moon
“The Question Is Not What You Look At But What You See.” – Henry David
“The Road Is There, It Will Always Be There. You Just Have To Decide When To Take It.” – Chris Humphrey
“The Traveler Sees What He Sees, The Tourist Sees What He Has Come To See.” – G. K. Chesterton
“The Use Of Traveling Is To Regulate Imagination By Reality, And Instead Of Thinking How Things May Be, To See Them As They Are.” – Samuel Johnson
“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
“There Are No Foreign Lands. It Is The Traveler Only Who Is Foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“There Is No Moment Of Delight In Any Pilgrimage Like The Beginning Of It.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“To Awaken Quite Alone In A Strange Town Is One Of The Pleasantest Sensations In The World.” – Freya Stark
“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
“To Travel Is To Discover That Everyone Is Wrong About Other Countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“To Travel Is To Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Tourists Don’t Know Where They’ve Been, Travelers Don’t Know Where They’re Going.” – Paul Theroux
“Travel Can Be One Of The Most Rewarding Forms Of Introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
“Travel Is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry, And Narrow-Mindedness.” -Mark Twain
“Travel Is Glamorous Only In Retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
“Travel Is Like A Giant Blank Canvas, And The Painting On The Canvas Is Only Limited By One’s Imagination.” – Ross Morley
“Travel Is Like Knowledge, The More You See, The More You Know You Haven’t Seen” – Mark Hertsgaad
“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
“Travel Opens Your Heart, Broadens Your Mind And Fills Your Life With Stories To Tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt
“Travel, In The Younger Sort, Is A Part Of Education; In The Elder, A Part Of Experience.” Sir Francis Bacon
“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
“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
“Two Roads Diverged In A Wood And I – I Took The One Less Traveled By.” – Robert Frost
“Wandering Re-Establishes The Original Harmony Which Once Existed Between Man And The Universe”. – Anatole France
“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
“We Must Not Cease From Exploration. And The End Of All Our Exploring Will Be To Arrive Where We Began And To Know The Place For The First Time.” – T. S. Eliot
“We Travel Initially To Lose Ourselves, And We Travel Next To Find Ourselves. We Travel To Open Our Hearts And Eyes And Learn More About The World Than Our Newspapers Will Accommodate. We Travel To Bring What Little We Can, In Our Ignorance And Knowledge, To Those Parts Of The Globe Where Riches Are Differently Dispersed. And We Travel, In Essence, To Become Young Fools Again – To Slow Time Down And Get Taken In, And To Fall In Love Once More.” – Pico Iyer
“We Travel Not To Escape Life, But For Life Not To Escape Us.” – Anonymous
“We Travel, Some Of Us Forever, To Seek Other States, Other Lives, Other Souls.” – Anais Nin2. “The World Is A Book, And Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only A Page.” – Saint Augustine
“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
“When A Man Is A Traveler, The World Is His House & The Sky Is His Roof, Where He Hangs His Hat Is His Home, & All The People Are His Family”
“When We Get Out Of The Glass Bottle Of Our Ego And When We Escape Like The Squirrels In The Cage Of Our Personality And Get Into The Forest Again, We Shall Shiver With Cold And Fright. But Things Will Happen To Us So That We Don’t Know Ourselves. Cool, Unlying Life Will Rush In.” – D. H. Lawrence
Where Curious And Curiosity Keep Leading Us Down New Paths” – Walt Disney
“Wherever You Go, Go With All Your Heart.” – Confucius
“Without New Experiences, Something Inside Of Us Sleeps. The Sleeper Must Awaken.” – Frank Herbert
“You Can Never Cross The Ocean Until You Have The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore.” – Christopher Columbus
“You Can’t Control The Past, But You Can Control Where You Go Next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard
“You Know More Of A Road By Having Traveled It Than By All The Conjectures And Descriptions In The World.” – William Hazlitt
“You Lose Sight Of Things… And When You Travel, Everything Balances Out.” – Daranna Gidel

We hope these inspiring travel quotes fuel your wanderlust as they do ours. Perhaps you have some favouring inspiring travel quotes of your own? If so please let us know.