Travel quotes are often filled with enlightenment and inspire us to push our travel limits, to notice and appreciate nature, and to explore new destinations.

The best travel quotes stir the wanderlust in us. Whether we are young or old, tired or down in spirits, a travel quote has the power to help us rediscover ourselves and our curiosity.

Quotations can be misattributed or have no proof of original source. We have done our research and have linked with reliable sources where possible, but we encourage you to explore these writers and discover for yourselves their intimacy with the magic of travel! If you are looking for travel inspiration, here are some quotes to motivate you to go out and explore the world!

General Travel Quotes

1. “Travel leaves you speechless, then makes you a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta
2. “Cover the earth before it covers you!” Dagobert D. Runes
3. “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.” Misattributed to Mark Twain
4. “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, The Innocents Abroad
5. “I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.”-Josef Koudelka
6. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –Misattributed to Jack Kerouac
7. “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” Asian Proverb

8. “The wish to travel seems characteristically human; the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.”-Paul Theroux
9. “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, A Place on Earth
10. “Traveling is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard, Realism in Romantic Japan
11. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” –Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing
12. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Prophet Mohammed
13. “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.
14. “For the born traveler, 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, Brave New World
15. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”-William Faulkner
16. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.”-John A. Shedd
17. “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” Lao Tzu
18. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson

Wanderlust Travel Quotes

Are you a globetrotter filled with the desire to wander the world? Here are the best travel quotes to fuel your wanderlust:

19. “Wanderlust is incurable.” – Mark Jenkins The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
20. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” –John Muir

21. “Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.” –Katie Grissom
22. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”-Bruce Chatwin
23. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” Hillarie Belloc

24. “Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled, and yet at the same time, beautiful and awesome the world can be. Everyone should experience, even as the clouds gather, what’s at stake, what could be lost, what’s still here.” Anthony Bourdain
25. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost, Mountain Interval
26. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”- Ernest Hemingway
27. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
28. 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
29. “The journey is part of the experience- an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent.” -Anthony Bourdain
30. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life- and travel- leaves marks on you.” –Anthony Bourdain
31. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”-Anthony Bourdain
32.  “Not all those who wander are lost.”-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
33. “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” –Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
34. “I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.” – Marcel Wanders

Nature Travel Quotes

35.  “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more” -Lord Byron
36.  “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”- Andy Warhol
37. “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time,” –Katrina Mayer

38.  “Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.” Jason Ward
39. “Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.” Gary Snyder
40. “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein
42. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” Dr. Edward O. Wilson
43. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost
44. “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

Sustainable Travel Quotes

Sustainable travel is all about leaving behind a positive impact during your travel. Here are inspirational quotes to fuel your sustainable travel endeavors:

45. “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” –Indegenous American Proverb
46. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”-John Burroughs

47. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”-Mahatma Gandhi
48. “How is it possible that the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet earth is destroying its only home?”-Jane Goodall
49. “Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.”Jochen Zeitz
50. “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”-Jane Goodall
51. “The principles of sustainable development say that we should live within environmental limits and that we should enjoy and aspire to a healthy, just and fair society.” -Will Day
52. “Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.” Charles Beresford
53. “The quality of life rises where the legs are used a little more and the elbows a little less.” Erhard Eppler

54. “We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.” – Anne Marie Bonneau
55. “Local culture may not always be glamorous, but it’s always meaningful.” Nyssa P. Chopra
56. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adventure Travel Quotes

57. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” -Misattributed to John Muir
58. “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
59. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
60. “Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.” –Jimmy Buffett
61. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams..” –Oprah Winfrey
62. “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.” – Seanan McGuire
63. “Sometimes you just need an adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul.” The Mind’s Journal

64. “Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.” –Jamie Lyn Beatty
65. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” –Mehmet Murat Ildan”
66. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

67. “Diversion. Distraction. Fantasy. Change of fashion, food, love, and landscape. We need them as the air we breathe.” It’s a Nomad World, Bruce Chatwin
68. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies, and adopting new viewpoints.” Wilferd Peterson

Family Travel Quotes

Traveling with family is fun and thrilling. Whether you are embarking on a trip with parents, kids, or even extended family, this can be a highly fulfilling experience. Here are some amazing family travel quotes to get you going:

69. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” –Leigh Hunt
70. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” –Dave Willis
71. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”-Kevin Heath

72. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure and a way of life.” Pamela T. Chandler
73. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.” Tom Lichtenheld

74. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” -Anonymous