25 Inspirational Travel Quotes

Here are some of our top picks of inspirational travel quotes. Which is your favourite? 😉

1. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
 
2. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
 
3. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau“

4. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

5. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

6. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

7. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

8. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca 

9. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

10. “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

11. “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

12. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
13. “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

14. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

15. “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

16. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

17. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

18. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

19. “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

20. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

21. “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

22. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

23. “A wise traveller never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

24. “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

25. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

Which is your favourite! 😉

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