MY 50 FAVOURITE TRAVEL QUOTES

Here are my 50 favourite travel quotes to inspire you to get out there and discover the beautiful world we live in...

1: “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

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

3: “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

4: “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

5: “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

6: “In times like these, escape is the only way to stay alive and continue dreaming.” – Henri Laborit

7: “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

8: “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

9: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

10: “Real travellers are the one who leave just to leave." - Baudelaire

11: “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

12: “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ~ Matthew Karsten

13. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

14. “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

15: "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu

16: "Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled." - Mohammed

17: "Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer." - Unknown

18: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.." - Marcel Proust

19: "The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” - Christopher McCandless

20: "There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars." - Jack Kerouac

21: "Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen..." - Benjamin Disraeli

22: "Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going." Paul Theroux

23: "I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land." - Seneca

24: "Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage." - Paulo Coelho

25: "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." - Gustave Flaubert

26: “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” - Harun Yahya

27: "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience..." - Francis Bacon

28: "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller

29: "I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list." - Susan Sontag

30: "Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by." - Robert Frost

31. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32: “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” - Amin Maalouf

33: "A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

34: "For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort." -  Aldous Huxley

35: "Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God." - Kurt Vonnegut

36: "A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu

37: "I love to travel, but hate to arrive." - Albert Einstein

38: "Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station." - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

39: "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." - Cesare Pavese

40: "I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” -  Charles Bukowski

41: "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted my routine." - Caskie Stinnet

42: "Travel teaches toleration." - Benjamin Disraeli

43: "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." - Anatole France

44: "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, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end." - Pico Iyer: 

45: "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

46: "Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit." - Frank Borman

47: "To travel is to take a journey into yourself." - Danny Kaye

48: "I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." -  Rosalia de Castro

49: “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” - Ray Bradbury

50: ”Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” - Dalai Lama