60 Inspirational Travel Quotes

Every so often I like reading famous travel quotes which tend to encourage me to plan out a new adventure.

Since there are way too many out there, I’ve created a list of my favourite inspirational travel quotes for your reading pleasure.

If you are trying to find the motivation, inspiration or simply enjoy reading; here are 60 inspirational travel quotes which I believe will give you that confidence boost to plan out an adventure of your own!

1. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

2. Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.

3. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

4. How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

5. People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

6. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

7. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

8. To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

9. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

10. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

11. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

12. A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

13. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

14. When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

15. One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

16. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

17. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

18. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

19. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

20. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

21. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

22. If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

23. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

24. I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

25. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

26. A wise traveler never despises his own country.

27. We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

28. Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

29. I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

30. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

31. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

32. You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

33. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

34. I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel – packing my bags and choosing my outfits – but my favourite part is getting there.

35. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

36. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

37. When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

38. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

39. I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

40. Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

41. I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.

42. Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you’ve seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

43. I don’t buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.

44. Connecting with people, getting things done – that’s what makes the travel worthwhile.

45. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

46. The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

47. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.






48. We must travel in the direction of our fear.

49. Travel teaches toleration.

50. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

51. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It’s like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

52. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

53. When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

54. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

55. For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

56. A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

57. Adventure is worthwhile.

58. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

59. Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

60. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.