50 Travel Inspire Quotes to Ignite Your Wanderlust

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

- Henry Miller

"If you think adventure is dangerous try routine. It is lethal."

- Paulo Coelho

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry."

- Jack Kerouac

"Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

- Ibn Battuta

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

- Mark Twain

"Investment in travel is an investment in yourself."

- Matthew Karsten

"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."

- James Baldwin

"See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream."

- Ray Bradbury

"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow."

- Anita Desai

"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, and sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Andre Gide

"Take only memories. Leave only footprints."

- Chief Seattle

"Traveling: it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

- Ibn Battuta

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

- Cesare Pavese

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

- St. Augustine

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

- St. Augustine

"There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed."

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

"Oh, the places you’ll go!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs."

- Amin Maalouf

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live."

- Pablo Neruda

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"To travel is to evolve."

- Pierre Bernardo

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."

- Anonymous

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

- David Mitchell

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"Take only memories, leave only footprints."

- Chief Seattle

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves."

- Andre Gide

"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

"Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets."

- Oscar Wilde

"Adventure is worthwhile."

- Aesop

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

"Travel teaches tolerance."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."

- Erica Jong

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

- Gustav Flaubert

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

- Wallace Stevens

"One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

- Henry Miller

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"Life is a highway, and I want to drive it all night long."

- Tom Cochrane

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

- Susan Sontag

"Life's a journey, not a destination."

- Aerosmith

"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

- Mark Twain

"On the road again, just can't wait to get on the road again."

- Willie Nelson

"The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands."

- Sir Richard Burton

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

- Dame Freya Madeline Stark

"The journey is the destination."

- Dan Eldon

"People don’t take trips, trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure."

- Christopher McCandless

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out."

- Clara E. Laughlin

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time."

- Bill Bryson

"Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere."

- Isabelle Eberhardt

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mountains are calling, and I must go."

- John Muir

"The great affair is to move."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences."

- Christopher McCandless

"A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles."

- Tim Cahill

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

- Ibn Battuta

"To travel is to live."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Travel brings power and love back into your life."

- Rumi Jalalud-Din

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"I read; I travel; I become."

- Derek Walcott

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."

- Frantz Fanon

"Nothing develops intelligence like travel."

- Emile Zola

"One must travel to learn."

- Mark Twain

"I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before."

- Bill Bryson

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

- Lao Tzu

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourists sees what he has come to see."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey."

- Fitzhugh Mullan

"Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do."

- Gayle Forman

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

- Aldous Huxley

"Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going."

- Paul Theroux

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you’d be better staying at home."

- James Michener

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

- Lin Yutang

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."

- Moslih Eddin Saadi

"Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The further I go, the closer to me I get."

- Andrew McCarthy

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground."

- Judith Thurman

"It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way."

- Penelope Riley

"Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more."

- Arab Proverb

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

- Jacques Cousteau

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone."

- The Dhammapada

"It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times."

- Asian Proverb

"Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest."

- Freya Stark

"With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding."

- Sandra Lake

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

- Shirley MacLaine

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question."

- Harun Yahya

"If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

"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

"Only one who wanders finds new paths."

- Norwegian proverb

"A ship in a harbor is safe, but it is not what ships are built for."

- John A. Shedd

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."

- Izaak Walton

"The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories."

- Og Mandino

"The horizon is the greatest of all wonders."

- Freya Stark

"Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world."

- Mark Jenkins

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

- J.K. Rowling

"I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

- John Steinbeck

"I can lie around and relax at home. A vacation is a chance for doing."

- Tessa Bailey

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."

- Russell Baker

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin S. Sharma

"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends."

- Cesare Pavese

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

- Paulo Coelho

"Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over."

- J.S. Wik

"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."

- Susan Sontag

"I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage."

- Bob Hope

"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money."

- Susan Heller

"What I needed in the moment was a family vacation."

- Deena Kastor

"Jet lag is for amateurs."

- Dick Clark

"Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost."

- Erol Ozan

"Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret."

- Oscar Wilde

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet."

- Rachel Wolchin

"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."

"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer."

"Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul."

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

"Travel is my therapy."

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

"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’s taken for granted."

"Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art."

"Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."

"The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them."

"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."

"A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

"The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life."

"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."

"Exploring new places is a great way to relax and clear your mind."

"Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could."

"Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions."

"Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within."

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…Including you."

"A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!"

"The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do."

"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax."

"There is no wisdom without leisure."

"As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep."

"We need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."

"Your body tells you when it is time to work or when it's just time to relax and recuperate."

"Ocean air, salty hair."

"Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more."

"The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever."

"Always take the scenic route."

"Life is not meant to be lived in one place."

"An adventure a day keeps the doctor away."

"I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport."

"Work, Travel, Save, Repeat."

"Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?"

"Vacation calories don’t count. Right?"

"I need six months of vacation, twice a year."

"Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport."

"Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before."

"Every moment with you is an adventure worth taking."

"Exploring new horizons with my favourite person by my side."

"You, me, and the open road: the perfect trio."

"Love knows no boundaries, especially when it comes to travelling."

"Adventure is out there, and I want to experience it all with you."

"You are my favourite travel companion."

"With you, every destination feels like home."

"Together, we can travel far and wide, making memories that will last a lifetime."

"Exploring the world hand in hand with you is my idea of paradise."

"Let's wander together, forever and always."

"Adventure is calling, and I want you by my side."

"Travelling with you is the best adventure I could ever ask for."

"You and me, exploring the world and falling more in love with each other along the way."

"Every journey is sweeter with you by my side."

"The road is calling, and I must go."

"Let's hit the road and never look back."

"It's not about the destination, it's about the journey."

"Adventure awaits at every turn of the road."

"The best therapy is a long drive and good music."

"Road trips are the best cure for a case of wanderlust."

"The road less travelled leads to the greatest adventures."

"Road trips: because sometimes the journey is the destination."

"The open road is calling, and I must answer."

"Road trips make the best stories."

"The best memories are made on the road."

"Travelling the open road is my idea of freedom."

"Every road leads somewhere, and I want to explore them all."

"Life's too short to take the same road twice."

"A bad day on the road is still better than a good day at work."

"Adventure is out there, waiting for us to hit the road and find it."

"Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel and explore the world."

"Adventure is out there, waiting for us to find it."

"Wanderlust: a feeling that pulls at your heartstrings until you hit the road."

"Let's wander where the wifi is weak."

"Wanderlust: my favourite kind of fever."

"Life is short, and the world is wide."

"Wanderlust: the urge to explore new places and experience new cultures."

"Adventure awaits, just beyond the horizon."

"Wander often, wonder always."

"I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met."

"Wanderlust: the feeling that you belong elsewhere."

"Let's get lost in a world that's not our own."

"Wanderlust: the insatiable desire to explore."

"Travelling solo doesn't mean you're alone; it means you're brave enough to embrace your own company."

"Sometimes the best adventures are the ones you take alone."

"Solo travel: because life is too short to wait for someone else to join your adventure."

"The greatest freedom is to be who you are and to travel where your heart desires."

"Solo travel allows you to discover not only the world but also yourself."

"Wandering alone doesn't mean you're lost; it means you're on a journey of self-discovery."

"Solo travel: the ultimate form of self-love and empowerment."

"Embrace the freedom of solo travel and let the world be your playground."

"Travelling solo is a dance between independence and vulnerability, and it's absolutely exhilarating."

"The world is yours to explore, and there's no better companion than yourself."

"Solo travel: where the only agenda is the one you set for yourself."

"Taking a solo trip is like pressing the reset button on life."

"Solo travel is not about being alone; it's about being present in the moment and open to new experiences."

"Travelling solo allows you to write your own story, one adventure at a time."

"In the silence of solo travel, you'll find the answers you've been seeking."

"Solo travel: because sometimes the best company is your own."

"The magic of solo travel lies in the freedom to wander without limits or constraints."

"Solo travel teaches you to rely on yourself, trust your instincts, and embrace uncertainty."

"Every solo trip is a journey inward, a chance to reconnect with your innermost desires and dreams."

"Travelling solo is not about escaping reality; it's about creating a new one."

"My goal is to run out of pages in my passport."

"Travel is an investment in yourself."

"It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see."

"The goal is to die with memories, not dreams."

"Sandy Toes sunkissed nose."

"Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted."

"Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t."

"Collect Moments, Not Things."

"Adventures are the best way to learn."

"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."

"We have nothing to lose and a world to see."

"We don’t need objects; we need adventures."

"Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell."

"I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are."

"Have stories to tell, not stuff to show."

"At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling."

"Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live."

"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

"I want to make memories all over the world."

"Travel is the healthiest addiction."

"Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness."

"Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love."

"I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m going. Are you coming with me?"

"Let’s get lost."

"Beach, please."

"Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan."

"Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old."

"Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn."