50 Travel Inspire Quotes to Ignite Your Wanderlust

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

- Ibn Battuta

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

- David Mitchell

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Jack Kerouac

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Oh, the places you’ll go!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Investment in travel is an investment in yourself."

- Matthew Karsten

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"To travel is to evolve."

- Pierre Bernardo

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Anita Desai

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- James Baldwin

"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

"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

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

- Anonymous

"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 only read a page."

- St. Augustine

"Take only memories, leave only footprints."

- Chief Seattle

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

- Henry Miller

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

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

- St. Augustine

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

- Amin Maalouf

"The great affair is to move."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

"Adventure is worthwhile."

- Aesop

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

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

- Susan Sontag

"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

"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

"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

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

- Christopher McCandless

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

- Tim Cahill

"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

"Travel teaches tolerance."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Tom Cochrane

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

- Aerosmith

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

- Willie Nelson

"The journey is the destination."

- Dan Eldon

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

- Susan Sontag

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

- John Muir

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

- Ibn Battuta

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- John A. Shedd

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Asian Proverb

"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

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

- The Dhammapada

"The horizon is the greatest of all wonders."

- Freya Stark

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Jacques Cousteau

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

- Mark Jenkins

"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

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

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Izaak Walton

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

- Sandra Lake

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

- Lewis Carroll

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered."

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- Freya Stark

"Only one who wanders finds new paths."

- Norwegian proverb

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

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

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

- Tessa Bailey

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Russell Baker

"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

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- J.S. Wik

"Jet lag is for amateurs."

- Dick Clark

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

- Deena Kastor

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

- Susan Heller

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

- Bob Hope

"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."

- Susan Sontag

"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."

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

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

"Travel is my therapy."

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

"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."

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

"Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"There is no wisdom without leisure."

"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!"

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

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

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

"Wander often, wonder always."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Adventure awaits, just beyond the horizon."

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

"Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more."

"Work, Travel, Save, Repeat."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Road trips make the best stories."

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

"Wanderlust: my favourite kind of fever."

"The best memories are made on the road."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Ocean air, salty hair."

"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."