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Travel Quotes
Here is a collection of some of my favorite travel quotes that inspire me. Feel free to submit your own using the contact form below!
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” ~ Jack Kerouac
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~ Lao-Tzu
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." ~ Yogi Berra
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"A wise traveler never despises his own country." ~ Pamela Goldoni
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled" ~ Mohammed (via Ivona Siniarska)
"What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." ~ Jack Kerouac
(via Mittie Roger)
"I want to see things that I can't imagine. I want to do things that scare me. I want to go places that I've only read about. I want to meet people that are nothing like me." ~ Andy Dufrense in The Shawshank Redemption (via Leah Travels)
"I'm happy to be here, but still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes it's better to travel than to arrive." ~ R. Pirsig (via Mittie Roger)
"Monty, first (*dramatic pause) to navigate (*pauses again) sometimes you must look at the world, then look at your compass"
~ Captain Sebastian on guiding a sailing ship down the coast of Brazil (via Monty Walsh)
"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Far from our own people, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves . . . But also, soul-sick, we restore to every object and every being it's miraculous value." ~ Albert Camus (via Scott Hartman)
"To travel is to meet someone in a foreign place who takes you into their family and into their home, answers your questions with warmth and hospitality. To have your questions answered in the language you speak is being on vacation." ~ Anna Peitos
“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 (via Lesley Ord)
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~ Lao-Tzu
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." ~ Yogi Berra
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"A wise traveler never despises his own country." ~ Pamela Goldoni
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled" ~ Mohammed (via Ivona Siniarska)
"What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." ~ Jack Kerouac
(via Mittie Roger)
"I want to see things that I can't imagine. I want to do things that scare me. I want to go places that I've only read about. I want to meet people that are nothing like me." ~ Andy Dufrense in The Shawshank Redemption (via Leah Travels)
"I'm happy to be here, but still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes it's better to travel than to arrive." ~ R. Pirsig (via Mittie Roger)
"Monty, first (*dramatic pause) to navigate (*pauses again) sometimes you must look at the world, then look at your compass"
~ Captain Sebastian on guiding a sailing ship down the coast of Brazil (via Monty Walsh)
"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Far from our own people, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves . . . But also, soul-sick, we restore to every object and every being it's miraculous value." ~ Albert Camus (via Scott Hartman)
"To travel is to meet someone in a foreign place who takes you into their family and into their home, answers your questions with warmth and hospitality. To have your questions answered in the language you speak is being on vacation." ~ Anna Peitos
“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 (via Lesley Ord)