Recently updated on September 1st, 2022 at 10:31 am
From writers like Mark Twain to explorers such as Ibn Battuta, famous travellers have long used sayings and stories to inspire others to set off on an adventure. In fact, the internet is full of memorable quotes and memes encouraging people around the world to explore. Whether you’re planning a solo trip or booking a tour with loved ones, read on to discover our favourite inspirational travel quotes of all time.
- “All that is gold does not glitter; just as not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R.R. Tolkien
- “People don’t take trips… trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
- “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
- “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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
- “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – H. Lawrence
- “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
- “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber
- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Once you have travelled, 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
- “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin
- “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Seuss
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