Best, Short & Inspirational Quotes about Travel to Inspire You

Quotes about Travel

  • “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” —Gaby Basora
  • “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” —Ray Bradbury
  • “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” —Elizabeth Drew
  • “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” —Moorish proverb
  • “The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” —G.K. Chesterton
  • “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” —Joe Abercrombie
  • “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” —Francis Bacon
  • “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” —Dagobert D. Runes
  • “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” —Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” —Ross Morley
  • “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
  • “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
  • “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes About Travel

  • “With the right mindset and spirit, only the sky is the limit”
  • “Everything you do is based on the choices you make.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.”
  • “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” —Paul Theroux
  • “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” —Jack Kerouac
  • “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark
  • “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” —Harun Yahya
  • “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” —Arthur Frommer
  • “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” —Anthony Bourdain

Famous Quotes about Travel

  • “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
  • “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”
  • “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” —Mark Twain
  • “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” —Suzanne Collins
  • “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” —Thomas Fuller
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” —Martin Buber
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” —Aldous Huxley
  • “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” —Mohammed
  • “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —Freya Stark
  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” —Roy M. Goodman
  • “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
  • “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” —Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” —Anaïs Nin
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” —Andre Gide
  • “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” —Agustine of Hippo
  • “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” —Irving Wallace
  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” —James Michener
  • “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” —Lawrence Block
  • “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
  • “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.” —Jawaharial Nehru
  • ”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.” —William Least Heat Moon

Travel Short Quotes

  • “Collect Moment, Not Things.”
  • “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”
  • “Oh the places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seuss
  • “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
  • “To Travel is to Live.” —Hans Christian Andersen
  • “The journey not the arrival matters.” —T.S. Eliot
  • “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan”
  • “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” —Paul Theroux
  • “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” —Hans Christian Andersen
  • “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
  • “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” —Confucius
  • “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” —Peter Hoeg
  • “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”
  • “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” —Sheda Savage
  • “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” —Euripides
  • “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” —Carlo Goldoni
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” —Susan Sontag
  • “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” —Anita Desai
  • “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” —Lovelle Drachman
  • “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” —Eugene Fodor
  • “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” —Beverly Sills
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” —J. R. R. Tolkien
  • “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” —Danny Kaye
  • “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” —Robert Orben
  • “I’m not lost, I’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination.” —Unknown
  • “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.”
  • “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” —Moslih Eddin Saadi
  • “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” —Dalai Lama
  • “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”
  • “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” —Seneca
  • “He who would travel happily must travel light.” —Antoine de St. Exupery
  • “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” —Anonymous
  • “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” —Herman Melville
  • “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” —Jennifer Lee
  • “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” —Ibn Battuta
  • “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” —Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
  • “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” —Wallace Stevens
  • “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” —Henry Rollins
  • “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.”
  • “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” —Saint Augustine

Travel Quotes with Friends

  • “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” —Tim Cahill
  • “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.” —Anonymous
  • “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
  • “Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” —Cesare Pavese

Inspirational Quotes about Travel

  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” —Gustave Flaubert
  • “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” —Benjamin Disraeli
  • “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” —Susan Heller
  • “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” —Jack Kerouac
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost
  • “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” —Alan Keightley
  • “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” —Caroline Myss
  • “We live in a 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.” —Jawaharial Nehru
  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”―Mark Twain
  • “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.” —William Least Heat Moon
  • “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” —Eric Weiner

Quotes About Travel Memories

  • “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. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” —Anthony Bourdain
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” —Chief Seattle
  • “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”
  • “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” —Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
  • “I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breathe in the dust, and keep the memories in.” —Rowland

Funny Travel Quotes

  • “Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead!”– Hostelgeeks
  • “The journey, not the arrival, matters.” —T. S. Eliot
  • “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” —Dalai Lama
  • “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” —Ricky Skaggs
  • “A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” —Tim Cahill
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” —Anonymous
  • “People don’t take trips. . . trips take people.” —John Steinbeck
  • “I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” —Caskie Stinnett
  • “Worst thing about being a tourist, is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” —Russell Baker
  • Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” —George Carlin
  • If you are going through hell, keep going.” —Winston Churchill
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” —Susan Sontag
  • “Every day can be an adventure.” —Hostelgeeks

Adventure Travel Quotes

  • “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” —John Steinbeck
  • “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”
  • “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” —Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust
  • “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” —John A. Shedd
  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” —Mark Twain
  • “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” —Carew Papritz

Nature Travel Quotes

  • “More of nature travel helps your mood. Do this on a weeklong nature trip, and the benefits continue to pile up.”
  • “It isn’t complicated to experience nature. Remember to have a plan to commute several hours traveling, and instead search for something easy to enjoy outside.”
  • “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Com! Let’s make the best of nature with nature travel.”
  • “Bring your family, a friend, or an excited pet to keep you company, or choose to have a solo adventure. You will love the nature travel.”
  • “The beauty of boats and beach houses, painting and plays, there’s an art in nature travel. It’s like a dreamlike trip through the magic of life.”
  • “Your hometown is like a small fatherland. Never by-pass a town where a friend lives. The same way enjoys the unlimited benevolence of travelling with nature.”
  • “Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and do nature travel and start living today.”
  • “The gift of increasing your enthusiasm and overall liveliness as you start exploring nature. Nature travel offers a reset that doesn’t just evaporate as we return back.”
  • “Nature is the art of God. The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you with what, you can feel it. Nature travel is the best.”
  • “Forget the hustles and bustles of city life, forget the push and suck of urban life. Free yourself a bit and try exploiting the best of nature travel.”
  • “Whether its an epic road trip or a fantastic travel journey amidst the arid landscape, picturesque valleys or, even the world’s deadliest roads, nature has always got you covered!“
  • “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. I dislike both being at home and abroad when I am in a nature travel mood. Yes! I like nature.”
  • “Nature is the garland of Gods. The place where there is nature is God’s own country. And for a while nature travel will make you feel Godly in nature.”
  • “Nature is the booster of creativity, imagination, vision, innovation, and inspiration. Nature travel boosts creativity as much as you would on a nature trip to the mountains or the woods.”
  • “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. Nature fills the beauty and reduces the gap. Both together, makes it nature travel that expands the beauty and lessens the gap.”
  • “All good things are wild and free. Go where you feel most alive. If you still think the best views come after the hardest climb. Nature travel is for you.”
  • “There are tons of benefits that come with taking some time to wander the great outdoors as you travel! You should always consider connecting with nature when planning your next trip.”
  • “Try exploring the great outdoors, try exploring the vast serenity, try adding adventures to your ever-growing bucket lists. This is the priority to add with nature to the travel journey you do.”
  • “Nature travel has a lot to explore. You have so, so, and so many magnificent beauties within nature. The one who has not found the heaven anywhere will find it in nature.”
  • “Nature traveling is like doing something awesome similar to writing nature poetry. You have got your own rhymic experiences to share it with the world via. the nature pages of your book.”
  • “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. By nature travel, you learn to hold the key to adopt the pace of nature as her secret is a lot of patience.”
  • “It’s what that nature travel encourages mindfulness. The sounds, smells, changing light, and other details of your environment is a favorite type of mindfulness and the underlying concepts are as old as human history.”
  • “Take your time to appreciate the nature that lives surround you. If you can, take a walk around your neighborhood, and cherish the trees, leaves, and other greenery you will have already done your nature travel.”
  • “Nature travel is a trip to a temple in which living species sometimes emit confused words. It’s a trip to the valleys and mountains that man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
  • “Some of the most stunning parts of nature are found in the forest. The forest and nature travel will make you feel like reading different books by many different authors and poets that incorporate the beauty of forests into their work.”
  • “Water, fire, and ice have combined to make some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. From giant crystal caves to mud volcanoes and rock formations that look like works of art. That’s why you do nature travel to explore and experience them all.”
  • “You will be far from urban life and popular cities. You will love the simple things. You will stay in small towns and villages. You may cook your own food under the canopy of the trees. You will eat lovely food sightseeing beautiful forests, rivers, and mountains. That’s how you do nature travel.”
  • “I’m a big fan of the concept of nature traveling. I’ve travelled widely throughout the country this way, staying in small, unknown places. I’ve stayed with locals, had funny local food, fed pet goats and chickens, watched the starry sky at night, and done it all for half the cost I’d have expected. I didn’t get to pose with monuments, but I had plenty of fun nevertheless.”

Travel Quotes for Couples

  • “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.”
  • “Couples who travel together stay together.”
  • “You keep me safe, I’ll keep you wild.”
  • “Let’s find some beautiful places to get lost together.”
  • “Find someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.”
  • “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” —Lewis Carroll
  • “I don’t want to be tied down to someone. I want to be set free with someone.”
  • “As soon as I saw you, I knew you would be an adventure of a lifetime.” —Winnie the Pooh
  • “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder, if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” —E. Grin
  • “What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” —Robert Brault
  • “You’d be surprised who the love of your life turns out to be. After all, adventure fell in love with lost.” —Mary Oliver
  • “We are the luckiest people in the world. How many couples get to travel together and spend quality time like we do?” —Lindsey Gormley
  • “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • “Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with.” —Beau Taplin
  • “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” —Pico Iyer

Romantic Couple Travel Quotes

  • “Kiss my lips and let’s run away together.”
  • “I’m in love with you and with the world.”
  • “Escape and breathe the air of new places together.”
  • “These words are so sweet: honey, moon.” —Kelly Link
  • “And we will travel together and just be in love forever.”
  • “I just want to hold your hand and wander the streets with you.”
  • “A wedding without a honeymoon is like a birthday without the cake.” —Virginia Andrews
  • “A honeymoon is an opportunity to connect with each other and lose ourselves in blissful romance.”
  • “I want to travel the world with you, go to every country, every city, take pictures and be happy.”
  • “Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.” —Charlotte Bronte
  • “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” —Walt Whitman
  • “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” —John Green
  • “Traveling is the best thing any couple can do. That’s how we had the idea of the honeymoon. Newly wed couples going to a new place on their own so that all they could have is each other.” —Salil Jha

Travel the World Quotes

  • “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” —Hilaire Belloc
  • “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” —Melody Truong
  • “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” —Ray Bradbury
  • “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” —Rachel Wolchin
  • “For my part, 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 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

Quotes about Travelling

  • Life is a journey, not a destination.”
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” —Chief Seattle
  • “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” —Anita Desai
  • “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” —Izaak Walton
  • “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” —Karen Gibbs
  • “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary
  • “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, and never return.”
  • “I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it.”
  • “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” —Nyssa P. Chopra

Quotes About Travel And Life

  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” —Dolly Parton
  • “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away.” —Unknown
  • “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” —Jack Kerouac
  • “To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life.” —The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.” —Hemingway
  • “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride.” —Hunter S. Thompson
  • “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” —Anthony Bourdain
  • “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.” —D. H. Lawrence
  • “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made clearer. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” —Freya Stark
  • “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” —Shane Koyczan
  • “If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer.” —Unknown
  • “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” —Stephen Covey
  • “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” —Anonymous
  • “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” —Unknown
  • “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” —Mandy Hale
  • “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” —Randy Komisar
  • “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” —Helen Keller
  • “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
  • ”Life is short and the world is wide.”
  • “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
  • “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” —Rumi
  • “Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.” —Unknown
  • “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” —Anna Quindlen

Quotes On Travel And Tourism

  • “Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don’t enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.” —Alison Lurie
  • “The artificial preservation of local identities is essential to tourism. In other words, the tourist represents both the attempt to transcend all borders and identities and the simultaneous attempt to fix the identities of non-Western subjects within its gaze.” —William T. Cavanaugh
  • “Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgement.” —Paul Fussell
  • “The travel and tourism industry, it’s just a huge part of our economy.” —Karen Hughes
  • “While looking up news from the North Caucasus on Twitter, I was linked to the sanguinely titled ‘Seven Wonders of Chechnya Tour’ on the website of Chechnya Travel, the postwar republic’s first tourism outfit, founded in 2012.” —Anthony Marra
  • “It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” —Gustave Flaubert
  • “Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country – including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.” —Mark Foley
  • “Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.” —Mark Foley
  • “We travel to see beauty of souls in new landscapes.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
  • “To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one’s own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.” —Freya Stark
  • “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” —Peter Hoeg
  • “Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON’T BOTHER.” —Dave Barry
  • “The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.” —Mason Cooley
  • “People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice.” —Robert M. Pirsig
  • “I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.” —William J. Clinton
  • “As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that … adventure travel.” —Buzz Aldrin
  • “Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer’s paradise.” —Raymond Bonner
  • “When we told our guide that we didn’t want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they don’t want to go to tourist places. These places are, of course, full of tourists.” —Douglas Adams
  • “Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.” —Werner Herzog
  • “Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.” —Edward Norton
  • “And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.” —Donna George Storey
  • “You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.” —Mark Twain

Quotes About Travelling Together

  • “No road is long in good company.” —Turkish proverb
  • “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” —Marie Cribaillet
  • “In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.” —Charles Schulz
  • “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m going. Are you coming with me?”
  • “I would gladly live out of a suitcase if it meant I could see the world with you.”
  • “I want to travel the world with two things in my hands: your hand in one and a camera in the other.”
  • “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.”

Quotes About Travelling And Coming Home

  • “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”―David Mitchell
  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” —Ibn Battuta
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” —Aldous Huxley
  • “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —Henry Miller
  • “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” —Terry Pratchett

More Inspiring Quotes about Travel

  • “Paris is always a good idea.” —Audrey Hepburn
  • “This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime.” —G Adventures
  • “Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” —Gayland Anderson
  • “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb
  • “So much of who we are is where we have been.” —William Langewiesche
  • “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” —Rudyard Kipling
  • “Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “Somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.” —Unknown
  • “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” —Jim Watkins
  • “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” —Anatole France
  • “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” —Seneca
  • “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —Henry Miller
  • “How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?” —Ernesto Che Guevara.
  • “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built.” —John A. Shedd
  • “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” —W.B. Yeats
  • “It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.” —Bob Proctor
  • “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” —Albert Einstein
  • “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” —Charles Dudley Warner
  • “You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.” —Franz Kafka
  • “Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.” —Unknown
  • “Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” —J. R. R. Tolkien
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” —Andre Gide.
  • “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” —Trenton Lee Stewart
  • “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” —John Steinbeck
  • “Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.” —Constantine Cavafy
  • “Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you.” —Erick Widman
  • “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of.” —Louis C.K.
  • “Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” —Regina Nadelson
  • “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
  • “Our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. They always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going.” —Winnie the Pooh
  • “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” —Clifton Fadiman
  • “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
  • “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
  • “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” —Rosalia de Castro
  • “There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly?” —Erin Hanson
  • “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” —Lillian Smith
  • “Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” —Italo Calvino
  • “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.”
  • “To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation.” —Unknown
  • “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.” —William Least Heat Moon
  • “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” —G. K. Chesterton
  • “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” —T. S. Eliot
  • “Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” —Ray Bradbury
  • “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” —Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing.” —Daniel J. Boorstin
  • “When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” —Drew Bundini
  • “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” —Aldous Huxley
  • “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” —Lord Dunsany
  • “I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls.” —Homer Simpson
  • “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” —Miriam Adeney
  • “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” —Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
  • “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 is taken for granted.” —Bill Bryson
  • “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.” —Mark Twain
  • “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” —Paul Fussell
  • “It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “Trust me, its paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.” —Richard, ‘The Beach’ (Alex Garland)
  • “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, and often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” —Mark Jenkins
  • “We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more.” —Pico Iyer, Why we Travel