Sometimes you need a little inspiration to push you to get out and see the world. And sometimes you need a quote to help quell you wanderlust. No matter why you need one, where are some fabulous ones from quotes about exploration, to literary quotes, you are sure to find something here.

 

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

-Saint Augustine.

 

“A tourist is a person who travels where he doesn’t need to go and stays where he doesn’t want to stay.”

-Groucho Marx

 

“Not all those who wander are lost”

-J.R.R. Tolkien.

 

 

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”

-Helen Keller

 

“Take only memories, leave only footprints”

-Chief Seattle

 

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction”

-Unknown

 

“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

 

A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

-John A Shedd

 

“The best trips begin with a simple idea and a blank map. They end with understanding how you got there”

-Tom Hall

 

“To Travel is to Live”

-Hans Christian Andersen

 

Work, Travel, Save, Repeat

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

— Mark Twain

 

Sometimes you have to travel a long way out of your comfort zone to come back with the truth.”

– Tsh Oxenreider

 

“People ask me why I travel so much, and they think that my answer has something to do with seeing new places. But really, it’s about seeing new things inside myself.”

 

“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

 

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

— Oscar Wilde

 

“Traveling makes one modest – you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

– Gustave Flaubert

 

“The 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.”

– GK Chesterton

 

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

— Jack Kerouac

 

“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

 

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

— Anna Quindlen

 

“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

 

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

— Lao Tzu

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”

— Neil Gaiman

 

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“There is no sentiment in the world so flexible and adaptable as travel.”

— G.K. Chesterton

 

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”

— James A. Michener

 

“I am an explorer and a vagabond but not a tourist; travelers take note of details, whereas I’d rather have general impressions.” – Errol Flynn

 

“He who would travel happily must travel light.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

 

“The journey is the reward.”

— Lao Tzu

 

When you get to a fork in the road, take it.”

– Yogi Berra

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

— George Moore

 

“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-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

— Jack Kerouac

 

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

— Mother Teresa

 

“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“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.”

— Anthony Bourdain

 

“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

 

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

— David Mitchell

 

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

 

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

— G.K. Chesterton

 

“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”

— Brandon Sanderson

 

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

— Anaïs Nin

 

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

— Henry Miller

 

“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

 

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

 

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”

— Bill Bryson

 

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

— Charles Dickens

 

“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

 

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”

— Pascal Mercier

 

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.”

— Douglas Adams

 

“The most precious travel souvenirs are the ones that tell us where we’ve been and what we’ve seen.”

— Brendan Francis

 

 

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

—Paul Theroux

 

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

— Mary Anne Radmacher

 

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

— Ma Jian

 

“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

 

“Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”

— Gayle Forman

 

“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”

— Tennessee Williams

 

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”

— Joe Abercrombie

 

“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 whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“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

 

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

– James Michener

 

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“This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.”

— Paolo Coehlo

 

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”

– Freya Stark

 

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

 

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.”

— Roman Payne

 

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

— Aldous Huxley

 

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

— Erol Ozan

 

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

– Unknown

 

“When all else fails, take a vacation.”

– Betty Williams

 

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

– Andre Gide

 

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

– Mehmet Murat ildan”

 

“No road is long with good company.”

-Unknown

 

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

—Buddha

 

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

– Shirley MacLaine

 

Quotes about traveling with kids

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”

– Robert Benchley

 

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

– Leigh Hunt

 

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”

– Tom Lichtenheld

 

“When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away…experience, exposure and a way of life.”

-Pamela T. Chandler

 

“Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.”

– Francis Bacon

 

“In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”

– Kevin Heath

 

“As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen”

-from Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne

 

Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories.

-Unknown

 

 

I hope this has inspired you to head out on your own journey! I have tons of itineraries, hotel recommendations and food recommendations to help you plan the perfect trip. Get out there and see the world!

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