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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

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• November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
• 12 min read

If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.

Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.

In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.

Famous travel quotes

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

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain

6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

7. “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

8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu 

9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous

12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” —Robert Frost

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  – Anita Desai

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”-Anonymous

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc

22. “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

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin

26. “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

27. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain

29. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

30. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

32. “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

33. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

34. “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

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

36. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell

38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

39. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

40. “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

41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

42. “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

43. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

44. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

46. “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

47. “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

48. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” –Unknown

49. “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

50. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

51. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

52. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

54. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

56. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

57. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

58. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

59. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

60. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

61. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

62. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

63. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

64. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

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

66. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

67. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

68. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

70. “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

71. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

72. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

73. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

74. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

78. “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

79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

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

81. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

82. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

83. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

84. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

85. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

86. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery

87. “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

88. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

89. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac

90. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli

91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost

96. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

97. “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

98. “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

99. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde

100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde

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Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

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

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, 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

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“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

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“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

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

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

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“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

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“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 haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“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

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

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

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

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

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

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

“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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“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

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

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

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

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

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“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

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

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

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“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

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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157 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to journey around the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 157 of the best travel quotes, including some famous ones from figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find them motivating!

Table of Contents show 157 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

157 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

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. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

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

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

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

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

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

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

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

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, 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

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

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

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

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

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

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

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

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

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

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, 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

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

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 reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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.

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.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I’ve been. I’ve learned for sure only what I don’t know — and how much I have to learn.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.

I think when you travel as much as I have, I don’t want to say I’m more humble, but I think you become aware of how other people live, how hard their lives are, how big the world is.

I have seen firsthand that things can turn on a dime. Tremendously awful, evil things happen to nice people all the time. I have seen people, again and again, relentlessly grinding under the wheel of poverty or oppression. At the same time, I see random acts of kindness and pride in the most outrageous and most unexpected circumstances. I am grateful. I understand that I am very privileged to see what I am seeing, even when it hurts. I think that people, particularly Americans, need to be more inspired to travel and be adventurous with the things they eat. And if they are curious about the world and willing to walk in somebody else’s shoes—that is surely a good thing.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

Who wouldn’t travel, if they could? It’s unthinkable to me. Who wouldn’t want to enjoy different, new sensations, especially when the world is filled with so much great stuff? I like new things. I like to feel good. I like learning about stuff. It makes me happy. I like being wrong about stuff.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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.

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75 Adventure Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

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If you’re looking for some inspiration for your next adventure, then these incredible quotes about adventure are just what you need. Exploring the world can be exhilarating and life-changing, but sometimes, you just need that little push to get started on planning.

Luckily, this collection of adventure sayings has the perfect quotes for just about any experience. You’ll find everything from short adventure quotes and unique adventure phrases to funny quotes about adventure and inspiring adventure quotes . With new adventure quotes like these, you’ll just be one step away from a big getaway!

• Short adventure quotes
• Funny quotes about adventures
• Famous adventure quotes
• Unique adventure phrases
• Inspiring adventure quotes

Have a look through all of these amazing adventure and travel quotes , and don’t forget to save your favorites! If, by the end, you need even more inspiration, you can always check out our list of the top 100 quotes about travel .

Short Adventure Quotes

Not interested in reading a long quote about adventure and exploration ? No problem! These short adventure quotes pack tons of inspiration into very few words.

1. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

This fun adventure quote shows that exploring is basically in our DNA! Embrace your wanderlust and let it guide you around the world.

2. “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho

This adventure awaits quote is a great reminder that even though adventures can push us outside of our comfort zone, the excitement of doing something new in a completely unknown place is totally worth it.

3. “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

Sometimes, you just need to go with the flow and immerse yourself completely in experiencing an adventure.

4. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

This unique adventure quote rightfully points out that adventures aren’t always fun and games. Even so, your attitude will make all the difference for your experience.

5. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot

As this great adventure quote shows, all of us have a little bit of adventure inside us. No need to go too far to find it!

6. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

The curious often have a less-than-stellar reputation in popular sayings (remember “curiosity killed the cat?”), but fortunately, this adventure travel quote is much more positive. Let your curiosity take over and guide you toward your next adventure!

7. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

As this adventure saying reminds us, we don’t always have to seek adventure in order to find it. Sometimes, adventure can find us!

8. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” – Christopher McCandless

I love this inspirational quote about adventure because for many of us, curiosity and adventurousness are so important that we can’t imagine our lives with them.

9. “Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure.” – Drew Houston

This wise life and adventure quote reminds us that life and adventures aren’t always perfect, but that this imperfection can actually be liberating.

10. “As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen.” – A. A. Milne

Every adventurer needs their adventure buddy. Hopefully, this adventure buddy quote helps you find yours!

11. “Adventure is a mindset, not a destination.” – Anonymous

Ultimately, experiencing an adventure is all about having an adventurous attitude. With a sense of openness and curiosity, you can turn just about any situation into a meaningful adventure.

12. “The greatest adventure is the one within.” – Jon Miksis

Not every adventure involves traveling the world. This adventure soul quote reveals that even personal journeys can be deeply enjoyable and exciting.

13. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

As this be adventurous quote points out, for an adventurer, happiness is about more than money. The best adventures are absolutely priceless.

14. “Always say yes to new adventures.” – Keval Parikh

If you’re looking for an excuse to go on a new adventure, consider this adventure seeker quote your sign to start planning a trip.

15. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

This famous adventure quote is iconic for a reason: it’s sweet, simple, to the point, and, most importantly, true!

Funny Quotes about Adventures

Get ready to giggle at these funny adventure quotes that will definitely keep you entertained.

16. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

This adventure moment quote will speak to you if your wanderlust is as intense as ours is. For us, even the worst adventure is better than monotony!

17. “It’s bad manners to keep an adventure waiting.” – Unknown

This go on adventures quote is a hilarious reminder to seize the moment when it comes to exploring. Don’t be rude – get started on that adventure now!

18. “Life without adventure is like pizza without cheese.” – The Global Castaway

This happy adventure quote will definitely resonate with you if you’re a pizza/cheese lover.

19. “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.” – Seanan McGuire

As this adventure quote about travel wisely points out, being open to adventures is the best thing you can do to make one actually happen. That, and being a little clumsy!

20. “Adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” – Unknown

Not all adventures are easy to find. Don’t be discouraged by the ones that take a little more work.

21. “Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find.” – William Least Heat-Moon

This time for adventure quote shows how easy it can be to stumble across a new adventure. Just remember to keep your eyes open!

22. “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” – A.A. Milne

This charming quote about adventure by the author of Winnie the Pooh captures the excitement of preparing to go on a new adventure.

23. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” – G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes, an attitude adjustment is all you need to turn a bad experience into a great one. The next time a mishap occurs while you’re traveling, try to see it as an adventure!

24. “Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.” – Nita Morgan

This life quote about adventure is a great suggestion for making everyday life more exciting.

25. “We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.” – Jeremy Glass

This adventure quote is a good reminder to live in the moment. Taking pictures of your trip will give you memories that last forever, but don’t forget to make a few memories without the camera too.

26. “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” – Mercedes Lackey

As so many of these quotes about new adventures have pointed out, attitude makes all the difference when it comes to adventure.

27. “I do not have the slightest clue what I am doing…that’s the adventure…I stopped worrying about it…that’s the beauty.” – Jason King

This travel and adventure quote shows that you don’t always have to know what you’re doing when it comes to adventure. In fact, that’s the beauty of exploring – just go with the flow!

28. “Adventure is just bad planning.” – Roald Amundsen

This funny quote about adventure is perfect if you’re feeling a little more cynical about exploring.

29. “All great adventures have moments that are really crap.” – Ellen Potter

As this adventure experience quote points out, ups and downs are a normal part of adventures, so make the best of the bad moments and enjoy the great ones!

30. “When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.” – Thornton Wilder

This saying about adventure captures the essence of wanderlust: you’ll never feel quite settled or happy wherever you are. You’ll always be looking toward the next adventure !

Famous Adventure Quotes

There are tons of famous quotes about adventures from authors, actors, explorers, movies, and more. Enjoy these well-known quotes (which are iconic for a reason!), and don’t forget to save your favorite(s)!

31. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart is one of the world’s most famous explorers, so it probably comes as no surprise that she has her own adventure seeker quote . If you love to go on adventures as much as she did, this saying will definitely resonate.

32. “I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.” – Elizabeth Taylor

This famous adventure saying is all about being brave and curious. The world has so much to offer, but the first step is wanting to see what’s out there.

33. “There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

This life of adventure quote shows that curiosity and openness are key ingredients for adventure.

34. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

As this quote on adventure reminds us, exploring can involve taking huge risks and going outside of our comfort zone. However, those risks also help us grow and show us just how much we’re capable of.

35. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll

Often, the best gifts in life aren’t things; they’re experiences or adventures.

36. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love this inspirational adventure quote because it makes such a good point. The world seems a lot scarier than it actually is, and if we just take the time to explore it, we’ll be able to see how wonderful it is.

37. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

This powerful adventure quote offers a great reminder that living is about having new experiences.

38. “If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: We go out into the world to adventure because life in itself is not sufficiently interesting.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

This quote about new adventures wisely notes that we explore because we want to make life more exciting. At the end of a day, an adventure always makes for a great story.

39. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

There’s no need to go on a big adventure by yourself. Bring your best friends along with you to make it the adventure of a lifetime!

40. “I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

This adventure life quote by a famous explorer from New Zealand is one of my favorites. I like that Hillary points out that you don’t have to be particularly brave or special to have an adventure; anyone can have them!

41. “Adventure isn’t all about rowing oceans or climbing mountains. Adventure in its purest form is simply a way of thinking. Live by that philosophy and you’ll make more of the short time we’ve been given on this rock.” – Sean Conway

As this being adventurous quote reminds us, you can make every single day into an adventure if you have the right mindset.

42. “A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William Shedd

This adventure quotation has a pretty straightforward message: take that risk and explore – it’s worth it!

43. “Adventure is out there!” – Charles Muntz, Up

So many people love this fun adventure quote from the beloved Pixar movie Up . It definitely captures the excitement of knowing there’s a world out there to see.

44. “A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.” – Bertrand Russell

This adventurous spirit quote offers two options: a boring life without adventure, or a short, but fulfilling, life full of adventures. Which would you rather have?

45. “For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

This seeking adventure quote shows that having an adventure can be as simple as telling a story about something that happened to you .

Unique Adventure Phrases

These unique adventure quotes are perfect for anyone who wants to go off the beaten path (both literally and figuratively!).

46. “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

This great adventure quote shows that exploring gives us a new way of seeing the places that are most familiar to us. Ultimately, traveling changes how we see, think, and feel.

47. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.” – Navjot Singh Sidhu

As this adventure explore quote reminds us, we won’t grow or learn anything new by just staying at home.

48. “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad, and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

It’s always sad when a wonderful experience ends, but this enjoy the adventure quote puts a positive spin on moving onto something new.

49. “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner…and the world is still full of corners.” – Roy Chapman Andrews

This going on an adventure quote expresses the sheer vastness of the world. There is so much to explore that we’ll never run out of new things to do and see.

50. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain or routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies, and adopting new viewpoints.” – Wilfred Peterson

This adventure never ends quote is a great reminder that adventurousness doesn’t just have to mean exploring. It can mean doing something new every single day.

51. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner.” – Jim Rohn

If you’re a big adventure seeker, this adventure wanderlust quote will speak to you.

52. “Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.” – Bear Grylls

I love this adventure saying because it reminds us that adventure shouldn’t be life-threatening. We can go outside our comfort zones without endangering our personal safety.

53. “We’re not home-and-hearth people. We’re the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we’re only alive.” – Alexander Eliot

As this live adventure quote points out, explorers push us and help us keep learning about the world around us.

54. “When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can’t stop him. In our culture we don’t have formal rites of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk… may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.” – Jon Krakauer

This adventure travel quote argues that exploring is a rite of passage for young people and a way of growing up and learning more about the world.

55. “What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. It’s the fun of seeing new things, of learning new names and faces, of exploring strange places, and above all, the delight of being alive.” – Freya Stark

This love adventure quote captures the way that adventure helps us enjoy the beauty of being alive and experiencing the unfamiliar.

56. “The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.” – Joseph Campbell

Of course, you may have many chances to go on an adventure throughout your life. Make sure you say “yes” to as many opportunities as you can!

57. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

This life’s an adventure quote shows that anyone can live of a life of adventure. It just takes a little effort!

58. “The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts.” – Yvon Chouinard

Not everyone will agree with this quote on adventure , but it does make a good point that things not going quite as planned can make for an exciting adventure.

59. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

This quote about love and adventure is the perfect saying to share with a couple who loves to travel.

60. “Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.” – Edward Abbey

This inspiring adventure quote reminds us to save our energy for the things that mean the most to us in life .

Inspiring Adventure Quotes

Hopefully, you’ll find the motivation you need to start planning your next big trip with these inspiring adventure quotes .

61. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

This famous quote about adventure is a great reminder that it’s pretty hard to escape risk completely, so why not embrace it?

62. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

It can be scary to go after your dreams, which is why giving yourself the freedom to chase after them can be such a big adventure.

63. “Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.” – Scott Borchetta

This optimistic adventure quote shows that we can have an adventure every day if we choose to make our lives one.

64. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be – then adventures should be a top priority.” – Richard Branson

Anyone who considers themselves an adventurer will relate to this happy adventure quote . For the restless, adventures equal happiness.

65. “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

This travel and adventure quote is all about going with the flow and immersing yourself in the experience of traveling the world.

66. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles in life.” – John Amatt

As so many of these adventures quotes have argued, having an adventure is ultimately about having the right attitude. If you keep that attitude up every day, you’ll always feel like you’re part of an adventure!

67. “The best adventures are the ones that make your heart race and your soul sing.” – Jon Miksis

As this on to new adventures quote notes, adventures should fulfill us and make us happy. If exploring doesn’t make us feel good, we’re doing it wrong!

68. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark

This adventure trip quote captures the excitement of being in an unfamiliar place and having the potential to go on so many different, new adventures.

69. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

As this adventure calling quote points out, exploring doesn’t just show us the world. It also teaches us more about ourselves and who we are.

70. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina

This life without adventure quote reminds us to live in the moment and take advantage of the time we have to make our lives as adventurous as possible.

71. “My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.” – Brian Blessed

This adventure quote with family shows how big an impact traveling can have on children. Taking your kids on adventures with you can turn them into little explorers.

72. “Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.” – Angelina Jolie

As this travel adventure quote notes, there is so much to see in the world. Pulling out a map can be a great way to start thinking about where you want to go next.

73. “Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.” – Roy T. Bennett

As this find adventure quote points out, exploring is a way to escape others’ expectations and find out what we value most. I think we all could use the reminder to live our own reality!

74. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather

Life can become much more meaningful when we start looking forward to what will happen next.

75. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins

This beautiful quote about adventure captures the twists and turns of having new experiences around the world.

I hope these quotes on adventure and travel helped remind you why exploring can be so valuable. If you haven’t started planning a new adventure yet, hopefully you will now! Don’t forget to save and share all of your favorite adventure sayings to spread the inspiration around.

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The 100 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Spark Your Next Adventure

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I was a voracious reader when I was growing up, typically reading two books a week on average.

My lower-middle class family didn’t have the money to do much in the way of traveling, outside of the occasional camping trip in North Georgia . Both my parents worked, and my dad worked multiple jobs to support his family of five.

The furthest we ever traveled was a trip to visit my godparents in Virginia when I was 14. So instead I read books about travel and adventure long before I had the financial means to start taking adventures of my own.

It was the written word that originally fueled my travel dreams, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island  and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books  to Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea .

It was through Henry David Thoreau’s Walden , John Muir’s Our National Parks ,  and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature  that I developed a passion for the environment. Without them, who knows if I would’ve become the advocate for ecotourism and wildlife conservation I am today. 

And when I finally started traveling, the work of travel writers such as Jon Krakauer , Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux greatly influenced the way I did it.

But the first classic quote I remember having a significant impact on me came in the form of a Robert Frost poem: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” This idea influenced many of my choices, setting me on the path to becoming a full-time professional writer in my twenties.

For me, these inspirational travel quotes aren’t just words: They are the distillation of a philosophy that continues to drive my life and work today. I hope they will prove equally influential for you…   –Bret Love; photos by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett

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Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

• Inspirational Travel Quotes (General Inspiration)
• Quotes about Adventure Travel

Short Travel Quotes

Family travel quotes, solo travel quotes.

• Couples Travel Quotes  

Safe Travel Quotes

Famous travel quotes, motivational travel quotes, nature travel quotes.

Inspirational Travel Quotes

1. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust

2. “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

3. “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 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.” –Freya Stark

4. “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

5. “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

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6. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” –Paul Theroux

7. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy .” –Sir Richard Burton

8. “I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.” – Rick Steves

9. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust

10. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” –Mary Anne Radmacher

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Quotes About Adventure Travel

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

12. “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

13. “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.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.

14. “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.” –Hans Christian Andersen

15. “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

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16. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho

17. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain . Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles in life.’’ –John Amatt

18.  “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” –Ray Bradbury

19. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” –Irving Wallace

20.  “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still;

So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.

They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest;

Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.”  —Robert W. Service

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21. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” –Anonymous

22.  “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –Helen Keller

23. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” –Saint Augustine

24. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” –Rumi

25.  “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” –Norwegian Proverb

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26. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu

27. “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” –Tennesee Williams

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

29.  “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” – Irish proverb

30. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” –Roy T. Bennett

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31.  “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch , or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed better because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –Lin Yutang

33. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”  –Mark Paterson

34.  “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” –Harvey Lloyd

35. “If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” –Alex Day

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36. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle

37. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” –John Hope Franklin

38. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –Hodding Carter

39. “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

40. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

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41. “The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy

42. “A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”  – Roman Payne, The Wanderess

43 “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious wherever you stand.” –Shannon L. Alder

44.  “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

45. “How will I know who I can become if I don’t give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?” ― Eileen Cook, With Malice

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46. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I– I took the one less traveled by… And that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost

47. “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley

48. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty

49. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada

50.  “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money, or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In Search For The Great Perhaps

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Couples Travel Quotes

51. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

52.  “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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

54.  “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, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer

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

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56.  “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll

57.  “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

58. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” — Robert Brault

59.  “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Anonymous

60.  “To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” — Rebecca Solnit ( A Field Guide to Getting Lost )

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61. “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

62.  “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 ( The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 )

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

64. “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

65. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all the familiar comforts 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

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66. “ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

67. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult

68. “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

69. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen

70. “Be spontaneous, never be afraid to try new things or find new ways. Don’t let overplanning and routine poison your life.” ― Mouloud Benzadi

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71. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

72. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkien

74. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” –Neale Donald Walsch

75.  “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

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76.  “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

77.  “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the Universe.” –Anatole France

78. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –St. Augustine

79. “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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in P.S. I Love You

80.  “I find the great thing in this world is not so much about where we stand, as in what direction we are moving… We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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81.  “Stop creating a life that you need a vacation from. Instead, move to where you want to live, do what you want to do, start what you want to start, and create the life you want today. This isn’t rehearsal, people. This is YOUR life.” –Dale Partridge

82. “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

83. “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

84.  “Travel is the antidote to fear. It makes you see the similarities and differences that exist around the world, and it opens your eyes– and mind– to new and different approaches.” –Julia Cosgrove

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

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

87. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure . The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” —Christopher McCandless

88.  “Travel while you are young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” — Anonymous

89. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food , it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain

90. “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

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91. “Look deeper into nature , and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein

92. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.” –Sylvia Plath

93. “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” –Schopenhauer

94. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir, The Mountains of California

95.  “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you– it is YOU who belongs to this land.” –Native American proverb

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96.  “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” –Cree Indian Proverb

97. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” –Henry David Thoreau

98. “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep , and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar

I love not man the less, but nature more.” –Lord Byron

100. “We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” ―David Attenborough

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75 Adventure Quotes That Will Ignite Your Wanderlust

Adventure , a call to embrace the unknown, ignites the spirit and nurtures the soul. Adventure isn’t merely about traversing physical landscapes; it’s a mindset, a way of life that fuels our spirits and nourishes our souls. It encompasses the courage to step beyond our comfort zones , the resilience to navigate through uncertainties, and the joy of experiencing life in its most raw and unfiltered form. These adventure quotes serve as catalysts, igniting the fire within us, urging us to live boldly, chase our dreams, and find solace in the unexpected.

As the famous mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary once said, “ It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves .” This quote encapsulates the essence of adventure – it’s not just about reaching the summit, but also about overcoming our fears and limitations. Adventure is about pushing ourselves beyond our comfort zones and discovering what we’re truly capable of.

In this blog post, you’ll find a collection of inspirational adventure quotes that will motivate you to explore the world around you. From quotes about nature and travel to short and snappy captions for Instagram, there’s something for everyone. These quotes will remind you that adventure is not just a physical journey, but also a mental and emotional one.

Inspirational Adventure Quotes

1. “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho

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

3. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

4. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou

5. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “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 Pratchet

8. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

9. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

10. “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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

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11. “Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” – Anonymous

12. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

13. “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

14. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett

15. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde

16. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

17. “Life isn’t about the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou

18. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

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

20. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy

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Short Adventure Quotes

21. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

22. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

23. “The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Terry Pratchett

24. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

25. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

26. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

28. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

29. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure.” – Jim Rohn

30. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen R. Covey

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31. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

32. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

33. “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Unknown

34. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

35. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” – Anonymous

36. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

37. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

38. “Life is an adventure. Live it.” – Anonymous

39. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

40. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma

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41. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis

42. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

43. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

44. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

45. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

46. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

Famous Adventure Quotes

47. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

49. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

50. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

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51. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown

52. “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” – Chinese proverb

53. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

54. “Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” – Unknown

55. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

56. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” – Alexander Sattler

57. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

58. “The best way to experience the world is by going outside and exploring it.” – Anonymous

59. “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

60. “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

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61. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

63. “Life is an adventure, so go out there and explore!” – Unknown

64. “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

65. “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

66. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

67. “Adventure is the bridge between dreams and reality. When we walk across that bridge, we can explore the unknown and uncover hidden wonders. With every step, we move closer to our ambitions, passions, and goals. Adventure gives us the courage to take risks and make bold decisions – decisions that help shape our destiny.” – Unknown

68. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

69. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

70. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

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71. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

72. “When we experience adventure, we find ourselves in the present moment and savor all the beauty that life has to offer.” – Unknown

73. “Going outside lets us appreciate life’s precious moments that pass too quickly indoors.” – Anonymous

74. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Each day brings new possibilities for exploration and discovery.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

75. “It’s about living each day to the fullest and trusting in ourselves, no matter what comes our way.” – Unknown

In conclusion, the adventure quotes you’ve read in this blog post are a reminder that life is an adventure worth living. They inspire us to take risks, embrace the unknown, and live life to the fullest. Whether you’re planning your next adventure or just looking for some inspiration, these quotes will remind you that adventure is not just about the destination, but also about the journey. So, go ahead and explore the world around you. As Mark Twain once said, “ 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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ”

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105 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire WANDERLUST With Photos

Last Updated August 19, 2024 William Tang

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Sometimes you just need that extra bit of motivation to push you out the door or a good reminder of what makes travel life-changing. Through the years, we’ve been collecting the best travel quotes that’ll truly inspire some serious wanderlust.

By combining these wanderlust quotes with photos to create the most fitting pictures, use the table of contents below to jump straight down to organized categories such as trip with friends quotes, short travel quotes, meaningful wanderlust quotes about life and discovery, and more!

What you’ll get from this article

• A list of our favourite travel quotes.
• Wanderlust quotes are categorized to make it easy to find something that you’re looking for.

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“Best” is always subjective and yes there are many other great takes on quotes that can inspire one to travel or speak to why the idea of travel is so powerful and life-changing.

Below, we’re going to be listing the best travel quotes with the associated person that wrote or said them. We’ve created pin-able images for many of the quotes for you to use and share.

For organization, wanderlust inspired quotes are broken down into high level categories. Some may belong to multiple but I tried my best to segment them into appropriate buckets.

We’ve also dropped a few nuggets of wisdom and color commentary for a few that we really love.

As we mentioned, the selection of the “best” quotes is subjective. Every quote speaks to every individual differently because of where you are in your life, the experiences you’ve had, your mind space, where you want to be, and your aspirations.

These are the best in our eyes because they aren’t deep in meaning and haven’t been overused to death.

1. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passed on from generation to generation is the idea that we need to fit in our own box and follow the norms set for us. It can be societal, cultural, or anything. We’ve found joy in our lives not following that conventional path.

Starting Going Awesome Places and turning it into a full time job sounded crazy (still kind of is) but we carved our own way through it. Sure there are parallel paths but I’d like to think we’ve blazed our own trail.

2. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes

I’ll be the first to admit that we take way too many photos when we travel but when we go back and look at the own albums (whether on our phones or photobooks we print), it really is a wonderful portal back in time to moments and time gone but not forgotten.

3. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

Now that’s the incredible thing about travel. If you open your mind and your heart, anywhere new is a wonderful adventure of discovery and not strange of weird.

Take the incredible journey I had in our 9 day Ethiopia itinerary . Sure it was uncomfortable and challenging but I embraced it all.

4. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

You can make your dreams come true with a simple step. It might be the hardest step that you’ve ever had to take because you don’t know where the journey will take you but all it takes are the first baby steps.

Sometimes it can be literal when you take that step off the plane when we went skydiving in New Zealand .

5. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Where we grow up in many ways define who we are and what we know. Like it or not, places like our favorite restaurants in North York , the Oxford County Cheese Trail , or local walks in the parks in Richmond Hill , are a core part of who you are.

It’s our own little bubble and when we are able to bust out of it to see what the world is like, it will challenge you to open your eyes, mind, and be a better person. In Mary’s words, you will never be the same again.

6. “Wanderlust: a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

We cheated a little here but we sometimes throw around the word wanderlust but what does it actually mean? With this fun travel quote, now you know!

Now who has that impulse to explore the world?

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

My mind immediately went to the new worlds we’ve seen while going to the best places to scuba diving in the world but this is one of the best quotes about travel because it encourages us to leave the comforts of home to make new discoveries.

You can take this from the perspective of us being land mammals or the fact that we naturally want to be close to the things that we feel at home with. Whether small or large, you won’t learn something new until you put yourself out there and venture to places unknown.

And no, it’s not just “man” but all the wonderful people of this earth!

8. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

This is one of the best travel quotes because it is SO TRUE .

The experiences you gather while travelling are honestly worth more than all the money you can make.

9. “There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

As a photographer, my favourite moments are during sunrise and sunset. Every time we compile a list of the best photography spots like this one in Prague , there’s at least one sunrise or sunset included.

There’s a calmness, stillness, and serenity to the start and end of the day and yes, they’re totally free.

10. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” – John Steinbeck

As a married couple, there’s a deep honesty to this travel quote. As a couple, travel will test your relationship to the max and we always say that even more -so than moving in is to go on a trip together to see if you have partner in life.

In John Steinbeck ‘s travel quote, he talks about how you have to let travel flow the way it wants to go. You can try to bend it, mold it, and control it but you have to let it take you

Some of the best wanderlust sayings are by accomplished writers. They’re incredibly deep, thoughtful, and literary.

11. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

This is one of the most well-known wanderlust quotes that speaks to how the journey is more important than the destination. Many of us travel without that end point in mind and that’s totally okay!

12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain

Travel is the greatest teacher of them all. It’s something that has truly opened my mind and is something that more of us need. I’d like to think that we don’t travel for travel’s sake but we do it with purpose – to open our minds, break barriers, and gain broader understanding of the world.

13. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

The more you travel the more you realize that what you know and take for granted is but just a tiny bubble on this great earth. While I don’t know if I’ll ever see it all but to travel is to expand your horizons.

14. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

Everything you encounter – people, food, culture, fortunes, and mishaps stay with you forever and you become better for it.

15. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

I’ve been feeling a little empty ever since COVID-19 and our lockdown existence. It’s truly made me realize how important it is my life.

16. “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Helen Sontag

Bucket-lists are such a topic of contention these days but I say there’s nothing wrong about dreaming and building your list of places you want to go, what you want to do, and things you want to experience. Just expect it to be a long list.

17. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

18. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

19. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

20. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

I’m pretty OCD when it comes to planning and I’m sure it comes through on the itineraries we publish but some of the best travel moments always come from the unexpected. In many ways, as much as I want to be in control, I feel that I am but a passenger.

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

There’s a level of fulfilment when travelling and I love that I can expand my horizons and see our world in a new and different way.

Sometimes you just need something short and sweet to convey your love of travel.

Here are our favorite short travel quotes but there are also quotes that cross with other categories so make sure to browse through the entire list as there are definitely more short quotes than just these ones below.

22. “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

You probably don’t know yet but you’ll be going to a ton of awesome places in your lifetime.

23. “Don’t quit your day dream.” – Anonymous

Always be dreaming and more than that, make it a reality.

24. “Where to next?” – Anonymous

This is more like the question that I get asked the most beyond “where’s your favorite place you’ve been to?”. This

If you’re a traveler, this is a question that you get almost every single time. It’s also a fantastic short travel quote because it’s almost rhetorical. There’s always somewhere you’re planning on going or want to go to.

It’s also a bit of a loaded question because I’m sure your list is quite long.

25. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw

26. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous

27. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

Not just an amazing travel quote but great words to live by in all facets of your life.

28. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb

In travel, it’s easy for someone to say that you can know everything you need to know by reading about it in the books or looking at photos but it’s something else entirely to see, experience, and feel it in person.

29. “I want to make memories all over the world.” – Anonymous

30. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – Anonymous

We try to live without regret and this is a great short quote that we try to live life by.

31. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

32. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

33. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

I don’t always travel that light with our packing lists but this is a great short travel quote that’s always the forefront of my mind. I always ask myself, “do I really need this?”.

Here, I’m in the middle of Tokyo with the original Peak Design 5L Sling that makes a great light travel set up.

Sticking to the road less travelled can be the most rewarding. Here are a couple of quotes that push me to always incorporate something a little different on my trips.

34. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

It’s so easy to follow the crowd and be sucked into what everyone’s doing on Instagram or places that are the most popular. I’ve always found that the best trips are the ones that most people don’t know about.

35. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” – Rick Watson

36. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

To some extent all great quotes come from a place of philosophical thought but to keep things organized, these are some of the most famous quotes by legendary philosophers that have stood the test of time.

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

Wisdom, experiences, happiness, and wonder – it’s out there for you to explore.

38. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

39. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

If you’ve read about how Going Awesome Places came to be , you’ll know that I kind of stumbled upon it by accident. It’s through travel that I’ve become a better storyteller. Ibn Battuta was absolutely right.

40. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi Jalalud-Din

This quote speaks to the greatest reward of travel. Travel has given me so much on many levels. I’m gracious beyond words.

41. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

42. “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

This has to ring so true right. The best test of a friendship is to travel and you quickly find out whether you can stand them or not.

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – Anonymous

45. “True friends never apart maybe in distance never in heart.” – Helen Keller

46. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

47. “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

48. “As with any journey, whom you travel with is more important than the destination.” – Anonymous

49. “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – Anonymous

There’s enough suckage in life. Spend time with those that don’t suck.

50. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”  – Edith Wharton

51. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”  – Ernest Hemingway

52. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh

Sometimes you just know who’s going to make an awesome travel partner.

53. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!”  – Anonymous

54. “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

As much as I love solo travel, it just isn’t the same when you can’t share your travel experiences with someone else.

55. “No road is long with good company.”  – Turkish proverb

56. “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Anonymous

57. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

58. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.” – African Proverb

59. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Anonymous

We seek good wanderlust quotes because we’re looking to be inspired. In a simple sentence, you’ll feel that itch to book that ticket. These quotes speak to a way of life, and why you need to just go.

60. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

Sustainable travel is so important and its core principle can be said in this simple travel quote.

61. “Our happiest moment as tourists always seems to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

62. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous

63. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

64. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

65. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous

Travel is about taking that leap of faith. It could be a big investment in money. It could be a big risk quitting your job or taking a sabbatical. It could be scary doing it on your own. Whatever it is, think about how incredible the experiences will be to push you over that edge.

66. “Wanderlust isn’t about running away from it all.  It’s about experiencing the outside to discover the inside.” – Unknown

This is so true. Some might have the perspective that intrepid travellers are running away from something at home. The reality is that for many, travel is a way for us to learn more about ourselves and running towards truth.

Beyond inspiration, travel and wanderlust quotes tell us how we should think about life and what is important.

67. “We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us.” – Anonymous

Time moves faster than ever. There are only so many “I’ll do that later” you can use before you run out. Don’t let those opportunities slip on by.

68. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

69. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

This is one of my all-time favourites that can easily go into the short travel quotes section. It’s a motto in life that’s truly transformative.

70. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

71. “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

72. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

73. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

You have one life to live. Make it count is what I say.

74. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anotole France

Adventure is such a core part of our travel DNA and these quotes about travel should inspire you to launch your very own.

75. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

76. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

77. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

When the adrenaline is pumping, and you don’t know what’s coming next is when I feel the most alive. That includes being terrified of heights and jumping out of a plane in the Abel Tasman .

78. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

79. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous

80. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Anonymous

81. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

82. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

83. “Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world.” – Anonymous

There is truly so much beauty in the world. Everywhere I go, I’m constantly amazed.

Above all else, travel is what puts a smile on many people’s faces. This collection of wanderlust quotes should give you what people call “the travel feels” these days.

84. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

85. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

86. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

There are so many ways to interpret this one but I think of it as always staying positive whether it’s someone feeling down or when shit happens when you travel.

87. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”  – Anonymous

I have a couple of these songs on my road trip mixtape. Songs are such a great way to convey ideas and these are a few lyrics that make me want to travel even more.

88. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world”. – Louis Armstrong, “It’s a Wonderful World”

This isn’t normally something you associate with travel but when you think about those skies of blue, clouds of white, trees of green, colors of the rainbow, and all the faces of people going by, I can’t help but think about all the things that make travel so amazing.

89. “Life is short; I wanna live it well. One life, one story to tell.” – Switchfoot, “Live It Well”

If you know me well, you’ll know that Switchfoot is my all-time favourite band. Their lyrics are what I love the most about them because they always have incredibly deep meaning. Life is precious, you’ve got one shot to make it count.

90. “But hold me fast, hold me fast, cause I’m a hopeless wanderer.”  – Mumford & Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”

91. “Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free. I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me.”  – Elvis Presley, “Harem Holiday”

92. “Tell everybody I’m on my way. New friends and new places to see. With blue skies ahead, yes I’m on my way.” – Phil Collins, “On My Way”

They might not be authors or philosophers but they equally have important things to say about the impact of travel and why it matters.

93. “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

The late Anthony Bourdain was someone that truly understood travel. He was such a great storyteller and this quote reminds me of my earlier days when I was backpacking around Europe and just not having a care in the world.

94. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

95. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

96. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

97. “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

Travel does change you and always for the better. Anthony Bourdain goes a step further by also encourages us to leave the places we visit better off.

98. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

99. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

100. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

There are a couple of wanderlust quotes from movies that stand out. Some are well-known and others you might not’ve heard of or watched.

101. “I’m shaking the dust of this crummy town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world!” – George Bailey from “It’s a Wonderful Life”

102. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.” – The Hobbit

Pictures tell a thousand words and videos many more but there’s nothing like being in these places that people talk about and taking it in with all of your senses.

103. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

104. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” – Me Before You

105. “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere.” – Beauty and the Beast

I’m not sure if we’ve ever done a list this long but we hope that you’ve been able to pull a few favorites of your own with the best quotes about travel.

Many of these have anchored but have also set me free when it comes to traveling the world. In one way or another, these quotes have driven me to take the leap, to continue to explore, and to get outside of my comfort zone.

Wanderlust is defined as “a strong desire to travel”.

Best quotes about travel are ones that are easy to understand, have deep analogies to life, and of course create strong feelings of wanderlust.

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Helen Sontag “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous “We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us.” – Anonymous “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere.” – Beauty and the Beast

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – Anonymous “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “Don’t quit your day dream.” – Anonymous “Where to next?” – Anonymous “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

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105+ Adventure Quotes To Inspire Your Next Trip

Are you looking for some inspiration to get out and explore the world? Then look no further! Here’s a collection of 105+ adventure quotes from famous authors, adventurers, and explorers. From funny one-liners to deep reflections on life and nature, these quotes will help motivate you to take risks, try new things, and live an adventurous life.

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Adventurous souls will know that adventure doesn’t need to be extravagant or big. Life itself has enough adventure for most of us and the quotes below celebrate just that.

• “Life is an adventure. Live it” – Anonymous
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us” – Anonymous
• “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Adventure is worthwhile in itself” – Amelia Earhart
• “Adventure is the bridge between dreams and reality. When we walk across that bridge, we can explore the unknown and uncover hidden wonders. With every step, we move closer to our ambitions, passions, and goals. Adventure gives us the courage to take risks and make bold decisions – decisions that help shape our destiny.” – Unknown
• “When we experience adventure, we find ourselves in the present moment and savor all the beauty that life has to offer.” – Unknown
• . It’s about living each day to the fullest and trusting in ourselves, no matter what comes our way.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is the path that leads us closer to discovering our true purpose, unlocking our potential, and finding fulfillment in life.” – Unknown
• “Life is an adventure, so go out there and explore!” – Unknown
• “Make each day an adventure and take the time to enjoy the journey.” – Unknown
• “Life is an adventure, so take chances and make discoveries along the way!” – Unknown

No adventure takes place within the confinements of the indoors. These adventure messages remind us that getting outdoors is what counts in life.

• “Going outside lets us appreciate life’s precious moments that pass too quickly indoors” – Anonymous
• “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him” – Dutch Proverb
• “The best way to experience the world is by going outside and exploring it” – Anonymous.
• “Nothing is more invigorating than breathing in fresh air and feeling alive outdoors”—Anonymous
• “Time spent outdoors reminds us that we’re part of something larger: a beautiful universe brimming with endless possibilities” —Unknown Author

Super short adventure quotes that are perfect for personalising gifts or writing in a card.

• “If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found” – Unknown
• “You don’t have to be rich to travel well” – Eugene Fodor
• Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius
• “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey” – Unknown
• “Adventure is out there” – Up movie

If you’re looking for a meaningful message to give you the inspiration to start a new adventure, these quotes are for you.

• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” – Charles Dudley Warner
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
• “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
• “The world is filled with adventure — all you have to do is find it.” – Unknown
• “Adventure doesn’t come to you, you have to go out and find it.”– Unknown
• “The hardest part of an adventure is getting to the start point.” Mark Beaumont
• “Adventure starts with daring yourself to try something new. It’s about embracing every opportunity and living life to the fullest!” – Unknown
• “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Each day brings new possibilities for exploration and discovery.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

These quotes are sure to give you that much-needed wanderlust.

• “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them” – Amelia E. Barr
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Adventures don’t come calling like unexpected relatives; you have to go looking for them” – Mark Jenkins
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people” – John Steinbeck
• “Sometimes the greatest adventures are the ones you never expected.” – Unknown
• “Adventure awaits those willing to take a chance and live life to its fullest.” – Unknown
• “Life is an unpredictable journey, so don’t let fear keep you from exploring.” – Unknown
• “The best adventures are those that happen when you least expect them.” – Unknown
• “Life’s an adventure, and if it’s not fun, then you’re doing something wrong!” – Anonymous
• “If life is boring, then go out and find an adventure. Nothing good ever comes easy.” – Unknown
• “Life is an adventure that’s meant to be explored, so go and make some memories!” – Unknown
• “The best way to have a good time is to take on an unexpected adventure.” – Anonymous
• “Adventure isn’t always found at the end of the road; sometimes it’s just around the corner.”
• “Adventure isn’t about seeking danger or taking risks; it’s about embracing life with a sense of curiosity and enthusiasm.” – Unknown

Adventurers certainly have respect and deep love for nature and the peace it brings. These quotes all nod to the importance of nature on an adventure.

• “Nature doesn’t need people…people need nature” – Unknown Author
• “Get out there, explore and reconnect with Mother Nature” – Anonymous
• “The more I explore nature, the more I connect with myself and discover who I am” – Unknown Author
• “The outdoors is where your soul can be free and find peace in nature” – Anonymous
• “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” – Unknown
• “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you; You have to go to them sometimes” – Winnie The Pooh
• “The sky above, the land below- adventure awaits you everywhere” – Anonymous

For the adrenaline junkies here are some thrill-seeking adventure quotes.

• “Sometimes the best adventures can be found when you least expect them” – Anonymous
• “The fun of adventure isn’t in the destination, but in the journey and discoveries along the way” – Unknown
• “Adventure is living life on the edge, taking risks and embracing every challenge that comes your way” – Anonymous
• “The best adventures are those that push you to the limits of your comfort zone and challenge you to become a better version of yourself” – Unknown

Travellers will know that the adventure that unfolds as you explore new places is totally unexpected.

• “Adventure isn’t always far away; sometimes it’s just around the corner waiting for you to explore it!” – Anonymous
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money” – Susan Heller
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine
• “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled” – Mohammed
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page” – Augustine of Hippo
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” – Anita Desai
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey” – Fitzhugh Mullan

It takes a certain mindset to embrace nature, but nature changes our minds for good.

• “Begin each day with an open mind and a brave heart and you’ll never know what sort of adventure awaits you.” – Unknown
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal” – Paulo Coelho
• “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “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
• “Adventure isn’t just a mental journey – it’s a physical one as well.”
• “Adventure calls on us to be brave and to pursue our dreams. It gives us the strength to look life in the eye, no matter what it may bring. Adventure helps us discover who we really are and how strong we can be.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is an attitude; it’s a way of exploring the world and pushing our boundaries” – Unknown

Cute adventure quotes that you can add to a card or personalise a gift.

• “If you want to explore a new path, make your own and blaze it with courage and determination.” – Unknown
• “The best adventures often begin with a single step outside of the comfort zone.” – Unknown
• “The greatest adventures are the ones that take us on an exciting journey within ourselves.” – Unknown
• “The world is full of wonderful places to explore, but finding them starts with a single step.” – Anonymous
• “Wherever your heart takes you, follow it and make new memories along the way!” – Unknown

If you’re like us and travel with your partner, these quotes might be for you!

• “When couples embark on an adventure together, they get the opportunity to bond and create shared experiences that will last a lifetime.” – Unknown
• “The moments spent adventuring side by side are some of the most precious memories you’ll make. The thrill of discovering new” – Unknown
• “Couples who adventure together stay together” – Unknown
• “Adventures with your partner make for the best stories and memories that will last a lifetime.” – Unknown
• “The greatest adventure is finding each other and going on new experiences together!” – Unknown
• “Couples who travel together, stay together!” – Unknown
• “Life is an adventurous journey – explore it together!” – Unknown
• “Adventure isn’t just a journey, it’s a shared experience that brings you closer together.” – Unknown
• “Exploring the world together will give you memories to last a lifetime!” – Unknown
• “The best adventures are those shared with your partner!” – Unknown

Adventuring families experience adventure in their own special way. These quotes are about family adventure and the magic that comes with it.

• “Family adventures are a great way to make lifelong memories and show your kids the importance of exploration and discovery.” – Unknown
• “A family that travels together creates bonds that will last forever!” – Unknown
• “Adventure is out there – explore it with your family!” – Unknown
• “Adventuring with your family can teach you valuable lessons about life, love and relationships.” – Unknown
• “Time spent adventuring with your family is time well spent!” – Unknown
• “Family adventures are the best kind of adventures – make some lasting memories together!” – Unknown
• “Make the most of your time together – take a family adventure and explore the world!” – Unknown
• “Being brave enough to take an adventure with your family will bring you closer together.” – Unknown
• “Risking it all for a family adventure is always worth it!” – Unknown
• “Adventure awaits – make sure to take your family along for the ride!” – Unknown

If you want an adventure message with a bit of humour, this section is for you.

• What did one mountain climber say to the other? “Let’s face it!”
• Why wouldn’t the pirate go on any more adventures? He had been marooned too many times.
• What do you call an adventurous monkey? A risk-a-baboon!
• “Adventure starts with standing still.”
• “Life is an adventure, and it’s more fun to take the scenic route!” – Unknown
• “Some adventures don’t meet expectations, but they’re still worth having” – Unknown

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40+ Adventure Quotes To Inspire You to Travel

These are my favorite adventure quotes that inspire travel. Shared by the most incredible authors and public figures, these quotes will spark your wanderlust when you need that extra boost.

When it comes to getting out and exploring the world, I can always use a little extra push of inspiration. I’ve bookmarked many of these quotes over the year as they always speak to me at different times.

Whether I’m needing inspiration to explore foreign lands or need to be reminded of how an adventure can challenge me to grow, these quotes do it for me.

I hope you’ll be inspired by these adventure quotes to get you outdoors, to take that solo adventure, and explore more of our beautiful world.

Adventure Quotes To Inspire You

1. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” — Anthony Bourdain

2. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ― Mark Twain

3. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ― Helen Keller

4. “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

5. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta

6. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” ― Amelia Earhart

7. “The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself.” — Andrew McCarthy

8. “Being exposed to the existence of other languages increases the perception that the world is populated by people who not only speak differently from oneself but whose cultures and philosophies are other than one’s own.” — Maya Angelou

9. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

10. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others…Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” — Alain de Botton | Find my full list of Alain de Botton quotes here .

11. “All good things are wild and free.” ― Henry David Thoreau

12. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” — Rumi

13. “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”— Casey Neistat

14. “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

15. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

16. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”— Elizabeth Gilbert

17. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

18. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton

19. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

One of my favorite adventure quotes:

20. “Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true every-where, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.” — Maya Angelou

21. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin

22. “It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.” — Alain de Botton from “ Art of Travel “

23. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” — Cherie Gilderbloom

24. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” — Rumi

One of my favorite adventure quotes about getting outdoors:

25. “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” — John Muir

26. “The world is a book and he who don’t travel only read one page.” — St. Augustine

27. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

28. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu

29. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” — Benjamin Disraeli

30. “How wild it was, to let it be.”— Cheryl Strayed

31. “The journey matters more than the destination.” ― Tony Fahkry

32. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” — Jack Kerouac

33. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Sir Edmund Hillary

34. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” — J.K. Rowling

35. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” — Anthony Bourdain

36. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”— Seth Godin, check out his blog for more.

37. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places.” — Alain de Botton

38. “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”— Mae Jemison

39. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” — Angelina Jolie

40. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir

41. “Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” — Paulo Coelho

42. “There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.” — John Muir

43. “Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience, and presumably to become more whole as a human being.” — Ed Buryn

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

45. “See how small you are next to the mountains. Accept what is bigger than you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.” — Alain de Botton

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101+ Best Travel Quotes in the World To Inspire You

Written By: The Planet D

Inspiration

Published On: August 26, 2024

We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can, so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.

Table of Contents

101 Best Travel Quotes

Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, inspired to travel  and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .

Favorite Travel Quotes

Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,

• “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” ~ Tim Cahill
• “Life is short, and the world is wide,” ~ Simon Raven.
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page” – Saint Augustine
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people” ~ John Steinbeck’s
• “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving ” ~ Lao Tzu

Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.

Famous Travel Quotes

Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up around your house for inspiration!

Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine
• “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
• “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain
• ” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
• “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
• “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway
• “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” Lao-Tzu Chinese Philosopher
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ? Dame Freya Madeline Stark
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

Adventure Travel Quotes

• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho
• “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous
• “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman
• “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
• “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind”
• “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough
• 20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty

Funny Travel Quotes

I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.

• “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate people than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
•  “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck
• “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
• “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman
• “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa
• “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope
• “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark
• “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux
• “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide
• “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha
• “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ Penelope Riley
• “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
• “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler
• “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow”
• “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous
• “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”
• “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

• “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde
• “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck
• “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb
• “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”
• “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”
• “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss
• “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
• “Life’s a journey, not a destination” ~AEROSMITH/Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Where to next?”
• “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson
• “I want to make memories all over the world”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

• “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain
• “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley
• “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
• “There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
• “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters
• “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”
• “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Happy Travel Quotes

• “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”
• “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”
• “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”
• “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”
• “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”
• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ~ John Green
• “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith
• “The journey is my home.”

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

• “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”
• “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”
• “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous
• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
• “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”
• “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” ~ Gayle Foreman
• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”
• “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”
• “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw
• “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
• “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill
• “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Travel Quotes by Famous People

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

• “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• “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
• “Because In The End, You Won’t Remember The Time You Spent Working In An Office Or Mowing Your Lawn. Climb That Damn Mountain.” ~ Jack Kerouak
• “Paris is Always a Good Idea” ~ Audrey Hepburn
• “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back” ~ Paul Theroux
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ Mae West
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” ~ Robert Frost
• “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ Dalai Lama
• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
• “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Walt Whitman
• “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
• “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
• “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine 

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”  – Susan Heller .
• “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” ~ Sir Richard Burton
• “And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World” – Louis Armstrong
• When you’re travelling, 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
• “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

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

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145 thoughts on “101+ Best Travel Quotes in the World To Inspire You”

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂

It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/

It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure.

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “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.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“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 iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “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 have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

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Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

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Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

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Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

120 Adventure Quotes to Inspire Your Next Great Experience

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Do you love exploring new places and trying new things? Or do you need a bit of a nudge to step outside your comfort zone? Either way, creative sayings about adventure can help you express yourself. Whether you're looking to share your passion for adventure or you're searching for sayings to remind you that wonderful things can happen when you try something new, the following adventure quotes will help you soar.

Short Adventure Quotes and Captions

Need a snappy caption for Instagram, or a brief saying for some other reason (maybe your scrapbook or even a new tattoo)? Let the short adventure quotes below speak for you.

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• Explore more.
• Wanderluster.
• Let's vagabond.
• You, unleashed.
• Beyond ordinary.
• Adventure awaits.
• Will work to travel.
• Seek the extraordinary.
• No more mundane.
• Anticipate adventure.
• Undertake adventure.
• Exploration = adoration.
• Expedition excitement.

Life Is an Adventure Quotes

When you view life as an adventure, that means you see opportunity everywhere. Whatever you haven't yet conquered in life is a potential adventure.

• Wandering is where it's at.
• Life is what you make of it.
• Adventuring is what life is all about.
• Life is too short to settle for ordinary.
• Nothing adventured, nothing gained.
• Curate the adventure of your own life.
• Seek adventure like there's no tomorrow.
• Adventure is in the very air that you breathe.
• A life without adventure is just an existence.
• A new day, a new opportunity for adventure.
• Adventure brings the human experience to life.
• If you're not adventuring, you're not really living.
• Life is filled with endless possibilities for adventure.
• Extraordinary is out there, just waiting for you to find it.
• Don't sit back and wait for life to happen. Get out there and live yours.

Quotes About Exciting New Adventures

Express the amazing feeling of discovering more about the world and yourself with these sayings about exciting adventures.

• Dare to adventure.
• Venture to adventure.
• Explore more, be more.
• Embark on an odyssey.
• Escapade from the everyday.
• Conquer the unexplored.
• All adventure, all the time.
• Adventure is my middle name.
• Adventures are never ordinary.
• Fearlessly seek fresh adventures.
• I never met an adventure I didn't like.
• Get out there and find your next adventure.
• Never pass up an opportunity for adventure.
• There is too much to explore to ever be bored.
• Try something new, you might discover a new passion.

Adventure Travel Quotes

Do you look at travel as an opportunity to explore extraordinary places? Use these quotes to share your perspective.

• Go everywhere.
• Explore the world.
• Let the road decide.
• Extended excursion.
• Venture far and wide.
• Make time to ramble.
• Expand your horizons.
• Chart your own course.
• Explore with abandon.
• Pick a place and just go.
• Touring makes my heart sing.
• Explore every corner of the earth.
• Never settle for less than thrilling.
• Discover yourself on the open road.
• Go wherever the road wants to take you.

Nature Adventure Quotes

Any kind of travel can represent adventure, but getting out in nature to explore the great outdoors is a special experience all its own.

• Kayak it up.
• Be out there.
• Backpack it in.
• Beach for the stars.
• Find what's ca-noe.
• Have tent, will travel.
• Find yourself in the forest.
• Paddle away, paddle away.
• Off-grid inspires greatness.
• Nothing beats the backcountry.
• Discover yourself off the beaten path.
• A hike in the woods is never just a hike.
• Get out in nature and discover yourself.
• True adventure lives in the great outdoors.
• Mother Nature requests the pleasure of your company.

Quotes to Inspire Adventure

Need a bit of positive self-talk to encourage you to embark on an adventure? These sayings work great as personal mottos to inspire exploration.

• Challenge yourself.
• Don't sit this one out.
• All roads lead somewhere.
• Do more and you'll be more.
• Don't shy away from adventure.
• Step outside your comfort zone.
• Always make time for adventure.
• Adventure is knocking. Let it in!
• Adventure is a chance worth taking.
• You'll never find what you don't seek.
• Adventure is more than a state of mind.
• Be brave enough to do something different.
• Think outside the walls of your comfort zone.
• How can you expect to soar if you don't explore?
• The road to regret is paved with adventures not taken.

Adventure Quotes for Couples

Are you and the one you love just as passionate about adventure as you are about each other? The sayings below may help you express your experiences.

• Tour in twos.
• Joint journey.
• Joint adventure.
• Traverse together.
• Traverse in tandem.
• Go further together.
• Adventure is for lovers.
• Our love is fueled by adventure.
• Traverse the world together.
• Go beyond your barriers together.
• Gettin' lost with the one I love.
• Expand your horizons hand in hand.
• Discover how far you can go together.
• Couples who explore together go places.
• True love extends to the ends of the earth.

Famous Adventure Quotes

From a funny, often-quoted saying from the movie Toy Story, to meaningful quotes from poems, songs, and literature, there are quite a few well-known quotes about adventure to consider.

• "Adventure is out there." - Up , spoken by Charles Muntz
• "Curiouser and curiouser!" - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• "To infinity and beyond!" - Toy Story , spoken by Buzz Lightyear
• "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Let Us Have Faith by Helen Keller
• "Strong and content, I travel the open road." - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
• "Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger." Aesop's Fables by Aesop
• "Where have you been wandering, and in what countries have you travelled?" - The Odyssey by Homer
• "Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection/ The lovers, the dreamers and me." - The Rainbow Connection by Jim Henson/ Kermit the Frog
• "Life is a highway/ I wanna ride it all night long/ If you're goin' my way/ Well, I wanna drive it all night long." - Life Is a Highway by Rascal Flatts
• "Get your motor runnin'/ Head out on the highway/ Looking for adventure/ In whatever comes our way." - Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
• "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• "Somewhere over the rainbow/ Bluebirds fly/ Birds fly over the rainbow/ Why then, oh, why can't I?" - Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
• "On the road again/ Goin' places that I've never been/ Seein' things that I may never see again/ And I can't wait to get on the road again." - On the Road Again by Willie Nelson
• "A miraculous agreement of the times of departure and arrival, which was impossible, was absolutely necessary to his success." - Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• "Lord, I was born a ramblin' man/ Tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can/ And when it's time for leavin'/ I hope you'll understand/ That I was born a ramblin' man." - Ramblin' Man by The Allman Brothers Band

Get Out There and Explore

What are you waiting for? Your next adventure is just around the corner. You have access to plenty of quotes to motivate you to get going, as well as sayings to caption photos that you take along the way. Get out there and explore this great big world!

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Quotes To Make You Want To Travel

“if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – rachel wolchin..

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

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

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anon

“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

“go at least once a year to a place you’ve never been before.” – dalai lama.

“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

“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

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Travel The World Quotes

“man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – andre gide.

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“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

“Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world” – Anon

“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

“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

Great Travel Quotes

“travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -gustav flaubert.

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

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

“travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” – anon.

“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

“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

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

“Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anon

“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

Travel With Friends Quotes

“a journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – tim cahill.

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”-  The Dhammapada

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“it doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you.” – anon.

Solo Travel Quotes

“travel far enough, you meet yourself” – david mitchell.

“The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” – Anon

“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”   – Pico Iyer 

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“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

“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

“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

Couple Travel Quotes

“travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – leigh hunt.

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

“Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Anon

Family Travel Quotes

These family vacation quotes are beautiful to add to your travel diary , for instagram captions or in your photobooks. , “not all classrooms have 4 walls” – anon.

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

“Oh, the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

“blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – lovelle drachman.

“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”- Mark Paterson

“it is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – anon.

“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

“actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – lewis carroll.

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert.

“life is short and the world is wide.” – anon.

“Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children” – Charles R Swindoll

“What child has not traveled by spinning the globe” – Anon

Funny travel quotes, “traveling’s not something you’re good at. it’s something you do. like breathing.” – gayle foreman.

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – brenna smith.

Travel Adventure Quotes

“travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – marty rubin.

“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins

“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“I do believe it’s time for another adventure.” – Anon

“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

“life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller.

The Best Travel Quotes

“i travel not to go anywhere, but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson.

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

“to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – freya stark, “and at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – shanti.

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

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning” – Harvey Lloyd

“a good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – lao tzu, famous travel quotes, “live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – oscar wilde.

“I choose to collect memories instead of things.” –  Elena Levon

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

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WARNING: THE ADVENTURE QUOTES YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ MAY CAUSE SEVERE CASES OF WANDERLUST. SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE IMPULSIVE FLIGHT PURCHASES, TRAVEL PLANNING, AND OTHER WANDERLUST-INSPIRED BEHAVIOR. IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS, DO NOT CALL A DOCTOR. INSTEAD, PACK YOUR BAGS, HEAD TO THE AIRPORT, AND LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!

So you’re looking for inspiration, eh?

Well you’re in the right place. Whether you’re hunting down the perfect Instagram captions for travel photos or you simply need a motivational boost…

This gigantic list of adventure quotes will be a double shot of wanderlust straight to the soul.

Get ready for the swift kick in the keister you need to bust out of your rut, create an escape plan, and start living your travel adventure. Buckle up, baby! Here we go!

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1. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.”

–Paul Coelho

2. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”

3. “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.”

–Jawaharlal Nehru

4. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

5. “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

6. “The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.”

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

-Oscar Wilde

8. “You must go on adventures to find where you truly belong.”

9. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.”

10. “The shell must break before the bird can fly.”

–Alfred Tennyson

11. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”

–Anna Quindlen

12. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”

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13. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.”

14. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die”

15. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.”

-Irving Wallace

16. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

–Henry David Thoreau

17. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

–Les Brown

18. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”

–Frank Herbert

19. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

–Martin Buber

20. “I do believe it’s time for another adventure.”

21. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, 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

22. “Let the adventure begin.”

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

–Lao Tzu

24. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.”

–Steve Prefontaine

25. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”

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

–Robert Louis Stevenson

27. “Where to next?”

28. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan.”

29. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

–Suzanne Collins

30. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

–Seth Godin

31. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”

32. “Just Go. Immerse yourself in the beauty of the world. It’s waiting for you!”

–Mitchell A. Glass

33. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!”

–Confucius

34. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”

35. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.”

36. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”

37. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”

38. “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.”

–Jim Rohn

39. “I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it.”

40. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”

41. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

–George Bernard Shaw

42. “‘Average’ is a life less than you’re capable of.”

–Jon Acuff

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

–Helen Keller

44. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

–Stephen Covey

45. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.”

–Karen Gibbs

46. “It is not death most people are afraid of. It is getting to the end of life, only to realize, that you never truly lived.”

47. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

–Mae West

48. “Add life to your days, not days to your life.”

49. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

-Ernest Hemingway

50. “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

51. “Life is short. Time is fast. No replay. No rewind. So enjoy every moment as it comes…”

52. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, 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

53. “Life is short and the world is wide.”

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

–Mary Anne Radmacher

55. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

–Oscar Wilde

56. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”

–Babs Hoffman

57. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. “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

59. “The best opportunities are found only once you’re already in motion.”

–Ryan Finley

60. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

61. “Find a beautiful place, and get lost.”

62. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

–Dalai Lama

63. “If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.”

64. “It’s ok to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”

65. “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.”

–Sir Richard Burton

66. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

–Robert Frost

67. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

–David McCullough

68. “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

69. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

–Anatole France

70. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

–Pico Iyer

71. “I want to make memories all over the world.”

72. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”

73. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.”

74. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”

–Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

75. “Comfort zones are where adventures go to die.”

–Mitchell A. Glass ←Does this make me a celebrity?

76. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

–Michael John Bobak

77. “Are you really happy or just comfortable?”

78. “Your comfort zone is your danger zone.”

–Greg Plitt

79. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

–Carew Papritz

80. “True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”

–Adam Braun

81. “The hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. But you have to let go of the life you’re familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about.”

–T. Arigo

82. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

–Neale Donald Walsch

83. “The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.”

–Jack Canfield

84. “Step so far outside your comfort zone that you forget how to get back.”

85. “If you want to change you have to be willing to be uncomfortable.”

86. “Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.”

–Stan Dale

87. “By leaving your comfort zone behind and taking a leap of faith into something new, you find out who you are truly capable of becoming.”

88. “A good portion of the things you want in life is outside your comfort zone.”

–Idowu Koyenikan

89. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

–Oliver Wendell Holmes

90. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

–John A. Shedd

91. “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

92. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

–Marcel Proust

93. “The journey is my home.”

–Muriel Rukeyser

94. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

–Albus Dumbledore

95. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”

–Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

–Agustine of Hippo

97. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

–Gustav Flaubert

98. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

–Susan Sontag

99. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”

–Lovelle Drachman

100. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe.”

101. “Fill your life with adventure, not things.”

102. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”

–Carl Sandburg

103. “Adventure is worthwhile.”

–Aristotle

104. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.”

–Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

105. “Be fearful of mediocrity.”

–Jonathan Ellery

106. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”

–Jennifer Lee

107. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”

108. “Adventure is a path. real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”

109. “Don’t quit your day dream.”

110. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

111. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”

112. “Never stop exploring.”

113. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

–Herman Melville

114. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”

–Caskie Stinnett

115. “The journey not the arrival matters.”

–T.S. Eliot

116. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”

117. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world.”

118. “To travel is to live.”

–Hans Christian Andersen

119. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

–Anita Desai

120. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”

121. “Take me anywhere.”

122. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

–Peter Hoeg

123. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”

124. “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.”

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

–John Steinbeck

126. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”

–Winnie the Pooh

127. “I want to travel the world with you, go to every country, every city, take pictures, and be happy.”

128. “Happiness is planning an adventure to someplace new with someone you love.”

129. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”

–Helen Hayes

130. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

–Lewis Carroll

131. “We have nothing to lose, and a world to see.”

132. “Travel is like love, 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.”

133. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”

134. “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

135. “In life, It’s not where you go, It’s who you travel with”

–Charles Schulz

136. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

–Jack Kerouac

137. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”

–Tim Cahill

138. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”

139. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

–John Green

140. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.”

–Penelope Riley

141. “Good friends follow you anywhere.”

142. “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

143. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

–Izaak Walton

144. “Everyone needs a friend that will call and say, ‘Get dressed, we are going on an adventure.

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

146. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

147. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”

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

–Anaïs Nin

149. “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

150. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”

151. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

–Marty Rubin

152. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”

–Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

153. “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.”

–Nyssa P. Chopra

154. “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

155. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

–John C. Maxwell

156. “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.”

157. “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.”

158. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”

–Lawrence Block

159. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

–Freya Stark

160. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

–Benjamin Disraeli

161. “Adventure crushes the cobwebs of routine—it reminds you what it feels like to be alive.”

– Mitch Glass

162. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

―Paulo Coelho

163. “I have an insane calling to be where I’m not.”

164. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.”

165. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.”

166. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” 

– David McCullough Jr.

167. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

168. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

– Heraclitus

169. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

170. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

– Gustave Flaubert

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Mitch is your typical nomadic backpacker. Or at least, he was . But after stopping in Colombia to take “one week” of salsa lessons, his life took a sharp left turn. He met a cute Colombian girl in dance class, fell in love, and got married. Over half a decade has passed since he left his career to travel the world as a digital nomad, and he’s never looked back.

Nowadays, he’s the blogger behind Project Untethered — where he runs an awesome email newsletter and Youtube channel teaching adventure-craved wanderlusters how to escape the rat race, earn money from anywhere, and build an “untethered life”.

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Saturday 7th of August 2021

hearttouching quotes thanks

Wednesday 11th of August 2021

I'm glad you enjoyed them! :-)

Shannon Ansbaugh

Friday 22nd of January 2021

Hi, Do you know how I can get permission to use one of your quotes in a memoir? Or is it public domain? It is "We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us"

Hey Shannon, if you'd like to use the image I made of the quote, I ask that you simply give credit beneath the photo with a link to https://www.projectuntethered.com/adventure-quotes . However, if you just want to use the quote itself, there is no need to give credit to me. I wasn't able to find the original author of the quote. Thanks!

Tuesday 7th of July 2020

Thanks For sharing adventure quotes. I have read many quotes here which had touched my heart.

Wednesday 8th of July 2020

You bet! I'm glad they inspired you!

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