50 Travel Quotes that will inspire you to pack your bags

Best Travel Quotes for Travel Inspiration
Sometimes a simple travel quote or phrase is all it takes to spark action or change in our lives.
We always welcome inspirational words, so we thought it would be fun to share some quotes that have inspired us in the past. Hopefully one or two of them give you the push you need to plan that next adventure. Enjoy!
50 Inspirational Travel Quotes 
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
A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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
You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down. – Zig Ziglar

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  – Saint Augustine
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
Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. – Simon Raven
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Barbara Hoffman
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
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
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. –  Robert Frost
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin
Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh
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
Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. – Asian Proverb

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse. – Thomas Fuller
When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out. – 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
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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard
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
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – Charles Dudley Warner
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. – Gloria Gaither
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. – Gandhi
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustav Flaubert
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
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
A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person. – Mongolian Proverb

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. – Wayne  Gretzky
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. –  John A. Shedd
You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark
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
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
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

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