Best Travel Quotes: 100 Inspiring Quotes For Your Wanderlust

I’m proud to say that I’m one of those girls who love inspirational quotes – from travel to career to life quotes.

Travel quotes will inspire you and feed your wanderlust. It has the ability to capture your little moments of clarity and true emotions felt in your travel adventures.

Travel can change your perspective. Traveling opens your mind and heart to the world. So let me help inspire you and fuel your wanderlust, with these amazing quotes I’ve gathered just for you!

I’m certain you will find the perfect quotation for you!

100 Inspiring Travel Quotes to Boost Your Wanderlust

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

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

3. “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

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

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

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

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

8. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll

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

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

11. “If you want to go somewhere you like but no one else wants to, go by yourself. You’ll meet people with similar interests as you.” – Unknown

12. “Never go too long without watching a sunset” – Atticus

13. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Unknown

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

15. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven

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

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

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

19. “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

25. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”

26. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

27. “I read; I travel; I become”  ― Derek Walcott

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

29. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins

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

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

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

33. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Bill Bryson

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

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

48. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

49. “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

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

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

52. “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things” – Henry Miller

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

54. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”

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

56. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”  ― Lao Tzu

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

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

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

60. “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

61. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” – Suzanne Collins

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

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

64. “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

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

66. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

67. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan”

68. “The best view comes after the hardest climb” – Unknown

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

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

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

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

73. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

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

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

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

77. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho

78. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs

79. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”  ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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

81. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

91. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”

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

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

94. “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen

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

96. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”

97. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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

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

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

Hopefully, these inspiring travel quotes above have given you some motivation to travel the world and keep wandering this wonderful beautiful world that we live in.

I’m grateful today that my travels and my blog made it on the list of Philippine Travel Blogs. I’m eager to continue this journey and I know in my heart that this is what I want.

Traveling has a huge impact in my life and it changed how I see the world now. Remember, traveling doesn’t always mean going away to other countries because you can always explore your own. Spend some years exploring and come back with various experience and stories each time.

Many of these travel quotes have inspired me to keep exploring our world. I even highlighted my favorites.

How about you? What travel quotes inspired you to keep going? Comment your favorite Travel quotes!