There are many awesome travel quotes listed in this blog.

Also, my favourite ones in recent years are Anthony Bourdain travel quotes. That man was a huge travel inspiration.

How come so many of us look for travel quotes? They are the perfect way to daydream about travel or reflect on our past adventures.

Choosing your favourite travel quote is a hard task, but I have compiled 100 of the best travel quotes of all time right here with photos as well.

So feel free to share them with your friends or family or just pin them for later. 

100 Inspiring Travel Quotes that you’ll love!

Best Travel Quotes of all times

1. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

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

3. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” – Tony Robbins

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

5. “He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Muhammad

7. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anonymous

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

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

10. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous

Short Travelling Quotes

1. “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen 
2. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever” – Anonymous
3. “Travel teaches toleration”– Benjamin Disraeli
4. “Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “People don’t take trips — trips take people”- John Steinbeck
6. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
7. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
8. ”Eat Well, Travel Often.”- Anonymous
9. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”– Chinese Proverb
10. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”- Anonymous

Inspirational Travel Quotes

1. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
2. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide 
3. “Travel is my therapy.” – Dalai Lama
4. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
5. “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
6. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by”- Robert Frost
7. “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 
8. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”- Matthew Karsten 
9. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan!” – Dr. Zelana Montminy
10. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

Funny Travel Quotes

1. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
2. “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
3. “It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!“ – Anonymous
4. “I love my job, only when I’m on vacation.” – Anonymous
5. “You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license!“ -Anonymous
6. “My favourite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.“ – Anonymous
7. Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
8. “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.“ – Anonymous
9. “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.“- Anonymous
10. “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous

Quotes For Travelling The World

1. “Open your heart to the world. It’ll dazzle you in ways you never thought possible.” – Anonymous
2. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.“ – Wallace Stevens
3. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion” – Paulo Coelho
4. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro
5. “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine
6. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
7. ”Life is short and the world is wide” – Simon Raven
8. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Anonymous
9. “Let’s get lost.” – Adi Alsaid
10. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

Travelling Quotes With Friends

1. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”- Anonymous
2. “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
3. “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”- Anonymous
4. “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”- Anonymous
5. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
6. “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Terry Allison
7. “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”- William Butler Yeats
8. “Traveling is 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
9. “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable…it’s being separated and knowing nothing will change.” – Anonymous
10.  “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” – Tim Cahill

Adventure Travel Quotes

1. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
2. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.“ – Marty Rubin
3. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
4. “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
5. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
6. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Irving Wallace
7. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
8. “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
9. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn 
10. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis

Solo Travel Quotes

1. “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
2. “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
3. “Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” – Ragnar Lothbrok
4. “Table for one, food for two, please.” – Anonymous
5. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”- Anonymous
6. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”- Anonymous
7. “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”- Anonymous
8. “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
9. “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”- Anonymous
10. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Anonymous

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

1. “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.” 

2. “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 McDonald’s? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

3. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

4. “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.”

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.”

6. “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.”

7. “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.”

8. “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.”

9. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

10. “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.”

Wanderlust Travel Quotes that Inspire to Travel

1. “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
2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
3. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
4. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Anonymous
5. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer 
6. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber 
7. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
8. “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
9. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “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

These are my 100 quotes for travelling the world that inspire to travel . Do you have any favourite travelling quotes? Let us know in the comments.

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