50 Inspiring Travel Quotes..

Everyone needs an occasional quote to accompany their dopest travel snaps on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, or maybe just for casual daily inspiration.

Below I’ve compiled 50 of my favourite travel quotes to get you wanderlusting over lands far away!

“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
“You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.” Unknown
“”Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” Paul Theroux
“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
“Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.” Dalai Lama
“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
“To live will be an awfully big adventure.” Peter Pan
“Traveling it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta
“It’s better to look back on life and say: “I can’t believe I did that,” than to look back and say, “I wish I did that.” Unknown
“You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you’ll never be this way ever again.” Azar Nafasi
“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” Rumi
“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
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” Unknown
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” Buddha
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” Saint Augustine
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” Hilaire Belloc
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” Moorish proverb
“Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.” Unknown
“Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” Paulo Coelho
“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” Kurt Vonnegut
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” Mohammed
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd
“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” Unknown
“Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.” Kevin Kelly
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” Carlo Goldoni
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” Asian proverb
“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
“And at the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparking.” Shanti
“I must be a mermaid I have no fear of depths and a great fear of living shallow.” Unknown
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Freya Stark
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore… unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible… it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors… to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.” Ferdinand Magellan
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien
“Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” Carol Pearson
“Travel light – preconception and prejudice are unnecessary luggage.” Unknown
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” Cesare Pavese
“Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” Rick Steves
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ernest Hemingway
“Adventure is worthwhile.” Aristotle
“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” Tennessee Williams
“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” Frank Herbert
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” Rumi
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” David Mitchell
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert
“The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire” Robert W. Service