Explore the World: 77 Inspiring Travel Quotes

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. — Jacob Bronowski

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars. — Jack Kerouac

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. — Jean Kerr

People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. — Martin Yan

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca the Younger

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one’s appreciation of the good at home. — Isabella Bird

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. — Charles Spurgeon

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. — Henry A. Wallace

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. — Nelson Mandela

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. — J. K. Rowling

To die will be an awfully big adventure. — James M. Barrie

Do not follow where the path may lead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. — David Bowie

One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. — Henry Miller

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. — Terry Pratchett

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. — Dave Barry

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like. — Natalie Gulbis

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. — Billy Connolly

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I’ve got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up – my life wasn’t so bad. — Coolio

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative. — Shana Alexander

Believe there is good in the world. — Gautama Buddha

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. — Jonathan Edwards

Does this boat go to Europe, France? — Anita Loos

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. — Alan Rickman

I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. — Hedy Lamarr

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away. — Jeremy Irons

Every exit is an entry somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq’s national unity government. — John Boehner

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. — Melissa Bean

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast – even the English can’t do it. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I keep going back as if I’m looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain. — Heather Nova

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle,

All through the meadows the horses and cattle” — Robert Louis Stevenson

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler’s, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers. — Henry David Thoreau

I’m interested to go other places, I’ve been the boy in the bubble since we’ve been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course. — George Eads

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing. — Agnes Repplier

I know all we’re doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin’ bullet, slow down. If I don’t, I might just lose it, locked up. You’ve got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin’, yeah. You know I’ve got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last. — Jay Kay

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

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr

Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me. — Bob Marley

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness – ignorance, credulity – helps your enjoyment of these things. — Walt Whitman

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

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

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. — Mark Twain

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. — Jhumpa Lahiri

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. — George Leigh Mallory

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers. — George Carlin

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 wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison

Courage is found in unlikely places. — J. R. R. Tolkien

The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence — P. J. O’Rourke

It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don’t travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of. — Rick Steves

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do — Lewis Carroll

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. — Mary Ritter Beard

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 life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. — Jack London

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Malcolm Forbes

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 whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. — Pico Iyer

You can’t just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. — Mary Wells Lawrence

Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia. — Julie Taymor

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. — John D. Rockefeller

A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra

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. — Bill Bryson

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. — Oscar Wilde

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. — Earl Nightingale

Believe there is good in the world. — Gautama Buddha

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. — Gregory Maguire

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn’t what we see but what we are. — Fernando Pessoa

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