For this slightly self indulgent post I’ve tracked down 50 of my favourite travel quotes to get us all back in the mood for travel, both near and far (when its safe to do so). Because who doesn’t love a good travel quote?
KarenAllOverTheWorld has been KarenInScotland during the past year or so. I’ve recently discovered the joy of walking and I’ll be writing about some of my favourite walks over the coming weeks.
But first in no particular order I give you…
50 Awesome Travel Quotes
- “There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you do do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.” – Unknown
- “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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
- “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
- “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” – Amelia E. Barr
- “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
- “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer
- “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharal Nehru
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
- “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
- “Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confuciusf
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
- “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Lyer
- “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” — Emma Chase
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “I’m in love with countries I’ve never been to and fascinated by people I’ve never met.” – Paul Edwards
- “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
- “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
- “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures”. – Lewis Carroll
- “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “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
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
- “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
- “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
- “…life is short and the world is wide.” — Simon Raven
- “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Uzbek proberb
- “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard
- “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” – John Green
- “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” — Ken Poirot
- “You can travel the world but if you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.” — Gerald Freeman
- “There ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” — David Mitchell
- “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
- “I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.” ― Shaun Hick
- “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people that don’t suck,” – John Green
- “And then I realised adventures are the best ways to learn.” – Unknown
- “If you want to live, stop asking permission – do it now and regret it later.” – Unknown
- “If you want something you have never had you must be willing to do something you have never done.” Thomas Jefferson
- “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
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr Seuss
There are so many awesome and inspirational travel quotes out there, I could easily have kept going and written another 50.