Travel Quotes

“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

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

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” – Bumper sticker

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

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

“You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel

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

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort 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

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

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

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

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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

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

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

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

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

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

“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.” – Jawaharial Nehru

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

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

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

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

“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

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

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha

“I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.” – William Hazlitt

“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home.” – Carl Burns

“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”
– Frank Herbert

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

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

“People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

“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

“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt

“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

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

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

“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

“The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.” – Unknown

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“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. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson