Travel quotes help to spark passion, exploration and emotion. Here’s a list of my favorite travel quotes and other inspirational quotes that will make you want to pack your bags and book a plane ticket.
1. “Travel is my therapy” ―Unknown
2. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ―Oscar Wilde
3. “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
4. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ―Ernest Hemingway
5. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” ―Helen Keller
6. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” ―Dr. Seuss
7. “Think and wonder, wonder and think.” ―Dr. Seuss
8. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ―St. Augustine
9. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” ―Unknown
10. “There’s the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it but the birds, the stars, and the chimney sweeps.” ―Mary Poppins
11. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” ―John Muir
12. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” ―Unknown
13. “Collect moments, not things.” ―Karen Salmansohn
14. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” ―Oscar Wilde
15. “The road less traveled is the road to adventures.” ―Robert Frost
16. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ―Marilyn Monroe
17. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” ―Dr. Seuss
18. “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” ―Dr. Seuss
19. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” ―Rumi
20. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” ―T.S. Eliot
21. “All good things are wild and free.” ―Unknown
22. “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” ―C.S. Lewis
23. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ―Anais Nin
24. “Winds in the east, there’s a mist coming in, like something is brewing, about to begin.” ―Mary Poppins
25. “Once a year, go someplace you’re never been before.” ―Dalai Lama
26. “People don’t take trips; trips take people.” ―John Steinbeck
27. “Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ―Ibn Batutta
28. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” ―Herman Melville
29. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” ―Tim Cahill
30. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” ―Miriam Beard
31. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” ―Unknown
32. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ―Marcel Proust
33. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius
34. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” ―Danny Kaye
35. “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!” ―Dr. Seuss
36. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ―Dr. Seuss
37. “To Travel is to Live” ―Hans Christian Andersen
38. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ―Walt Disney
39. “As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen.” ―Winnie the Pooh
40. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” ―Izaak Walton
41. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” ―Jaime Lyn Beatty
42. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ―Lao-tzu
43. “Life is short, and the world is wide.” ―Simon Raven
44. “Travel is an investment in yourself.” ―Matthew Karsten
45. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ―Rachel Wolchin
46. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.” ―John Muir
47. “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
48. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” ―Frank Bowman
49. “There’s a great big hunk of world down there and no fence around it.” ―Lady and the Tramp
50. “You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” ―John Muir
51. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” ―Rumi
52. “The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.” ―Natalie Kocsis
53. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” ―Sarah Ban Breathnach
54. “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” ―Dr. Seuss
55. “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!” ―Dr. Seuss
56. “With your feet on the ground you’re a bird in flight with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite.” ―Mary Poppins
57. “Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” ―Anonymous
58. “Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.” ―Singer/Songwriter Michelle Held
59. “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” ―Dr. Seuss
60. “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” ―Dr. Seuss
61. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do, than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” ―Mark Twain
62. “The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien
63. “The earth laughs in flowers.” ―E. E. Cummings
64. “The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” ―Oscar Wilde
65. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ―Rumi
66. “Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.” ―Frida Kahlo
67. “Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.” ―Dr. Seuss
68. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” ―Diane Arbus
69. “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” ―Dr. Seuss
70. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” ―Dr. Seuss
71. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ―Dr. Seuss
