Travel Quotes to Inspire the Wanderer in Everyone
Cliffs of Moher
Why reinvent the wheel? A writer told me that once upon a time. So I don't. When others have said it perfectly, there's no room for improvement. What you read will always be evolving and growing. Many have put into words why we travel. These inspire us. Here they are in one place to inspire you.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. ~Susan Sontag
Not all who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller
Wherever you go becomes a part of your somehow. ~ Anita Desai
Still round the corner, there may wait a new road or a secret gate. ~ J. R R. Tolkien
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~Ibn Battuta
Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you. ~ Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
There are seven days in a week but "someday" isn't one of them. ~ Benny Lewis
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. ~ Anna Quindlen
Oh, the places you will go. ~ Dr. Seuss
Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. ~ Sheda Savage
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ~ St. Augustine
Life is short and the world is wide. ~ Simon Raven
Do not dare not to dare. ~C. S. Lewis
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensins. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Amsterdam
I'm in love with the cities I've never been to and the people I've never met. ~ Melody Truong
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. ~ Dalai Lama
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. ~ Robert Orben
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~Andre Gide
If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them - wherever you go. ~ Anthony Bourdain
So much of who we are, is where we have been. ~ William Langwiesche
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
Wander often, wonder always. ~ Unknown
People don't take trips, trips take people. ~ John Steinbeck
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ~Yeats
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. ~ T. Stewart
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ~John D. Rockefeller
It doesn't matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.
~ Proctor
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. ~ Dwight Eisenhower
To see the world, things dangerous come to us. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. ~ The Secret Life of Walter MItty
We travel because we need to, because difference and distance are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has change, and that changes everything. ~ Unknown
Len (far right) with friends downing shot-skis in Germany
Work, Travel, Save, Repeat. ~ Unknown
Oh darling, let's be adventurers. ~ Unknown
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 will leave something good behind. ~Anthony Bourdain
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~ Ray Bradbury
The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Paris is always a good idea. ~ Audrey Hepburn
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ~ A. Solzhenitsyn
The Pantheon in Rome
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville
Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. ~ Matthew Karsten
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. ~ Lawrence Block
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ~Jack Kerouac
Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. ~Shel Silverstein
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don't want to be most of us. ~ Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
Len at Space Camp in Huntsville, AL
The journey not the arrival matters. ~ T. S. Eliot
To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Andersen
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in 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
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
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. ~ David Mitchell
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. ~Stephen Covey
I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see. ~Carew Papritz
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
~Ray Bradbury
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is. ~Mandy Hale
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. -- Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. — Oscar Wilde
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. ~ Ernest Hemingway
A year from now, you will wish you had started today. ~ K. Lamb
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ~ R.Kipling
Mardi Gras in Mobile, AL
Try to travel, otherwise you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right, that your language
is the most romantic and that you were the first to be the first.
Travel, because if you don't travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened, won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies that fit perfectly with your nightmares to make you live in terror.
Travel, because travel teaches to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.
Travel, because travel teaches to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness that we carry inside
Travel, because traveling teaches to resist, not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of, to feel part of a family beyond borders, beyond traditions and culture.
Traveling teaches us to be beyond.
Travel, otherwise you end up believing that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you there are wonderful landscapes still to visit.
- Gio Evan, poet and songwriter (Translated from Italian.)
Seaside in Palermo, Sicily
