Inspiring Travel Quotes to Ignite Your Next Adventure

Hey, everyone! Back with another post in our ongoing series on inspiring travel quotes! There’s something magical about the perfect quote — it captures the heart of travel and fuels the spirit of adventure.

Whether you’re planning your next big trip or just daydreaming about distant shores, these words can transport you to new places and inspire you to explore the world.

---

1. “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-

2. “Twenty years from now you’ll 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-

3. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it’s taken for granted.” -Bill Bryson-

4. “We travel to learn, and I have never been to any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.” -Maria Mitchell-

5. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of being.” -Miriam Beard-

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

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

8. “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.” -Chris McCandless-

9. “Nothing induces concentration or inspires memory like an alien landscape or a foreign culture. It is simply not possible (as romantics think) to lose yourself in an exotic place. Much more likely is an experience of intense nostalgia, a harking back to an earlier stage of your life, or seeing clearly a serious mistake. But this does not happen to the exclusion of the exotic present. What makes the whole experience vivid and sometimes thrilling is the juxtaposition of the present and the past.” -Paul Theroux-

10. “For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with… All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.” -Pico Iyer-

11. “He didn’t think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.” -Paul Bowles-

12. “Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest.” -Paul Theroux-

13. “If the customs and manners of men were everywhere the same, there would be no office so dull as that of a traveler: for the difference of hills, valleys, rivers; in short the various views in which we may see the face of the earth, would scarce afford him a pleasure worthy of his labour…” -Henry Fielding-

14. “The Great Affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and to feel the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.” -Robert Louis Stevenson-

15. “Truthfully my favorite sound in the entire world is opening up the balcony doors in the French Quarter and hearing four different sounds playing at once from the apartments across the way or down the street. It’s a balmy night, twilight, and I’m drinking a beer, and this feeling just comes over me, of contentment. It gives me goosebumps to talk about it.” -Brad Pitt on New Orleans-

16. “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.” -Jawaharlal Nehru-

17. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” -Carson McCullers-

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

19. “Adventure is worthwhile.” -Amelia Earhart-

20. “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” -Amelia Earhart-

21. “It’s a funny thing about comin’ home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-

22. “The beauty of this country is becoming part of me. I feel more detached from life, and somehow gentler… I have some good friends here, but no one who really understands why I’m here or what I do. I don’t know of anyone, though, who would have more than a partial understanding; I have gone too far alone. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly.” -Everett Ruess-

23. “A traveller. I love his title. A traveller is to be revered as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from-toward; it is the history of every one of us.” -Henry David Thoreau-

24. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” -Joseph Campbell-

25. “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.” -Mae Chevrette-

26. “Make voyages! Attempt them, there’s nothing else.” -Tennessee Williams-

27. “But when you pause to talk, to ask questions, to learn the stories behind a piece of cloth, a cup of tea, or a bowl of noodles you enter deep into the culture. You discover the richness. You learn that everything is more than it seems.” -Gayle Herman-

28. “That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. Always something to go onward to.” -Rosita Forbes-

29. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Battuta-

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

31. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost-

32. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller-

33. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Saint Augustine-

34. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” -Chief Seattle-

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

36. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius-

37. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu-

38. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” -Susan Sontag-

39. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” -Sir Richard Burton-

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

41. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” -Anaïs Nin-

42. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss-

These timeless quotes remind us of the transformative power of travel. Which of these speaks to your soul, or inspires your next adventure? Let us know in the comments below!

Safe travels and happy wanderlusting! 🌍✨

Share it: