Top 100 Travel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

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2. “To travel is to live.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

Also featured in: Adventure Quotes

3. “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”

— Voltaire

4. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Adventure Quotes

5. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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6. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

— Susan Sontag

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes

7. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

8. “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.”

— Euripides

9. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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10. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Character Quotes

11. “Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

— Mary Oliver

12. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

— Harun Yahya

13. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Adventure Quotes

14. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

— André Gide

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15. “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.”

— Tim Cahill

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16. “Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

17. “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

18. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

— Anthony Bourdain

19. “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

Also featured in: Moving Quotes

20. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

— Anthony Bourdain

21. “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.”

— Christopher McCandless

22. “One must travel, to learn.”

— Mark Twain

23. “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Quotes About Home

24. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Nature Quotes

25. “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.”

— Yogi Berra

26. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Book Quotes, Quotes About the World

27. “Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.”

— Marshall Sylver

Also featured in: Destination Quotes

28. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes

29. “The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.”

— Dan Millman

Also featured in: Philosophy Quotes

30. “Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.”

— John Denver

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Home

31. “We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Space Quotes

32. “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

— John Muir

33. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

34. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

— Melody Truong

35. “The journey is the destination.”

— Dan Eldon

Also featured in: Destination Quotes

36. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Quotes About Stars

37. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes

38. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. “Without geography you’re nowhere.”

— Jimmy Buffett

40. “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 moveable feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

41. “A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes

42. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”

— Tennessee Williams

Also featured in: Courage Quotes

43. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

44. “Happy trails to you, until we meet again.”

— Dale Evans

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes

45. “Paris is always a good idea.”

— Audrey Hepburn

46. “Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

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47. “Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done!”

— Dr. Seuss

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48. “Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

— Simon Raven

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes

49. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

— Ambrose

50. “One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”

— John Muir