Top 100 Travel Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “What a long strange trip it’s been.”

— Jerry Garcia

52. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

53. “The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.”

— Richard Branson

54. “The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.”

— Michelle Obama

55. “Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.”

— Martin Parr

56. “The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.”

— Paulo Coelho

57. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

58. “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

59. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

— Gustave Flaubert

60. “The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”

— John Glenn

61. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain

62. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

— Annie Dillard

63. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

— Anita Desai

64. “Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

65. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

66. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

— Aldous Huxley

67. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

68. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

— Nelson Mandela

69. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

— Cesare Pavese

70. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

71. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

— Alice Walker

72. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

— Mark Twain

73. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

— Lin Yutang

74. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

75. “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

76. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

77. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

— Jane Austen

78. “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

— Jack Kerouac

79. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

— David Mitchell

80. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

— Paulo Coelho

81. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”

— Andrew Zimmern

82. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

83. “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

— Yogi Bhajan

84. “Now, bring me that horizon.”

— Johnny Depp

85. “No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Lao Tzu

87. “I read; I travel; I become.”

— Derek Walcott

88. “You don’t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you’ve artificially placed on your life. It’s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you’re always in one place around the same people.”

— Tim Ferriss

89. “The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”

— Paul Fussell

90. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

— African Proverb

91. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

92. “Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.”

— Paulo Coelho

93. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

— Rumi

94. “Little by little, one travels far.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

95. “The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!”

— Phil Keoghan

96. “A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Saint Augustine

98. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”

— Danny Kaye

99. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”

— Jack Kerouac

100. “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