Travel Quotes

by NatalieTanner · October 1, 2018

Travel quotes are inspirational, fun, and make for great daydreaming!

Travel bloggers weigh in with their favorite travel quotes:

One of my favorite twists on a classic travel quote from Conversant Traveller:

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

Charlotte Beeby of Follow My Wanderlust chose this travel quote as her favorite:

“Actually the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Kristin McNeil:

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean

Laura Lynch of Savored Journeys:

“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovlier…” Catherynne M. Valente

Natasha Nikole of Boozy Backpacker Favorite Travel Quote:

“Please understand, I have been waiting to leave ever since I figured out there were roads willing to take me anywhere I wanted to go-” Unknown

Leeann Laleh Murphy author of Istanbul and the Turkish Coast:

“Traveling solo as a woman is challenging. You will laugh. You may cry. You may even get lost from time to time. But through it all, you will find yourself – your strengths and your weaknesses. That in itelf is incredibly empowering – and will motivate you to carry on to your next journey.” Leann Murphy

Amanda Burger of Burger Abroad:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver

Elizabeth Lambert Rudd’s Favorite Travel Quote of Compass and Fork:

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson

Roxanne Hebert of La Vie en Rox:

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there” Pascal Mercier

Christianna Allen of Expecto Adventures:

“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury

Stefanie Micheals of I’m Adventure Girl: “being adventurous is a state of mind, it’s an expression of one’s curiosity”

Amy Dresser of Two Drifters:

“If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” Pico Iyer

Erin Tracy’ pick for Travel Quote of Traveling Thru History:

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. we find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck

Radhika Basuthakur of Fulltime Nomad:

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

Sally Elbassir of Passport and Plates:

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” Anonymous.

Jamie Wilson:

“I’m not here for a long time. I’m here for a good time.” George Strait

Rachel Ramblr’s Choice for Favorite Travel Quote of Ramblr:

“Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.”

Annemarie Strehl of Travel on the Brain:

“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” Jim Rohn

Sam Gross’ Choice for Top Travel Quote, of There She Goes Again:

“…but not all who wander are aimless. Especially not those who seek the truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image.” Mona Lisa Smile movie 2003

Jessica Hill of Miss Adventure Travel:

“Travel: the only things that you buy that makes you richer.” Unknown

Victoria Dovaston of The Girl on the Move:

“And then I realized, adventures are the best way to learn.” Unknown

Simon Lye by The Aussie Flashpacker chooses this Travel Quote:

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differfently, youre going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will beceom shoerter. Youre going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not was Tom Friedman worries about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that globacl climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four cuckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that light. A lot of people – Americans and Europeans – come back and go, “ohhhhh’. And the lightbulb goes on.” Henry Rollins

Cheryl Ambruch’s Favorite Travel Quote

“Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before” Dalai Lama

Estefi Hernandez of Find New Adventures:

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

Lies Veldeman of Nonstop Destination loves this travel quote:

“I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.” Charles Lindbergh

Gemma Cleaver of Gemma Jane Adventures:

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the right shoes” Steven Wright

Asia Adams’ top travel quote:

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a plane ticket, & that’s pretty darn close.”

Nikki Godwin chose her favorite travel quote:

“A journey is best measured in friends, not miles” Tim Cahill

Amanda Williams of Amanda’s Wanderlust loves this travel quote:

“When you are 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

Yasha Langford of Dare2Go gives this travel quote top marks: