Thoughts of Travel Quotes in English With Images Sayings

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.

- Mark Twain

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 leave something good behind.

- Anthony Bourdain

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

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

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other 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

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he May learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

- Samuel Johnson

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 is taken for granted.

- Bill Bryson

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

- Arthur Frommer

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

-Mark Jenkins

Traveling is a 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

Travel Sayings List in English

Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.

- Karen Gibbs Quotation

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

- A Quotation From John A. Shedd

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

- David Mitchell

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all.

- Helen Keller

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lau Tzu

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

- Anita Desai

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

- Amin Maalouf

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

- Anonymous

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.

- The Prophet Mohammed,

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.

- Anais Nin

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Mark Twain

No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

- Banana Yoshimoto

Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.

- Freya Stark

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey is the destination.

- Dan Eldon

People don’t take trips, trips take people.

- John Steinbeck

All you need to know is that it’s possible.

- Wolf

I read; I travel; I become.

- Derek Walcott

You don’t have to be rich to travel well.

- Eugene Fodor

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

- Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao Tzu

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.

- Oscar Wilde

To Travel is to Live.

- Hans Christian Andersen

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.

- Oscar Wilde

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

- Herman Melville

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

- Saint Augustine

Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.

- Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi

Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.

- Anonymous

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

- Susan Sontag

Not all those who wander are lost.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

The journey not the arrival matters.

- T.S. Eliot

Not all those who wander are lost.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.

- Anna Quindlen

Everything you do is based on the choices you make.

- Wayne Dyer

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

- Henry Rollins

Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Gustav Flaubert

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

- Dalai Lama

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

- Henry Miller

The journey itself is my home.

- Bashō Matsuo

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

- Greg Anderson

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.

- Robert Frost

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.

- Paulo Coelho

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

- Izaak Walton

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

-G.K. Chesterton

Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.

- Dalai Lama

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

- Lao Tzu

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

- Tim Cahill

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

- Chief Seattle

Wherever you go, go with all your heart!

- Confucius

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.

- Wallace Stevens

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

- Ibn Battuta

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

-Oscar Wilde

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

- Paul Theroux

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.

- Lovelle Drachman

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

- Seneca

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

- Stephen Covey

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.

- Hilaire Belloc

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

- Paulo Coelho

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Agustine of Hippo

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

- Jack Kerouac

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

- Melody Truong

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

- Paulo Coelho

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

- Jalaluddin Rumi

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

- Suzanne Collins

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

- Anonymous

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.

- Rachel Wolchin

Oh the places you’ll go.

- Dr. Seuss

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

- Thomas Fuller

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

- Ibn Battuta

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

- Helen Keller

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

- Chief Seattle

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

- Neil Gaiman

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

- Jennifer Lee

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.

- John A. Shedd

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

- Anaïs Nin

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

- Walter Benjamin

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.

- Robert Frost

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

- William Blake

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

- Roy M. Goodman

Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

- Shane L. Koyczan

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.

- Lewis Carroll

The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.

- Sir Richard Burton

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.

- Nyssa P. Chopra

In books, I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own.

- Anna Quindlen

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.

- J.A. Redmerski

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

- Frank Herbert

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

- Susan Heller

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

- Marcel Proust

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

- Chief Seattle

He who would travel happily must travel light.

- Antoine de St. Exupery

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

- Tim Cahill

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

- Thomas Fuller

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

- Paolo Coelho

So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.

- Jack Kerouac

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream.

- Jack Kerouac

Tourists went on holidays while travelers did something else. They traveled.

- Alex Garland

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

- Henry Miller

You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.

- Kirsten Hubbard

All that is gold does not glitter; just as not all those who wander are lost.

- JRR Tolkien

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

- Ma Jian

Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.

- Unknown

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

- Martin Buber

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

- Aldous Huxley

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

- David Mitchell

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

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He who would travel happily must travel light.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

- Sigmund Freud

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.

The Dhammapada

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

- Travel Quotes by Ray Bradbury

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

- Colette

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

- George Moore

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

- Travel Quotes by Agnes Repplier

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

- Thorstein Veblen *

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.

Erol Ozan

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

- Andre Gide

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

- John Steinbeck

Travel Quotation in English

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Travel Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

- Charles Kuralt

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

- Miriam Beard

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

- George Santayana

The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

- Henry J. Tillman

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.

- Charlotte Eriksson

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

- Paulo Coelho

Travel Quotes List

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

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

- Vera Nazarian

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.

- Anderson Cooper

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place and very little different from becoming a parcel.

- John Ruskin

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

- Miriam Beard

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

- Roman Payne

To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

- Freya Stark

A good traveler is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

- Joe Abercrombie

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

- Jodi Picoult

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

- Lawrence Block

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

- Alain de Botton

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

- John Hope Franklin

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

- Roman Payne

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

- Carl Sagan

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

- Wendell Berry

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

- Cesare Paves

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

- Gustave Flaubert

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

- Irving Wallace

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

- Edmund Hillary

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

- Samuel Johnson

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

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

- Alan Keightley

I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.

- Mark Twain

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

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

- Judith Thurman

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

- Jack Kerouac

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

- James Michener

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Lin Yutang

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.

- Lucy R. Lippard

Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

-Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

- Catherynne M. Valente

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

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

- Lawrence Block

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

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

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

- Paul Theroux

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

- Jack Kerouac

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

- Harun Yahya

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other 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

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

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

- Randy Komisar

We live in a 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.

- Jawaharial Nehru

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

- Paul Sheehan