43 Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

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Here are 43 of the best travel quotes to inspire and motivate you. Hope these travel quotes will ignite your wanderlust and make you pack your bags with essentials and go – Explore!

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Travel Quotes

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

2. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

3. “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.”

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

5. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

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

7. “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.”

8. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

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

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

11. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

12. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”

13. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

14. “To travel is to evolve.”

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

16. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

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

18. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.”

19. “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.”

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

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

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

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23. “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.”

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

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

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

27. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”

28. “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.”

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

30. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”

31. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

32. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

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

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

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

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37. “The journey not the arrival matters.”

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

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

40. “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

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

42. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

43. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

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