50 Best Travel Quotes to Feed Your Wanderlust

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Traveling can have numerous benefits for your physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as personal growth and development. It can make you healthier, relieve stress, enhance creativity, boost happiness, improve social skills, broaden horizons, help you learn about yourself, promote personal growth, and create lasting memories.

Here are some inspiring quotes about traveling. These travel quotes capture the essence of travel and its impact on our lives.

Best Travel Quotes

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

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

3.  “To travel is to evolve.”

4. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”

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

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

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

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

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

10. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

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

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

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

14. “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.”

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

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

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

18. “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.”

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

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

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

22. “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.”

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

24. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”

25. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.”

26. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

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

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

29. “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.”

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

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

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

33. “The journey not the arrival matters.”

34. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49. “Life is short and the world is wide.”

50. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

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