50 Travel Quotes to Boost Your Wanderlust

Hey Globetrotter! Do you often find yourself scrolling through awesome pictures of places you’d like to visit, perhaps you’re thinking of a trip currently and making preparations for one? Whichever the case may be, be sure to know that there are travel quotes which could best resonate with your wanderlust thus inspiring you to spread and flap your wings wider and harder. 

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Without further ado, here are 50 Travel Quotes coined to galvanise the adventurer in you!

1. “ Surely, of all the wonders in the world, the horizon is the greatest “
   • Freya Stark

2. “ Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” 
   • Ibn Battuta

3. “A journey is best measured in travels, rather than miles”
   • Tim Cahill

4. “ No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be”
   • Chuck Thompson

5. “ The gladdest moment in human life, methinks is a departure into unknown lands”
   • Sir Richard Burton

6. “ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”
   • St. Augustine

7. “ Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
   • Neale Donal Walsh

8. “ I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world”
   • Mary Anne 

9. “ Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey”
   • Babs Hoffman

10. “ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world”
    • Gustave Flanker

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

12. “ Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia”
    • Charles Scholz

13. “He who would travel happily must travel light”
    • Antione De St. Evupery

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

15. “ To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world”
    • Freya Stark

16. “ The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life that you have”
    • Anna Quindlen

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

18. “ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”
    • Andre Gide

19. “ Like all travellers, I have seen more than I remember,  and remember more than I have seen
    • Bayalum D.

20. “ If you think adventure is dangerous,  try routine”
    • Paul Coelho

21. Take only memories, leave only footprints”
    • Chief Seattle

22. “ Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination”
    • Ray Goodman

23. “ Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did”
    • Jadeson Brown Jnr. 

24. “ Take your ego for a peaceful trip, into the unknown,  once in a while”
    • Viktor V.

25. It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way”
    • Penelope Riley

26. “ It is not about the destination, it’s about the journey”
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. “ Never go on trips with anyone you do not love”
    • Hemmingway E

28. “ Great things never come from comfort zones”
    • Anonymous

29. “ There are no foreign lands.  It is the traveller only who is foreign”
    • Robert Stevenson

30. “ Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind”
    • Anonymous

31. “ Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul”
    • Jamie Lynn Beatty

32. “ Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud”
    • Maya Angelou

33. “ Travel far enough to meet yourself”
    • Darwin Mitchell

34. “ Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”
    • Anonymous

35. “ You don’t have to be rich to travel well”
    • Eugene Fordor

36. “ Travel is never a matter of money but of courage” 
    • Paul Coelho

37. “ Jet lag is for amateurs”
    • Dick Clarke

38. “The important thing is to never stop questioning: curiosity has its reason for existing”
    • Albert E.

39. “ Wherever you go becomes part of you somehow”
    • Confucius

40. “ So much of who we are is where we have been”
    • William Langewieshe

41. “ Live with no excuse and travel with no regrets”
    • Oscar Wilde

42. “ Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled”
    • Muhammed

43. “ People don’t take trips, trips take people”
    • John Steinbeck

44. “ I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list”
    • Susan Sontag

45. “ If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it”
    • Jonathan Winter

46. “ To travel is to live”
    • Anderson C.

47. “ Once a year, go someplace that you never have been before”
    • Delia Lama

48. “ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by”
    • Robert Frost

49. “ Climb the mountain, not so the world can see you,  but so you can see the world”
    • David McCullinson Jr

50. “ If you dream it go there, if you go there feel it and when you feel it, you have lived it”
    • Chidinma A.

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Wrap Up

With everything happening globally, we often find ourselves alone, with our minds wandering to places and locations of our dreams, hence why we’ve put together these travel quotes to inspire and feed your wanderlust and rekindle your little travel flame again.