51 Most Inspiring
Travel Quotes

51 of the Most Inspiring Travel Quotes from Around the World

Why do we love inspiring travel quotes? Because within each quote lies the possibility to inspire us to take action, to get the fires burning. To spark our wanderlust and follow our true passions, seek out our dreams, and light a flame within ourselves. So what is it that makes you tick and get’s you going? What motivates you and gets your heart racing? Often times, I’ll come across a simple passage in a book that moves me. As soon as I read it, it’s as if it hits me. I read it over and over. I hope it gets instilled in me. Becomes a part of me. So choose your words carefully, as they become your thoughts and your thoughts become your actions.

Listed below are my favorite, most inspiring travel quotes…

Let me know how they move you and please do lighten up someone else’s day and share them! Each image is easily shareable so pay it forward and pass along these inspiring travel quotes!

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. 

–Robert Frost

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

–Amelia Earhart

 

One’s Destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things  

– Henry Miller

 

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”

― Danny Kaye

 

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

–Steve Jobs

 

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

–Henry Ford

 

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

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

 

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

– Lao Tzu

 

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

–Erma Bombeck

 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

–Lao Tzu

 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

–Chinese Proverb

 

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

–John Lennon

 

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer

– “Unknown”

 

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

–Sheryl Sandberg

 

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

–Aristotle

 

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

–Latin Proverb

 

Travel is about the journey, not the destination. The destination is only the means for the journey to begin.”

– author unknown

 

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

–Marie Curie

 

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

–Joshua J. Marine

 

Travel brings power and love back into your life

– Rumi

 

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

–Leonardo da Vinci

 

People don’t take trips. Trips take People

– John Steinbeck

 

Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

–Jamie Paolinetti

 

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

–Bob Dylan

 

Nothing behind me, Everything ahead of me, As is ever so on the Road  

– Jack Kerouac

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

–George Eliot

 

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

 

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

–Farrah Gray

 

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

― Andre Gide

 

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

 

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

 – Oprah Winfrey

 

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

–Rosa Parks

 

 

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

–Mae Jemison

 

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

–Henry Ford

 

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

–Norman Vincent Peale

 

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

–Chinese Proverb

 

 

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

– G.K. Chesterton

 

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

 

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

― Steve Jobs

 

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, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  

– Mark Twain

 

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