Travel Quotes

A good traveller leaves no track or trace.

Lao Tzu

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

R L Stevenson

The reason for why I travel is the same for why I write -- to find the place in this world that feels most like home.

Hilary Saunders

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

Seneca

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Einstein

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.

Walt Whitman

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

Andre Gide

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

Samuel Johnson

Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.

Euripides

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

Emerson

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.

Marco Polo

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

Marcel Proust

To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen

Travel teaches toleration.

Benjamin Disraeli

No matter where you go, there you are.

Buckaroo Banzi

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you’re not in a hurry.

Paul Theroux

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen

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 traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

G K Chesterton

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.

Paul Auster

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Stephen Covey

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lin Yutang

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Henry Miller

Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

Izaak Walton

Our object in traveling should be, not to gratify curiosity, and seek mere temporary amusement, but to learn, and to venerate, to improve the understanding and the heart.

Nigel Gresley

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

Paul Theroux

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller

Many a man who has gone but a few miles from home, understands human nature better, detects motives and weighs character more sagaciously, than another who has travelled over the known world, and made a name by his reports of different countries.

William Ellery Channing

Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

To be a good traveller...a sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

Henry T Tuckerman

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K Le Guin

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

Gustave Flaubert