51 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire Your Next Holiday!

When it comes to traveling, we all need a bit of inspiration every once in a while, that will help us choose the next destination or even remind us why we’re traveling in the first place! I’ve certainly been there and I’m sure so have you! That’s why I decided to make this list of the best travel quotes.

I’ve listed the best quotes about travel that I find so encouraging, almost like they’re urging you to book that ticket, find the hotel and just hit the road!

Since there are so many, I categorized the quotes by interest so that you can browse through the list easily and see which are the main themes.

Let’s check them out:

Quick Picks for Your Stay

Need to quickly find an Instagram caption for your holiday pic? Then check out my 3 favorite travel quotes:

• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
• “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
• “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

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1. Famous travel quotes

You might’ve heard them on Tv, read one in a book or learned about it in school, here are some of the most famous travel quotes that will probably be around for a long time!

• “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” – Lao Tzu
• “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
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

• “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

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• “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
• “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
• “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
• “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
• “We’ll always have Paris.” – Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coehlo

2. Inspirational travel quotes

Feeling blue and not sure why you should always pursue traveling? Then check out this list that has some of the best inspirational travel quotes, that will set you going for the next adventure!

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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• “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi Jalalud-Din
• “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
• “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

• “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad.” – Jane Austen.
• “Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

• “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

3. Travel quotes about specific destinations

Some holiday destinations are so iconic and have such strong character, that they left a big mark on us humans! Here are a few quotes from some of those destinations:

• “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “Italy offers one the most priceless of one’s possessions – One’s own soul.” – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• “We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Paris is a divine section of eternity.” – E. E. Cummings

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• “Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.” – David MacKenzie
• “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “The flavors melted in my mouth- warm chocolate and melted butter and the flaky sweet crust. This was what I loved about France. A keen appreciation for the simplicity and sweetness of life.” – Melanie Dobson
• “Bali is more than a place, it’s a mood, an aspiration, a tropical state of mind.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
• “The gloomy hills of Scotland keep my spirit clean” – Robert Louis Stevenson

4. Travel quotes for Instagram

Need the perfect caption for your next Instagram post with pics and videos from your holiday? I’ve got you covered with these short travel quotes that are perfect for Instagram, and other social media accounts:

• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin”
• “It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor

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• “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” – Anaïs Nin
• “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

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• “The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.” Sharon Creech
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
• “We travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

5. Funny Travel Quotes

Let’s have a bit of fun with these amusing travel quotes that will surely put a smile on your face (they sure put one on mine):

• “Vacation calories don’t count. Right?” – Unknown
• “I need six months of vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown

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• “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown
• “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
• “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” Truman Capote

6. Solo travel quotes

Traveling solo isn’t always easy, but we sure gain a lot from it! Here are some quotes about travel that will feel like balm for your soul who’s always seeking some adventures, more often than not, on your own.

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

• “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
• “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

• “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.” – Walt Whitman
• “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt
• “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. ” – John Mayer

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Final thoughts on these top travel quotes

Who’s already feeling inspired to jump on a new adventure?

I sure do and after reading this post with these incredible travel posts I’m sure you’ll feel the same! What’s your favorite travel quote? Please let me know in the comments, I’d love to know.

Have fun planning your future holidays!

Happy exploring,

Victoria

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