I think you might notice by the design of this website that I love a quote! I find them great for a bit of kick-up-the-bum motivation, soul-searching reflection, and oh go on then, whisk me away inspiration. So without further ado, here’s my favourite travel quotes to inspire or inspirational travel quotes, if you prefer. Cue whistles, bells, and rapturous applause.
TRAVEL QUOTES TO INSPIRE
1. ‘Travelling solo doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, it means you’re brave enough to explore the world on your own terms’. – Anonymous
2. ‘To Travel is to live’. – Hans Christian Andersen
3. ‘We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us’. – Nweke Pascal
4. ‘The world is too big to stay in one place and life is too short to do just one thing’. – Anonymous
5. ‘You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next’. – Kirsten Hubbard
6. ‘The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way’. – Anonymous
7. ‘Travelling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing’. – Gayle Foreman
8. ‘Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world’. – Gustava Flaubert
9. ‘Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before’. – Dalai Lama
10. ‘Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail’. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. ‘We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost’. – Ray Bradbury
12. ‘You don’t have to be rich to travel well’. – Eugene Fodor
13. ‘Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller’. – Ibn Battuta
14. ‘Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer’. – Anonymous
15. ‘The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page’. – Saint Augustine
16. ‘Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go’. – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
17. ‘Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better’. – Simon Raven
18. ‘Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell’. – Paula Bendfeldt
19. ‘Adventure awaits, go find it’. – Anonymous
20. ‘Travel is never a matter of money but of courage’. – Paulo Coelho
21. ‘Don’t listen to what they say, go see’. – Anonymous
22. ‘Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow’. – Anita Desai
23. ‘When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money’. – Susan Heller Anderson
24. ‘I would rather own a little and see the world, than own the world and see a little of it’. – Anonymous
25. ‘I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list’. – Susan Sontag
26. ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness’. – Mark Twain
27. ‘The greatest adventure is what lies ahead’. – J.R.R. Tolkien
28. ‘You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you’. – Anonymous
29. ‘Travel teaches us to embrace life’. – Simon Reeve
30. ‘We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves’. – Pico Iver
31. ‘Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all’. – Hellen Keller
32. ‘Travelling is like investing in yourself’. – Anonymous
33. ‘For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move’. – Robert Louis Stevenson
34. ‘A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step’. – Lao Tzu
35. ‘You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life’. – Rumi
36. ‘Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you’. – Anthony Bourdain
37. ‘Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life’. – Michael Palin
38. ‘Travelling is more fun – hell, life is more fun – if you can treat it as a series of impulses’. – Bill Bryson
39. ‘Not all those who wander are lost’. – J.R.R. Tolkein
40. ‘I read, I travel, I become’. – Derek Walcott
41. ‘It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end’. – Ursula K. Le Guin
42. ‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls’. – Anais Nin
43. ‘Exploration is curiosity put into action’. – Don Walsh
44. ‘The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper’. – Bertrand Russell
45. ‘Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost’. – Erol Ozan
46. ‘Travel far, travel wide, travel deep. Travel light, travel heavy, travel with all of your heart’. – Anonymous
47. ‘Now more than ever do I realise that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere’. – Isabelle Eberhardt
So that’s my 47 travel quotes to inspire. Wanderlust induced? Chomping at the bit to get your bags packed? Head on over to The Best Solo Trips for Women. Back to them there inspirational travel quotes, let us know your favourite in the comments!
Unusually we haven’t got anything booked but ….
…there’s plenty of time! 😀