Cheesy moment, Inspirational and travel quotes. Yes I have such an appreciation for a great quote to get me motivated.
I love travel quotes as much as i love traveling. It could be about a life’s journey, a story of a wanderer, or just have those few words that mean something to you at that moment.
Each time I find something or hear something that makes me smile, or makes my heart melt I will share it with you. And hopefully you can share it with someone to make their day a little brighter.
1. “Not all who wander are lost” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Probably my favorite quote and the reason I went with the wandering traveler for the name. I found, throughout my travels, I was always getting lost but found the most interesting things and stories from those times.
2. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle
3. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
4. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” – Ibn Battuta
5. “Fear is only temporary, regrets last forever” – Unknown
My fear of heights is a true struggle for me. On one of my adventures my friends and I hiked Big Beehive Trail. Truly stunning and just as scary for me. Yes that is fear in my eyes, yet it didn’t stop me, and was worth every step.
Check out this story in top hiking trails around Banff
6. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves” – Pico Iyer
7. “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all” – Helen Keller
8. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest” – Freya Stark
9. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before” – Dalai Lama
10. “If your 22, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go” – Anthony Bourdain
Now I love this quote but please don’t worry about the age. The great thing about travel is it is the one amazing thing for all ages. Anthony Bourdain was a man of wisdom and great words. He was someone I looked up to and followed. I took his words with pride and honor when it come to my adventures.
Top places to travel in your 20’s
11. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventure” – Louelle Drachman
12. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
13. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page” – Saint Augustine
14. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – anonymous
Get away with your girlfriends or your boys. Before the pandemic we would grab the cheapest, shortest flight in the U.S. and go away for the weekend. These short vacations are just what you need for a restart. Can’t wait to start these fun filled weekends again.
check out girls weekend trips
15. “I haven’t seen everywhere, but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag
16. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles” – Time Cahill
17. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met” – Melody Truong
18. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin
Travel quote If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet – Rachel Wolchin
Are you meant to see the world? Of course we are. People have paved the ways for years, by wheels, sails, trains, planes and our feet. We are not meant to be still. We are built to move and seek by our feet.
19. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
20. “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
21. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” – Henry Miller
22. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move” – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. “We live in a 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” –Jawaharial Nehru
The great thing about traveling is seeing new places, new adventure and new people. You need to open you mind, open your heart and most of all, open your eyes. Sometimes all we need to do is look.
24. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding” – Arthur Frommer
25. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands” – Sir Richard Burton
26. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch
Read: Anxiety and travel
27. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled” – Mohammed
28. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it” – Rosalia de Castro
29. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home” – James Michener
The one trip I was so disappointed in was my trip to Thailand. I got so sick the first night, that eating anything was hard. As a foodie this was difficult. I had so many things I wanted to try but my body was just saying no. This quote is so true. If you travel, and you’re a westerner, you need to branch out. Try the local cuisine, meet new friends, explore the lands and most of all, do this with an open mind.
Read : My Thailand trip
30. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” – Martin Buber
31. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see” – G.K. Chesterton
33. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once” – Karen Gibbs
34. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well – Eugene Fodor
35. “Live your life by a compass not a clock” – Stephen Covey
We say the most precious thing in life is time. We never know how much of it we have. So why not stop looking at a clock and just live! I bought a compass last year, still have no idea how to use it, but it beats look at a watch.
36. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” – Charles Dudley Warner
37. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” – Mark Twain
38. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding” – Arthur Frommer
39. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust
40. “For the born traveler, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort” – Aldous Huxley
41. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone” – Wendell Berry
42. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
43. “He travels fastest who travels alone” – Proverb
I love to travel solo! Yes traveling with friends and family has it’s perks, but seeing a new place at your own pace, tops everything. Going at my own pace, fast or slow, without someone not happy is such a great experience. Travel buddies are amazing but you must try solo travel at least once.
Read : solo female travel
44. “Love the life you live, live the life you love” – Bob Marley
45. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world” – Gustave Flaubert
46. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else” – Lawrence Block
Check out my trip to Costa Rica
47. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move” – Robert Louis Stevenson
48. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world” – Mary Anne Radmacher
49. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire” – Jennifer Lee
50. Wanderlust – (n.) A strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world
Wanderlust is that one thing, once you have been bitten by the travel bug it’s an infection that never goes away. It’s the impulse to get up and go, the desire or need to see new things. That moment you have explored a new place in the world.
I’m going to end it here for now. As I come across new quotes I will add them. Do you have a quote that you love that is not on this list? Leave it in the comments.