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Travel quotes have the ability to capture the truths about travel, evoke memories, create connections, inspire new adventures and motivate us to pack our bags to go explore!
I have been gathering and sharing travel quotes for years now and finally decided to compile a list of my best and favorites – it’s a long one, so without further ado, let’s get started…
FAMOUS TRAVEL QUOTES
1. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
2. “Travel makes you modest, you see what a tiny place you take up in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
3. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddah
4. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clarke
5. “Traveling – It leaves you speechless and turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
6. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
7. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
8. “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
9. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neal Donald Walsch
10. “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
11. “To travel is to discover that is that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
12. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
13. “When preparing to travel, lay out all of your clothes and all of your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
14. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
15. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
16. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” – Louis Armstrong
17. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
18. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
19. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
20. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
21. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
22. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
23. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman
24. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
25. “There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate people, than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
26. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong
27. “Travel far enough, you’ll meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
28. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
29. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius
30. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
31. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn…Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
32. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
33. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins
34. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
35. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
36. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” – Oscar Wilde
37. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
38. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “Jobs fill your pockets but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
40. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
41. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
42. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
43. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
44. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
45. “Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.” – Ken Poirot
46. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
47. “Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you.” – Erick Widman
48. “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
49. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen, who I’m gonna meet or where I’m gonna wind up.” – Jack Dawson (Titanic)
50. “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” – Seneca
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WANDERLUST TRAVEL QUOTES
51. You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a plane ticket and that’s kind of the same thing.
52. My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.
53. The only trip you will regret is the one you didn’t take.
54. I love those days when my only decision is window or isle?
55. That moment when boarding is complete and the seat next to you is empty.
56. I need a six month vacation, twice a year.
57. OK…can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?
58. Traveling is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.
59. Work, Save, Travel, Repeat.
60. I’m pretty sure my birthstone is a seashell.
61. A coconut a day, keeps the doctor away.
62. Life is better in flip flops.
63. Travel is my favorite season.
64. You were born to do so much more than go to work, pay bills and die. Go and see the world!
65. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.
66. I need some vitamin sea.
67. Are we there yet?
68. I regret traveling said… nobody… ever…
69. Life is short and the world is wide.
70. You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.
71. Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m happiest when traveling, how about you?
72. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
73. Maybe the reason why some of us stay up all night and sleep all day is because we were meant to live on the other side of the planet.
74. I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel brochure.
75. I’m getting really tired of waking up and not being at the beach.
76. Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!
77. Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.
78. I’m in love with places I’ve never been.
79. A change in latitude would help my attitude.
80. You can’t make everyone happy, you are not a plane ticket.
81. The beach is the only place where salt lowers your blood pressure.
82. Not all classrooms have four walls.
83. Stepping off the plane and getting that warm cloud of air slapping you in the face is something I need right about now.
84. I want my toes in the sand and a cocktail in my hand.
85. Plane ticket is the answer. Who cares what the question is?
86. Will work for travel.
87. If you never go, you will never know.
88. A friend listens to your adventures. A best friend takes them with you.
89. Travel while you are young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.
90. In the mood to be eating fresh fruit on a balcony in Greece wearing a bikini with a glass of champagne in hand overlooking the ocean.
91. Everyone smiles in the same language.
92. Grab life by the passport!
93. Good things come to those who book flights.
94. Don’t listen to what they say, go see.
95. I’ve got a crush on the world.
96. Collect moments not things.
97. I followed my heart and it led me to the airport.
98. I don’t want a house. I just want to travel and pet a lot of dogs.
99. A little sand between the toes, always takes away the woes.
100. If we were meant to stay in one place we would have roots, instead of feet.
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FUNNY TRAVEL QUOTES
101. I’ve almost been to as many places as my luggage.
102. Airplane travel is natures way of making you look like your passport photo.
103. Packs 2 hrs before leaving for a trip, unpacks 2 months after returning.
104. A passport holder sounds like a great idea until you get to the airport and have to remove it 4 billion times.
105. Going on a trip, need 5 outfits. I’ve packed 35 just to be safe.
106. Go to work, open computer, scroll for plane tickets for 6 hours, close computer, go home.
107. I love how we squeeze so much into our luggage that we have to sit on it to make it close, but then are outraged when the zipper breaks.
108. My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents in places I’m just about to visit.
109. My parents complain that I travel too much. I mean, I could be a drug addict. Do they realize how lucky they are?
110. Dear Flight Attendants, If you see I am asleep when you’re serving snacks and drinks, please wake my ass up. Sincerely, I want my money’s worth.
111. Vacation calories don’t count!
112. Everybody should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking margaritas…
113. An airport is a lawless place. 7am? Drink a beer, Tired? Sleep on floor, Hungry? Chips now cost $17.
114. AIRPORT: The only place where drinking at 7am is socially acceptable.
115. You’ve never felt true fear until your passport isn’t where you thought you left it.
116. My favorite childhood memories are when my parents paid for my holidays.
117. Anytime you fly somewhere, don’t pay your credit card bill. If the plane crash lands, those people will never stop looking for you!
118. Do I love my job? No. But does it afford me the ability to go on lavish vacations? Also no.
119. Desperately trying to finish the film before landing.
120. Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
121. Birds literally just eat, travel and shit on things they don’t like. I don’t know about you, but that’s the lifestyle I’m striving for.
122. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted a paycheck so I can buy plane tickets.
123. Good morning to everyone, except people in hostels who pack their things at 4am.
124. The inventor of cobblestones was clearly not communicating with the inventor of luggage wheels.
125. There should be sympathy cards for people having to go back to work after vacation.
126. If airplane tickets were free, you’d never see me again…
127. My friends don’t ask “How are you?” they ask “Where are you?”.
128. “Why do you have an accent?” “I don’t know Karen, why do you only speak one language?”.
129. Does anyone else pack underwear for a trip like they are planning on shitting themselves twice a day, for everyday they’re gone?
130. If you had to choose between true love and traveling the world, which country would you visit first?
131. Ironing boards are surf boards that gave up their dreams and got a boring job. Don’t be a ironing board.
132. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
133. “Have you ever stopped to think maybe travel is addicted to me?”.
134. That moment, where you are asked where you bought something and you answer with the name of the country, not the name of the store.
135. OMG…If I see one more girl wearing bikini bottoms that literally go up their ass, I’m not going to care at all because that’s none of my business and I’m glad they are comfortable with their bodies.
136. I would totally give up travel, but I’m not a quitter.
137. I enjoy long romantic walks…to the departure gate.
138. BEACH TIP: Buy a diaper and insert your valuables. Roll it up to look used and BAM! Never have anything stolen from the beach again.
139. When your phone memory is full, but you’d rather delete your banking app than any of your 3000 holiday photos.
140. I crossed a time zone and feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal.
141. I dream to travel so much that the workers at the airport will recognize me and ask; “Where are you going this time?”.
142. Me before vacation: ‘I’m responsible. I can stick to a budget.” Me on vacation: orders fancy drinks, rides a camel, goes skydiving, buys souvenirs for the uncle’s girlfriend and adopts an alpaca.
143. What kind of airline has flights at 4am? The kind that I can afford…
144. PACKING TIP: Never unpack so you’re already packed to go next time.
145. It’s a “I want to fake my own death, move to Mexico and live off tacos & tequila” kinda day.
146. They say you attract what you fear. Ahhhhh, an all expense paid trip to Bora Bora with unlimited cocktails…..sooooo scary!
147. Every family has a member who’s known as “the traveler” and is always asked about recent trips at gatherings. That’s me…I’m the traveler.
148. Friends: “Why are you always gone?” Me: “Why are you always here?”
149. Worrying you’ve accidentally packed 3 kilos of cocaine and a dead goat, as you walk through ‘nothing to declare’ at the airport.
150. Mental how when you go abroad you suddenly start treating money like monopoly money. 10 euro for 1 scoop of ice cream? No problem, here’s 20 – keep the change!
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HOLiDAY TRAVEL QUOTES
151. If anyone is Christmas shopping for me…I wear a size 7 Caribbean cruise.
152. If anyone is Christmas shopping for me…I’m a size window seat in plane tickets.
153. My Christmas list: 1. Travel 2. Travel 3. Travel 4.Travel 5. Money for travel.
154. May this new year take you to places you’ve never been to before.
155. Cheers to another year of wonderful places, great friendships and unforgettable travels.
156. All I want for Valentine’s is YOU….and plane tickets to anywhere.
157. It sucks spending Valentine’s Day alone, but at least I’ll have more money to spend on travel!
158. I’m so single if I win a trip for 2, I’m going twice.
159. Happy Earth Day. Where on earth are you?
160. Happy Easter – Joyeuses Paques – Sretan Uskrs – Buona Pasqua – Feliz Pascoa – Gelukkig Pasen – Frohe Ostern.
Travel word definitions
161. CODDIWOMPLE: To travel purposely towards an as-yet unknown destination.
162. NOTRIPOPHOBIA: The fear of not currently having any trips booked.
163. TRIPETITE: When you eat way more than usual, just because you’re on a trip.
164. SUITCASE: Type of luggage that weighs more at the airport than it did at home.
165. PROCRASTAPACKING: The act of thinking about packing a suitcase instead of actually doing it.
166. TRAVITUDE: When you start to feel grumpy and sassy cause you haven’t been traveling.
167. WANDERLUST: A strong, irresistible desire to travel and explore the world.
168. TRAVSESSED: An obsession with travel. When all you talk or think about is your past and future trips.
169. TRANGRY: Bad-tempered or irritable as a result of not traveling.
170. AFTERGLOBE: The warm, fuzzy feeling one gets after a long immensely satisfying trip.
171. FUNGALAVANT: To travel the world spreading athlete’s foot from one hostel shower to the next.
172. GALLIVANTER: A person who goes off or travels around in search of amusement, fun and adventure.
173. GADABOUT: A person constantly on the move, looking for the most fun social activity they can find.
174. PASSPORT: The most useless thing in 2020.
175. RESFERBER: The restless race of the traveler’s heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together.
NON-TRAVELING (GLOBAL PANDEMIC)
176. DOMESTIC TRAVEL: 1. Traveling within a country. 2. How I now refer to moving around my house.
177. STAYCATION: A vacation spent in one’s home rather than abroad.
178. Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.
179. ALEXA…When can I travel again?
180. Holiday? Now that’s a word I haven’t heard in a long time.
181. I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to Puerto Backyarda. I’m getting tired of Los Living Room.
182. I will never take traveling for granted, again!
183. I finished Netflix today!
184. I CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR…”Can I see your passport and boarding pass please”.
185. TESTED POSITIVE for missing travel.
186. This quarantine has made me realize I have no real hobbies other than going out to eat and travel.
187. The further into lockdown we get, the more I actually start to resemble my passport photo.
188. All I do is sit and eat snacks and have wine at 2pm for fun now, apparently I like to pretend I’m on an airplane.
189. Them 7am drinks are gonna hit differently when we can travel again.
190. I moved from one end of the couch to the other today. Where did y’all travel to?
191. Pretty rude that I can’t travel right now, but okay.
192. At this point it’s like Vegas in my house. We’re losing money by the minute, cocktails are acceptable at any hour and nobody knows what time it is.
193. So stressed with what’s going on in the world, I could really use a vacation. Oh wait…
194. Where do I see myself in a year? I don’t know, I don’t have 2020 vision.
195. Best believe I’m clapping when the plane lands, the first place I travel to after all of this!!!
196. In retrospect, I should have extended my list of hobbies beyond traveling.
197. I’m in Spain right now, the S is silent though…
198. Never in my whole life would I imagine that my hands would consume more alcohol than my mouth!
199. I miss the sound of my suitcase wheels across the airport floor.
200. HOW TO STOP EATING DURING LOCKDOWN: Wear your swimsuit instead of pajamas, you’re welcome.
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