100+ Best Travel Quotes (Plus Pictures!)

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Who doesn’t enjoy a good, inspiring quote? Especially when paired with a pretty picture! I compiled a list of quotes below. Some that speak to me, and some that are just fun. Feel free to take these and share the inspiration with those around you!

1. “Jobs fill your pockets; adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatt

2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Roy Goodman

3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

5. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”

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6. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take” – Lewis Carroll

7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.”

8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

10. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.”

12. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

13. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” – Karen Salmansohn

14. “And then I realized, adventures are the best way to learn.” - Joel Annesley

15. “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

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16. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”

17. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

18. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

19. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”

20. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt

21. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

22. “Have stories to tell not stuff to show.”

23. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

24. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.”

25. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” – Carew Papritz

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26. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time.”

27. “Always take the scenic road.”

28. “Go where you feel most alive.”

29. “I want to make memories all over the world”

30. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger

31. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey

32. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.”

33. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” – Zelana Montminy

34. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra

35. “Running to the boarding gate is my favorite workout.”

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36. “People forget years and remember moments.” – Ann Beattie

37. “Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.” – Guy Laliberte

38. “Live that life people write novels about.”

39. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.’’

40. “I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.”

41. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”

42. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

43. “The world is too big to stay in one place. Life is too short to do just one thing.”

44. “And so, the adventure begins.”

45. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh

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46. “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

47. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

48. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

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

50. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

51. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

52. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

53. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – H. Jackson Browne Jr.

54. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

55. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

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56. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”

57. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

58. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

59. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

60. “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

61. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

62. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

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

64. “Life is short, and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven

65. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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66. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

67. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

68. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz

69. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

70. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

71. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”

72. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

73. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

74. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

75. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”

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76. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

77. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

78. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

79. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”

80. “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.” – Jawaharial Nehru

81. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

82. “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

83. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”

84. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”

85. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

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86. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius

87. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.”

88. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

89. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” – Eric Weiner

90. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams”

91. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

92. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

93. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale

94. “If you’re twenty-two, 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

95. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die”

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96. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make” – Wayne Dyer

97. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

98. “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

99. “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs

100. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

101. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

102. ”Veni, Vini, Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved.”

103. ”People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary

104. ”I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it”

 
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My two favorite things are traveling and photography. Of course, I found a way to combine them!

I am a photographer, filmmaker, traveler, writer, graphic and web designer, and so much more. As you can probably guess, I keep myself pretty busy. I can’t help but think of new ideas and dive headfirst into them.

I have been a photographer for 15+ years and specialize in documentary-style photography. Throughout those years my interests expanded to filmmaking, graphic design, and web design. Naturally, when I started traveling, my camera came along with me. I fell in love with seeing parts of the world I haven’t seen before and experiencing things different from my normal. So far, I have traveled to 15 countries and 20 US states, and I am always looking for new places to explore. Photography has always made that exploration even more fun and helped me end up in places that I would have least expected. There is something about a camera being in your hand that pushes you to explore that hidden spot, walk that extra mile, and improve your patience when waiting for something amazing.

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