148 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To Travel The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 148 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Contents hide 148 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

148 Best Travel Quotes

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown
I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

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Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown
Collect moments, not things. — Unknown
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown
I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

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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
Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss
I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost
When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

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• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

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It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige
Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow
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

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I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

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Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown
Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart
Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

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Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

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A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins
Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey
Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

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I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

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Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

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Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro
A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

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It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen
It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

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• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs
No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein
Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire
To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

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• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia
Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

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Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier
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
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

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• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

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Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

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It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie
Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

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The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington
Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

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• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

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When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt
Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

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I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

   

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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.
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. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

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Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

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It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

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I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

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Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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.

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

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It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

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1. “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

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

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3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

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

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

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

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7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

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9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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11. “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

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

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13. “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

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

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15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

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

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

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19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

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

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23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

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27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

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29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

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31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

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33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

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

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

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37. “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

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

All journeys have secret destinations...

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

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41. “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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “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

Once the travel bug bites inspirational travel quote

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage... inspirational travel quotes

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

There are better things ahead...

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover...

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “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

Mark Twain Quote about travelling with friends

51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

Travel broadens the mind inspirational travel quotes

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

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

See the world quote by Ray Bradbury

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

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

The journey not the arrival matters

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust quote

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “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

I travel for travel’s sake... inspirational travel quotes

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

“Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

63. “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

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

A strange town... inspirational travel quotes

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

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

Puffins rest on a rock

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

A wise traveler... inspirational travel quotes

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

70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Travelling can leave you speechless

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

Travel is deep and permanent inspirational travel quotes

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A tent beneath the stars

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

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

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77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

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

Inspirational travel quote by Stephen Covey

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

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

A man walking in the sand featuring the travel quote about footprints

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

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

A travel quote from Moby Dick

83. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

inspirational travel quote by Wallace Stevens over the blur hole in Belize

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

A photo of the Eiffel Tower featuring the travel quote, Paris is always a good idea

87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “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

inspirational travel quote by Jaime Lyn Beatty over mountaineers

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

Shackleton's Endurance ship stranded on the ice in Antarctica with an inspirational travel quote

91. “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

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

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

95. “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 (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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This is the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. Let wordsmiths such as Stephen King, Mark Twain and the Dalai Lama transport you around the world from your armchair.

Not all inspirational travel quotes are created equal. “You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow.” Ugh! Case and point. With so many of these clichés flying around, we forget the real purpose of an inspirational quote. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire. To resonate with and encourage you to take action.

Whether you’re stuck in a rut, hungry for change and adventure, lacking motivation or self-confidence, the right inspirational quote can give you a well-needed kick up the butt to get you on the right track towards achieving your goals

My favourite kind of inspirational quotes is travel related, obviously! They remind me that following my dreams will always lead to happiness and fulfilment. So, I’ve collated a rather epic list of not just any inspirational travel quotes, but the best travel quotes. Many of these travel quotes describe wanderlust perfectly. You’re going to love them!

There’s a mix of short travel quotes, some would even make perfect travel captions for Instagram, some are funny quotes about travelling with friends, but most of all they are all awesome trip quotes.

Ok, so the length of this list is probably a little overkill, but they are all beautiful travel quotes from some really inspiring authors and legends including Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, John Steinbeck, Lao Tzu, Euripides, Seneca, Dalai Lama, Bill Bryson, T.S Eliot, Oscar Wilde and so so many more.

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1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. - Franz Kafka

2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment - Hilaire Belloc

3. 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

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - 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

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

Best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert

5. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

6. time flies. it’s up to you to be the navigator. – robert orben, 7. the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – w.b. yeats, 8. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 9. the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – oprah winfrey, 10. take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – erick widman.

best inspirational travel quotes - Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what's there in front of you. - Erick Widman

11. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart

12. living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – unknown, 13. it doesn’t matter where you are. you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – bob proctor, 14. if we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – unknown, 15. it is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of america – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – dwight d. eisenhower, 16. travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – peter hoeg, 17. when a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- drew bundini brown, 18. ‘i’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of. – louis c.k..

best inspirational travel quotes - ‘I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen non-percent of. - Louis C.K.

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

best inspirational travel quotes - I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. - Susan Sontag

20. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy

best inspirational travel quotes - Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. - Constantine Cavafy

21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you. – Unknown

best inspirational travel quotes - 21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.

22. 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. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain

best inspirational travel quotes - 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. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. - Anthony Bourdain

23. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

best inspirational travel quotes - To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

24. 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

best inspirational travel quotes - 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

25. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

26. though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- ralph waldo emerson.

best inspirational travel quotes - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime. – G Adventures

28. there is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. and you ask “what if i fall” oh but my darling, what if you fly – erin hanson.

best inspirational travel quotes - There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson

29. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

best inspirational travel quotes - The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. - G.K. Chesterton

30. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein

31 .the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – helen keller.

best inspirational travel quotes - The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

32. Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien

33. paris is always a good idea. – audrey hepburn, 34. own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. let your memory be your travel bag. – alexander solzhenitsyn, 35. our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. they always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – winnie the pooh, 36. 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..

best inspirational travel quotes - 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.

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

38. nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – gayland anderson, 39. life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – unknown, 40. it is a big and beautiful world. most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. i don’t want to be most of us. – oberyn martell, game of thrones, 41. 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 movable feast. – hemingway, 42. if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – anon, 43. i’m not lost, i’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – unknown.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - I'm not lost, I've just temporarily lost sight of my destination. - Unknown

44. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

45. i love to travel, but hate to arrive. – albert einstein.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - I love to travel, but hate to arrive. - Albert Einstein

46. I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

47. how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world i never knew – ernesto che guevara., 48. experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – euripides.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. - Euripides

49. A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

50. A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins

51. when you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. it is designed to make its own people comfortable. – clifton fadiman, 52. 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, 53. travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – paul theroux.

best inspirational travel quotes - Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

54. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

55. to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – aldous huxley, 56. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 57. the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – rudyard kipling, 58. not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – henry david thoreau.

best inspirational travel quotes - Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. - Henry David Thoreau

59. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

60. i have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. i have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. so, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – rowland waring-flood.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. - Rowland Waring-Flood

61. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya.

62. adventure is a path. real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. the world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. in this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. this will change you. nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – mark jenkins, 63. a wise traveler never despises his own country. – carlo goldoni.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni

64. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

best inspirational travel quotes - A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships were built - John A. Shedd

65. Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

66. why do you go away so that you can come back. so that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. and the people there see you differently, too. coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – terry pratchett, a hat full of sky, 67. when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. cool, unlying life will rush in. – d. h. lawrence, 68. we travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. we travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. we travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. and we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more. – pico iyer, why we travel, 69. we must not cease from exploration. and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – t. s. eliot.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

70. 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

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - 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

71. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

best inspirational travel quotes - Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

72. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

best inspirational travel quotes - Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

73. 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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

74. trust me, it’s paradise. this is where the hungry come to feed. for mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. so never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. and if it hurts, you know what it’s probably worth it. – richard, ‘the beach’ (alex garland), 75. travelling 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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – cesare pavese, 76. travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – miriam beard, 77. travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – seneca, 78. tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – paul theroux, 79. too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – elizabeth drew, 80. to those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. but to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. – unknown, 81. 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, 82. to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – freya stark, 83. there is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – charles dudley warner.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – Charles Dudley Warner

84. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

85. the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – st. augustine, 86. the use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – samuel johnson, 87. the journey, not the arrival matters. – t. s. eliot, 88. stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – ray bradbury, 89. to travel is to live. – hans christian anderson, 90. so much of who we are is where we have been. – william langewiesche 91. somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – unknown, 92. there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – beverly sills, 93. 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, 94. people travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – dagobert d. runes, 95. don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. – mohammed, 96. our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life. – jack kerouac, 97. one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – henry miller.

best inspirational travel quotes in 2022 - One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

98. Once you have traveled , the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy 99. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

100. no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – lin yutang, 101. never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – dolly parton, 102. man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – andre gide..

Best inspirational travel quotes - Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide.

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

104. life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “wow what a ride” – hunter s. thompson, 105. blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – lovelle drachman., 106. if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – james michener, 107. i want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. i want to explore the world. i want to watch tv in a different time zone. i want to visit strange, exotic malls. – homer simpson, 108. 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.

Best inspirational travel quotes - 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

109. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca

110. he who does not travel does not know the value of men. – moorish proverb, 111. travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer, 112. 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, 113. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – ralph waldo emerson, 114. all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – samuel johnson, 115. all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – paul fussell, 115. all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – martin buber.

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116. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

117. a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – lao tzu, 118. a journey is like marriage. the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – john steinbeck, 119. a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – tim cahill, 120. a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – lao tzu.

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121. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain

122. you will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. that is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – miriam adeney.

Best inspirational travel quotes - You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. - Miriam Adeney

123. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G. K. Chesterton

124. travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – gaby basora.

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Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure

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Cant really travel due to the pandemic so ill just read travel quotes 🙂

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Hi, there are some great quotes here, all make you stop and think – which is always a good thing! I think my favourite is ‘I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list’

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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world :)) I saw it on profile on Worldee.com and its my favourite one!

That’s beautiful :) Thanks for sharing Tomas

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Yes, it’s really inspiring, but it’s a sad thing you can’t go anywhere at the moment…

Thanks Jenny :) When borders open up again, we will be able to appreciate travel even more :)

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You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney

I love this a lot, thanks for sharing Love from Indonesia

This is so true. Thanks for sharing Adi :)

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My favourite is Anderson’s “to travel is to live” . In a lack of travel opportunities sometimes i feel i just exist ,not live. Crying:'((((

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Thank you for this post. I loved it. Reading the quotes made me reflect on the feelings and experiences of my travels and made me long for more :)

Thank you, Allison, it’s my pleasure. It’s so wonderful to hear that you enjoyed it. I get a tad emotional myself every time I look back through this post. It’s definitely one of my favourites :)

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The Winnie the Pooh one was good. Clever little bear , isn’t he. ?

Thanks for the amazing post. Some made me laugh, some made me think but all of them makes me want to travel more.

Thanks Basil :) Did you have a favourite?

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Every Travel Quote Ever

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Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

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

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

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

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

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

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

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

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

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“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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

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

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

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“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

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“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

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

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

Adventure Travel Quotes

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“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

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

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

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

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“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

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“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

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

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

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

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“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“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

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“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

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

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“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

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

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“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

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“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

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

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

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

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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100 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire you in 2024 (with photos)

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There are many awesome travel quotes listed in this blog.

Also, my favourite ones in recent years are Anthony Bourdain travel quotes. That man was a huge travel inspiration.

How come so many of us look for travel quotes? They are the perfect way to daydream about travel or reflect on our past adventures.

Choosing your favourite travel quote is a hard task, but I have compiled 100 of the best travel quotes of all time right here with photos as well.

So feel free to share them with your friends or family or just pin them for later. 

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Best Travel Quotes of all times

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

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2. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” – Ibn Battuta.

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3. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” – Tony Robbins

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4. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.“ – Lao Tzu

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5. “He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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6. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Muhammad

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7. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat” – Anonymous

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8. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James A. Michener

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9. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

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10. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous

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Short Travelling Quotes

  • “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen  
  • “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever” – Anonymous
  • “Travel teaches toleration”– Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “People don’t take trips — trips take people”- John Steinbeck
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
  • ”Eat Well, Travel Often.”- Anonymous
  • “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”– Chinese Proverb
  • “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”- Anonymous

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Inspirational Travel Quotes

  • “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide 
  • “Travel is my therapy.” – Dalai Lama
  • “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by”- Robert Frost
  • “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 
  • “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”- Matthew Karsten  
  • “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan!” – Dr. Zelana Montminy
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

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Funny Travel Quotes

  • “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
  • “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
  • “It’s bad manners to let vacation wait!“ – Anonymous
  • “I love my job, only when I’m on vacation.” – Anonymous
  • “You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license!“ -Anonymous
  • “My favourite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.“ – Anonymous
  • Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
  • “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.“ – Anonymous
  • “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.“- Anonymous
  • “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous

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Quotes For Travelling The World

  • “Open your heart to the world. It’ll dazzle you in ways you never thought possible.” – Anonymous
  • “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.“ – Wallace Stevens
  • “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion” – Paulo Coelho
  • “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro
  • “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
  • ”Life is short and the world is wide” – Simon Raven
  • “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”  – Anonymous
  • “Let’s get lost.” – Adi Alsaid
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

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Travelling Quotes With Friends

  • “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”- Anonymous
  • “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
  • “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”- Anonymous
  • “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”- Anonymous
  • “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
  • “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” – Terry Allison
  • “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”- William Butler Yeats
  • “Traveling is 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
  • “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable…it’s being separated and knowing nothing will change.” – Anonymous
  •  “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles” –  Tim Cahill

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Adventure Travel Quotes

  • “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
  • “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.“ – Marty Rubin
  • “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
  • “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
  • “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” – Dalai Lama
  • “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Irving Wallace
  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn 
  • “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Marcus Purvis

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Solo Travel Quotes

  • “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
  • “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
  • “Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” – Ragnar Lothbrok
  • “Table for one, food for two, please.” – Anonymous
  • “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”- Anonymous
  • “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”- Anonymous
  • “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”- Anonymous
  • “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
  • “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”- Anonymous
  • “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Anonymous

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Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

1. “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.” 

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2. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald’s? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

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3. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

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4. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

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5. “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.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.”

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8. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”

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9. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

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10. “When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.”

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Wanderlust Travel Quotes that Inspire to Travel

  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
  • “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
  • “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Anonymous
  • “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer 
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber 
  • “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
  • “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “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

These are my 100 quotes for travelling the world that inspire to travel . Do you have any favourite travelling quotes? Let us know in the comments.

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155 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

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The best inspirational travel quotes

Here are some of the best inspirational quotes about travel ever written. They’ll inspire you to pack your bags, pick a destination and go!

The best inspirational travel quotes

A good trip is one that teaches you something, lets you see something beautiful, and makes a great story to tell. Here's some inspiration for your next adventure.

Everyone loves a vacation , but sometimes we need encouragement to get the ball rolling. Sometimes that can come in the form of inspirational travel quotes or others' Instagram posts. 

Famous Words of Wisdom

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Most of the best travel quotes come from the well-traveled because they know what it is to see the world and grow from it.

Whether you need captions or the perfect collection of wisdom to push you into a much-needed trip, look no further than this list. 

Quotes from famous people from all around the world. These are popular pieces of wisdom from some of history's greatest writers, thinkers and people who have gone before us.

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

  • “​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 is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” -  Mark Twain
  • “One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” - Andre Gide
  • “Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” - Freya Stark
  • “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” - Jack Kerouac
  • “I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” - Hilaire Belloc
  • “To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.” - Neale Donald Walsch
  • "Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." - Lawrence Block
  • “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert
  • “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.” - Paul Theroux
  • “Traveling is more fun — hell, life is more fun — if you can treat it as a series of impulses.” - Bill Bryson
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
  • “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Like all great  travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” - Martin Buber
  • “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart new vigor.” - Seneca
  • “All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.” - Rudyard Kipling
  • “I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveler.” - Michael Palin
  • “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of civilization, man feels once more happy.” - Sir Richard Burton
  • “In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way, can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” - Herman Melville
  • "We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost." - Ray Bradbury
  • "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
  • “Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G.K. Chesterton
  • Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard
  • “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” - Clifton Fadiman
  • “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” - Samuel Johnson

Here are some great quotes and sayings to add to your photos for travel Instagram captions.

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

  • “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller
  • “Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.” - Paulo Coelho
  • “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Christopher Columbus
  • “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
  • “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac
  • “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
  • “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” - Erol Ozan
  • “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” - Unknown
  • “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” - Dr. Seuss
  • “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - André Gide
  • “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” - Anita Desai
  • “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.” - Shanti
  • Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” - David Mitchell
  • “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
  • “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” - Stephen Covey
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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.
  • ​​“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” - Roy T. Bennett
  • “He who would travel happily must travel light.” - Antoine de St. Exupery

Check out these funny and memorable quotes about the joys, trials and tribulations that come with a journey.

“Jet lag is for amateurs.”

  • “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
  • “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” - Dolly Parton 
  • “Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.” - Unknown
  • “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles M. Schulz
  • “I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m on the road to the airport.” - Anonymous
  • “The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.” - Desmond Morris
  • “Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.” - Sheridan Anderson
  • “I wish I was a postcard. For under $2 you can travel the world to any location in the world.” - Unknown
  • “I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal.” - Jarod Kintz
  • “Tropic likes its hot.” - Unknown
  • “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s saying ‘I would stay and love you but I have to go, this is my station.'” - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
  • “A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” - Tim Cahill
  • “Worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!” - Russell Baker
  • “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “Jet lag is for amateurs.” - Dick Clark
  • “I need a six month vacation, twice a year.” - Anonymous
  • “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” - Susan Heller
  • “The best way to know a city is to eat it.” - Scott Westerfeld

Here’s some motivation and encouragement for solo travelers. Whether or not you wander the globe by yourself, these quotes can make you think. 

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

  • “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” - Henry David Thoreau
  • “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” - Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” - Unknown
  • “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” - Seth Godin
  • “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” - Ayn Rand
  • “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one thing that is going to require the most from you.” - Caroline Myss
  • “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” - John A. Shedd
  • “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” - Jacqueline Boone
  • "I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for traveling?" - Freya Stark 
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
  • “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” - Diane von Furstenberg
  • “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” - Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.” - Tony Robbins
  • “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” - Thomas Jefferson
  • “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” - Harun Yahya
  • “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” - Rudyard Kipling
  • “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” - Hannah Arendt
  • “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” - Shirley MacLaine

Adventure travelers, who seek bravely down new paths, always look ahead to the next peak, the next waterfall, the next historic site. Here’s a collection of quotes from people who have traveled to faraway places and come back inspired.

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” - Amelia Earhart

  • "Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul." - Jamie Lyn Beatty
  • “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
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” - Helen Keller
  • “A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure” - J.D. Andrews
  • “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” - Amelia Earhart
  • “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” - Jack Kerouac
  • “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal.” - Paulo Coelho
  • “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” - Freya Stark
  • “Adventure is worthwhile.” - Aesop
  • “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” - Mark Jenkins
  • “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” - Marcus Purvis.
  • “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” - Doug Coupland
  • “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
  • “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 safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!” - Mark Twain
  • “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” - Lovelle Drachman
  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” - Sue Fitzmaurice
  • “Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.” - Steve Prefontaine
  • “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” - C.S. Lewis
  • “Wanderlust isn't about running away from it all. It's about experiencing the outside to discover the inside.” - Unknown
  • “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” - Alexander Sattler
  • “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” - Jim Rohn
  • “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” - Karen Gibbs
  • “Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it’s better than the question mark if you don’t.” - Dan Skinner

If you’re a travel enthusiast, you’ll love these short quotes about travel and travel experiences.

“My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been”  - Diane Arbus

  • “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” - Jack Kerouac
  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
  • “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” - Paulo Coelho
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret." - Oscar Wilde
  • “Oh the places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss
  • “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever” - Unknown
  •  “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” - Mark Twain
  • “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” - Clint Borgen
  • "It's not on any map, true places never are." - Herman Melville.
  • “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - Saint Augustine
  • “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” - Sheda Savage
  • “Great things never came from comfort zones.” - Anonymous
  • “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” - John C. Maxwell
  • "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." - Roy Goodman.
  • “Live life to the fullest, for the future, is scarce.” - Nick Carter
  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” - Chief Seattle
  • “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” - Moslih Eddin Saadi
  • “Travel doesn't become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.” - Marty Rubin
  • “My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been” - Diane Arbus
  • “The biggest risk in life, is not taking one” - Barfi
  • “The journey not the arrival matters.” - T.S. Eliot
  • “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao Tzu
  • “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” - Dalai Lama
  • “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” - Ibn Battuta
  • "Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” - Babs Hoffman

Travel opens our eyes to the world around us. Sometimes, returning home can be just as eye-opening.

“The best journey takes you home.”

  • “The thrill of coming home has never changed.” - Guy Pearce
  • "It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you." - Eric Roth 
  • “I am traveling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.” - Andre Rieu
  • "It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!" - Ann Radcliffe
  • “Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.” - Madeleine L'Engle
  • “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux
  • "There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again." - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster 
  • “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
  • “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” - C. N. Adichie 
  • “As I travel along in this world, I’m in awe of many things, like the colors I see in autumn or the flowers that bloom in spring. To me, there is no kind of awesome that anyone but home can bring, like returning to wake in my old bed to hear the birds sweetly sing.”  - Good Morning from Brigantine
  • “Trips do not end when you return home- usually this is when in a sense they begin.” - A. Benedict & A. Franklin
  • “Maybe you had to leave to miss a place, maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” - Jodi Picoult 
  • “There’s no place like home.” - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
  • “The best journey takes you home.” - Unknown
  • “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” - Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • “It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.” - Leon Uris
  • “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

When people are asked what they like best about traveling, they usually cite the sense of freedom, the adventure and the memories they can take with them when they come home. These sayings capture the idea of being free to follow where your wanderlust leads you.

Are you ready for a journey? These inspirational travel quotes will inspire you to explore the world. Let’s go!

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15 Mar 100 Inspirational Travel Quotes To Brighten Your Day

I have a love hate relationship with inspirational travel quotes. Sometimes I wonder why inspiration has given way to cliche. 

Sometimes they make me all teary-eyed and uplifted, but there are days when I just want to roll my eyes and scream: “Enough!”

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If you try to have a conversation about travel online you’ll notice certain travel quotes pop up on an hourly basis. You know the ones I mean.

The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only a page. Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

While there’s nothing inherently wrong with these, I’ve decided to feature slightly lesser known inspirational travel quotes… and one hundred of them while I’m at it! Go big or go home, am I right?

If you follow me on Instagram  ( do it! do it! ) you may have already read a few of these, but the majority are all as new to me as they will hopefully be to you.

Inspirational travel quotes

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  • “If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.” -Alex Garland, The Beach
  • “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
  • “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustave Flaubert
  • “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” -Mark Twain
  • “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” -Hilaire Belloc
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -Aldous Huxley
  • “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” -Clint Borgen

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  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller
  • “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” -Caskie Stinnett
  • “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” -Neale Donald Walsch
  • “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
  • “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excited a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” -Bill Bryson
  • “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -John A. Shedd
  • “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
  • “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -Samuel Johnson
  • “Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -JRR Tolkien
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust

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  • “The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” -G.K. Chesterton
  • “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” -John Hope Franklin
  • “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing’.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
  • “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
  • “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” -Ray Bradbury
  • “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” -Anatole France
  • “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
  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener
  • “Too often … I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” -Louis L’Amour
  • “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” -James Baldwin

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  • “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” -Paulo Coelho
  • “While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.” -Anne Tyler
  • “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” -Charles Kuralt
  • “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place….” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • “Adventure is worthwhile.” -Aristotle
  • “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” -Lawrence Block
  • “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac
  • “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
  • “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” -Dagobert D. Runes
  • “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” -Aldous Huxley

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  • “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” -Moslih Eddin Saadi
  • “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” -Miriam Adeney
  • “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” -Edward Abbey
  • “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” -Gayle Forman
  • “Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, bit it is always invigorating.” -Michael Crichton
  • “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” -Paulo Coelho
  • “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” -Nora Roberts
  • “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” -Margot Fonteyn
  • “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the unforgettable thread of wasted time.” -Donald Miller

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  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
  • “Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, “A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.” -John Muir
  • “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” -Diane Ackerman
  • “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” -Freya Stark
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
  • “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux
  • “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” -Charles Dudley Warner
  • “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” -Pat Conroy
  • “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” -Elizabeth Drew

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  • “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” -Paul Theroux
  • “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” -Lillian Smith
  • “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” -Rudyard Kipling
  • “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” -Carlo Goldoni
  • “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” -Mark Jenkins
  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
  • “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” -Kurt Vonnegut
  • “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
  • “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
  • “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Dutch Proverb

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  • “…because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” -Jack Kerouac
  • “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
  • “He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” -Sinclair Lewis
  • “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” -George Bernard Shaw
  • “It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.” -Cheryl Strayed
  • “A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home.” -Carl Burns
  • “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” -Pico Iyer
  • “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” -John Steinbeck
  • “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” -Margaret Mead
  • “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” -Harun Yahya

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  • “I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” -Seneca
  • “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.” -Jawaharal Nehru
  • “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
  • “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” -Anita Septimus
  • “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” -Daranna Gidel
  • “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -Tim Cahill
  • “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” -D. H. Lawrence
  • “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” -Isabelle Eberhardt
  • “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” -Agnes Repplier
  • “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” -Freya Stark

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  • “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” -Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” -John Muir
  • “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” -Ralph Crawshaw
  • “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” -G.K. Chesterton
  • “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” -Glenn Clark
  • “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -Yogi Berra
  • “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” -Terry Pratchett
  • “There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.” -Chuck Palahniuk
  • “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” -Pico Iyer
  • “I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, ‘Ohhhh.’ And the lightbulb goes on.” -Henry Rollins

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200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World

Whether you are an experienced world traveler or merely just a dreamer with a case of wanderlust, these are the best travel quotes to inspire you. Everything from short to long, to sayings about love, couples, friendship and family. And of course the ever so popular Mark Twain travel quotes! Plus, it just wouldn’t be right for me to not include the top bucket list quotes in the bunch.

Whether they are spoken, or a taken from a book or poem, travel quotes continue to engage our imagination and lift our spirits. They make us re-evaluate our corner of the world, and inspire us to defy our boundaries. Let these quotes on travel inspire you to start packing your bags!

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Best Travel Quotes: 200 Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World

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Best Travel Quotes by Mark Twain

1. “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

2. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.”  —Mark Twain

3. “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” — Mark Twain

4. “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

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” — Mark Twain

Top Short Travel Quotes

6. “You lose sight of things…and when you travel everything balances out.”

7. “If not now, when?”

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8. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.”

9. “Travelers never think they are the foreigners.” — Mason Cooley

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

11. “Learn to travel. Travel to learn.”

12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

13. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

14. “Travel is my therapy.”

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15. “Wander often, wonder always.”

16. “Fill your life with adventure, not things.”

17. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

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

19. “Embrace the detours.” — Kevin Charbonneau

20. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

21. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berr a

22. “Adventure is out there.”

23. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventure fills your soul.”

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

25. “Everyone smiles in the same language.”

26. “Eat well, travel often.”

27. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hillaire Belloc

28. “Put a ding in the universe.” — Steve Jobs

29. “Dream without limits.”

30. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”

31. “Die with memories, not with dreams.”

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32. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”  —Paulo Coelho

33. “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”  —Ray Bradbury

34. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”  —Paul Theroux

35. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”  Thomas Fuller

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

37. “Travel is an investment in yourself .” —The Cultureur

38. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.”

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39. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” —H elen Keller

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

41. “Design a life you are inspired to live.” — Annette White

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42. “Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.”

43. “Work. Save. Travel. Repeat.”

44. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” — Caskie Stinnett

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

46. “Wherever you go…go with all your heart.”  Confucius

47. “I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer.”

Best Funny Travel Quotes

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

49. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

50. “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Martin Buber

51. “Vacation calories don’t count.”

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52. “Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye.” — Terry Hanson

53. “In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.” — Robert Benchleyl

54. “You want to know what it’s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.” — Lewis Black

55. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” — Rudyard Kipling

56. “ Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.” — Anthony Bourdain

57. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” — Dagobert D. Runes

58. “Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” — Regina Nadelson

59. “One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.” — Erma Bombeck

60. “[Airline food] is the tiniest food I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get — chicken, steak, anything — has grill marks on each side, like somehow we’ll actually believe there’s an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.” — Ellen deGeneres

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“Stop making excuses for why you can’t do epic shit and start making plans for how you can.”

— Annette White

61. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”  —Rudyard Kipling,

62. “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” — Charles Kuralt

63. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” — Clifton Fadiman

64. “If traveling was free, you’d never see me again.”

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65. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore

66. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” — Russel Baker

67. “Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.” —Charles Kuralt

68. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” —George Carlin

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69. “Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.” — Al Boliska

70. “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” — Paul Theroux

71. “There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous.” — Theo Cowan

72. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” — Emile Ganest

Travel Quotes About Couples, Love & Marriage

73. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” — John Steinbeck

74. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”

75. “I’ve got a crush on the world.”

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76. “All you need is love & a passport.”

77. “Relationship status: In a relationship with my passport.”

78. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”  —Lewis Carroll

79. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.”

80. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —Winnie the Pooh

81. “Together is our favorite place to be.”

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Quotes on Travel with Friends

82. “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

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

84. “A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

85. “In life it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.”

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86. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”— Izaak Walton

87. “Be careful who you make your memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze

88. “I just want to eat good food, make good love, travel near and far, and surround myself with good people who get me. Happiness over everything. Anything less than that is irrelevant.” — Alex Elle

89. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”

90. “Everyone needs someone who calls and says, “get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.”

91. “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

92. “I want to travel and meet beautiful souls. I want friends in every city.”

Quotes About Fear & Goals

93. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley Maclaine

94. “Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” — Athena Singh

95. “Don’t let fear make your decisions for you.” — Annette White

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96. “Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain

97. “The toughest challenge may be overcoming the damage our own fears have created.” — Annette White

98. “What if fearful thoughts were a habit like overspending, avoiding eye contact, or saying “umm” when you speak?” — Annette White

99. “To escape fear you have to go through it, not around it.” — Richie Norton

100. “Each time you try something for the first time you will grow—a little piece of the fear of the unknown is removed and replaced with a sense of empowerment.” — Annette White

101. “Fear does not stop death, it stops life.”

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102. “Put the fear aside and focus on the endless possibilities the world had to offer.” — Annette White

103. “Instead of listing the thousands of reasons that I can’t do something, I find the half dozen reasons to believe why I can. I find solutions instead of making excuses.” — Annette White

104. “What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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105. “Only take advice from someone who has achieved what you desire.” — Annette White

106. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

107. “Whatever you have accomplished was because you decided it was a priority in your life and something else was not as important.” — Annette White

108. “Great things never came from comfort zones.”

109. “The key is to make your goals a priority, by eliminating the words “I don’t have time” when referring to them. We all have time for what we choose to have time for and you need to make yourself a priority.” — Annette  White

110. “Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”

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Bucket List Quotes

111. “The very words “bucket list” can stir up some pretty heavy-duty fears. It can be a reminder of our own mortality, and death is typically something we would rather not think about. But, the reminder that our time is limited is actually one of the best gifts we can be given. It is one that can guide us to achieve what is most important to us before it is too late.” — Annette White

112. “Make a bucket list and fill it with dreams that have no boundaries.” — Annette White

113. “The first thing on my bucket list is to fill the bucket with wine.”

114. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

115. “For too many people it takes a terrifying illness, hit- ting retirement age, or some other life altering event to honestly begin thinking about the things they want to experience in their lifetime. In many of these cases, it will then be too late to turn these dreams into a reality.” — Annette White

116. “Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it.” — Annette White

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117. “Whatever you want, there are benefits to turning them into a bucket list, and a well-crafted one can push you to lead your version of an ideal life.” — Annette White

118. “One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it’s worth watching.”

119. “It is never too early to begin a bucket list, don’t wait for that someday that may never come.” — Annette White

120. “Facing uncertainties every day and being able to over- come them on my own opened up more possibilities to achieving my bucket list goals.” — Annette White

121. “We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.” — The Bucket List Movie

122. “Creating a bucket list is only one small piece of the passionate life puzzle—actually living the bucket list lifestyle is the whole shebang.” — Annette White

123. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes

124. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”  —Mohammed 

125. “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

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

127. “Be the girl who decided to go for it.”

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128. ‘Travel has the ability to enrich your life in some way, shape, or form—you return a different person than when you arrived.” — Annette White

129. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps, than a house full of stuff.”

130. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket.”

131. “I’m no the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher

132. “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

133. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”  —Freya Stark

134. “Don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s not worth even beginning if you are only able to make a small start.” — Annette White

135. “Better to see something once than to hear about it hundred times.”

136. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or moving your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac

137. “Discover your passion, then take one step every day to live it.” — Annette White

138. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” —H enry Miller

139. “Stop defining travel by the distance the destination is from your departure or the length of time you will be away from home. Instead characterize it as a journey of exploration, relaxation, adventure, and learning.” — Annette White

140. “I may not be rich, I don’t wear designer clothing or drive a luxury sports car, but bathing elephants in Thailand doesn’t require Louis Vuitton, just a passport and a desire.” — Annette White

141. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.”  —Game of Thrones

142. “Without a plan, aspirations are nothing more than hollow ideas floating around in your head.” — Annette White

143. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” — Carson McCullers

144. “You know all those things you always wanted to do? You should go do them.”

145. “There is a false perception that you need to be rich to travel, which simply is not true.” — Annette White

146. “Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

147. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” — Elizabeth Drew

148. “There are seven days in the week and someday isn’t one of them”

149. “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

150. “Leave the comfort of your resort hotel and be engulfed into the world around you.” — Annette White

151. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”

152. “Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” — Rick Steves

153. “Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ” — Kevin Kelly

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

155. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton

156. “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

157. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” — Harun Yahya

158. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only the first page.” — St. Augustine

159. “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight seeing”.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

160. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mariam Beard

161. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

162. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener

163. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

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

165. “The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.”

166. “Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibu Battuta

167. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have in only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharial Nehru

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

169. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin

170. “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

171. “We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more.” — Pico Iyer

172. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”  —Pat Conroy

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

174. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”  —Oscar Wilde

175. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”  —John Hope Franklin

176. “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

177. “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.”  —Roy Chapman Andrews

178. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — J.S. Eliot

179. “Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone…It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?” — Donald Miller

180. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”  —Roman Payne

181. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” — Anita Septimus

182. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll

183. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and 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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” — Cesare Pavese

184. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’.” — Hunter S. Thompson

185. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”  —Eleanor Roosevelt

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

187. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun drenched elsewhere.”  —Isabelle Ebehardt

188. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley

189. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau

190. “Some people live more in twenty years than others do in forty. It’s not the time, it’s the person .” —Doctor Who

191./ “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.”  Chris Humphrey

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

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

194. “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” — Martin Yan

195. “Live with no excuses, travel with no regrets.”

196. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

197. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.”

198. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

199. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

200. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

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For many of these travel quotes, their style, humor and clarity of expression have inspired dreamers, and travelers for generations and continue to comfort kindred spirits today. Read them when you’re stuck in a rut or need to fuel your wanderlust… that is… if it’s possible to add any more fuel to that fire!

Do you have any travel, adventure or bucket list quotes to add to the list?

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49 thoughts on “200 Best Travel Quotes: Sayings to Inspire You to Explore The World”

I feel like I've seen this list before?  If not then I've definitely read most of the quotes before.  I'm such a sucker for quotes, I even have a quote app on my phone.

There’s lots of travel quote lists out there, these are just my favorite ones ;)

I've not come across a lot of these quotes before like Elle has. My favourite one from the list is "5. Do no follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson"

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These are good quotes,  I like 6, 18, 34, 40 and 42.

So glad you read and picked your favorites!

2 is my favorite and one that I live by. 

I love these, especially 18 and 31. Also ha ha to number 16. I always think of Uncle Traveling Matt's song from Fraggle Rock as inspirational for travelers. "Every sunrise shows me more and more/ So much to explore/ Come and follow me", etc.

So funny, I used to watch Fraggle Rock all the time!

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I am glad that I am not the only one who has a huge urge to travel the world. I hope someday my dreams wont be dreams anymore!

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It really inspire me to travel even though I’m alone :)

It’s true! Travel is Therapy. Nice blog dude.

Enjoyed reading all the travel quotes! Each one is better than another. Some of them have really forced me to look at life from a different perspective and also sparked the interest for traveling in me. Thank you for posting such a wonderful conglomeration of travel quotes.

I love the 79th quote about friend and adventure other were also good but it was deep. I too have my own quote ” If you love surprises then Nature will never disappoint you” . Hope you like my quote too

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I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in their mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way, I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure!

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105 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire WANDERLUST with Photos

Last Updated May 24, 2023 William Tang

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Sometimes you just need that extra bit of motivation to push you out the door or a good reminder of what makes travel life-changing. Through the years, we’ve been collecting the best travel quotes that’ll truly inspire some serious wanderlust.

By combining these wanderlust quotes with photos to create the most fitting pictures, use the table of contents below to jump straight down to organized categories such as trip with friends quotes, short travel quotes, meaningful wanderlust quotes about life and discovery, and more!

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“Best” is always subjective and yes there are many other great takes on quotes that can inspire one to travel or speak to why the idea of travel is so powerful and life-changing.

Below, we’re going to be listing the best travel quotes with the associated person that wrote or said them. We’ve created pinnable images for many of the quotes for you to use and share.

For organization, wanderlust inspired quotes are broken down into high level categories. Some may belong to multiple but I tried my best to segment them into appropriate buckets.

We’ve also dropped a few nuggets of wisdom and color commentary for a few that we really love.

As we mentioned, the selection of the “best” quotes is subjective. Every quote speaks to every individual differently because of where you are in your life, the experiences you’ve had, your mind space, where you want to be, and your aspirations.

These are the best in our eyes because they aren’t deep in meaning and haven’t been overused to death.

1. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

do not follow where the path may lead and create your own is one of the best travel quotes by ralph waldo emerson

Passed on from generation to generation is the idea that we need to fit in our own box and follow the norms set for us. It can be societal, cultural, or anything. We’ve found joy in our lives not following that conventional path.

Starting Going Awesome Places and turning it into a full time job sounded crazy (still kind of is) but we carved our own way through it. Sure there are parallel paths but I’d like to think we’ve blazed our own trail.

2. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes

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I’ll be the first to admit that we take way too many photos when we travel but when we go back and look at the own albums (whether on our phones or photobooks we print), it really is a wonderful portal back in time to moments and time gone but not forgotten.

3. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

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Now that’s the incredible thing about travel. If you open your mind and your heart, anywhere new is a wonderful adventure of discovery and not strange of weird.

Take the incredible journey I had in our 9 day Ethiopia itinerary . Sure it was uncomfortable and challenging but I embraced it all.

4. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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You can make your dreams come true with a simple step. It might be the hardest step that you’ve ever had to take because you don’t know where the journey will take you but all it takes are the first baby steps.

Sometimes it can be literal when you take that step off the plane when we went skydiving in New Zealand .

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

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Where we grow up in many ways define who we are and what we know. Like it or not, places like our favorite restaurants in North York , the Oxford County Cheese Trail , or local walks in the parks in Richmond Hill , are a core part of who you are.

It’s our own little bubble and when we are able to bust out of it to see what the world is like, it will challenge you to open your eyes, mind, and be a better person. In Mary’s words, you will never be the same again.

6. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

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We cheated a little here but we sometimes throw around the word wanderlust but what does it actually mean? With this fun travel quote, now you know!

Now who has that impulse to explore the world?

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

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My mind immediately went to the new worlds we’ve seen while going to the best places to scuba diving in the world but this is one of the best quotes about travel because it encourages us to leave the comforts of home to make new discoveries.

You can take this from the perspective of us being land mammals or the fact that we naturally want to be close to the things that we feel at home with. Whether small or large, you won’t learn something new until you put yousrelf out there and venture to places unknown.

And no, it’s not just “man” but all the wonderful people of this earth!

8. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi

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This is one of the best travel quotes because it is SO TRUE .

The experiences you gather while travelling are honestly worth more than all the money you can make.

9. “There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

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As a photographer, my favourite moments are during sunrise and sunset. Every time we compile a list of the best photography spots like this one in Prague , there’s at least one sunrise or sunset included.

There’s a calmness, stillness, and serenity to the start and end of the day and yes, they’re totally free.

10. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” – John Steinbeck

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As a married couple, there’s a deep honesty to this travel quote. As a couple, travel will test your relationship to the max and we always say that even more -so than moving in is to go on a trip together to see if you have partner in life.

In John Steinbeck ‘s travel quote, he talks about how you have to let travel flow the way it wants to go. You can try to bend it, mold it, and control it but you have to let it take you

Some of the best wanderlust sayings are by accomplished writers. They’re incredibly deep, thoughtful, and literary.

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

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This is one of the most well-known wanderlust quotes that speaks to how the journey is more important than the destination. Many of us travel without that end point in mind and that’s totally okay!

12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain

Travel is the greatest teacher of them all. It’s something that has truly opened my mind and is something that more of us need. I’d like to think that we don’t travel for travel’s sake but we do it with purpose – to open our minds, break barriers, and gain broader understanding of the world.

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

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The more you travel the more you realize that what you know and take for granted is but just a tiny bubble on this great earth. While I don’t know if I’ll ever see it all but to travel is to expand your horizons.

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

Everything you encounter – people, food, culture, fortunes, and mishaps stay with you forever and you become better for it.

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

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I’ve been feeling a little empty ever since COVID-19 and our lockdown existence. It’s truly made me realize how important it is my life.

16. “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Helen Sontag

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Bucket-lists are such a topic of contention these days but I say there’s nothing wrong about dreaming and building your list of places you want to go, what you want to do, and things you want to experience. Just expect it to be a long list.

17. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

18. “it is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – ursula k. le guin, 19. “we travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – anais nin, 20. “people don’t take trips, trips take people.” – john steinbeck.

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I’m pretty OCD when it comes to planning and I’m sure it comes through on the itineraries we publish but some of the best travel moments always come from the unexpected. In many ways, as much as I want to be in control, I feel that I am but a passenger.

21. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

There’s a level of fulfilment when travelling and I love that I can expand my horizons and see our world in a new and different way.

Sometimes you just need something short and sweet to convey your love of travel.

Here are our favorite short travel quotes but there are also quotes that cross with other categories so make sure to browse through the entire list as there are definitely more short quotes than just these ones below.

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

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You probably don’t know yet but you’ll be going to a ton of awesome places in your lifetime.

23. “Don’t quit your day dream.” – Anonymous

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Always be dreaming and more than that, make it a reality.

24. “Where to next?” – Anonymous

This is more like the question that I get asked the most beyond “where’s your favorite place you’ve been to?”. This

If you’re a traveler, this is a question that you get almost every single time. It’s also a fantastic short travel quote because it’s almost rhetorical. There’s always somewhere you’re planning on going or want to go to.

It’s also a bit of a loaded question because I’m sure your list is quite long.

25. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw

26. “i don’t know where i’m going, but i’m on my way.” – anonymous.

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27. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

Not just an amazing travel quote but great words to live by in all facets of your life.

28. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb

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In travel, it’s easy for someone to say that you can know everything you need to know by reading about it in the books or looking at photos but it’s something else entirely to see, experience, and feel it in person.

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

30. “dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.” – anonymous.

We try to live without regret and this is a great short quote that we try to live life by.

31. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

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32. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

33. “he who would travel happily must travel light.” – antoine de st. exupery.

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I don’t always travel that light with our packing lists but this is a great short travel quote that’s always the forefront of my mind. I always ask myself, “do I really need this?”.

Here, I’m in the middle of Tokyo with the original Peak Design 5L Sling that makes a great light travel set up.

Sticking to the road less travelled can be the most rewarding. Here are a couple of quotes that push me to always incorporate something a little different on my trips.

34. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

It’s so easy to follow the crowd and be sucked into what everyone’s doing on Instagram or places that are the most popular. I’ve always found that the best trips are the ones that most people don’t know about.

35. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” – Rick Watson

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36. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

To some extent all great quotes come from a place of philosophical thought but to keep things organized, these are some of the most famous quotes by legendary philosophers that have stood the test of time.

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

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Wisdom, experiences, happiness, and wonder – it’s out there for you to explore.

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

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39. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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If you’ve read about how Going Awesome Places came to be , you’ll know that I kind of stumbled upon it by accident. It’s through travel that I’ve become a better storyteller. Ibn Battuta was absolutely right.

40. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi Jalalud-Din

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This quote speaks to the greatest reward of travel. Travel has given me so much on many levels. I’m gracious beyond words.

41. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

42. “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.

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This has to ring so true right. The best test of a friendship is to travel and you quickly find out whether you can stand them or not.

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – anonymous.

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45. “True friends never apart maybe in distance never in heart.” – Helen Keller

46. “we are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – robert louis stevenson, 47. “the more i traveled, the more i realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – shirley maclaine, 48. “as with any journey, whom you travel with is more important than the destination.” – anonymous, 49. “life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – anonymous.

life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck anonymous wanderlust quote

There’s enough suckage in life. Spend time with those that don’t suck.

50. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”  – Edith Wharton

51. “never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”  – ernest hemingway, 52. “as soon as i saw you, i knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – winnie the pooh.

Sometimes you just know who’s going to make an awesome travel partner.

53. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!”  – Anonymous

54. “in life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – charles m. schulz.

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As much as I love solo travel, it just isn’t the same when you can’t share your travel experiences with someone else.

55. “No road is long with good company.”  – Turkish proverb

56. “friends that travel together, stay together.” – anonymous, 57. “a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – tim cahill, 58. “if you want to go fast go alone. if you want to go far go together.” – african proverb.

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59. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Anonymous

We seek good wanderlust quotes because we’re looking to be inspired. In a simple sentence, you’ll feel that itch to book that ticket. These quotes speak to a way of life, and why you need to just go.

60. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

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Sustainable travel is so important and its core principle can be said in this simple travel quote.

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

62. “stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – anonymous, 63. “live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – stephen covey, 64. “we travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – ray bradbury.

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65. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous

Travel is about taking that leap of faith. It could be a big investment in money. It could be a big risk quitting your job or taking a sabbatical. It could be scary doing it on your own. Whatever it is, think about how incredible the experiences will be to push you over that edge.

66. “Wanderlust isn’t about running away from it all.  It’s about experiencing the outside to discover the inside.” – Unknown

This is so true. Some might have the perspective that intrepid travellers are running away from something at home. The reality is that for many, travel is a way for us to learn more about ourselves and running towards truth.

Beyond inspiration, travel and wanderlust quotes tell us how we should think about life and what is important.

67. “We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us.” – Anonymous

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Time moves faster than ever. There are only so many “I’ll do that later” you can use before you run out. Don’t let those opportunities slip on by.

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

69. “to travel is to live.” – hans christian andersen.

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This is one of my all-time favourites that can easily go into the short travel quotes section. It’s a motto in life that’s truly transformative.

70. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

71. “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, 72. “when overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – clint borgen, 73. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – mae west.

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You have one life to live. Make it count is what I say.

74. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anotole France

Adventure is such a core part of our travel DNA and these quotes about travel should inspire you to launch your very own.

75. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

76. “adventure is worthwhile.” – aesop, 77. “life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – neale donald walsch.

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When the adrenaline is pumping, and you don’t know what’s coming next is when I feel the most alive. That includes being terrified of heights and jumping out of a plane in the Abel Tasman .

78. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

79. “great things never came from comfort zones.” – anonymous, 80. “travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – anonymous.

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81. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

82. “the gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – sir richard burton, 83. “just go. go see all the beauty in the world.” – anonymous.

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There is truly so much beauty in the world. Everywhere I go, I’m constantly amazed.

Happiness in travel

Above all else, travel is what puts a smile on many people’s faces. This collection of wanderlust quotes should give you what people call “the travel feels” these days.

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

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

86. “try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – maya angelou.

There are so many ways to interpret this one but I think of it as always staying positive whether it’s someone feeling down or when shit happens when you travel.

87. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”  – Anonymous

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I have a couple of these songs on my road trip mixtape. Songs are such a great way to convey ideas and these are a few lyrics that make me want to travel even more.

88. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world”. – Louis Armstrong, “It’s a Wonderful World”

This isn’t normally something you associate with travel but when you think about those skies of blue, clouds of white, trees of green, colors of the rainbow, and all the faces of people going by, I can’t help but think about all the things that make travel so amazing.

89. “Life is short; I wanna live it well. One life, one story to tell.” – Switchfoot, “Live It Well”

If you know me well, you’ll know that Switchfoot is my all-time favourite band. Their lyrics are what I love the most about them because they always have incredibly deep meaning. Life is precious, you’ve got one shot to make it count.

90. “But hold me fast, hold me fast, cause I’m a hopeless wanderer.”  – Mumford & Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”

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91. “Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free. I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me.”  – Elvis Presley, “Harem Holiday”

92. “tell everybody i’m on my way. new friends and new places to see. with blue skies ahead, yes i’m on my way.” – phil collins, “on my way”.

They might not be authors or philosophers but they equally have important things to say about the impact of travel and why it matters.

93. “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

The late Anthony Bourdain was someone that truly understood travel. He was such a great storyteller and this quote reminds me of my earlier days when I was backpacking around Europe and just not having a care in the world.

94. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

95. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – oprah winfrey.

oprah winfrey said the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams

96. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

97. “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.

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Travel does change you and always for the better. Anthony Bourdain goes a step further by also encourages us to leave the places we visit better off.

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

99. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – dalai lama.

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100. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

There are a couple of wanderlust quotes from movies that stand out. Some are well-known and others you might not’ve heard of or watched.

101. “I’m shaking the dust of this crummy town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world!” – George Bailey from “It’s a Wonderful Life”

102. “the world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.” – the hobbit.

the hobbit movie quote about the world is not in your books and maps, it's out there

Pictures tell a thousand words and videos many more but there’s nothing like being in these places that people talk about and taking it in with all of your senses.

103. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

104. “you only get one life. it’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” – me before you, 105. “i want adventure in the great wide somewhere.” – beauty and the beast.

I’m not sure if we’ve ever done a list this long but we hope that you’ve been able to pull a few favorites of your own with the best quotes about travel.

Many of these have anchored but have also set me free when it comes to traveling the world. In one way or another, these quotes have driven me to take the leap, to continue to explore, and to get outside of my comfort zone.

Wanderlust is defined as “a strong desire to travel”.

Best quotes about travel are ones that are easy to understand, have deep analogies to life, and of course create strong feelings of wanderlust.

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Helen Sontag “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” – Anonymous “We travel not to escape life, but for life to not escape us.” – Anonymous “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere.” – Beauty and the Beast

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – Anonymous “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss “Don’t quit your day dream.” – Anonymous “Where to next?” – Anonymous “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Anonymous “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

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27 Insanely Deep & Best Travel Quotes Ever (+Pics)

Vipin Gaur

  • June 7, 2020
  • August 7, 2021
  • Quotes , Inspiration

BEST TRAVEL QUOTES EN COVER

Everybody fuels their wanderlust in some way or another. For most of the part, it was the quotes that did this for me. Before the era of vlogging, blogging even had started, I used to pickup lines from books, articles, and save it on my Notes app as quotes. I think I like words more than any other form of information. And today, in this short and precise post, I’ll present you 27 best travel quotes that I’d collected that are so very deep and profound.

For many like me, quotes motivate them. And it touches a sensitive part of their hearts which, in my opinion, is awesome. In some way, it feeds the aspiration and makes us get out of our comfort zones.

This list of best travel quotes along with graphics will give your future travel goals and inspire you to take that shot. Maybe it’ll be your first solo trip or maybe first abroad trip, keep in mind these quotes will remind you of the importance of travel and the deep meaning associated with it.

Best Travel Quotes with Graphics (and Deep Meaning)

At first, I’ll share the quotes with graphics and down below in the last section you’ll find the text version of these quotes just in case you wanna copy and share from there. So let’s start.

This first quote is dedicated to Misfit Wanderers and it’s kinda our slogan to shout. Oh, yes! We are wanderers, still.

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Indeed, you can’t disagree with this. I find travel the best form of education. Learned lessons that were never taught in any class.

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Money, eh? There are plenty of options that make travel cheaper. Couchsurfing. Hitchhiking. Flight hacks etc.

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Yes, courage is all that takes to make your travel.

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Do you know why I added this following quote in the list of best travel quotes? Because it’s so very true and contrast to present time travel. Without observation, I don’t see why you call yourself a ‘traveler?’

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The deep meaning that this quote carries…that. Life’s short but I gotta make it worthwhile. No wonder it’s one of the best travel quotes ever.

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Discover yourself, with the help of travel. Seek profound answers and the real meaning of life.

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Now, this quote may hurt a little if you don’t understand it. Just like anything, with travel you’ve to maintain balance. Balance is the core of nature and everything that’s created by God.

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This quote. Simple as hell. And yet very meaningful. Reading and traveling are two things that’ll enrich your life, speaking from experience.

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This Italian proverb reminds me of Bollywood’s movie Anand famous dialogue “Babu Moshai Zindagi Badi Honi Chahiye, Lambi Nahi.” 

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And I have found that this quote has really practical meaning. If you wanna understand anybody in the least amount of time, plan a trip with them.

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Indeed. Some things won’t even matter in a later stage of life. Start living with no regrets.

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This quote expresses how for some travel is life, while for some other travel is just a regular thing. Travel is waste if it doesn’t affect your eyes – your perception towards life.

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Somehow I feel this quote very much. Like a reminiscence gets etched on the skin. You go to a place and something of it always remains yours. What do you think?

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This is a very famous quote and one of the profound quotes as well. Don’t just spend all your lives within the confines of your territory, explore, challenge, and become.

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I don’t think I need to shower any light on this quote. Adventure is always worthwhile.

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This Asian proverb inspires me. I want to see many countries, live among the stars, dance with tribals of Africa, and have an experience-enriched life. I want to find out if what they all said about the world being a bad place is true – because I suspect it ain’t.

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No regrets policy. Want something, go grab it. One of the best travel quotes I know of.

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And for this one – you know better. We all read this famous poem by Robert Frost in our junior schools. I never really find out what Robert meant until a few years ago. It’s about the choices we make.

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This quote is funny at first but really profound if you tilt your perception. People don’t remember taking trips but the experience they gain because of these trips.

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A very similar meaning quote we saw moments ago. Travel in life is necessary.

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This quote also felt very relatable. Travel has magnified and multiplied so many emotions that I have become more caring, understanding, and often very calm.

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Haha, this quote may be relatable to many. Have you ever had one of those feelings where you get attracted to a place (or city) even without visiting it? Like you get totally and madly in love? I’m sure you’ve had that.

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Modesty and humbleness are the two key qualities. And travel helps you with developing them.

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This famous and one of the best travel quotes doesn’t only talk about creating our own paths in travel but also about bashing our comfort zones, bad habits, and grow out of them.

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Another very deep quotes and yes, one of the best travel quotes that I’ve read. Explains the real and solid reasons for traveling. It is much more than going to places.

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A similar travel quote again impending the idea of leaving one’s comfort zones. As I said, wonder happens outside the comfort zones.

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Also Read: Top 10 Best Solo Travel Quotes To Give You That Push

Travel Quotes Listicle

So here’s the listicle of best travel quotes. Share them on Instagram, put on WhatsApp stories, or Facebook statuses. These are all the same quotes as above, you can either copy text or save the graphics from above to share.

Now the listicle: 

  • We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still ⏤ Carl Sagan
  • Travel is still the most intense mode of learning ⏤ Kevin Kelly
  • You don’t have to be rich, to travel well. ⏤ Eugene Fodor
  • Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. ⏤ Paulo Coelho
  • A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ⏤ Moslih Eddin Saadi
  • …life is short and the world is wide. ⏤ Simon Raven
  • The further I go, the closer to me I get. ⏤ Andrew McCarthy
  • Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. ⏤ Elizabeth Drew
  • I read; I travel; I become. ⏤ Derek Walcott
  • If you can’t live longer, live deeper. ⏤ Italian Proverb
  • 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, Tom Sawyer Abroad
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover. ⏤ Mark Twain
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ⏤ Marcel Proust
  • Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ⏤ Anita Desai
  • The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ⏤ Augustine of Hippo
  • Adventure is worthwhile. ⏤ Aesop
  • Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. ⏤ Asian Proverb
  • Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. ⏤ Oscar Wilde
  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I – took the one less traveled by. ⏤ Robert Frost
  • People don’t take trips, trips take people. ⏤ John Steinbeck
  • To travel is to live. ⏤ Hans Christian Andersen
  • Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. ⏤ Peter Hoeg
  • I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. ⏤ Melody Truong
  • Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ⏤ Gustave Flaubert
  • Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ⏤ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 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
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ⏤ Andre Gide

Adios Amigos

I know this was a quick post but I sincerely hope you’ve loved the quotes. Do tell me how can I improve this post, share your thoughts. Also, which one is your favorite travel quote? Huh?

By the way, we post a travel quote every 2 days after on Instagram and Twitter, check us out. If you love quotes, you should follow us for regular updates like these.

Vipin Gaur

Vipin is a techie, traveler, and entrepreneur. He has done engineering in computer science and is an Apple Fan Boy. He is behind all the tech and content management of this website. Often, he shares his entrepreneurial learnings and thoughts on his Twitter .

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The 86 most inspirational travel proverbs

By: Author Sylvia

Posted on Last updated: August 22, 2022

Are you looking for the most inspirational travel proverbs? You came to the right place.

Quotes and images are extremely powerful. They can inspire you to make a change in your life. 

In this blog post, you will find a collection of the 86 best travel proverbs to inspire and motivate you to pack your bags and go out and discover.

The quotes range from age-old pearls of wisdom to contemporary quotes.

We also included some best wishes for traveling abroad. Let yourself be inspired by these proverbs about traveling to lead life, experience adventures, and do the trips that you always dreamt of.

The most inspirational travel quotes 

1. “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, 2. “the traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – g.k. chesterton.

Who are you a traveler or a tourist? I guess we are a bit of both. On the one hand, we are absolutely tourists because when we are traveling somewhere we absolutely want to see the highlights. On the other hand, we’re open to discover new things and to gain experiences that you do not find in a travel guide. So, in a certain sense, we’re both a traveler and a tourist.

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

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I think many people would like this and perhaps it is not a bad idea since traveling is really a sort of therapy for us and maybe for you too.

When we have a lot of stress or we feel bad we should pack our bags and go traveling. We always return as reborn.  Unfortunately, this is not always possible, but that would of course change as soon as it is reimbursed by the insurance. Maybe we should start a petition. Who is in?

4. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”

Sometimes it’s is really hard to overcome the fear, but in general, we prefer to feel the fear and do it anyway than to regret something. 

I must keep this quote in mind when Kris wants to go parasailing again😏.

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

In this area, we are a contrarian couple. For some reason, Kris usually takes more clothes on a trip than I do. I’m the one who only takes half the clothes but usually one week in our trip I will start complaining that I’m missing clothes…😏

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

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7. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”

This adventure travel quote applies mainly to me. I am a person who gets bored very quickly and always has to get new challenges. So please, give me a new adventure and a new destination every day. The experiences are sometimes disappointing but even then it is still much more fun to do something new every day opposed to just doing nothing or doing the same thing over and over again for days, weeks or even years.

8. “Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”  – Franz Kafka

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9.  “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

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10. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”– Babs Hoffman

Sometimes you let yourself be distracted by small setbacks or worry about small things. We also did this when we were traveling in India because of the many scamming practices.

We felt like we were a walking ATM and we were annoyed because we got the impression we couldn’t trust anyone.

Obviously, this wasn’t much fun, but we did see beautiful palaces, monuments, and even a tiger.

It was not always easy, but we did our best to enjoy the trip and let the scamming practices as much as possible go over us.

11. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

Traveling does indeed ensure that the feeling of monotony disappears and when we have a new journey ahead and arrive at a new place, a feeling of excitement and expectation comes to the surface.

For us,  it is the best medicine against boredom and monotony.

12. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

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13. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”

Until a year ago this was the exact description of the life of myself and my husband.

We both worked full time and saved most of our money to do one long holiday of 3 weeks and a city trip of a few days.

Then we started working again for the rest of the year and repeated this process the following year.

We did this for about 15 years before we decided to change our lives and go completely for our passion. As you can guess that is traveling. This travel blog is the result.

14. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

In some places, such as Vancouver and Lisbon, we immediately felt at home. Other places such as China and India were much more fascinating but it was not always easy to travel around.

Afterward, however, we look back on all our trips with satisfaction. We keep good memories of every trip we did.

15. “Travel, your money will return, your time won’t.”

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We often tend to forget this ourselves, but time is actually one of the most precious possessions we have in this world. After all, the time that passes will never return. The following travel proverb also fits nicely.

16. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”

This is a proverb that certainly applies to us. For a long time we both worked full time and even though we were not 100% happy, we didn’t change anything about our lives. 

We did as most others do.  Hitting the traffic jam in the morning to head to work and again in the evening to go back home.

After all, we both had a good job. We were stuck in the golden cage and we continued on until Kris got his burnout in 2016. We were then forced to review our choices.

After much thought and a considerable amount of ups and downs, we finally made some drastic changes in our lives.

One of them was the creation of this travel website where we want to inspire you with our journeys around the world.

17. “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

Every new destination brings us excitement and new adventures.

But you have to be open to them. Are you someone who looks at the world with an open mind?

18. “All you need is a passport.”

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19. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost

20. “to travel is to live” –  hans christian andersen.

I fully agree with this travel quote. Especially on a journey where I discover new places,  where I can learn new things and where I meet new people. 

Those are the journeys where I really feel like I’m living.

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

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22. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

Last year, we seriously left our comfort zone and this has brought us a lot of adventure and new things. It is only by leaving your comfort zone and by doing things you are actually a little afraid of that new things come up and you experience new adventures.

For example, I was quite afraid to quit my job and especially to give up a number of so-called securities such as a permanent job, a fixed income, and a company car.

After hesitating for a long time, I finally made the decision.

Now I am very happy that I no longer have to endure the traffic jams every day.  I can now organize my own hours and work on what I love to do.

And even though not every day is puppy dogs and rainbows, we earn less and we work harder than before, yet we are much happier.

And this was only possible because we dared to leave our comfort zone and took a step into the unknown.

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

24. “be brave. take risks. nothing can substitute experience.” – paulo coelho.

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And should something be disappointing, you can still go back. Everything flows, nothing is final. So be brave and take risks. You can not discover new things when you do not dare to let something go.

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

26. “our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – lawrence block, 27. “it is better to travel one mile than to read a thousand books.” – confucius.

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Some people say that they do not need to travel because they can see everything on television, search it on the internet or read it in a book.

For us, television, the internet, and books cannot replace the experience that you have while you are traveling.

A documentary on TV, a video on the internet, travel guides or travel magazines … none of them can give you the feeling that you will experience in a certain place.

We absolutely love doing a lot of research before we head to a new destination, it gets us into the travel mood, but nothing can live up to the real thing.

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

29. “life is short and the world is wide.”, 30. “airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – al gore.

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31. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” -Douglas Ivester

It’s great to have a lot of memories but you shouldn’t get nostalgic. It is those dreams and those big plans for the future that gives you that drive to go on. 

As soon as I get back home I start dreaming and planning towards the next adventure.

32. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust

There is so much to see in this world and our bucket list keeps growing.

That is why we don’t often head to the same destination twice. But even if we do so, we always discover new things.

Or we see things in a different way. And so, time after time, it remains fascinating and educational to travel.

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

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We have been fortunate to have already seen a lot of the world. We saw the cherry blossoms bloom in Tokyo, we set foot on Antarctica, we admired the Taj Mahal, we were lucky to see orangutans in Borneo,   we could check all of  the big five off of our list in South Africa, etc.

Nevertheless, our bucket list keeps growing.

Since a long time I dream of doing a sledding trip in Lapland, we would love to go gorilla spotting in Africa, do a road trip through Australia and New Zealand, admire the Northern Lights, stay in a luxury tent camp in the desert, stay overnight in an ice hotel etc.

Our list keeps growing. 

We will not be ready with our bucket list in the coming years so you will be able to keep track of our travel adventures for a long time.

34. “Travel your way”

This is our personal motto and also the tagline of our blog.

We absolutely don’t like organized trips and you will never see us on a group trip (or it should be that this would be the only option to visit a specific place).

We find it fantastic to travel around independently and to organize our own itinerary. We spend quite some time on this but figuring out everything in advance is already part of the fun.

Afterward, we share our travel tips and itineraries on this blog.  We hope they will inspire you and help you to “travel your way”.

35. “The world is our playground.”

36. “go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”.

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We can not say it better: go out and discover the world. There is so much to see and to experience that you will not have enough time.

37. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” -Paul Brandt

One of my favorite activities on a Sunday morning is to browse through travel guides while enjoying a nice cup of coffee.

I dream away when I read about all those fantastic destinations and adventures.  Places we haven’t been yet and activities we haven’t experienced yet…

That’s how these things ended up on our bucket list:  making a boat tour on the Kerala backwaters, doing a road trip through Iceland, swimming with whale sharks in the Philippines and much more.

38.”We can’t really appreciate home until we leave it.”

39. “like all great travelers, i have seen more than i remember, and remember more than i have seen.” – benjamin disraeli.

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From all our travels we especially remember all the fun experiences.

Like the time when we had to open a crab in a restaurant in Vietnam with tongs full of paint and the time we stumbled into a 5-star hotel in Peru with our backpack after spending 5 hours on a local bus.

We smelled hours in the wind and we were stared at by people wearing a tuxedo, complete with bow tie. We will remember the look at their faces for a long time …

We also have funny memories about the 5 tarantulas that apparently lived in a tree near the entrance of our hotel in the Amazon in Peru.

We passed the tree every day until, during a night walk, our guide with his flashlight showed the fuzzy creatures. From then on we kept a little more distance from the tree …

40. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”–Ray Bradbury

41. “when overseas you learn more about your own country than you do about the place you’re visiting.” – clint borgen.

Because we travel so often, we appreciate Belgium more. For example, we are happy that in Belgium we do not have to show our ticket 30 times when we visit a monument like in India. We are also happy that we can walk outside in the dark without feeling unsafe like in South Africa.

At the same time, we miss the ultra luxurious heated toilets of Japan, the beautiful vast landscape in South America, the bounty islands in Malaysia etc.

Luckily, all these wonderful experiences are just a plane trip away and our new work offers us more freedom than we ever had before.

42. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins

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43. “Travel is the healthiest addiction.”

Traveling is for us definitely an addiction. When we are not planning the next trip, we really get withdrawal symptoms. So it is definitely an addiction. Glad to read that it is a healthy addiction.

44. “ The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.”

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Although we don’t do a lot of sunbathing when we are traveling, I completely agree with this quote. We have so many great memories of our travels that will stay with us forever.

For example, we felt like superstars in China because everyone wanted to take pictures with us, we have great memories of a canoe trip with our parents in Canada and of a beautiful helicopter tour we did on a glacier in Alaska. Our tan has faded,  but even several years later these memories still bring smiles to our faces.

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

46. “no place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”– chuck thompson.

After we had read so many stories about the scams, the filth and the heat we were really afraid to go to India . It was so bad that a few days before we would actually leave, we were really saying how stupid we were to have chosen India as our next destination.  It seemed like we had made the decision in a moment of madness.

After all, it wasn’t so bad. It was certainly hot and sometimes we were seriously annoyed by the pushy Indians but we did not find it any dirtier than in other Asian countries that we have visited before.

Although it is not our favorite destination in the world, it was much better than we had expected and we are happy that we have seen the Taj Mahal, the forts, the Kerala backwaters and, last but not least, as big animal lovers, a tiger.

India has given us unforgettable experiences that will always stay with us and it turned out the experience was much better than what we expected.

47. “I need a six month holiday, twice a year.”

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Fortunately, since we started this travel magazine, we can travel as much as we want without having to ask permission from a boss.

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

 49. “twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.

This is one of my favorite quotes and it has often helped me when I had to take a difficult decision such as quitting my permanent job to start this travel blog.

50. “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

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In the meantime, I quit my job for a while and although I liked it a lot, had super nice colleagues and we now have to work much harder for less money, I have not missed it for a minute.

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

52. “live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – stephen covey, 53. “there’s no way i was born to just pay bills and die.”.

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Within our circle of friends and acquaintances, we also see so many people who do nothing more than sleep, work and eat. And for a long time, I felt that we were on the same treadmill. Even now that we are self-employed, this quote must occasionally remind us that there is much more to life than working and paying the bills.

54.  “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”

We have not dealt with it so drastically, although I would certainly love to live and work for a couple of years abroad.  We will see what the future brings.

55. “Life is a trip. Plan your next vacation.” – Matthew E. Fryer

This is a quote that certainly applies to us. 

Even when we were both still working full time we always planned our vacations well up in advance. 

It gave us peace of mind to know that a next trip was already planned. 

Life was less hard knowing that we had an upcoming vacation that we could look forward to.

Now that we have quit our jobs we have more freedom but we still spend a lot of time working on the site from behind our office desks. 

And more or less the same rule still applies to us. 

When I write this, we have just returned from a month in India and when we got home, we immediately booked tickets for our next destination. Dubai, here we come!

56. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

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You only live once and time passes quickly. 

Still few people dare to dream or dare to go for their dreams.

Dare to take small steps towards your personal dream life and do not let yourself be influenced too much by what your environment or the society expects you to do.

57. “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller

Travel should be mandatory on each school curriculum.

It is by traveling and by coming into contact with other cultures and customs that you learn to see things in a different way.

So I agree completely with David Rockefeller that it formed us as much as our formal school education.

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

I am fortunate that I can travel together with Kris and even though I hear from solo travelers how great it is to travel alone and how many cool and interesting people they meet.

Yet I would not want it any other way. After all, nothing is more fun than to experience unforgettable things such as spotting a tiger or seeing a beautiful sunset together with your partner.

It is always more fun to be able to share experiences with someone else.  It makes the memory for me more beautiful.

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

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

61. “with the right mindset and spirit, only the sky is the limit.”, 62. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”– dalai lama.

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This should not always be a far away destination. Even close to home, you probably have fantastic spots that are worth a visit. Last year we spent a fun family weekend on the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands which are only about a 3-hour drive from our home.

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

Dare to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way. You never know where it will lead you.

64. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

65. “it feels good to be lost in the right direction”.

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66. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins

67. “better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”.

Not everything is as good or as beautiful as we had expected or hoped it to be.

Still, we are always glad to have seen it ourselves so that we could form an opinion of our own.

It is always more fun to have seen something yourself than to hear the stories from someone else.

The next travel proverb below fits in nicely.

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

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69.  “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

70. “ perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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, 71. “blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – lovelle drachman.

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

I regularly have this feeling while we are traveling.

With a beautiful sunset or during wildlife spotting.

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I often have the feeling that we are only tiny radar wheels in this immense and fantastic world!

74. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

And take plenty of pictures.

75. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

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

77. “travel far enough, you meet yourself” – david mitchell, 78. “if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – james michener.

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I personally like this quote a lot. When we are traveling I always taste the local food and often ask for the specialties of the country. Sometimes I’m lucky and I choose something really tasty, other times it is really disappointing.

Once I got ice cream with real peas in China. 

It was recommended to me and apparently Chinese really like it. I tried it, but it was not really my taste. 

I will never order it again but I’m happy I tried it.

79. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous 

80. “we travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – ray bradbury, 81. “travel is only glamorous in retrospect” – paul theroux.

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During your trip, you often experience less blissful moments. After a long flight, you often suffer from a jet lag during the first days.

You drag yourself to the tourist sights during the day and at night you can count at least 20 times the number of squares in the wallpaper. Sometimes the other cultures are so shocking and so stifling that you long for home.

A complete guide to the Azores.

We have seen people suffer from altitude sickness and side effects of malaria pills. It is not all puppies and sunshine. But you do not see that in the pictures, of course.

These deprivations are fortunately quickly forgotten and the positive memories of a trip stay longer.

But traveling is indeed really glamorous when you think about it afterward while admiring the photos from your couch in the living room.

82. “When in doubt, travel.”

When I have to make a difficult decision or I doubt about something, traveling certainly helps me to take a step back, relax and see things from a different perspective.

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

 84. “ travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind ” – marty rubin.

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85. “ 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

And that’s probably why our bucket list keeps growing and growing …

86. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

We hope that these holiday quotes and proverbs about travel have inspired you to travel and to discover this amazing world in which we live.

Traveling has changed our lives and we are convinced that it can also change yours. So book that ticket and go out because within 20 years you will be sorrier for the things you did not do, than for the things you did.

What’s your next destination?

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Most Inspirational Travel Quotes

Travel quotes are there to express the feeling you experienced while traveling. Combine the best travel quotes with the power of an image and instantly let people have a taste of your travel feelings. This collection of travel quotes is made to inspire and motivate you and others to pack your bags and go explore! Or simply to add as a travel caption under your brand new Instagram post or to pin to your Pinterest . Also read our adventure quotes to spark your wanderlust !

Top 50 Best Travel Quotes

1. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” 2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” 3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

5. “Travel is my therapy. ” – Travel Quote

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6. “ In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take ” In 2017, we took an exciting and scary step. We decided to turn our travel blog from a hobby into our full-time job. We would’ve had so much regret if we didn’t take this opportunity. Now, each of these travel quotes fit the stories we’ve made.

Also read:   45 Epic Adventure Quotes that spark your Wanderlust!

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7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” 8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” 9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

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11. “Life is short, and the world is wide.” 12. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” 13. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” 14. “Sandy Toes sunkissed nose.”

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15. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. ”

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16. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” 17. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” 18. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” 19. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

20. “Adventures are the best way to learn.”

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21. “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.” 22. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” 23. “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” 24. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Popular Travel Quote

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26. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” 27. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” 28. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” 29. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

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

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31. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” 32. “At the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” 33. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” 34. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

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

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36. “Always take the scenic road.” 37. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” 38. “Go where you feel most alive.”

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39. “I want to make memories all over the world” Every destination you’ll visit leaves its own unique memory. Our travels through Sri Lanka , Myanmar , or Petra in Jordan already give us goosebumps. As this travel quote says: Make memories all over the world!

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40. “Travel is the healthiest addiction ”

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40. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” 41. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” 43. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going. Are you coming with me?” 44. “Let’s get lost.”

45. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”

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46. “Beach please.” 47. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” 48. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” 49. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”

50. “Ocean air, salty hair.”

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Now you know our favorite travel quotes, what will you be using them for? You can use these quotes for many purposes.

  • Are you gifting your friend a birthday or Christmas travel gift ? Write one of these travel quotes on a note to add to your gift to him or her.
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  • Use these quotes to satisfy your travel cravings and feed your wanderlust!

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101 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

Travel quotes inspire me to remember why it was all worth it it in the first place.

Travel can seem like this glamorous adventure filled with perfect Kodak moments without a care in the world.

Any real traveler knows that this could not be further from the truth.

Traveling involves money, planning, creativity, energy, and a willingness to be uncomfortable.

To be a clean slate and allow the realities of the world to teach you something you cannot learn in a book.

I hope that these travel quotes inspire your wanderlust, and ignite your passion to see the world.

I scoured the internet and handpicked 101 travel quotes that spoke to me the most!

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  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
  • “ Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
  • “ Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”  –Unknown
  • “ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustav Flaubert
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
  • “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett
  • “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
  • “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
  • “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • “Paris is always a good idea.” ―  Audrey Hepburn
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller
  • “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
  • “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
  • “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― Agustine of Hippo
  • “A person susceptible to “ wanderlust ” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
  • “Now more than ever do I realize 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
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “ Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

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  • “The journey is the destination.” ― Dan Eldon
  • “ Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
  • “Oh the places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
  • “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd
  • “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
  • “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― K. Chesterton
  • “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
  • “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “ Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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  • “But that’s the glory of foreign travel , as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” ― Bill Bryson
  • “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
  • “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
  • “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
  • “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
  • “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
  • “The journey itself is my home.” ― Matsuo Basho
  • “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.” ― Anthony Bourdain

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  • “Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” ― Thor Heyerdahl
  • “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel , change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” ― Kenneth Grahame
  • “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” ― Jodi Picoult
  • “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” ― Tahir Shah
  • “Most travel , and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.” ― Paul Theroux
  • “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.” ― Elizabeth Bishop
  • “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” ― Pico Iyer
  • “You thought too hard. Same with travel . You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” ― Gayle Forman
  • “The best traveler is one without a camera.” ― Kamand Kojouri

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  • “He who would travel happily must travel light.”  ― Antoine de St. Exupery
  • One’s destination is never a place. It’s a new way of seeing things. ― Henry Miller
  • You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. ― Dr. Suess
  • There’s the whole world at your feet. ― Mary Poppins
  • “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
  • “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” ― Henry David Thoreau
  • “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” ― Agnes Repplier
  • “We travel , some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
  • “ Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

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  • “ Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
  • “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”  ― Saint Augustine
  • “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
  • “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by”  — Robert Frost
  • “The best education I have ever received was through travel .” ― Lisa Ling
  • “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

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  • “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.”  — Hilaire Belloc
  • “I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.”  —  Karamo Brown
  • “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
  • “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
  • “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled .” – Mohammed
  • “Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” ―  Hypatia
  • “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
  • “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
  • “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

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  • “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
  • “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” ― Chris Humphrey
  • “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ― Rachel Wolchin
  • “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”  ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ― Matthew Karsten
  • “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
  • “Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it’s actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.” ― Meghan Markle
  • “ Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
  • “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”  – Caroline Myss

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  • “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
  • “ Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”  – Paulo Coelho
  • “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
  • “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
  • “There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel . I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.” ― Emilio Estevez
  • “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
  • “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”  – Unknown
  • “Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.”  ― Anthony Bourdain
  • Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.” ― Virginia Postrel
  • “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” ― Unknown
  • “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”  ― Ray Bradbury
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What a wonderful list of quotes! My favorite is probably the first one!

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As a fellow world traveler, I simply adore travel quotes! Thank you for posting!! 🙂

You’re very welcome!

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Great quotes! I am saving this for later!

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I just love your blog! Your picture with the elephants made me smile!! This post really makes you think about traveling; the quotes from so many travelers! loved it!!

Wow thank you for your very kind words!

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I liked, “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” My fiance and I are new full-time RVers who are hoping to embrace the travel life without having to worry about a 9-5 office job.

Wow, that’s very exciting!

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Jennifer Morrison

I agree with the Hans Christian Andersen quote! Sadly, I put myself on a travel moratorium for two years. UGH. But, it is going to mean Italy in 2020, so it is totally worth it!

I can’t wait to go to Italy one day. I’m excited for you!

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So many beautiful words and so many places to see!

Thank you for visiting!

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I love quotes and I love travel, so this post is perfect! I can’t wait for my next big trip.

Thank you so much!

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Tricia Snow

I never knew there were so many travel quotes! Thank you for sharing!

You’re welcome!

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Traveling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer!! 100% agree. We try to be frugal to save for our kids and retirement but spend money every year on vacation. Great to see other cultures, relax, and try new foods.

A good vacation, when done right, can be priceless!

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Your post makes me want to leave for a trip right now! Soon very soon.

I highly encourage it!

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OH MY GOODNESS! What a great list! I love this blog! I am a wanderlust! will be coming back to these quotes on a regular basis!

Thank you so much! I would love if you came back 🙂

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These are so great! There are so many that I loved!

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Kathryn at QuestFor47

Well now I just want to pack my bags and get out there! Too bad I have to be at work in a couple hours! Thanks for sharing!

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Tonya @ the Writer Mom

That’s a lot of travel quotes! Very inspiring.

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Kathy Phillips

I love these quotes. Especially the one about seeing things and people with new eyes. That is so true.

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Great list! This must have taken you a while to compile!

Thanks! And yes, it took me 2 or 3 days!

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Clarissa Miller

All of these quotes are so inspiring! Now I want to take a trip!

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Arianny Rodriguez

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” is my favorite!

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I love all of these quotes! I especially love the I e that says travelling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer 🙂

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Im always looking for new quotes for my IG Page. Thanks so much.

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What an amazing list of fantastic quotes!!! I love the one about travel instilling a sense of modesty because it shows us the tiny place we occupy in this world. Sooo true.

I love that one too!

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I love the quote that says that the road will always be there, you have to choose to take it. It reminds me of Glinda the good witch in the Wizard of Oz, when she tells Dorothy that she’s always had the power. It is within us.

That’s a great comparison!

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Love these quotes! I travel to experience new adventures. Travel for sake of traveling sounds like me.

Thanks for visiting!

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Where is your next destination, Dominique?

Hopefully, I’ll be traveling to Italy, France, and England next month!

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Short quotes about travel are the easiest way to get travel inspiration since they pack a lot of meaning into very few words. Sometimes, all you need is a short and sweet simple travel quote to start thinking about your next adventure.

This collection of short travel sayings has something for just about every travel lover. You’ll find some of the best short travel phrases , of course, but I’ve also included some short travel quotes with friends , short travel quotes for couples , short adventure quotes , and more. Get ready to be inspired by these incredible short travel quotes !

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As you’re reading through this list of short vacation quotes , don’t forget to save your favorites and share them with your friends and family to pass the inspiration along. If you’re interested in checking out some longer travel sayings, our collection of the top 100 quotes about travel has exactly what you’re looking for .

Best Short Travel Quotes

The best short quotes on travel exemplify the idea of quality over quantity: you’ll get tons of inspiration from just a few words!

1. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage

As this short holiday quote points out, you don’t have to be rich to travel. You can have a fantastic trip on a budget as long as you’re brave enough to get out there!

2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment

This short travel saying is a fantastic reminder of how impactful exploring can be on our lives.

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination

This simple travel quote shows that attitude is everything. The way we approach life, especially when it comes to travel, can make the difference between having a decent trip and having the trip of a lifetime.

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

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret

These wise words from the famous Irish writer are the perfect inspiration for an adventure. Ready to start planning your next getaway?

5. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer

As this quick trip quote wisely points out, travel enriches our lives in many ways: culturally, gastronomically, emotionally, and more.

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

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls

This adventure short quote reminds us that we travel for many different reasons. Whether you travel because you’re curious about the world or because you want to find yourself, any and all travel reasons are valid!

7. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.” – Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote

Anyone who loves travel will relate to this wanderlust short travel quote . I know we do!

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

To travel is to live

This short quote on travel is simple but effective: travel really is a key part of truly living life to its fullest.

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

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page

This famous short travel saying is well-known for a reason. The metaphor of the world being a book works so well for expressing the idea that travel expands our minds.

10. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb

Don’t listen to what they say. Go see

This short travel caption provides the ultimate travel inspiration. It’s great to hear other people’s travel stories, but if you’re curious about what’s out there, why not go see it for yourself ?

Short Adventure Quotes

These incredible adventure quotes will inspire you to see the world and keep exploring!

11. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you

This short travel saying reminds us that we don’t always need to go looking for adventure to find it.

12. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within

As this short travel quote argues, we all have the spirit of adventure within us. We just have to embrace it!

13. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure

This short vacation quote makes it clear that a positive attitude can turn a mishap into a grand adventure. Try it the next time you’re traveling!

14. “Adventure is out there!” – Up

Adventure is out there!

This short and simple travel quote from the beloved Pixar movie is the perfect inspiration for your next big getaway. Go find that adventure!

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

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet

This short adventure saying will resonate if you feel like exploring is in your DNA.

16. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” – Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure

This short trip quote encourages us to see adventure as an important part of being alive. Maybe, deep down, we’re all explorers.

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

Oh, the places you’ll go

As this famous short quote about travel reminds us, it’s so exciting that there are tons of amazing places in the world to see. Why not get started on seeing them all?

18. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be – then adventures should be a top priority.” – Richard Branson

If happiness is the goal – and it should be – then adventures should be a top priority

This simple travel quote has one basic message: adventures equal happiness. If you have an incurable case of wanderlust, this saying will probably resonate with you.

19. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong

Travel can be crucial for helping us understand more about ourselves. Let your adventures be your guide!

20. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul

As this life is short travel quote shows, adventures fulfill us in ways that money simply cannot.

Short Solo Travel Quotes

If you’re planning a solo adventure and need some motivation, these short travel alone quotes are just what you need!

21. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone

If you’re a frequent solo traveler, you’ll probably relate to the idea that places seem more beautiful when you’re by yourself. After all, solo travel gives you the chance to fully appreciate the sights around you.

22. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice

I love this short vacation quote because I really relate to it. To me, travel is absolutely priceless and always worth it.

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

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list

As this travel short caption points out, sometimes travel has to get put on the back burner, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop dreaming about or planning where we’ll go next!

24. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine

Anyone who likes to stay in motion and keep exploring will relate to this short quote about adventure . Routines definitely aren’t for everyone!

25. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself

This short quote on travel is all about discovering the beauty of the world for ourselves.

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

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world

As this short travel phrase shows, travel can and should change us forever. Enjoy the unforgettable memories you make along your journey!

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

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world

This short solo travel quote points out the pleasures of traveling alone, including having a whole bed to yourself!

28. “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends

The best thing about traveling solo is that you can easily make friends along the way. Take the opportunity to spend time with new people so you can turn strangers into friends!

29. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more

This short trip quote reminds us that one huge advantage of traveling alone is the chance to be introspective and think deeply about your trip. It might even be helpful to keep a journal or jot down some notes to keep track of your thoughts.

30. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone

This quick trip caption is a great reminder that not everyone travels well together. The best travel buddy will always be yourself!

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

These short travel quotes for couples will help set the mood for a romantic getaway. After all, love and travel make the perfect pair!

31. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion

This romantic short travel quote makes a great point that traveling with loved ones can turn any place into somewhere that feels like home.

32. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen

If you’ve ever looked at someone and known you were in for a lifetime of adventures together, then this short travel saying is for you. It doesn’t get any better than having a partner who’s also a fantastic travel buddy – take it from us!

33. “A couple who travels together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

A couple who travels together, grow together

Travel is not only an incredible way to achieve personal growth, but also a fantastic way to grow as a couple. Spending day after day together in an unfamiliar place can really bring you closer together.

34. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare

I would not wish any companion in the world but you

Trust one of the world’s most famous poets to have written a beautiful short travel phrase about love. Be sure to share this romantic quote with your travel soulmate!

35. “In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz

In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with

As this short quote for travel reminds us, our travel companions can make all the difference in how we feel about our journey. Traveling with a loved one is sure to make your trip that much more fun!

36. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – An African Proverb

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

This short holiday quote shows that love and support can take us far, both in life and as travelers.

37. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

This short holiday quote is great advice for anyone planning a vacation. Traveling involves spending a lot of time together, so it’s always best to go on a trip with someone you already know you like!

38. “I would go everywhere and anywhere with you.” – Cassandra Clare

I would go everywhere and anywhere with you

This short travel saying perfectly captures the excitement of exploring the world with the person you love.

39. “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman

Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

I love this short trip quote because it’s so beautiful and poetic. These lines would make perfect wedding vows for a travel-loving couple!

40. “It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another.” – Roger Moore

It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another

This simple travel quote is a straightforward expression of the joy and beauty that come from traveling with your partner.

Short Travel Quotes with Friends

Good friends will always have your back, so it makes sense to bring them along on your biggest adventures. These short travel quotes with friends capture all the highs of traveling with your best pals.

41. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles

As this short vacation saying expresses, in addition to the friends you bring with you, you’ll often make friends along the way as you travel.

42. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown

A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you

Share this short trip quote with a best friend you’ll be traveling with soon, and get ready to have the time of your life together!

43. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah

There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with

As this short adventure saying points out, traveling together is a great way to strengthen a friendship and grow even closer. After all, every night will be like a sleepover!

44. “It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.” – Anonymous

It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey

Sometimes, you don’t realize how far you’ve come until you look back and see all the friends you’ve made along the way.

45. “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter

In other words, time flies when you’re having fun! This short travel phrase shows how much joy friends can add to an adventure.

46. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” – Unknown

You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!

This short quote for travel reminds us that good friends will always make a trip better.

47. “Good friends follow you anywhere.” – A.A. Milne

Good friends follow you anywhere

This short travel saying offers some great advice about friendship: quality friends will always support you, no matter what.

48. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – Unknown

Life was meant for great adventures and close friends

This short unique travel quote is all about priorities. If you love going on trips with your closest friends, this saying will definitely resonate with you.

49. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma & Louise

Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas

As this short road trip quote points out, it doesn’t take much to go on an adventure. Grabbing your best friend and hopping in the car is all you need.

50. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face

This short quote about travel offers a beautiful way of looking at the world: seeing everyone as a potential friend rather than as a stranger or enemy.

Short Family Travel Quotes

These short family vacation quotes are just what you need to get the whole family excited for some time away together.

51. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Anonymous

Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them

This short travel quote with family reminds us that traveling is the best way for kids to learn more about the world around them. Exploring is a valuable part of any child’s education.

52. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams

My ideal travel companions are my family

This short, simple travel quote is a very sweet way of expressing your appreciation for traveling with family. Share this with your family so they know how much you enjoy exploring together!

53. “Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective

This travel short caption applies not only to family, but also to any traveler looking to expand their worldview.

54. “Travel is not reward for working; it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

Travel is not reward for working; it’s education for living

This iconic quick trip quote shows how travel and learning more about the world can make us all better human beings. Traveling allows us to make the world our classroom.

55. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience

As this short journey quote expresses, children and parents can experience travel a little differently. After all, seeing a place for the very first time is very different from a repeat visit.

56. “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children

This short unique travel quote is a great reminder that your kids will cherish the wonderful memories of family vacations.

57. “Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.” – Unknown

Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most

There’s no better feeling than sharing an incredible view or new experience with the people you love the most. Luckily, family vacations are the perfect time to create new memories together.

58. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million

As this short travel caption points out, children are so curious and excited about the world around them that anything new will seem wonderful.

59. “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.” – Steve Harvey

A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime

This short trip quote sums up the best reasons to plan a trip as a family.

60. “Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.” – Anonymous

Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love

I love this short vacation quote because it captures the many facets of going on an adventure as a family. The crazy and the loud moments are all part of the fun, too!

I hope these short travel quotes have sparked your wanderlust and gotten you ready to start planning your next trip! Whether you’re a solo traveler who’s just found inspiration or one half of a couple trying to find the perfect caption for a vacation photo, be sure to save and/or share your favorite short unique travel quotes .

Let me know in the comments which short travel sayings resonated with you the most. Happy travels!

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How To Travel For Free : 39 Smart Hacks

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One of the biggest myths out there is that you need to be rich to travel. With these simple but life-changing hacks I’ll show you how to travel without money!

Let’s repeat that.

You do not need to be rich to travel.

In fact, a limited budget is a challenge that often results in funnier travel experiences and stories to tell. After all the best things in life are free… or at least cheap!

Here’s some simple life-changing hacks to travel more often with a smaller budget. Choose a category:  

Tips To Travel With No Money At All (Seriously!) >>

1 free walking tours.

One recent development in Europe is the advent of free walking (or even biking) tours. It’s a great way to get to know the place by the eyes of a local at a minimal cost. In expensive places like Stockholm free tours can be a great way to save money . Plus, you can meet loads of people too!

2 Stay in Hostels For “Free”

Paying with money is so last century. WorldPackers allows you exchange your skills for free accommodation in hostels worldwide.

So instead of paying, you can actually collaborate with your hostel. You can end up improving their website, painting a new wall or even bartending. Just be creative!

3 Seek Out Free Wifi

Finding WiFi abroad is becoming the Holy Grail for travellers nowadays. We all need to communicate, google some essential stuff or post some photos on Facebook to make everyone at home envious.

Start with booking accommodation with WiFi available. It’s convenient to communicate with people back home. While you are outside, mobile apps like WifiMagic make sure you are always grinding the networks nearby.

WWOOOF stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms and is a network of national organizations that accept volunteers on farms around the world.

While you’ll need to get there by yourself, volunteers have a free room and meals. No prior experience required. A great way to combine work and travel on the cheap.

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5 Look For Free Days

A simple yet so powerful tip. Museums and other tourist sights often have free days or discounted days. Before your departure, make sure you look on their website for this info.

In Barcelona for instance almost of all of the major museums are free on Sundays after 3pm. Vatican Museums in Vatican City have free admittance on the last Sunday of the month. And the Museum of Modern Art in New York City has a free entrance on Friday afternoon .

6 CouchSurf

Couchsurfing connects travelers with locals willing to let them stay with them for FREE.

Frequent users of this website never have to pay for accommodation all around the world. While you can’t afford to be picky – you might get an air mattress or a lousy couch – it’s always free!

7 Walk, Walk, Walk

For me nothing beats walking when I’m abroad. It keeps you active while allowing you to fully explore a new place. There’s no better way to get lost in narrow streets, experience the local cafés or talk with locals. Ah did I mention it’s FREE?

8 Get Paid To Be a Travel Mailman

Ever been asked to bring something from a trip? Now you can finally get paid to do it! Grabr is a peer-to-peer shopping and delivery network that connects shoppers and travellers all around the world, generating a win-win situation.

Shoppers get a quirky item from anywhere delivered wherever they want and travellers have an extra way to earn extra money to continue their travels.

It’s literally making money while you travel!

9 Land a Job Abroad

I know, who wants to work while you are on vacation?

But if your desire to wander away is stronger than a desire to build a career, you’ll need a way to fund your next adventures. On the plus side, you’ll be making friends and get a taste of the local culture.

You’ll be surprised by the amount of opportunities out there. WorkAway is a good place to start but there are specific jobs that are very remote-friendly, like for instance being a language tutor. On Preply you can be a paid tutor and give language lessons via Skype. From anywhere.

Here are other short-term jobs that don’t require a fancy background or loads of experience.

Short-Term Jobs Abroad To Make Money While You Travel

  • English Teacher (requires a TEFL degree)
  • Ski Resort Worker
  • Farm Worker (see #4)
  • Local Tour Guide
  • Hostel Worker (see #2)

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10 become flight search savvy online.

Using flight comparison websites like Skyscanner can go a long way to find the absolute best price for your upcoming trip. I always set up their email alerts to let me know whenever there is a good deal.

Hopper goes deeper and gives you insights on the price range of the flight you’re seeking, as well as the expected price evolution until your departure.

I’ve also written a full guide on how to find cheap flights online , full of flight hacks you can start applying today.

Pro Tip to find cheap flights online: Don’t forget to look up flight prices in the anonymous mode of your browser (or delete the cookies/history)!

11 Sleep While Travelling

When travelling a long distance by plane, train or bus, time your journey at night and in order to save a night’s accommodation. You might not get the top of luxury standards, but that one ticket is a “two per one” deal.

12 Use Public Transportation

Whenever the distance is too demanding, I choose to get around using public transports. Not only is cheaper than taxis, it’s a challenging and more authentic way to navigate around a new place.

Bear in mind 24-hour, 3-day or even weekly public transport passes are usually way better value-for-money deals than single tickets.

13 Go On A RoadTrip

I’m a big fan of road trips. I’ve road tripped Portugal a couple of times and my road trip through Croatia was memorable.

Not only a road trip allows you to explore a country at your own pace and rhythm and take more in, it can also be a budget saver in many ways. Journeys, trips and flights can quickly eat your budget.

14 Rent A Bike

Bikes are extremely cost-effective ways of getting around AND you’re keeping yourself active at the same time. After walking, it’s definitely my favourite way to move!

While not all the destinations are suited for this, you can easily explore a city or town for less than 10USD/day in Europe and less than 3USD/day in Asia. I’ve rented a bike for 2USD for an entire day in Ninh Binh, Vietnam !

Some hotels even offer bike rentals included in the room price. I’ll be staying in a Bed & Bike accommodation on my upcoming trip to Chiang Mai .

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15 Be Flexible with Your Flight Dates

This is one of the golden rules to find a cheap flight online .

Flexibility on flight dates, hours and even airports can make you save BIG . Websites like SkyScanner have monthly and yearly overviews which are quite handy for this kind of analysis. Flying on unpopular hours – like early in the morning – also guarantees you a friendlier price.

16 Explore The World Of Rail Passes

If you’re planning to use train a lot on your upcoming trip, booking ahead of time can usually save you loads of money. About half the price to be exact.

However, rail passes are a better option if you don’t want to stick to a fixed schedule. Specially in Europe, these can be a real bargain. EuroRail website has got more info.

17 Learn The Right Tools to Buy Your Flights

Getting a good deal for flights online has a bit of a learning curve and much of it has to do with timings. Start probing prices as early as possible, but aim to buy your flight 10-14 weeks in advance .

For more info on this check my guide on how to find the best time to buy cheap flights and my comprehensive travel hacks to get you the cheapest flight possible to anywhere .

Tips For Lower Accommodation Travel Costs >>

18 try secret hotel rooms.

Secret or mystery hotel rooms are unsold medium-to-luxury hotel rooms and being offered at a reduced price (usually somewhere 20%-50% their usual list price). Hotels use these as an alternative way to get some money for the rooms left empty.

The only catch is you don’t know before hand which hotel are you booking your room. Weeeeell, technically there are some tricks you can use to find which hotel are you likely to be booking.

Curious? Check my full guide to find secret hotel rooms .

19 House Sit

Not familiar with the concept? House sitting allows you to “take care” of the house of someone else when the owner is away. This basically means free accommodation worldwide!

The bad news is that on the large house-sitting websites like Trusted House Sitters you’ll need to pay before you are able to contact the homeowners. Still, the membership fee is a small fraction of what you can potentially save in accommodation around the world!

20 Deal Directly With The Hotel

Websites like Booking have great accommodation deals but sometimes the best way is to go back to basics.

Call or email the hotel, hostel or guesthouse and ask about rates on their rooms. You might get surprised with special deals there are not online anywhere.

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21 visit local markets.

Market places are usually a great place to take a pulse on the vibe and energy of your destination. For instance, you can get crazy cheap deals while shopping in the street markets in Bangkok . Additionally, it’s home to some of the best places to eat authentic local food without spending too much.

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22 Avoid Having Dinner Out

Restaurants often raise prices for dinner and have their best deals during the day. There is a reason why lunch special menus are so popular. You can eat the same (or more) for a fraction of the cost you’d pay during the evening.

Brunches are also great options as they merge two meals – breakfast and lunch – in only one bill.

23 Hit The Buffets

Keep your eyes open for all-you-can-eat buffets. They offer an unlimited amount of food for a decent cost, to say the least. Hitting a few of these places on your trip is a smart way to keep both your belly and your wallet full.

Pro Tip: If you are on hardcore budget, make yourself some sneaky sandwiches and save them for later.

24 Cook Your Meals

While there is the obvious downside of eating out and missing on the local food experience, you won’t ruin your trip to London if you decide not to eat out one day!

Cooking your own meals can be a true budget-saver, particularly in the most expensive destinations. Aim to stay at an apartment – via AirBnb – with free use of the kitchen. Oh and here’s FREE 35USD to get you started .

25 Avoid Touristy Places To Eat

Cafés and restaurants near the top tourist attractions are often overpriced and not good quality. You might end up paying more for something that is not authentic at all.

Sometimes all it takes is to go one block or street over to find hole-in-the-wall places in which you can have much better local meal tucked away from crowds.

Rome is a good example. In a city which such a rich food culture, it would be a crime if you sit to eat in the first trattoria next to the Colosseum . Explore the nearby side streets or go to Trastevere to find cheaper food and avoid tourist traps.

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26 Indulge On Street Food

Street food can be delicious, cheap and against all odds, safe! You can actually see what’s being cooked fresh right in front of you. Pay attention to the busiest street food stalls where locals eat or just try asking someone local where do they go.

An example of a country where you should definitely try street food is Belgium . Belgian street food is cheap, delicious and highly caloric. Oh lord, I’ll never forget those frites !

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27 use reviews in your favour.

Reviews, reviews, reviews. We live in a world of reviews. With this crazy amount of information online, make sure you use it to make smart travel choices.

Apps/websites like TripAdvisor and Yelp are absolute great ways to learn about experiences of other independent travellers and locals on hotels, sights and restaurants. While online reviews have reached the point you can’t trust everything you read, as a whole they’re still useful to make well-founded decisions on your travels.

28 Avoid Roaming Fees

Try to rely on apps that allow VoIP communications like Skype or Whatsapp and if you are an iPhone user, make sure your “Send as SMS” option is disabled. Buying a local or international SIM card might also be an option.

For more details check my complete guide on how to stay online abroad .

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29 Save On International Transfers

Sending money overseas can do some A LOT of damage to your bank account. That’s why you need to consider to use a cost-efficient option like HiFX . It allows to send money internationally from one currency to another at great foreign exchange rates and minimal fees.

30 Use The Right Apps

Even if you are not a geek like me or you like to travel “off-the-grid”, some travel resources out there are able to save you money just with a couple of taps on your phone!

Here is a small shortlist of the apps you should have installed on your phone.

List Of Must-Have Apps For Budget Travellers

  • Airbnb – Everything from minimalistic rooms to luxury suites, rented directly to the owner. Can be a huge money-saver. Plus, here’s a 37$ voucher to get you started!
  • Yelp – To find out the best nearby restaurants, cafés and other places. Filter by price to get budget deals.
  • Hopper – Amazingly detailed insights about price flights.
  • Whatsapp – Stay in touch with your friends and family by text messages… for free. For voice calls I prefer FaceTime or Skype .
  • Booking – Simply the best to find cheap hotels and hostels.
  • SkyScanner – Great search engine to find the cheapest flights anywhere.
  • XE Currency Converter – Don’t lose money when exchanging money!
  • Splitwise – Keeping track of trip expenses when you travel in a group can be a nightmare, right? Well, not anymore.

Also don’t forget to check my full list of resources to make you travel smarter .

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31 educate yourself on your next destination.

Even if you’re not the planning type, some research is advisable. Get savvy on the price of things, exchange rates and tours. Learn the best way to get around and the cheapest areas to stay and to eat. This will make it much easier to budget your trip. A good guidebook could be of great help in this planning phase.

32 Use Credit Card Rewards To Get Free Flights

I usually don’t like to give out this tip.

Firstly, I’m far from being an expert on credit card rewards. I could be doing a much better job, but for some reason it just seems too complex . It’s even harder to get advice on how to get airline miles on european credit cards.

Having that said, educating yourself about credit card reward schemes is a good bet. Get it right and you could be having free (!) flights frequently without spending almost any extra money!

I recommend you start learning with the experts I’ve got bookmarked on my favourites: The Points Guy and Flyer Talk .

33 Avoid Expensive Countries

I know, this one is pretty obvious. But I often know people who get surprised by the costs of food and accommodation in some countries so I feel it should be on the list. Even though expensive places like Stockholm can be travel hacked and visited on a budget, there are way wiser options.

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Angola , Japan , Iceland and Qatar are also amongst the most expensive in the world.

Do some research, plan your trip accordingly and spend more time in budget-friendly countries. Most of the countries in Southeast Asia , Africa and Eastern Europe are affordable.

34 Keep Track Of Your Expenses

This is key. Take note of your expenses abroad in a notebook, a memo on your phone or in an app. I usually do this once a day, when arrive the hotel at night. Yes, sometimes is utterly boring, but it creates more awareness than you think. It’s way easier to keep on budget if you visualize where your money is going.

35 Travel Off Season

Traveling off-peak season is one giant step to make your travel costs go down instantly. Flight prices in high season can be the double as compared to peak summer dates, not to mention the combined price of accommodation, restaurants and guided tours which will likely be inflated too.

Timing your trip to target shoulder season – when crowds are far from massive and weather is still acceptable – to save you loads of money.

36 Buy Travel Insurance

I know, it seems another drain on your money, but travel insurance is essential. You never know what can happen. And if you’re not insured in a foreign country, it could end up with a bill of hundreds of dollars!

Get a quote from the simple & flexible World Nomad’s travel insurance .

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37 Follow The Disaster

While the rest of the world rules out destinations because of political issues or natural disasters, it’s your time to enter in scene. Right after one of these events, flight prices and accommodation are at a fraction of what they normally cost.

This period of grace can last anywhere from a few days to years. If you are smart about it, you can save loads of money!

38 Be Careful With Exchange Rates

You should try to take a good amount of money at a good rate even before the departure. Additionally, this helps budget your total spend.

When you’re abroad, use the rule of 3: always check three places before exchanging money to get the best deal. Usually airports and withdrawing money directly from ATMs are a bad choice.

Like mentioned in #30, XE Currency can be of great value.

Obviously this can only be done in some countries, but if you train yourself at it, you can save a respectable amount of money in each purchase. In places like Thailand and Indonesia , take the initial price as a suggestion only, even if it is advertised.

Check out this guide to haggling by Rick Steves .

Haggling pro tip: As a rule of thumb, try to pay less than 50% of the initial price.

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Travel Without Money Is Not A Bad Thing!

Watching what you spend by any means does not mean less fun. In fact, it’s often the opposite. To travel without (almost any) money you need to do is to do smart choices!

Like everything in life, balance is key .

Now that you’ve saved literally hundreds and hundreds of dollars, loosen up a bit. Use your savings and splurge on that amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience that is both an unmissable opportunity and something normally out of your price range. Allow yourself some treats.

Help me find the tip #40! What is your biggest budget secret to travel without money and to lower your travel costs?

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My dream travel to Australia but I am so poor man but I trust in Jesus my dreams fulfill Jesus Christ

AirBnb is an incredibly expensive option in comparison with the cheapest hostels. It shouldn’t even be mentioned on budget travel guides. Avoid AirBnb. Even the cheapest Hotels in town are cheaper than AirBnb.

In general I agree. However, in some cases might be worth it. A family of 5 or 6 or even a group of friends can save a lot in Airbnb vs a group of friends.

I want to travel all world by road in low budget by hitchhiking

That’s a great way to explore the world, makes you efficient Dinesh

Thank you for all the great tips. This was really informative. I haven’t begun to travel abroad yet, but I hope to make great use of this knowledge some day!

i really need to go to usa

Worldpackers is truly a wonderful idea, informative and helpful post!

In some places, you can pick up buckets of mussels and crabs from the beach, when the sea turns to low tide. France and Zealand (Holland) surely have someplaces where this is possible (not Always legal)

Interesting, never heard of this, but sourcing our own food is an appealing idea 🙂

In Belgium, you can use the site “wattedoen.be” which mentions all flea markets and garage sales. Sometimes they sell very cheap second hand bikes. There is a big variation in prices andquality. Let’s say it must be possible to find a 30 € bike, sometimes cheaper, but there are also more expensive options. I wonder if they have similar websites in other countries. You can travel some time with a bike, sell it again, hitchhike further, and do the same thing again.

Obviously there are flea markets everywhere, but this site aggregating all this info I’ve never heard before. Very smart idea if you’re traveling slow!

Sleep in caves

Wow, that’s extreme but I guess extremely budget-saving!

Go to big gathering, such as the Köllner Lichte, water bottles and beer bottles are thrown away in huge masse, while there is consignation on it. This means super markets have to refund you for the empty bottles. Used to live a long time in Belgium from the money I receiverd for thrown away bottles, also hired a garden in which I planted fruits and veggies.

Seems like you are a real resourceful guy, I love it!

1 cycle 2 look for free expensive camping gear at festivals, the day after, lots of stuff left behind 3 in Europe there are also cheap bus companies, which have an alternative for global rail passes, euro lines offers an alternative pass, and flixbus offers a five city trip for 99 € 4 try to cook with the fruits of the trees, you can bake apples in the pan as a garniture for bread, you might even make some simple capati’s on a beer can stove or beignets. Rosehips are very common in plantation, but no one uses fresh rosehips, only dried tea 5 go to Ikea, in Belgium they offer a cold breakfast (2 sandwiches, marmelade, cheese, butter, coffee unlimited) for 1 €. They also offer the veggie Swedish balls with cranberries and mashed potatoes/rice/fries for 4 € (in expensive countries, they are surely a cheaper alternative)

6 write down your travel experiences and take some pics, make small booklets of it, and sell them in cities all over the world

7 For the time you stay home, grow your own groceries, fill your fridge with self cooked soups, curries, pasta, burgers. In Belgium you Always find nuts, chestnuts, hazlenuts as ingredients

8 A lot of cities have some social projects where you offen can buy a jersey for 1 € or something similar. Flee markets and garage sells sometimes also offer spectacular things

9 In Europe, try the camino to Santiago De Compostella. It’s a pilgrim route, people of the road often offer free accomodation

10 Also monestaries might provide you temporarily with shelter in exchange of a helping hand

Awesome, thank you so much for sharing so many peachy tips!

Adding to 10. Temples in Asia also do the same!

That was a great guide to travel with save alot money. I like it.

This was really informative. Learnt a lot of useful tips for travelling which i didnt know.

Glad to know Athira!

This is so informative. I am lookinf forward to trying wwoofing on my next trip. I came across something similar to wwoofing on a platform called Hippohelp. Have you ever tried it?

I’ve never tried it, but seems indeed very similar.

It was a wonderful article I did not think that traveling without money would be possible.

It is, just need to be a little creative 😉

Thank you Wendel!

its a really nice love this post

Its really amazing tips to travel for free… i’m just going to do all these things ..you have described here..But you just missed one thing called “HITCHHER” ..

sry HITCHHIKER

True, could be #40! 🙂

Thank you! this is really inspiring post.

Bruno, I must say you are creative person and you have analytic approach. I love these ways of traveling without money, One can save money by implementing these tips when traveling with a lot of fun.

Thank you. For sure! No need to compromise fun just because of your travel budget!

Make friends with foreigners. We have met some great people and visited their homes. Everyone wants to come to England and they are happy to reciprocate visits.

That’s probably the best tip of them all!

Tip #40 Bring a small tent and sleeping bag and utilize campgrounds. They always have bathroom and shower facilities plus a place to wash up dishes. They often have a communal kitchen to use. Our family of 6 has traveled all over utilizing camp grounds. As an added bonus, you are often the only Americans there and can mingle with locals on holiday.

Thanks for the fun tips!

That’s a great idea. To be honest I don’t usually use campgrounds, but they really be a money-saver!

Excellent resource, one of the best I’ve found so far and you’ve sited some great apps and services I’d never heard of before. Here’s an idea for #40.. organised charity events? There a plenty of great causes people can raise money for and they get to see the world.

Happy to know you liked it! That is a really good idea, more and more charity events involve some kind of travel!

Very good list! Help a lot, really. On workaway, will we get salary, or is it just free accommodication? Have you try it? Obrigado!

Glad you found it useful!

In WorkAway, I don’t think you can find payed gigs, you offer hours of volunteering in exchange of food and accommodation.

Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever read a post with SO many useful tips! Thanks a lot, seriously! I didn’t know a good half of the links you provided here!

Thanks, glad they’re useful for your travels!

Would like to propose combining two of the point together – dealing directly with hotels + saving on international money transfers. If you are going to stay for a longer period of time it’s best to secure payment with a credit or debit card, but pay de facto via bank transfer. Combo money saver.

This is great, never thought of merging these two. Thanks for sharing!

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How to Travel the World With (Almost) No Money

If there’s one thing that continues to surprise me on my globe-trotting journey, it’s the reactions I get from others when I give them a peek at my bio.

I’ve been asked if I am the son of some rock star or hedge fund manager – living abroad under a false identity, of course – or if I’m a trust fund kid living out an extended gap year, or a million of other things. ‎

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The truth is, as the adage goes, less glamorous than fiction.

Or is it? What if I told you that what I do, living as a nomad, country-hopping for a living, is something that nearly anyone can accomplish, and that money is not the defining barrier between those who dream and those who do?

What if I went even further and told you that you can actually travel the world (almost) for free?

Well, that’s just what this guide will be about. I am going to share with you some tips, strategies, and valuable experience I’ve learned on how to travel without money.

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Before you go…

Before I send you off on your glorious journey, here are a few things to consider.

I’m by no means trying to be a killjoy (those who know me would know I am anything but), but sometimes you need to be able to sit down and think things through rationally.

Assess your savings

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This is something you’d best do before you head out in the first place. After all, the vast majority of the people who will be reading this will be complete newcomers to backpacking around the world with no (or little) money.

That’s great! Believe it or not, but time, not wealth, can often be your greatest advantage. It allows you to plan ahead and calmly put things together before you dive in.

Before you embark on your journey (which might just become your new life), put together all your savings and everything you own. Count it up, make a list, do everything that helps you get an overview.

Of course, if you don’t really own so many possessions, that only makes it easier to keep everything accounted for.

The idea here is twofold. One, you want to make sure of which things to take and which to leave behind. Whether in the form of physical belongings or financial liabilities, there are probably quite a lot of things you could let go of to rid yourself of unnecessary stress while traveling.

Secondly, it helps you get an idea of how prepared you are to truly make it out there. Make no mistake, this guide is made to help you understand how to travel the world without money.

Still, you can’t deny having some in your pocket anyway could make life easier, right? So sit down, add everything together, and follow your gut to place yourself somewhere on the great risk-reward scale.

There’s no real right or wrong here; it’s all about how far you’re willing to go beyond your existing comfort zone.

Minimize the risks

Get travel insurance

Seeing the world without money comes with certain risks, legal, physical, and otherwise.

I believe that it is up to each of us to decide what we’re comfortable with, and what we’re willing to lose. Think about it: the expensive ways of traveling the world don’t exist for no reason!

Still, I also believe at the same time that most of us can find a happy zone somewhere in between a five-star, four-figure-a-night trip to the Galapagos and an illegal train-surfing escapade through Siberia.

As much as it’s all about risk assessment and finding (and maybe moving a bit beyond) your comfort zone, traveling the world like a true nomad is also about, dare I say, not acting stupid.

Recognize the real value of travel insurance like Safetywing , and invest in at least a bare minimum level of fallback security should something go wrong! As I already talked about above, additional savings can never hurt either.

Downgrade and embrace frugality

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This one is not a thing that you can do to travel the world for free. It’s a thing that you can not do , and in fact should not do .

Let me explain. For many of us, particularly those raised in the West, a certain kind of (compared to the rest of the world) hyper-consumption and lavish spending on goods and services is taken for granted.

We make money to take out loans on things we can’t afford, and then we strive to make even more and more just to pay off those loans a bit sooner, while taking out new loans for even shinier things, all in a race to outdo the other.

If you want to live as a nomad and spend as little as possible, then let me break it to you: this kind of lifestyle simply isn’t sustainable in the long term.

When trekking through less wealthy areas of the world, such as Central Africa or South Asia, you might be tempted to think that the low local cost of living means you can use your savings in Western currencies to live like a king and spend like there’s no tomorrow.

For sure, there are some travelers that choose to behave like this – mostly retirees who have nothing to lose.

But apart from projecting a negative image about nomads in general, it is also in most cases extremely wasteful.

Instead, you’ll get by much easier by cutting down on your possessions, reducing your expenses to a certain minimum, and trying to live your life to the fullest in a way that isn’t expressed in constant consumption.

You don’t have to give up every possession, become a monk and move into a sleeping bag. But what you can do is to re-think your approach to the material world around you.

You will live more happily, be more in touch with the local lifestyle, gain more real friends, and staying on top of finances will also be much easier.

Trust me, it works. And it feels wonderful when you get the hang of it.

How to travel the world for (almost) no money

1. hitchhike or carpool.

man hitchhiking

When planning out your adventure, you’ll quickly run into a fundamental roadblock.

Sure, you might be able to imagine how it could be possible to get room and board without spending much (or any) money abroad – and I will go more into that in a bit – but how do you actually travel the world without money?

In other words, how do you get from A to B for free?

There are many options here, and it all depends on that comfort zone that I already mentioned. All of us have our own, and while the point of being a nomad for many of us is to challenge that comfort zone, you don’t want to go all-in without leaving at least a little room to get yourself adjusted.

A classic way to get around for free is hitchhiking, along with its younger brother, carpooling. If you know the right people, you can pull this off entirely risk-free. Of course, depending on where you live and how far away from home you’re thinking of going, that might not be so simple.

But for many, hitchhiking remains a reliable and safe option to see the world – for free! Excellent spots to look for hitchhiking ops include gas stations, rest stops, and roads frequented by travelers – such as those leading right out of or into a major city.

2. Train-hop

woman surfing freight trains

I’ll go on record right away saying that I have never made use of this strategy myself (though I know some who have), and part of the reason is that it’s one of the riskiest and most dangerous ways to travel the world for free. If you’re unfazed by my warning, feel free to read on.

Train-hopping will probably be one of the most effective methods of traveling without money for those starting out in Europe and planning to head eastwards into Central or South Asia. Particularly in Russia and other former Eastern Bloc nations, it’s fairly well-established.

Also in parts of North America, it’s not too rare of a sight.

But what is it, exactly? Well, train-hopping is the practice (supporters might say the art ) of using trains as a means of backpacking around the world with no money.

Usually, this means literally hopping on and taking a ride on a freight train to cover a big chunk, if not the entirety of the way to your destination.

You can also hitchhike by means of passenger rail, of course – whether riding the train’s carriage or by simply blending in with passengers or cargo and hoping to not get caught and fined.

In some parts of Europe, there is a great leniency on the side of the law for train-hoppers. This stems from a cultural association between train-hoppers and the poor. That’s why it’s also called “hoboing” in some places.

When I used to live and travel throughout France, I saw plenty of stowaways sitting and sleeping inside the luggage compartments of the long-distance TGV – and every conductor and service personnel in sight walked right past them, pretending not to notice.

Of course, no matter how you twist it, it must be said once again that this is an extremely risky, legally grey, and potentially very dangerous way to travel. For adrenaline junkies and those who really want to nullify their expenses at every cost though, it remains an option.

3. Work on a cruise ship

Cruise ship in the Bahamas

I know what you’re thinking. You’re the kind of person who accepts no compromises. You want the best of both worlds: a way to travel the world for free while also being entirely free of risk. Don’t worry, I got your back.

Ever been on a cruise? It’s a bit like staying at a fancy hotel but, well, out on the open sea. Ever imagined all the work that goes into maintaining a cruise ship, making sure everything runs as it should?

The reason I’m asking is that you might not have realized how you’re probably already qualified to work a fair number of positions on just such a vessel!

The idea is simple: you get a solid paycheck, room, board, healthcare and insurance is all accounted for, and you get to see the world while you’re working ! If that’s not the whole package, I don’t know what is.

Of course, there are downsides to working on a cruise. The hours can be long and tough, and unless you’re extremely lucky and play your cards right you won’t really be able to go exactly where you want to go.

If you don’t have a set destination though, and you just want to get “out there” and see the world without any big savings, then this career could be right up your alley! It’s also a great chance to meet some like-minded people and make lasting friendships, of course.

4. WWOOF your way around the globe

farming work

Speaking of a frugal lifestyle, let me introduce you to what is probably the world’s biggest gateway drug within the field of how to travel the world with no money.

WWOOFing , which you might be surprised to hear does not have to involve dogs, stands for WorldWide Opportunities On Organic Farms .

It’s a global volunteer program that allows you to stay anywhere in the world, room and board provided for free, in exchange for doing work on – you guessed it – an organic farm of your choice.

WWOOFing gets you to expand your horizons, pick up new skills, work with some wonderful people, and do a genuinely good deed! I can only recommend it for those just starting out; it’s been one of my favorite ways to see the world for a long time.

5. Exchange your skills for room with Workaway

friends working together

Now, here’s a secret tip that many non-nomads often don’t know about.

Workaway , put in a nutshell, is a service that connects travelers to hosts who let those travelers live with them in a house, apartment, hostel, BnB, forest hut, camper…the list goes on. The point is, you get to stay there for free in exchange for performing some volunteer-type work.

This work can really be anything – writing, teaching languages, et cetera et cetera. This makes Workaway more accessible to a wide audience compared to WWOOFing, though you can find a lot of farm work as well if you’re interested in that.

Some hosts are totally casual and will let you stay as long as you keep them company, help with a few chores around the house, and partake in a little bit of friendly cultural exchange!

Others will be looking for trained specialists to assist with something highly specific. If you’re an experienced carpenter for instance, you can find a lot of good international work on here, and some of it will even be paid!

“Workaway” per se is just one website, and its name has definitely become the catch-all term for these kinds of volunteering opportunities, but there are many many more.

In the past, whenever money was tight and all I knew was where I wanted to go next, Workaway has been – more times than anything else – my go-to source of opportunity for what I could do.

6. Travel hacking

credit cards in wallet

Of course, volunteer work like WWOOF is absolutely amazing, but there is one caveat: your travel expenses aren’t covered. Travel hacking is another great trick on how to solve that problem, even when going intercontinental.

Simply put, travel hacking means making use of various promotions, deals, and special arrangements that travel companies, airlines etc. usually provide for some of their more valued customers.

Of course, whether you have access to these kinds of opportunities will depend on a lot of factors, and travel hacking won’t be an option for everyone.

However, for those who can, paying for flights with points collected on your credit card, for example, can be one way of seeing the world without spending a single cent.

7. Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is simple, and it works kind of like Workawaying.

You contact a host, who gives you room and board for a certain amount of time – except in this case, they mostly don’t ask for anything in return other than that you behave and don’t break anything.

This makes couchsurfing a means of backpacking around the world with no money that is to room and board what hitchhiking is to travel.

Of course, there’s also a downside to couchsurfing. Or shall I rather say, a risk? Simply put, couchsurfing is not the most trustworthy way of traveling.

You’re entrusting your physical safety to a total stranger whom you’ll be living with for a certain amount of time with no oversight, so that’s not exactly foolproof.

Particularly if you’re a solo female traveller, this is something I’d seriously consider before embarking on a couchsurfing adventure.

On the other hand, the “close quarters” intimacy of couchsurfing is exactly where it got its many many fans from.

You get to experience life in a new place from the eyes of an average Joe or Jane – and share with them your own unique perspective, learn from each other, and so much more. This cultural exchange is for many one of the primary reasons to go couchsurfing.

Mainly because of concerns about safety, the reputation of the actual Couchsurfing.com service has taken a bit of a hit in recent years. This is not to say that the actual practice of couchsurfing has become less popular though!

Far from it: countless of “unofficial” couchsurfing alternatives exist! My go-to favorite would be BeWelcome , which is run by an international non-profit and remains the most popular alternative to the original Couchsurfing website.

Alternatively, there is also Trustroots , which markets itself particularly towards hitchhikers, and as the name implies the whole business is based on mutual trust between all its members.

If you’re prepared and have the guts for it, couchsurfing as a means of travel can be one of the most rewarding of them all, period.

8. Try dumpster diving

Man dumpster diving

Again, this is one of those ways of backpacking around the world with no money that some might scoff at. That’s perfectly fine and valid – but the rest might really be able to strike some gold with dumpster diving.

What is it, you ask? Well, in short, dumpster diving is the act of sustaining yourself from what ends up in large ditches, roadside waste containers, and so on.

No, this doesn’t have to mean literally “rummaging through trash”, wearing lousy clothing, or consuming rotten food.

In many places, establishments like grocery stores and large shopping centers will throw away perfectly new, fresh items every single morning if they weren’t sold by the proper date. Similar stories unfold at many urban landfills.

These can be clothes, food, hygiene products – anything! While truly living off of dumpster diving is a bit daring even for most budget-conscious travelers (though I have heard of some managing this way), you can at least try to drive down part of your existing budget by scoring some smaller consumables for free!

9. Be a house-sitter

Woman house-sitting

What if I told you there is a way that you can travel the world (mostly) for free, and also live a very comfortable lifestyle within a set of four, very comfortable walls that are all your own, without having to worry about rent?

Well, that is just what house sitting is all about. If you haven’t heard of it, house sitting originated as the answer to a simple, common problem.

Many people own a second home, or perhaps a vacation house.

But when they leave their permanent residence, often for a few months at a time, what happens to it? Usually, the time frame is way too short to consider renting it out, but on the other hand you can’t just leave a place standing empty for that long.

Enter the house sitter. This friendly helper’s job is simple: “sit” the house (temporarily living there while the owners are away), make sure everything works, and provide small upkeep and maintenance, like tending to the garden or taking care of pets for instance.

In return, you get to live in luxury (relative to most ways of how to travel without money, at least), and you don’t have to spend a dime!

The properties you get to house sit are often in semi-rural and suburban, relatively wealthy areas, so safety is little of an issue. On the other hand, if you’re house sitting in a country where you don’t speak the language at all, you might run into some issues.

This is because there tend to be fewer cosmopolitans and international travelers here than in the big inner cities and capitals.

If you’re looking to become a house sitter, take a look at HouseSittingWorld , a global community of travelers and like-minded fellows who help each other out in finding homes to sit anywhere on the globe.

This can be much more helpful sometimes compared to “official” services like TrustedHouseSitters , which, while very useful, tend only to cover one country or region individually.

I personally would recommend house sitting to anyone who wants to see the world – for free or otherwise. Some might leave it at a one-time experience; others will turn house sitting into a lifestyle.

Regardless, it gets you places you would probably never end up in otherwise, and it’s yet another way you can travel the world for free, so why not give it a shot?

10. Connect with kind-hearted locals

Make friends with strangers

If there is anything that I have learned through my years of traveling the world solo, it is that “traveling solo” as such is a romanticized myth.

What I mean by this is that no matter whether you’re going alone or with a partner (or a few), you will in all likelihood need to rely on the work of others – for transportation, housing, food, learning the language, and the list goes on.

Sure, it is theoretically possible to survive completely self-sufficiently, living as the proverbial hermit. But, in all honesty, only very few of us are willing to pay the steep price in quality of life, physical and mental effort, and safety that this demands.

In that sense, the friends and connections you make before and during your travels are truly worth their weight in gold.

In my experience, the number-one traveling resource that can truly open up worlds of opportunity when you least expect it to is the social network we all love to hate, good old Facebook.

If you’re like me, you might not particularly enjoy using Facebook that much, but it’s hard to escape the fact that its groups are often more useful than anything you will ever find anywhere else, online or otherwise.

No matter your community, vibe, or inclination, there’s bound to be a travel group for you. From LBGTQ Travel to the Black Travel Movement and Bloggers and Travelers , I’m sure you’ll find somewhere to fit in.

Specifically for women travelers, there is also the truly excellent Host a Sister group, which connects women worldwide with a plethora of hosts in their destination, offering free accommodation.

Many of these groups do not focus solely on connecting travelers with hosts; they’re also an excellent way to make new connections and friends while gaining valuable insight and cultural experience for the place you’re staying.

Of course, if I were to write about every Facebook group that could be useful for the budget-conscious nomad, this guide would approach the length of the average novel.

I’d encourage you to read up and discover for yourself how to travel the world for free, both within and beyond the scope that I covered in this article. See it as a stepping stone to your future adventures, and don’t be afraid!

Good luck out there!

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Money blog: Victoria Coren Mitchell threatens legal action after OVO Energy takes thousands from account

The Only Connect presenter has accused Ovo Energy of "wrongly" taking thousands from her bank account. Read this and all the latest consumer and economic news in the Money blog. Leave your money problem, or comment on any of our stories, below.

Tuesday 12 March 2024 20:41, UK

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The value of mortgage balances with arrears was 50.3% higher at the end of 2023 than a year earlier, a Bank of England report shows.

The value of these mortgages was £20.3bn - a reflection of how higher interest rates and the cost of living crisis is impacting British households.

Michelle Lawson, director at Lawson Financial, told Newspage  it made for "grim reading".

"People don't have bottomless pockets and this data places stark emphasis on that fact," she said.

"Household finances are set to spontaneously combust if the current level of pressure on them continues."

And Craig Fish, director at Lodestone Mortgages & Protection, told the industry website that the report "clearly demonstrated the real struggles being faced in the mortgage market right now". 

He said while it was encouraging to see the number of new arrears cases decrease slightly, it was "likely" that this could change during the course of 2024.

Japan is considering its first interest rate hike in nearly 17 years, after narrowly avoiding a recession. 

The economy grew by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of last year.

That leaves the Bank of Japan leeway to raise interest rates for the first time since 2007, with rates having been stuck at -0.1% since February 2016.

Negative interest rates are used in some countries to encourage commercial banks to lend and consumers to borrow more - therefore boosting economic growth.

The bank is set to meet next week to discuss its monetary policy.

By Jess Sharp, Money team, at the LIVE retail event in London

Amazon will introduce drone deliveries in the UK later this year, the company's UK manager has said.

Speaking at the LIVE 2024 event this morning, John Boumphrey told the crowd to "watch this space" for their arrival.

His speech focused on the use of AI in retail and the sustainability of Amazon.

He said the use of advanced robotics had been expanded within Amazon and had allowed new job opportunities to be created.

More than 500,000 robots have been added to the company's fleet and more than a million jobs have been created, he said.

Last year, the quickest delivery was just 75 minutes, he added.

Speaking about the use of generative AI, he said he was "confident" it would be the "most transformational change" to the retail industry since the creation of the internet.

Amazon has already been using the technology to create summaries of customer reviews and in the US it has created an AI shopping assistant called Rufus.

"This is only the beginning, we are all but a few steps into the marathon," he said.

Victoria Coren Mitchell has accused Ovo Energy of "wrongly" taking thousands from her bank account and suggested she will take legal action against the supplier.

The writer and TV presenter described "reaching the end of the road" with the major energy supplier, calling it the "most terrible service provider" she had encountered.

In a post on X, she claimed the supplier had taken "thousands of pounds" from her bank account that "they were not owed", and that it had "driven her to despair".

"Nothing but legal action will do for them now," she added.

In a poll, Ms Coren Mitchell went on to ask her followers which supplier they felt offered better service and said she had heard Octopus Energy were "trustworthy".

In response to her post on X, Ovo Energy said: "We're sorry about your recent experience with us. One of our senior complaint handlers has reached out via email to address this situation for you as a matter of urgency. We hope we can fully resolve this for you quickly."

Ovo Energy was founded in 2009 and has since grown to supply more than 4.5 million homes across England, Scotland and Wales. 

It is among the big six energy companies in the UK.

An OVO spokesperson told Sky News: "We're always striving to provide the best possible experience for all our customers. 

"Our teams work extremely hard to provide help and support and will continue to review lessons learned."

Basically, "non doms" are UK residents whose permanent home, or domicile, is considered to be outside the UK for tax purposes.

For years, the Labour Party has vowed to scrap non-dom status, saying it could raise more than £3bn a year, while the Conservatives have, over recent decades, kept the tax break in law. 

However, Jeremy Hunt announced in his budget last week that the scheme, which helps some of the wealthiest people in the UK, would be abolished.

The chancellor said it would be replaced with a "modern, fairer and simpler residence system".

There will still be a four-year reprieve for foreign citizens living in the UK - but not thereafter.

He said this would raise £2.7bn a year.

What are the current rules?

A non-dom only pays tax on money earned in the UK.

To avoid UK taxation on foreign income, they can pay an annual fixed charge. 

  • £30,000 for those who have lived in the UK for at least seven of the past nine tax years
  • £60,000 for at least 12 of the previous 14 tax years 

After 15 years, UK taxes must be paid, though non-dom status could be reinstated if you move to another country for a time, then return to the UK.

British citizens can be a nom-dom but only if they have links to another country - this includes those who have chosen to leave the UK to live abroad indefinitely. 

The exemption usually applies to people born abroad, or those whose father is from a different country. 

The prime minister's wife

Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, is one of this most high-profile nom-doms. 

However, after being criticised in 2022, she agreed to pay UK taxes on all her earnings.

The London School of Economics found a non-dom saves more than £125,000 a year on tax, on average. 

How many nom-doms are in the country? 

According to latest HMRC data, there were 68,800 non-doms in the UK in 2022. 

In that year, they paid £8.5bn in income, capital gains and employment taxes. 

The number of people claiming non-dom status has fallen over the past 10 years after a change in rules stopped people using the benefit permanently. 

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 Zonal pricing - whereby electricity costs differ regionally - could be introduced in the UK, it was announced today.

The government says Britons could save an average of £45 a year under the plan - which will now be consulted on.

But people in some regions could end up paying more than others.

How does it work?

At the moment there is lots of energy generation in Scotland, for example - but not as many consumers. Conversely, there is relatively little energy generation in London and the South East - where there are a lot of consumers.

Zonal pricing would aim to address this by seeing generators receive different rates based on the distance between their generating assets and their consumers. 

It would be in their interests to move generation nearer to consumers.

But in the meantime, costs could be passed onto households - potentially spelling bad news for areas such as London and the South East.

This could be rectified by additional solar or wind farms (in theory, although it is really hard to build new wind farms, as  this article  explains).

Zonal pricing is used in Australia and several European countries, including Italy, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

What does the industry say?

Energy regulator Ofgem has predicted significant saving for customers across Britain from zonal pricing in the long-term, of up to £51bn within 15 years.

Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson has backed the plans, suggesting they will not only help consumers but will attract new investors into the sector. 

Any shortfalls? 

Zonal pricing would be a push to more sustainable energy, getting generators closer to our towns and cities. 

However, as this article shows, the strategy is volatile by nature and susceptible to sector-wide energy premiums and outside factors. 

Following our posts on the investigation into vet costs and competition, we've been inundated with comments from readers sharing their experiences. 

One common complaint seems to be the cost of medication - with people finding the same products available for much cheaper online.

Vets are obliged to write a prescription if you ask - meaning you could source medication yourself. But many vets now charge for prescriptions.

Here are a few of the messages we've received this morning...

My vet insists on charging for a written prescription for each item (3x life-saving medicine equates to three separate written prescriptions). Even though a written prescription lasts for six months my vet will only prescribe two months of medication at a time. Is this fair? Lynn
My dog is on regular medication, my vet charges me £35 for a 10ml bottle. I now get a prescription from my vet (who charges £19 for the prescription) and purchase it from an online pet drug company. This is £28 for a 60ml bottle. Pepper pot
My vet sold his practice to a big group. I was charged £16.42 for a bottle of hydration drink. I bought the identical drink from Amazon for £6.50 or a similar make for £4.50. The practice prices have increased a great deal since the sale. Fredtheleg
My vet was charging £50 for a product available online at £14, for long-term pain treatment for an elderly dog. This was provided each month without additional examination. When I asked for a prescription I was charged £27 but was required to have an exam every three months.  Martin Best
Why does my vet charge £108 for an inhaler, £19 for a prescription, when I can get the exact same product from my local pharmacy for £56? Jon_Perry
The vet we used increased the price of providing a prescription from £15 to £25. When I queried it they said it was due to inflation. The same vet charged over £30 for a special shampoo for our dog that was on sale from an online supplier for £16.99. Greedy. Kevin B
I have always had rescue dogs - up to three at a time. Now, due to the soaring costs of vets bills and insurance to keep up with the hiked prices, I have only got one which is having a knock-on effect with animal charity re-homing schemes. Very, very sad. Anomouse
The biggest issue with vet costs in our area is to do with teeth extraction. Our vet wanted to charge us £1,400 to remove some teeth with no guarantee that it wouldn't cost more, so we switched to another local vet who was recommended and the same procedure has been capped at £500. kevind

The British Veterinary Association has responded to a new investigation into pricing and practices.

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching the probe after an initial review raised concerns over weak competition, lack of information for consumers and overcharging for medicines.

One major concern flagged by the CMA is the buying up of vet practices into larger groups.

Now, BVA president Dr Anna Judson has sought to put across a view from within the industry.

She said "the veterinary sector has changed significantly over recent years" and so the investigation is a "valuable opportunity" to take stock.

But while "rising prices are a concern for everyone"...

"It's vital to recognise there is no NHS for pets. Whether they are employed by corporate or independently owned practices, vets deliver highly specialised, tailored care for the UK's pets and the cost is a fair reflection of investment in medical equipment, supplies and medicines, and the time vet teams dedicate to the care of each patient."

Dr Judson also suggested vets had been subject to abuse since the initial review began.

"It's really important not to pre-empt the outcome of the CMA's investigation. When the CMA launched its initial review, vet teams in practice found themselves on the end of really unpleasant, often abusive behaviour, which is unacceptable."

By  Sarah Taaffe-Maguire , business reporter

The UK's top housebuilder by stock market value, Persimmon, is experiencing the biggest share price fall on the FTSE this morning. 

It said it was expecting subdued market conditions throughout the year as the short-term outlook is uncertain.

Profit dropped 52% in 2023, even more than analysts had expected. Share value fell 3.42%. 

Meanwhile, following news that the competition regulator is further investigating the vet sector, after it found pet owners could be paying too much for medicines and prescriptions, the British pet supplies retailer Pets at Home saw shares fall 8.2% at one point before settling around a 2.4% tumble. 

On the currency market, sterling is down against the dollar with £1 buying $1.277 and €1.1698. 

Oil costs $82.76 a barrel.

The travel accommodation site has banned the use of indoor security listings globally. 

Airbnb had previously allowed hosts to have cameras in common areas, as long as the devices were disclosed on the listing page before booking, clearly visible and not located in spaces like sleeping areas and bathrooms. 

Now, the cameras cannot be used under any circumstances. 

"Our goal was to create new, clear rules that provide our community with greater clarity about what to expect on Airbnb," Juniper Downs, Airbnb's head of community policy and partnerships, said. 

Airbnb said it believed the change would only affect a small number of listings. 

The new rules will come into effect on 30 April. 

Hosts will still be able to use doorbell cameras and noise decibel monitors - however, they will need to disclose their use and general location before guests book. 

"These cameras will also be prohibited from monitoring indoor spaces of a listing and are not allowed in certain outdoor areas where there's a greater expectation of privacy, like an enclosed outdoor shower or sauna," the company said in a blog post.

A news article in The Atlantic in 2019 reported on hidden cameras being used by Airbnb hosts.

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State of the Union fact check: What President Joe Biden got wrong (and right)

Though President Joe Biden largely stuck to the facts during his third State of the Union address Thursday, on several occasions he overstated the truth, left out key context or was simply wrong.

In a wide-ranging speech on issues including inflation, border security and conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, Biden on multiple occasions attacked – but never identified by name – his Republican opponent in November, former President Donald Trump. But in contrasting himself with his challenger and making his case for a second term, Biden occasionally strayed from the truth.

For example, in addressing the economy, a crucial campaign issue, he touted the inflation rate in the U.S. as “the lowest in the world” – even though dozens of countries, including G7 nations Canada and France, have rates that are lower.

Here are the other claims the USA TODAY Fact Check Team dug into.

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Claim: Trump told Putin ‘Do whatever the hell you want’

“Now my predecessor, a former Republican president, tells Putin, quote, ‘Do whatever the hell you want.’ That’s a quote. A former president actually said that, bowing down to a Russian leader.”

Biden mischaracterized Trump’s remarks, which weren’t nearly as broad as this framing implies.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Conway, South Carolina, on Feb. 10, Trump suggested he might not come to the aid of NATO member states attacked by Russia if they weren't contributing enough money to the alliance, USA TODAY reported.

“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’" Trump said, according to the article. “I said, ‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’ He said, ‘Yes, let’s say that happened.’ No, I would not protect you.”

Trump added, “In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.”

– Andre Byik

Prior fact checks:

  • Fact check : False claim Putin told Carlson it's 'amusing' that US protects foreign borders
  • Fact check : False claim Putin told Carlson that Biden is a 'facade' for 'those in real power'

Claim: Gross domestic product is up since Biden took office

 “Since I’ve come to office, our GDP is up.”

Biden is correct that GDP has grown since he came to office in January 2021, but this is hardly a unique achievement. Every president since Harry Truman has experienced GDP growth from the beginning to the end of their presidency, according to data from the U.S. Federal Reserve .  

Herbert Hoover, who was president from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression, was the last president who saw GDP drop during his presidency, according to The Balance . 

GDP grew by about 22% from January 2021 to December 2023.

– Brad Sylvester

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Claim: US inflation rate is the lowest in the world

“Inflation has dropped from 9% to 3% – the lowest in the world!”

Biden is simply wrong here.

The inflation rate refers to the annual percent change in consumer prices compared with the previous year's prices. That number was 3.1% in the U.S. for the year ending in January 2024, a reduction from 3.4% the previous January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . 

But that’s not the lowest in the world.

The latest data from the International Monetary Fund shows the U.S. has a higher inflation rate than dozens of countries. Those with lower rates include G7 countries such as Canada and France (2.4% and 2.5% respectively) and other advanced economies such as New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland, Finland and China. The global average inflation rate is 5.8%, according to the IMF.

The U.S. inflation rate hit a four-decade peak of 9.1% in June 2022, the highest rate since 1981.

Claim: Biden administration cut the federal deficit by more than $1 trillion

"I’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion. "

Biden is correct that the federal deficit has gone down by more than $1 trillion during his time in office. But his description fails to acknowledge the decline is primarily a result of the unique post-pandemic landscape. 

The drop was largely a result of "shrinking or expiring COVID relief," according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget , a nonpartisan group that promotes fiscal responsibility.

The deficit stood at about $3.1 trillion in 2020 and $2.8 trillion in 2021 , then fell to $1.4 trillion in 2022 before slightly increasing to $1.7 trillion in 2023 , according to the Congressional Budget Office. 

That’s still well above where it was before the pandemic. In 2019 the deficit was $984 billion .

– Chris Mueller

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Claim: Trump said to ‘get over’ school shooting

“After another school shooting in Iowa, he said we should just get over it.”

Trump did use this phrase in remarks on Jan. 5 , but not as abruptly as Biden’s citation implies.

Speaking a day after a sixth grader was killed and five people were injured in a shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa, Trump offered the victims and their families “our support and our deepest sympathies” and asked for comfort “for the whole state.”

Then came the comment Biden referenced:

“We’re really with you as much as anybody can be,” Trump said. “It’s a very terrible thing that happened, and it’s just horrible to see that happening. That’s just horrible. So surprising to see it here, but have to get over it. We have to move forward.”

Trump then resumed his condolences, saying, “But to the relatives and to all of the people that are so devastated right now, to a point they can’t breathe, they can’t live, we are with you and we love you and cherish you.”

– Joedy McCreary

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Claim: Pandemic tax credit caused cut child poverty in half

“The Child Tax Credit I passed during the pandemic … cut child poverty in half”

This is accurate, but it's only half the story.

The child poverty rate fell from 12.6% in 2019 to  9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021 – the latter drop being its largest on record, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy , a nonpartisan think tank. The organization attributes the change to the Biden-endorsed expansion of the Child Tax Credit in 2021.

But that measure ran out in 2022, after which the child poverty rate shot back up, to a three-year high of 12.4%. That rise was “due almost entirely to the expiration of the CTC enhancements” along with other components of Biden’s COVID-19 response package, ITEP concluded.

In his speech, Biden called for restoring the Child Tax Credit.

Claim: US-China trade deficit lowest in more than a decade

"Our trade deficit with China is down to the lowest point in over a decade."

In 2023, the U.S. trade deficit with China declined by more than $100 billion to $279.4 billion , the smallest total since 2010 , Bloomberg reported. A trade deficit occurs when the value of a country's imports exceeds the value of its exports.

But Biden is taking credit for a trend that also has ties to his predecessor and 2024 opponent, Trump. Chinese imports have faced higher tariffs since Trump imposed them in 2018 .

The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, according to the Tax Foundation . Biden's administration has taken additional steps to reduce China's role in U.S. supply chains and sought to increase trade with strategic allies, according to Bloomberg .

Claim: Alabama court 'shut down' IVF treatments

"The Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state."

In late February, Alabama's largest hospital paused in vitro fertilization after the state's Supreme Court ruled embryos created during the treatment should be legally treated as children.

In vitro fertilzation, or IVF, refers to a medical procedure that combines eggs and sperm in a lab dish before transferring the fertilized eggs into the uterus, according to Yale Medicine .

But Biden, who had called the ruling by Alabama's high court "outrageous and unacceptable," didn’t quite tell the whole story. He failed to mention that state lawmakers this week gave final approval to legislation protecting in vitro fertilization providers and patients.

Claim: Prescription drugs cost 40% more in the U.S. than in other nations

“I’m going to get in trouble for saying that, but anyone who wants to get in Air Force One with me and fly to Toronto, Berlin, Moscow – I mean, excuse me, well, even Moscow, probably – and bring your prescription with you and I promise you I’ll get it for you for 40% the cost you’re paying now.”

Biden is mostly right here.

A 2024 report from Rand , a global policy think tank, found prescription drug prices in the U.S. average 2.78 times those seen in 33 other nations. The report uses data through 2022.

“Put another way, prices in other countries were 36 percent – or a little more than one-third – of those in the United States,” Rand reported.

Prices for unbranded generic drugs, which account for 90% of prescription volume in the U.S., are about 67% of the average cost in the comparison nations, according to a Rand news release about the study. That means the U.S. pays less in this category.

“These findings provide further evidence that manufacturers’ gross prices for prescription drugs are higher in the United States than in comparison countries,” said Andrew Mulcahy , a senior health economist at Rand, in the news release. “We find that the gap is widening for name-brand drugs, while U.S. prices for generic drugs are now proportionally lower than our earlier analysis found.”

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The Very Best Face Moisturizers

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  • Best overall
  • Best for oily skin
  • Best for dry skin
  • Best for combination skin
  • Best for sensitive skin
  • Best for acne-prone skin
  • Best for aging skin

Everyone needs to moisturize, whether your skin is dry , oily , or a combination of both ; along with cleanser , facial moisturizer is one of the basic building blocks of any good skin-care routine. No matter the ingredients in a specific formulation, the function of a moisturizer is to help your skin hold on to its moisture and prevent it from drying out, a key component to ensure a healthy, robust skin barrier . But some moisturizers go above and beyond, helping to mattify oily spots, soothe inflammation, or smooth out wrinkles and fine lines. They come with a wide range of price tags, from no-frills drugstore lotions to opulent creams. But effective options are available at every price point; ultimately, the best moisturizer for you will depend on your individual preferences, skin-care needs, and budget.

As a beauty writer who has been skimming skin-care forums for over a decade and tracking buzzy ingredients and testing products for the Strategist for the past three years, I’ve experimented with moisturizers from all over the map, starting with the Cetaphil lotions I picked up at Target as a teen before graduating to the splurgier options I treat myself to now. To compile this list of the best facial moisturizers, I combed the Strategist’s archives to find the most tried-and-true products that have been recommended to us over and over by dermatologists and other skin-care experts. Then I spoke to more than 15 dermatologists about their current favorites for a variety of skin types. If you already know what type of moisturizer you’re looking for, use the table of contents to jump to a specific section; otherwise, read on for which factors you should keep in mind to choose the right product for you. And if you’re looking for even more tips to optimize your skin-care routine, we’ve got you covered with our guides to the best exfoliating washes , sunscreens , and eye creams , too.

What we’re looking for

The consistency of a moisturizer can range from a watery gel to a midweight lotion to a heavy cream. While dry skin takes well to thicker, more occlusive moisturizers that deliver intense hydration, oily skin tends to benefit from thinner, more lightweight formulas that won’t feel heavy or cause excess greasiness.

Active ingredients

Moisturizer formulations have plenty of variety, but many will contain emollients such as ceramides, which trap and lock in moisture, and humectants, such as glycerin and hyaluronic acid, which draw water to the skin’s surface. A moisturizer’s effectiveness “hinges on formulation, ingredient quality, and skin compatibility,” explains board-certified dermatologist Dr. Hope Mitchell of  Mitchell Dermatology — so it’s important to choose one that plays nice with your skin type. People with oily or acne-prone skin should seek out formulations that are noncomedogenic and oil free so as not to exacerbate problem areas, while those with sensitive skin should look for an ingredient list that leaves out potential irritants such as dyes, fragrances, and parabens. Many brands will also add extra good-for-skin ingredients such as botanical extracts, mineral water, or shea butter to boost the moisturizer’s soothing, brightening, or hydrating properties.

Also keep in mind that it’s not always wise to go for the products that have the most actives or the highest level of actives. “It’s better to find products that have one or two active ingredients that are very simple and target one specific concern,” advises board-certified dermatologist Dr. David Kim .

Moisturizers are available at just about every price point, whether you’re looking for an ultraluxe option or a wallet-friendly drugstore alternative. Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Wallace Nozile admits dermatologists “argue from time to time about the difference” and says it really depends: “Some products do have really good, hard-to-find ingredients in them” or extensive, cutting-edge research and science backing them that makes such products worth the cost. Dr. Kim adds that the texture of a high-end cream is often richer and grants a more sensorial experience when applied. “But I think a lot of cost-effective moisturizers you can find in the drugstore are going to do just as well for you,” Dr. Nozile says.

Whether you’re looking to splash out or keep it economical, we have noted the size and the cost per ounce of each moisturizer listed below, so you can decide which product will work best based on your budget.

Best face moisturizer overall

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Face Moisturizer

Texture:  Gel-Cream  | Active ingredients:  Glycerin, hyaluronic acid | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $9/ounce)

Neutrogena’s Hydro Boost has been recommended to us over and over again and has earned a spot in pretty much every moisturizer roundup we’ve published, whether for  oily ,  dry ,  combination , mature ,  sunburned , or  acne-prone skin. It has been name-checked by over a dozen dermatologists we’ve talked to over the years, including Dr. Caroline Robinson, the  CEO and founder of Tone Dermatology , who called out its “lightweight yet hydrating” formula, which contains hyaluronic acid and glycerin to attract water to the skin throughout its layers. Dr.  Corey L. Hartman , the founder of Skin Wellness Dermatology, adds that this moisturizer is hard to beat for its accessibility and price point. No matter what type of skin or skin concerns you have, it’s almost impossible to go wrong with Hydro Boost, which makes it my best overall pick.

Best face moisturizers for oily skin

Best face moisturizers for oily skin overall.

Skinfix Barrier+ Lightweight Pore-Refining Gel Cream

Texture:  Gel-Cream  | Active ingredients:  B-L3 lipid complex, niacinamide | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $32/ounce)

Three dermatologists I spoke to recommended Skinfix’s gel-cream moisturizer for oily skin. “It’s a nice, lightweight moisturizer that doesn’t feel heavy on the skin,” says Dr. Sam Ellis, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Prequel Skin . And Dr. Kim assures us that “it will keep your skin supple and moist without clogging your pores.” The formula includes a barrier lipid complex that absorbs excess oil while repairing the skin’s moisture barrier, along with niacinamide to reduce the appearance of pore size.

Vichy Mineral 89 Cream

Texture:  Lightweight cream  | Active ingredients:  Hyaluronic acid, mineral water, vitamins B3 & E, squalane | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $19/ounce)

We named Vichy’s face serum one of the best moisturizers for oily skin , but for even more intense hydration, board-certified dermatologist  Dr. Marisa Garshick likes this relatively new product from the brand — a cream that combines “all the benefits of the serum with hyaluronic acid and the Vichy volcanic water to really help boost moisture,” she says. Even though it’s a little thicker than a serum, it’s still very lightweight and contains additional ingredients such as squalane and vitamins E and B3 to support the skin barrier .

Best drugstore moisturizer for oily skin

CeraVe Ultra-Light Moisturizing Gel

Texture:  Gel  | Active ingredients:  Ceramides, niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, glycerin | Size: 1.75 ounces (Approx. $9/ounce)

Rather than a thick, occlusive cream, this CeraVe gel has a light texture that absorbs quickly but still includes the brand’s signature blend of hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and glycerin, says board-certified dermatologist Dr.  Shari Marchbein . She adds that it can easily be used by those with facial hair, who often have oilier skin owing to higher testosterone levels.

Best mattifying moisturizers for oily skin

Murad Oil and Pore Control Mattifier Broad Spectrum SPF 45 | PA++++

Texture:  Lotion  | Active ingredients:  Avocado extract, African yellowwood-bark extract | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $29/ounce)

Cosmetic dermatologist  Dr. Blair Murphy-Rose  says this Murad moisturizer is especially suited for oily skin thanks to its mattifying agents that help “balance and control the oil production” and reduce the look of pores. As an added benefit, the formula also includes SPF, though Dr. Murphy-Rose does recommend layering additional  sun protection  on top.

Cetaphil DermaControl Oil Control Moisturizer SPF 30

Texture:  Lotion  | Active ingredients:  Zinc, micropearls | Size: 4 ounces (Approx. $4/ounce)

Dr. Sapna Palep of Spring Street Dermatology likes this Cetaphil moisturizer for its “micropearl” technology, which absorbs surface oil and reduces shine while moisturizing the skin. It’s noncomedogenic, so it won’t clog the pores and potentially cause acne, and it has broad-spectrum SPF for extra UV protection.

Best splurge-worthy moisturizer for oily skin

Tatcha Water Cream Moisturizer

Texture:  Gel-Cream  | Active ingredients:  Wild rose, Hadasei-3 | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $42/ounce)

“For oilier skin, the best moisturizers have a lot to do with consistency of the product itself,” board-certified dermatologist Dr. Carmen Castilla explains. “You don’t want it to be too thick, or it feels greasy on the skin.” She likes Tatcha’s super-lightweight yet luxurious-feeling Water Cream moisturizer that melts into the skin. It also contains pore-minimizing Japanese wild rose and skin-brightening algae.

Best face moisturizers for dry skin

Best face moisturizers for dry skin overall.

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Shea butter, allantoin, colloidal oatmeal | Size: 6 ounces (Approx. $6/ounce)

First Aid Beauty’s Ultra Repair Cream has a very thick, rich texture that’s also noncomedogenic, “so it’s not going to block your pores,” explains Dr. Castilla. It’s also a favorite moisturizer of our  eczema-prone  beauty writer Rio Viera-Newton because it contains colloidal oatmeal for calming inflammation and itchy skin, plus ceramides and shea butter to protect and replenish the skin’s natural barrier.

Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream Moisturizer

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Hyaluronic acid, vitamins C & E, BioNymph peptide complex | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $59/ounce)

“The Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream really does help to boost moisture magically,” says Dr. Garshick. It contains a combination of hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, and glycerin to draw moisture into the skin and improve its radiance and plumpness. And board-certified dermatologist  Dr. Rebecca Marcus says the addition of peptides helps support collagen production. Though this one is pricey, the brand does offer refills for $10 less once you finish your first jar.

Best drugstore moisturizers for dry skin

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Glycerin, hyaluronic acid, ceramides | Size: 19 ounces (Approx. $1/ounce)

A longtime favorite of Strategist readers , this CeraVe cream was crowned the best moisturizer for dry skin thanks to its thick, creamy texture and affordable price point. “It’s just a great overall cream. You can use it everywhere, and it comes in a nice big jar so you get more bang for your buck,” says Dr. Nozile. Dr. Kim agrees, calling it “a must for winter” due to its simple formula that’s packed with ceramides, which help to  boost moisture levels and repair skin . It also contains glycerin and hyaluronic acid, staples in moisturizers formulated for dry skin.

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Balm AP+ Intense Repair Moisturizing Body & Face Cream

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Niacinamide, shea butter, ceramides | Size: 13.5 ounces (Approx. $1.50/ounce)

For those with “ultra-dry alligator skin” like Strategist writer Tembe Denton-Hurst , La Roche-Posay’s Lipikar Balm is so thick she often has to scrape it out of the bottle because it’s too thick for the pump. Those with dry skin often have a compromised skin barrier, but according to Dr. Mitchell, the Lipikar balm performs a “unique prebiotic action on the skin microbiome” that restores and repairs the barrier. It pulls double duty as both a face and body moisturizer, so it “streamlines your routine, and you only need one huge bottle,” says Dr. Castilla. She adds that it’s “gentle and works well for eczema-prone skin, too,” which is why it ended up on our list of the best eczema treatments .

Best splurge-worthy moisturizer for dry skin

Augustinus Bader The Cream

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  TFC8, vitamins A, C, and B5, hydrolyzed rice protein | Size: 1 ounce (Approx. $185 per ounce)

According to Dr. Kim, Augustinus Bader’s the Cream is packed with plant-based oils such as evening primrose, avocado, and argan to keep skin protected. “It also has vitamin E, which is a great antioxidant that helps remove free radicals,” he says. Aesthetician Joanna Czech calls it “super-repairing” and notes that it “stimulates skin’s natural process of rejuvenation.” We named it one of the best night creams as well for its “plush, pillowy texture,” which goes on smoothly and deeply conditions skin, and fashion designer Phillip Lim told us he uses it year-round because “it’s a perfect weight for both warmer and cooler climates.”

Best face moisturizers for combination skin

Best face moisturizers for combination skin overall.

Matter of Fact Minimalist Hydrating Moisturizer

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Provitamin B5, liquid-crystal lipids, centella asiatica | Size: 1.6 ounces (Approx. $43/ounce)

Matter of Fact’s Minimalist moisturizer has a lighter consistency than the brand’s Maximalist moisturizer , which is more suited to dry or dehydrated skin, so “it’s not going to clog pores but it’ll moisturize without feeling heavy,” says board-certified dermatologist  Dr. Claire Wolinsky . She adds that the provitamin B5 and the lipids in the ingredients “deeply condition and support the skin’s barrier.”

The INKEY List Omega Water Cream Oil-Free Moisturizer

Texture:  Gel-cream  | Active ingredients:  Ceramides, niacinamide, glycerin, betain | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $7/ounce)

Dr. Castilla says this oil-free Inkey List moisturizer has a lighter, almost watery texture, so it won’t weigh down oily areas while nourishing dry patches. Among its many hydrating ingredients is niacinamide, which “helps slow down sebum production so you won’t look so oily,” she explains.

Best drugstore moisturizer for combination skin

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

Texture:  Lotion  | Active ingredients:  Hyaluronic acid, ceramides, niacinamide |  Size:  3 ounces (Approx. $5/ounce)

In choosing an all-in-one product to moisturize combination skin, Dr. Oma Agbai , an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis, recommends starting with an oil-free, noncomedogenic moisturizer that can address dry skin “without causing additional oil production,” which describes this CeraVe lotion to a tee. It has an oil-free formula that won’t worsen skin’s oily patches and, as Agbai explains, is cream-based with nonocclusive ingredients that won’t clog pores. The formula includes broad-spectrum SPF to provide extra protection against UVA and UVB rays.

Best mattifying moisturizer for combination skin

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Matte Face Moisturizer

Texture:  Gel  | Active ingredients:  Ceramides, niacinamide | Size: 2.5 ounces (Approx. $9/ounce)

If you’re looking for a moisturizer to mattify your oily T-zone and hydrate the dry areas, Dr. Marcus recommends this oil-free option from La Roche-Posay. It’s specifically formulated for oily and combination skin, with a light gel texture that won’t leave skin feeling greasy. The formula includes anti-inflammatory niacinamide and ceramides to support the skin barrier as well as soothing thermal spring water. “It’s fragrance free and doesn’t contain anything irritating,” Dr. Marcus adds.

Best splurge-worthy moisturizer for combination skin

SkinBetter Science Trio Rebalancing Moisture Treatment

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Hyaluronic acid, ceramides, squalane, urea complex |  Size:  1.7 ounces (Approx. $88/ounce)

Dr. Ope Ofodile, a co-owner of  Dermatology and Surgery Specialists of North Atlanta , promises this SkinBetter treatment won’t exacerbate oily spots while it delivers “truly heavy hydration without the weight.” It’s definitely on the pricier side, but many experts swear by the brand; dermatologist Dr. Elyse Love told our friends at the Cut that since her skin is traditionally oily but dry in the winter, she’ll use it when she needs something “highly moisturizing but still very lightweight.” Dr. Garshick adds that it’s easy to use on the neck and chest as well as the face, and according to those who have told us about it, a little goes a long way.

Best face moisturizers for sensitive skin

Best face moisturizer for sensitive skin overall.

Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer

Texture:  Lotion  | Active ingredients:  Hyaluronic acid, ceramides, squalane, glycerin | Size: 3 ounces ($4/ounce)

Since sensitive skin can easily be triggered by allergens or extraneous ingredients, it’s best to choose a moisturizer that’s as simple and straightforward as possible. This Vanicream moisturizer fits the bill because it’s free of potential irritants such as dyes, fragrance, lanolin, parabens, and formaldehyde releasers. Dr. Garshick says it’s “very gentle but not too greasy. It won’t clog pores, but it does the job moisturizing and minimizing dryness.”

Best moisturizer for inflammation

Aveeno Calm and Restore Oat Gel Moisturizer

Texture:  Gel  | Active ingredients:  Prebiotic oat, feverfew | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $10/ounce)

When sensitive skin has a flare-up, the ingredients in this Aveeno moisturizer will work to calm it. They include prebiotic oat and feverfew, both of which will “help to calm, soothe, and hydrate dry, sensitive, or irritated skin,” says Dr. Mitchell. (Oat extracts are often recommended to treat persistent patches of eczema.) It also contains glycerin and panthenol, a B5 vitamin, to restore the skin’s moisture barrier.

Best face moisturizers for acne-prone skin

Best face moisturizer for acne-prone skin overall.

Avène Cleanance HYDRA Soothing Cream

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Glycerin, thermal spring water | Size: 1.3 ounces (Approx. $17/ounce)

If you’re prone to acne and are incorporating actives such as AHAs or BHAs into your skin-care routine, you’ll need a moisturizer that offsets their drying effects. Dr. Wolinsky recommends this calming cream from Avène, which contains nourishing plant triglycerides and thermal spring water, as a great option for anyone simultaneously using acne treatments. “This would be part of your regimen to complement the acne treatments by restoring the skin barrier and helping soothe the irritation so you can maximize the use of ingredients like benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid,” Dr. Wolinsky explains.

Best mattifying moisturizer for acne-prone skin

Differin Oil Absorbing Moisturizer

Texture: Lotion | Active ingredients:  SPF 30, micropearls | Size:  4 ounces (Approx. $2.75/ounce)

Differin is a popular longtime acne brand. Its most notable ingredient is adapalene, which functions similarly to retinol, so it stands to reason that Differin’s oil-control moisturizer would pair nicely with any acids or retinoids you may have in your routine. This moisturizer contains SPF 30 using oleosome technology, which lowers the concentration of chemical-sunscreen filters that can cause irritation. On the mattifying front, it uses micropearl technology, which absorbs oil and gives skin a matte finish.

Best exfoliating moisturizer for acne-prone skin

EltaMD AM Therapy Facial Moisturizer

Texture: Lotion  | Active ingredients:  Hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, willow-bark extract |  Size:  1.7 ounces (Approx. $26/ounce)

If you want to streamline your routine and use a moisturizer that contains active ingredients, Dr. Wolinsky suggests EltaMD’s AM Restore Therapy moisturizer. It contains willow bark to exfoliate the skin very gently — “It’s like the natural salicylic acid,” she explains — as well as niacinamide and hyaluronic acid to help draw in moisture and support suppleness.

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SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2

Texture:  Rich cream  | Active ingredients:  Ceramides, fatty acids, natural cholesterol | Size: 1.6 ounces (Approx. $94/ounce)

Our skin tends to get dryer and thinner as we age and we produce less of our natural lipids, such as cholesterol, pure ceramides, and fatty acids. The SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore moisturizer, which we have written about many times , helps restore some these lost elements. We dubbed it the best option for dry mature skin after it was recommended by dermatologist Dr. Julie Russak, founder of Russak Dermatology Group . Dr. Russak says it restores the natural physiological composition of our cell walls so that “younger, healthier cells can take over.” It contains both ceramides and antioxidants, along with fatty acids and cholesterol, and deeply hydrates without clogging pores.

True Botanicals Chebula Extreme Cream

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Chebula, aloe, glycerin, hyaluronic acid | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $65/ounce)

This True Botanicals cream contains key ingredients such as chebula and acerola cherry, which help maintain hydration, correct the signs of skin aging, and support skin that has been exposed to pollution and blue light. Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Daniel Butler says chebula is a potent antioxidant that “works phenomenally well at reversing the stressors that show externally on the skin as we age.” Combined with hyaluronic acid and glycerin, it makes for “a really light and super-hydrating moisturizer” with tons of anti-aging benefits, Dr. Butler says. “Some ultramoisturizing creams feel very heavy on your face, but this one goes on really easily.”

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Olay Regenerist Retinol24 Night Moisturizer

Texture:  Cream  | Active ingredients:  Retinol, niacinamide | Size: 1.7 ounces (Approx. $18/ounce)

For those entering their 40s, Dr. Hartman highly suggests adding a retinol product to your skin-care routine, since it can enhance cellular turnover and increase collagen and elasticity in the skin. “It’s the closest thing we have to a holy grail,” he says. “It helps with acne breakouts, it helps with more effective exfoliation, it gets rid of dullness, it helps with fine lines and wrinkles — it really does it all.” Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Zenovia Gabriel recommends Olay’s Regenerist Retinol Moisturizer, saying it’s a great beginner product containing niacinamide, an antioxidant that prevents the irritation sometimes brought on by retinoids.

Our experts

•  Dr. Oma Agbai , assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis • Dr. Daniel Butler , dermatologist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine • Dr. Carmen Castilla , dermatologist at New York Dermatology Group • Dr. Sam Ellis , dermatologist and founder of Prequel Skin • Dr. Zenovia Gabriel , dermatologist and founder of Zena Medical • Dr. Marisa Garshick , dermatologist at  MDCS Dermatology • Dr. Corey L. Hartman , dermatologist and founder of  Skin Wellness Dermatology • Dr. David Kim , dermatologist and founder of Lightsaver Skin • Dr. Shari Marchbein , dermatologist at Downtown Dermatology • Dr. Rebecca Marcus , dermatologist and founder of  Maei MD • Dr. Hope Mitchell , dermatologist and founder of  Mitchell Dermatology • Dr. Blair Murphy-Rose , dermatologist at  Laser & Skin Surgery NY • Dr. Wallace Nozile , dermatologist at Epiphany Dermatology • Dr. Ope Ofodile , dermatologist and co-owner of  Dermatology and Surgery Specialists of North Atlanta • Dr. Sapna Palep, dermatologist at Spring Street Dermatology • Dr. Caroline Robinson , dermatologist and  founder of Tone Dermatology • Dr. Julie Russak, dermatologist and founder of  Russak Dermatology Group • Dr. Claire Wolinsky , cosmetic dermatologist at  Spring Street Dermatology

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Whether or not you get hired by billionaire Mark Cuban comes down to two qualities: culture and  competency.

They're the "two things that matter the most," Cuban said during a MasterClass course released last month. "Are they competent enough to do the job? And do they fit in the culture of the organization? If they fail on either one, you're going to be in trouble."

Culture is more important than raw talent, Cuban said. Most of the workforce agrees: 56% of workers rank a strong workplace culture as more important than salary, with more than 75% of employees saying they'd consider a company's culture before applying for a job there, according to a 2019 Glassdoor survey of more than 5,000 adults in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany.

Young millennials and Gen Zers consider company culture a particular priority, the Glassdoor report noted — meaning Cuban's observation many prove more true over time, as those workers increasingly rise through the ranks.

Cuban does value employees who complete tasks correctly and efficiently — that's the competency part. But searching for the perfect worker to fix your company's problems, a "home run hire," without properly vetting their cultural fit is "probably the biggest mistake I've seen my portfolio companies [make]," he said.

To find employees who check both boxes, Cuban said he asks specific job interview questions like:

  • What's one thing you've failed at and one thing you've succeeded at?
  • Tell me about a time you took a chance at work.
  • Why did you leave your last job?
  • What's the best culture of a company that you've ever worked in?
  • Who's the best manager you've ever worked for?

"I want to get them talking about their positive or negative experiences, so I can understand whether or not they're going to be a fit," he said.

For Cuban, the right fit doesn't mean a carbon copy of himself: He looks for employees and partners who "complement" his skill set, but are unafraid to speak up when they disagree with him, he noted.

"I think one of the biggest problems an entrepreneur [or] CEO can make is they hire people who are like them," Cuban said. "You don't need to hire people like you. You've got you."

"I don't need people to tell me yes," he added. "I can tell myself yes ... I need people who are going to challenge conventional wisdom and challenge me, and when they think I've done something wrong, say, 'I think you think you're making a mistake here, and this is why.'"

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