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Best 50+ travel quotes motivation people to travelling
1. “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
2. “I haven’t been everywhere
but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
3. “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
4. “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
5. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” –
Moorish proverb
6. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt
Vonnegut
7. “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
8. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the
pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
9. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” –
Unknown
10. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas
Fuller
11. “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
12. “A ship in harbor is
safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
13. “Not all those who wander
are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
14. “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
15. “Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai
Lama
16. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we
had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
17. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other
countries.” – Aldous Huxley
18. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
19. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion
and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
20. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you
traveled.” – Mohammed
21. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a
man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon
22. “This heart of mine was made to travel the world.” – Unknown
23. “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” –
Lao Tzu
24. “The world is a book and he who doesn’t travel only reads one
page.” – St. Augustine
25. “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
26. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his
journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb
27. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –
Tim Cahill
28. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
29. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen
Keller
30. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes
strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
32. “I don’t know where i am going but I’m on my way.” – Carl
Sagan
33. “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
34. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on
arriving.” – Lao Tzu
35. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember,
and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
36. “The journey is the destination.” ― Dan Eldon
37. “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
38. “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
39. “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.” –
Gilbert K. Chesterton
40. “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
41. “NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You
must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
42. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
43. “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
44. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard
Shaw
45. “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
46. “People don’t take trips… trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
47. “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.
48. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other
side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
49. “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
50. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy
in the world.” – Scott Cameron
51. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
52. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we
stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block