Traveling Quotations

Here’s an inspirational travel quote for each week of the year (plus one for good measure) to keep you dreaming of exotic lands:

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