Our Favorite Travel Quotes

Here is a collection of travel quotes that we have tweeted last 2011. In no particular order. Be inspired. Until then!


"Own only what you can carry with you; Let your memory be your travel bag." ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn


"Try something new. Do something fun. Be adventurous. These breaks can bring renewed energy into your work and your life."

"A hopeful heart and an open mind are the best traveling companions."


"A traveler doesn't know where he is going and a tourist doesn't know where he has been." - Peter Theroux


"If you lose your way it is better to ask and feel a fool for five minutes than not ask and remain a fool for the rest of your life."


"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself." - Ella Maillart


"Life is not meant to be a speedway. Slow down to savor the gifts that God has already showered you with."


"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere." - Loretta Young


"It may be a time of new beginnings, of growth, of reaping the harvest of hard work, or a time of rest. Everything in its time."


"No watter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up."


If you deserve it, you'll get it. It might not be on the time that you want, but wait 'til you see, it might be more than what you expected.


"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves." - Andre Gide


A trick so you wont be late for your flight? Get late, pay the penalties, spoil your schedule. Sure you’ll do your best not to be late again.


"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'


“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


"The best journeys are not always in straight lines."


"The further your journey takes you, the more dangers you will encounter. The more you dare, the more you win."

"Allow yourself to seek out rich and satisfying experiences."

"Be careful who you spend time with. Negative people, negative habits. Be selective!"

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost

"If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel." ~Sir Vivian Fuchs

"Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"All the wonders of the world are within us yet we remain determined to seek them without."

"The wise traveler leaves his heart at home."

"One must expect to smile and also to weep on the road to happiness."

"Somewhere on your journey, please don't forget to turn around and enjoy the view."

"Some roads are not meant to be traveled alone."

"When traveling, do not calculate the distance; at dinner, don't think of how much."

"The further your journey takes you, the more dangers you will encounter. The more you dare, the more you win."

"If we could have everything that lay along our path in advance, we might never set out on our journey."

"Walk too fast or be too impatient and you will miss much."

"Every time you get frustrated and feel that you're not going anywhere, consider this globe called earth that we are all riding on."

"You might not be able to change the world itself on your own, but you can play an important part in changing how we treat it."

"Journey through your day with efficiency, hope and a sense of humor."

"Along the way there will be thorns. But if you look above them you will discover roses."

"Don't be so intent upon your own journey that you forget to stop and help others along the way."

"Travel light - preconception and prejudice are unnecessary luggage."

"Climb to the top of the boulder that blocks your way, and enjoy the view from a different perspective."

“If the road you travel has no obstacles - it leads nowhere.”

Traveling is happy. It's just that not all of us have money. So lucky are those who travel for free. :-)

"We wouldn't have had a chance to travel, but we would have been able to play, and that's a pretty big deal for us.” ~ Rocky Long

"People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home." ~ Dagobert D. Runes

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey." ~ Fitzhugh Mullan

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

"...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

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

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

“The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart.”

Don't listen to what they say. Go and see for yourself.

"Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves” ~ Euripides

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure."

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

Happiness is achieved when you are contented with what you have.

"You can’t build a reputation on what you are GOING to do." ~ Henry Ford

What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. --Unknown

“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

"He who would travel happily must travel light." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

"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

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

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

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” – Bumper sticker

After a long travel, nothing really beats our home sweet home.

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds 4 d opportunity 2 rain on a tent. - Dave Barry

"A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car." - Emile Ganest

"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." - James Cash Penney

"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness." -Ray Bradbury

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~Lao Tzu

“Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."


"The most important element of any journey: the unexpected." Paulo Coelho


"This world was made for you. Enjoy it, explore it, experience it. Don't hold back."

"Treasure every shining moment that comes to you today. Gather each new glimpse of beauty that life may bring your way. Store your treasures in your heart, and every now and then, lift them from your memory and enjoy them all again."