68 Inspirational Travel Quotes to feed your Wanderlust

There is something we love about travel quotes, for it feeds our wanderlust. 

Travel quotes, lead your imagination and senses to another part of the world.  

Whether you’re an adventure traveller, suffering from post-holiday blues, or ready to pack your backpack and hit the open road, then be inspired with these inspirational travel quotes that will feed your wanderlust. 

“Travelling – It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.  IBN Battuta”. This must be the quote that is closest to our heart, we really believe that there are some incredible places to visit that will leave you completely speechless, but after, you’ll always have a story to tell. 

Inspirational travel quotes that feed you wanderlust 

We have picked the best travel quotes that inspire and motivate us to travel more.  

So, get ready to travel more.  

Adventurous travel quotes that will feed your wanderlust. 

These adventure travel quotes should get you out there ready for your next adventure. 

4 – Jobs fill your pocket but adventure fill your soul – Jamie Lyn Beatty 

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

6 – Do not go where the path lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

7 – I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list – Susan Sontag 

8 – The journey itself is my home – Matsuo Basho 

9 – Not all those who wander are lost – J.R.R Tolkien 

11 – Take only memories, leave only footprints – Chief Seattle 

12 – Two roads diverged in the wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference – Robert Frist 

13 – To travel is to live – anonymous 

15 – Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life – Michael Palin 

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

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

18 – Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia – Charles M. Schulz 

19 – It is not the destination where you end up … But the mishaps and memories you create along the way – Penelope Riley 

21 – 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 

23 – Live your life by a compass, not a clock – Stephen Covey 

25 – Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return – Unknown 

26 – 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 

27 – Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ? Mark Twain 

28 – Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho 

Beach travel quotes 

These beach travel quotes will have you dreaming of being on a beach. 

29 – And I think to myself, what a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong 

30 – He who would travel happily must travel light – Antoine De St Exupery 

32 – Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year – Unknown 

33 – There are no shortcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills 

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

Family travel quotes, to feed your little one’s wanderlust 

These are perfect inspirational travel quotes to feed family’s wanderlust 

35 – Travel makes one modest, you see what a place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert 

36 – The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page – Augustine of Hippo 

37 – My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been – Diane Arbus 

38 – 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 

39 – Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better – Simon Raven 

40 – If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet – Anon 

Solo Travel quotes to feed your wanderlust 

Solo travelling can be scary, doing all alone. But it is the best experience that you won’t regret. 

I solo travelled for a year in Australia and don’t regret a minute of the experience.  

So, pluck up that courage read these inspirational travel quotes, to get your travelling solo. 

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

43 – Don’t count the days, make the days count – Muhammad Ali 

45 – So much of who we are is where we have been – William Langewiesche 

46 – Work, save, travel, repeat – anonymous 

This quote is 100% true, we are not rich, but we still travel well, simply because we budget our trips and save money. You can do it too. 

48 – Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip – Babs Hoffman 

49 – I want to make memories all over the world – Unknown 

50 – This heart of mine was made to travel this world – Unknown 

General travel quotes to feed your wanderlust 

51 – He who would travel happily must travel light – Antoine De St Exupery 

52 – Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer – anonymous 

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

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

55 – 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  

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

57 – Somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view – Unknown  

58 – I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way – unknown 

59 – Travel far enough, you meet yourself – David Mitchell  

60 – I travel not to anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move – Robert Louis Stevenson  

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

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

63 – We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury 

64 – 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 

65 – 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 

66 – Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde 

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

Conclusion 

We have chosen the best travel quotes that will get you in the mood to travel, provide you with inspiration on planning your next travel adventure.  

Travel is such a joy to us, not only do we see different things, but we can learn so much from travel. Such as the culture, religion, food and a way of life.  

Even if these travel quotes inspire you to book your next staycation, you’re still travelling and having an adventure.  

We can’t wait to hop on that plane and head off to our next destination 

What is your favourite inspirational travel quote? Is there one we haven’t mentioned? Let us know in the comments below. 

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