Inspiring Travel Quotes

Traveling is one way to know the world, confronting stereotypes and changing perspectives. See the world through your eyes. Travelers do many ways to proof that the world are a safe place to live, has beautiful landscapes to explore, and many unique cultures to find. People travel for many reasons and ways; they become backpacker, flash-packer  hiker, or even tourist to find inspirations and to learn from the outside world.

We’ve collected many travel quotes below that inspired us to travel, seriously. We hope you’ll find inspirations too from these quotes and start to travel, learn, and grow. We used to be from Indonesia, but now we’re from the world.

Inspiring Travel Quotes

• “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
• “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert “Eat, Pray, Love”
• “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine  
• “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Roy Goodman

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

• “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
• “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
• “Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.” – Mason Cooley
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” – Henry Boye
• “The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
• “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” – Steve Jobs from his speech in Standford University 2005

Stewart and his team put out several issues of the Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you – Steve Jobs 

• “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot
• “If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” – Raymond Inmon
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
• “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway
• “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” ― George Harrison

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

• “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
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― Anaïs Nin
• “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi
• “To travel is to live.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― Henry Miller
• 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
• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
• “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
• “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” — Danny Kaye
• “The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.” — Lao-Tzu
• “Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” — Ross Morley
• “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs
• “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” — Glenn Clark
• “Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson
• “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
• “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
• “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
• “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
• “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
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle