23 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

When you’re stuck at home, unable to travel or unsure where you’d like to go, inspirational travel quotes can change your entire day. These beautiful quotes inspire wanderlust in those who can’t wander, help us dream of the places we’ve yet to go, and bring back wonderful reminiscences of the trips we will always remember. Go ahead – read through these travel quotes and dream a little!

1. Travel and change of place impart vigour to the mind. (Seneca)

2. One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things. (Henry Miller)

3. The journey not the arrival matters. (T.S. Eliot)

4. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. 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)

5. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. (Saint Augustine)

6. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less travelled by. (Robert Frost)

7. 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)

8. There is not a person in the world who is given the advantage of travel who does not return changed. (Laura Moncur)

9. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. (Anais Nin)

10. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

11. To awaken alone in a strange town is on of the pleasantest sensations in the world. (Freya Stark)

12. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain)

13. Certainly, 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)

14. Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. (Gustave Flaubert)

15. A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. (Lao Tzu)

16. Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you. (Unknown)

17. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. (James Michener)

18. Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. (Unknown)

19. Not all those who wander are lost. (JRR Tolkien)

20. To travel is to live. (Hans Christian Andersen)

21. Travel is only thing you buy that makes you richer. (Unknown)

22. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. (Lawrence Block)

23. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. (Martin Buber)

Final Thoughts on Inspirational Travel Quotes

What did you think of these inspirational travel quotes? Did any of them drive you to plan a new vacation? If you need more inspiration, check out these quotes about Florida or these 14 travel shows to binge watch when you can’t travel, all but guaranteed to inspire your next vacation plans. And, of course, be sure to pin one or more of these to inspire your friends and family, too!