We love to travel. We quit our jobs over a decade ago and have been traveling ever since. So we thought it was time to gather the best short quotes for travel out there. Because if you like travel quotes, short ones are the best.
So whether you are looking for inspiration, a caption for your travel pic on Instagram or just some pretty travel pictures, you will find it here. We hope these quotes for traveling will encourage to get out there and explore.
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Our Favorite Short Travel Quotes
Here are some of our favorite short travel quotes.
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage” – Paulo Coelho
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”
“All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
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“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
“He who must travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St Exupery
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things” – Henry Miller
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“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
“Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – Leigh Hunt
“If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them.” – Alex Garland
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
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“Travelling unveils new dimensions of this world not known to the naked eye.” ― Wayne Chirisa
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then.” – William Least Heat Moon
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“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip.” – Paul Brodie
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
“Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
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“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
“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc
“There’s a whole world at your feet.” – Mary Poppins
Short Inspirational Quotes
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“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times” – Asian Proverb
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St Augustine of Hippo
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“See the line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me. And no one knows, how far I’ll go” – Moana
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” – Albus Dumbledore
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
“Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Sarah Frances Brown
“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.” – Jawaharial Nehru
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water.” – Roman Payne
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
“Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
“The journey is part of the experience.” – Anthony Bourdain
“The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.” – Bruce Springsteen
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” – Martin Buber
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.” – John Steinbeck
“Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending.” – Debi Tolbert Duggar
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins
“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
“Stop worrying about the pot holes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
“There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”
“Good friends follow you anywhere.” – Winnie the Pooh
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb
“As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh
“Friends that travel together, stay together.”
“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma and Louise
“Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – Leigh Hunt
“There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.”
“A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.”
“There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
“The best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.” – William Hazlitt
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
“Never go too long without watching a sunset” – Atticus
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
“I travel light” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness.” – Mark Twain
Short Funny Quotes
These short funny travel quotes will put a smile on your face.
“Travel isn’t always pretty.” – Anthony Bourdain
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong
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“Paris is always a good idea” – Audrey Hepburn
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself” – David Mitchell
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“Travel is only glamorous in retrospect” – Paul Theroux
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
“Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe” – Jim Rohn
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green
“Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase
“There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb & Dumber
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by” – Robert Frost
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust
“It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.” – Terry Pratchett
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
Short Travel Sayings
Here are some great short travel sayings that no one knows who said first.
- “Oh Darling, Let’s Be Adventurers.”
- “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
- “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
- “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
- “It feels good to be lost in the right direction”
- “The best view comes after the hardest climb”
- “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
- “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”
- “Collect Moments, Not Things.”
- “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
- “Go where you feel most alive”
- “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”
- “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”
- “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
- “Life was made for good friends and great adventures.”
- “Life is short and the world is wide.”
- “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure”
- “Add life to your days, not days to your life”
- “The ultimate catharsis is a grand getaway adventure.”
- “Getaways are good for the heart.”
And there you have it! Our list of the best short travel quotes and short travel sayings. We hope you found a short travel quote that spoke to you.
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