A Selection of Great Travel Quotes

September 10, 2019 tinyteddy

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“‘What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.” – Mason Cooley
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” – Dave Barry “
”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” G.K. Chesterton
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” George Bernard Shaw
“It is not down in any map; true places never are” – Herman Melville
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too.” – William Shakespeare
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
“Then it was springtime in the cloudy Himalayas. Nine hundred feet below my cave rhododendrons blossomed. I climbed barren mountain-tops. Long tramps led me to desolate valleys studded with translucent lakes . . . Solitude, solitude! . . . Mind and senses develop their sensibility in this contemplative life made up of continual observations and reflections. Does one become a visionary or, rather, is it not that one has been blind until then?” – Alexandra David-Neel
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“When you’re traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.” – Rumi
“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” – Rumi
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” Ray Bradbury
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” Henry Boye
“Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’” – Lisa St Aubin de Teran
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” – Italo Calvino
“No matter where you go, there you are.” – unknown
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldon
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Wakdi Emerson
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” Charles Horton Cooley
″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” — Pat Conroy
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
“It is solved by walking.” – Algerian proverb
“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
““Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – The Dhammapada
“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
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money” – Susan Heller
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
“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
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” –Swami Vivekananda
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K Chesterton
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” – Margaret Thatcher
“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon
“The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.” – Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong
“I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full” – Lord Dunsany
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
“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
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“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
“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.” – Orson Welles
“The autumn leaves are falling like rain / Although my neighbors are all barbarians / And you, you are a thousand miles away / There are always two cups at my table.” – T’ang dynasty poem
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” Hilaire Belloc
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” – Margaret Mead “
Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.” – Malcolm Muggeridge
“Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes
“And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.” – Dave Barry
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” — Hodding Carter
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Charles Spurgeon
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.” – Horace
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“No one’s going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.” – Rupert Murdoch
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot.
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
“Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.” – Mark Twain
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
“I am not the same for having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” – George Eliot
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.” – Aristophanes “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there.” – unknown “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.” – Herman Hess
“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
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” – Anatole France
“Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.” Regina Nadelson
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” – Charles Dickens
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzbski
“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
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“I’d love to travel to the Holy Land.” – Loretta Lynn
“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” – Aldous Huxley
“He travels fastest who travels alone.” – proverb
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” Thomas Fuller
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” –Daniel J. Boorstin
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolken
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.” – George Byron
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“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
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.” – Helen Keller
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.” – Mark Twain
“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.” – Edward Dahlberg
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D.H. Lawrence
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” – Ernest Hemingway
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.” – William Blake
”If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport. ” – George Winters
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.” – John Muir
“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