25 Inspirational travel quotes that’ll trigger your next adventure!

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25 Inspirational travel quotes that’ll trigger your next adventure!

Looking for a spark to light that wanderlust deep within you? Here are 25 inspirational travel quotes, that’ll trigger your next adventure!

Other inspirational travel quotes you might like…


1. “I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it.” ― Alexander Sattler, Travel Photographer

Mel walking through the desert in Dubai with the quote: "I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it." ― Alexander Sattler, Travel Photographer

2. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” ― Bill Bryson, Author of Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe’ (and loads of other awesome travel books!)

3. “Travelling. It’s about opening the mind and challenging the soul.” ― Unknown

Man in the dark looking up at the stars with the text: "Travelling. It's about opening the mind and challenging the soul."

4. “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, Author of ‘Innocents Abroad’

5. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ― Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India 1947- 1964

Mel sat on a rock with her back to the camera looking out over the mountain peaks of Snowdonia National Park in Wales with the quote: "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." ― Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India 1947- 1964

6. “Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I’d done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail’ (which I have read and highly recommend!).

7. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” ― Agnes Repplier, Writer

Mel taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris with the quote: "The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life." ― Agnes Repplier, Writer

8. “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer, Essayist, Novelist and Travel Writer

9. “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” ― Asian Proverb 

Shadow of a person holding up their arms in front of the Northern Lights amongst the snow with the quote: "Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times." ― Asian Proverb

10. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.” ― Margot Fonteyn, Greatest classical Ballerina of all-time

11. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” ― Rumi, 13th Century Poet 

Mel with her back to the camera on a walkway to some beach huts in the background with the quote: "Travel brings power and love back to your life." ― Rumi, 13th Century Poet 

12. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw, Psychiatrist, Activist and Author

13. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” ― Gaby Basora

Woman rock climbing up high on a cliff with a blue sky and mountains in the background and the quote: 13. "Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown." ― Gaby Basora

14.  “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed, Prophet in the Islamic religion

15. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher, Author of ‘Lean forward into your life’

Three girls with their backs to the camera watching the sun set with the moon in the background with the quote: “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher, Author of 'Lean forward into your life'

16. “Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life.” – Paul Theroux, Author of ‘Ghost Train to the Eastern Star’

17. “New York is always a good idea” – Unknown

Skyline of New York with the Empire State Building in the background with the quote: "New York is always a good idea."

18. “Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy, New York Times bestselling Author

19. “If we were meant to stay in one place we would have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin, Author of ‘What you missed while blinking: From one know-it-all to another’

Girl walking away on a beach leaving footsteps in the sand with the quote: “If we were meant to stay in one place we would have roots instead of feet.” - Rachel Wolchin, Author

20. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady and wife of U.S president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Former American spokesman in the U.N

21. “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, Comedian, Actor and Travel Presenter

Man running away down a road with snowy mountains and a blue sky in the background with the quote:  "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, Comedian, Actor and Travel Presenter

22. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – Ray Bradbury, Author

23. “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non percent of.” – Louis C.K., Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer

Woman swimming underneath the ocean in a bikini with the quote: “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non percent of.” – Louis C.K., Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer

24. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin, Educator and Author

But my all-time favourite ‘go to’ travel quote (and general life mantra) is this…

25. “Life is an adventure…dare it!” – Mother Teresa, International Missionary

Mel sat in front of mountains at the top of Snowdon in Wales with the text: "Life is an adventure...dare it!" – Mother Teresa, International Missionary

Other inspirational travel quotes you might like…


Do you have any favourite inspirational travel quotes? Share them below! 😄

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