I have loved traveling for as long as I can remember. I am fortunate enough to have gone on many vacations and seen lots of natural beauty, and for this I am thankful. It has instilled in me the wanderlust bug as well as so many wonderful memories. I also love quotes, especially finding ones that inspire me or agree with my experiences.
Here are 20 quotes about traveling that I love and may encourage you to get out of town occasionally.
1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” -Mark Twain
2. “The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.” -St. Augustine
3. “It is good people who make good places.” -Anna Sewell
4. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
5. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
7. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
8. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” -Henry David Thoreau
9. “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
10. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” -Lawrence Durrell
11. “Don’t tell me how educated you are; tell me how much you have travelled.” -Mohamed
12. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” -Frank Borman
13. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” -Seneca
14. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
15. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” -Hilaire Belloc
16. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
17. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
18. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” -Jamie Lyn Beatty
19. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert
20. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” -John Steinbeck
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