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FAmous Travel Quotes

...and some not so famous travel quotes. Also includes some goal quotes too!

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"This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime."
G Adventures

"Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation."
Gayland Anderson

"To travel is to live."
Hans Christian Anderson

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
Maya Angelou

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Saint Augustine

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
Francis Bacon

"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown."
Gaby Basora

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
Hilaire Belloc

"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
Larry Bird

“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

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
Martin Buber

"A journey is best measured in friends, not miles."
Tim Cahill 

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends. The mind can never break off from the journey."
Pat Conroy

"Everywhere is my home. My roots are inside me."
Julie Demesy

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Benjamin Disraeli

"In life some people trip and some fall but some take that trip and make a beautiful dance out of it."
Rob Dyrdek

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
Amelia Earhart

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
Albert Einstein

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”
Albert Einstein

"It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn  what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vermont State Dairy Festival, Rutland, Vermont, June 22, 1955

"The key to life is not in what you attain, but the journey made in its attainment."
Eleesha

"The journey not the arrival matters."
T.S. Eliot

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.”
Euripides

“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

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
Gustave Flaubert

"Trips do not end when you return home - usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin."
Adele Franklin

"You can't have a narrow mind and a thick passport."
Pauline Frommer

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
John Gardner

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Andre Gide

"Remember happiness is a way of travel not a destination."
Roy Goodman

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
George Halas

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”.
Susan Heller

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast."
Hemingway

"Paris is always a good idea."
Audrey Hepburn

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn

"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions."
Peter Hoeg

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
Aldous Huxley

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves."
Pico Iyer

"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

"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.

"You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself."
Franz Kafka

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
Rudyard Kipling

"He who strays discovers new paths."
Nils Kjaer

"Once a year, go someplace you've never been before."
Dalai Lama

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
Urusula LeGuin

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis


"Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start."
Jason Mraz

"My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport."
Steve McCurry

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”
Mohammed

“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

"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator."
Robert Orben

"It doesn't matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go."
Bob Proctor

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
Mary Anne Radmacher

"The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours."
Ayn Rand

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Let us step step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
J.K. Rowling

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
Margaret Lee Runbeck

"People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home."
D. Runes

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."
Moslih Eddin Saadi

"Travel expands the mind and fills the gap."
Sheda Savage

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind."
Seneca

"You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."
Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
Socrates

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
Susan Sontag

“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

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“People don’t take trips – trips take people.”
John Steinbeck

"May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home."
Trenton Lee Stewart

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."  Edward J. Stieglitz (Abraham Lincoln is also often credited for this quote)

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."
Walt Streightiff

“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

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
Mark Twain

“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

“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

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."
Unknown

"If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found."
Unknown

"The true adventurer does not need to seek adventures, they will eventually find them."
Unknown

"If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer."
Unknown

"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer."
Unknown

"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year."
Unknown

"Somewhere on your journey don't forget to turn around and enjoy the view."
Unknown

"Tourists visit. Travelers explore."
Unknown

"Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God."
Kurt Vonnegut

"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it."
Charles Dudley Warner

"Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what's there in front of you."
Erick Widman

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."
Tennessee Williams

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Tennessee Williams

"Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side."
Oprah Winfrey

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
Oprah Winfrey

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
W.B. Yeats

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
Lin Yutang

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
Zig Ziglar

“Buy furniture when you are old.  Travel when you are young.”
Grandfather of a Travel Goal Getter Member

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.”
Moorish Proverb

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