The Best Travel Quotes to Refuel Your Travelling Desires

"Do you love reading travel quotes?"

I think many of us, at least once came across a travel quote that connected us to our dream destination, that made us think to skip our routine life for a moment, that motivated us to take "our long-pending road trip", or made us excited about an unknown place.

If your answer to the above question is "yes", you already know that there is something special about travel quotes, be it for getting inspiration, for kickstarting your planning, for entertainment purposes, or just to put caption for your Instagram picture, these quotes have it all. The travel quotes are not just simply writings, they are the emotions that we feel, that have been felt by some of the great travelers of their time.

Giving a spark of wanderlust, daydreaming about places, feeding the travel worm inside us, are what
these travel mantras are meant for.

Here I bought you a wonderful list of few traveling quotes for planning your next adventure (obviously post lockdown), so just relax, sit back and let's travel "virtually" to your ultimate destination, with these few prompting travel quotes

Inspirational Travel Quotes

1. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
- by Terry pratchett, A hat full of sky

It's important to come back to the same place, from where you started, to get the real essence of the place you travelled to.

2. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

3. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

4. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,

To gain all while you give,

To roam the roads of lands remote,

To travel is to live.”

― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

5. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

-- Ibn Battuta

True masterpiece quote by Ibn Battuta.

6. “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

7. “Travel does not exist without home...If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”

― Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

8. “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

― Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

9. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
― Dalai Lama

The QUOTE to live by. There is always something different about new cultures, destinations, people. So why to wait to explore them and visit new places every time.

Road Trip quotes

1.“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost”.

 – Erol Ozan

2. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take”.

 – Angela N Blount

3. “Straight roads do not make skillful drivers”.

 – Paulo Coelho

4.“The greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff which happens along the way.” – Emma Chase

5. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua

6. “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, 

     And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.”

― John Masefield

Adventure Quotes

1. “Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.” -Yvon Chouinard

2. “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” -Unknown

3. “The Biggest Adventure You Can Ever Take Is To Live The Life Of Your Dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey.

4. “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

― Christopher McCandless

5. “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

6. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!”

― Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities

Solo Travel Quotes 

1.“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

2. “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”

― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

3. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

4. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

5. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

– Maxwell Maltz

" I hope you all are doing well during these hard times, following the rules and regulations that are imposed by the respected government, and taking care of your health ". 

These travel quotes are just meant to refuel the travelling desires, we all are having during this lockdown. The day will come soon, to pack our bags and leave for a beautiful unknown destination. I would wrap this blog up with a wonderful quote by my favorite writer,

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” —  J.K. Rowling

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