55 Of The Best Travel Quotes to Wander Often & Wonder Always

My collection of quotes has grown over the years, and the following are 55 of the best travel quotes that keep me motivated, grounded, inspired and curious.

In some, the reasons for travel are examined, while in others, the impact travel has on us is explored. I hope you will find them as wonderful as I have along the way.

The destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things along the way. Wander Often. Wonder Always.

With a single step, we can leave our comfort zone and venture out on a real voyage of discovery fueled by a strong desire to explore and experience new things.

With no fixed plans and no itinerary to follow, we let our curiosity guide us as we explore new lands and cultures – on the other side of the door or the other side of the world.

Wander Often. Wonder Always.

Find A New Way

The destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things. Finding a new path in everyday life is a great affair that fills us with love and understanding.

In that exploration, we find something new to learn about who we are and our place in the universe. Wander often, wonder always.

An incredible journey begins with the very next step you take outside the front door. For example, you could find a new way to go to work or take the longer ways when traveling.

But always be curious. Look up. Look down. Look around. Be bold and look at things from a new perspective.

Explore New Places

Journeys are meant to give us a glimpse of our world’s extraordinary expanse. Revel in the luxury travel brings as we discover new places and explore them with childlike curiosity. The real adventure lies beyond what we are used to.

Without reservation, go out and explore new places! Discover the marvels of our wonderful world. Set aside time to wander and explore, discovering breathtaking landscapes and unforgettable experiences.

We become good travelers, great explorers, and adventurers by letting our curiosity guide us again and again, exploring the crooked streets, taking in all the sights and sounds, and following our hearts.

Discover New Landscapes And New Oceans

As often as you can, take the time to explore and be amazed. The best gift traveling offers goes beyond the arrival at a physical location. Instead, when we discover new landscapes and oceans, we are opened up to forming new perspectives about our surroundings.

The most joyous moment of travel happens when we discover unexplored terrains. In fact, many of the most scenic roads in the United States will lead us through National Parks, national forests and along national shorelines, making them prime destinations to be curious about.

On Your Next Adventure

Always remember that the best travel experiences come from gaining a new perspective on a place, not the destination itself.

On your next adventure, seek out new experiences in different cultures. Learn how to see the world with fresh eyes. Can you be open and find the first joy in each experience along your way?

When you start planning your next adventure, ask yourself if there is something that you have always wanted to see but didn’t because it seemed impossible, risky or simply too expensive.

Ultimately, we need to live our lives, not someone else’s. Now is the time to try whatever it is you’ve been dreaming!

Be A True Traveler

Being a true traveler means we are willing to wander often – unafraid to get lost in the narrow alleyways of unfamiliar cities or the vast wilderness of untamed landscapes.

Being a true traveler also means being open to wonder always – captivated by the world’s beauty and diversity and curious about our surroundings.

We may be accustomed to our everyday surroundings, seeing them as part of the background rather than noting the many little details that make up those surroundings.

When we look at the same things with fresh eyes and a greater sense of childlike wonder, we see these familiar areas of our world anew.

And then, after we allow ourselves to enter this state of mind, everything is full of life.

The destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.

We Are All Connected By A Love Of Travel!

If you are reading this article, you either love travel or are considering it. By reading a great travel quote, we find both inspiration and wisdom.

Whether you are thinking about a trip to a foreign country, a road trip to somewhere in the United States or a walkabout in your town, travel quotes are a great way to get inspired to wander often and wonder always.

Here are some of my favorites. When you find the perfect caption for your journies, feel free to share them.

Best Travel Quotes

Henry Miller
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

Mark Twain
“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.”

Clifton Fadiman
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

Yogi Bhajan
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
“It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”

Ray Bradbury
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”

Tim Cahill
“Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally, the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.”

Mary Anne Radmacher
“Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.”

Travel Quotes About Being Curious

Anais Nin
“The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.”

Ray Bradbury
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

Lewis Carroll
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Still round the corner there may wait; A new road or a secret gate.”

Samuel Johnson
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Marcel Proust
“The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.”

Kirsti Out Wandering
“Wandering – the deepest, most fun rabbit hole ever!”

Oscar Wilde
“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs…The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

St. Augustine
“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

Mary Anne Radmacher
“As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, “Yes!””

Inspirational Travel Quotes

John Steinbeck
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

Walt Whitman
“Strong and content I travel the open road.”

Henry David Thoreau
“Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.”

Jack Kerouac
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

Anthony Bourdain
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

Aldous Huxley
“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”

Kirsti Out Wandering
“The act of wandering makes me feel alive.”

Hans Christian Andersen
“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.”

Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Paulo Coelho
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

Favorite Travel Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Jack Kerouac
“No matter how you travel, how ‘successful’ your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.”

Mark Twain
“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”

Anais Nin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

John Steinbeck
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”

Helen Keller
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

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

Lewis Carroll
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Dalai Lama
“Go at least once a year to a place you’ve never been before.”

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

Short Travel Quotes

Jack Kerouac
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”

Gustave Flaubert
“Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
“I’m going on an adventure!”

Susan Sontag
“I Haven’t Been Everywhere, But It’s On My List.”

Gustave Flaubert
“Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
“I’m going on an adventure!”

Dr. Seuss
“Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”

Lao Tzu
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

Paulo Coelho
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli
“Every moment is travel – if understood.”

Ray Bradbury
“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.”

Top Travel Quotes

J.R.R. Tolkien
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”

Henry David Thoreau
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

Jack Kerouac
“All of life is a foreign country.”

Michael Palin
“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.”

Dalai Lama
“We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.”

Anais Nin
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

Maya Angelou
“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.”

We are at the end of this wandering path through 55 Of The Best Travel Quotes to Wander Often and Wonder Always. I hope that you found the inspiration you were looking for! I would love to connect with you – leave a comment below.

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Until we meet again, wander on.
Kirsti