Inspiring destinations come in all shapes and sizes, so no matter what your interests are, there’s sure to be a place that speaks to you. Are you looking for natural beauty? Historical significance? A lively cityscape?
What matters most is the mindset with which you approach your travels – open-mindedness will take you further than any guidebook ever could! So take a look at some of these favorite quotes about destinations and start dreaming of your next adventure.
Destination Quotes
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
Moorish proverb
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
To travel is to evolve.
Pierre Bernardo
A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.
Roman Payne
People don’t take trips, trips take people.
John Steinbeck
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Lawrence Block
Certainly, 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
You don’t have to be rich to travel well.
Eugene Fodor
The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.
Rich Ridgeway
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb
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
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.
Lauren Hutton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
James Baldwin
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Scott Cameron
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley
Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
Lisa St
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Harun Yahya
Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Ibn Battuta
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
Walt Whitman
You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.
Anita Septimus
I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.
Susan Sontag
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de St. Exupery
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
Steve McCurry
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
Martin Buber
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J.K. Rowling
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
G.K. Chesterton
Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.
Robert Frost
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James Michener
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
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Irving Wallace
When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.
Clint Borgen
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
Babs Hoffman
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin Saadi
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett
Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.
Matthew Karsten
It is better to travel well then to arrive.
Buddha
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.
Mohammed
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de Castro
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Doug Coupland
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.
Paul Theroux
The journey, not the destination matters.
T.S. Eliot
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
Shakuntala Devi
You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Charles DeLint
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Life is a sequence of chain. Hold on to it and you will reach your desire destination.
Eddy M Reyes
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hill
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
William Shakespeare
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.
Charlotte Eriksson
Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.
Mandy Hale
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)
Katsura Hoshino
Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.
Mandy Hale
Successful people enjoy the journeys they embark on, irrespective of whether they reach their destination or not.
Zain Hashmi
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
David Archuleta
Adventure is worthwhile.
Aristotle
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
Gail Tsukiyama
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
Barbara Hall
Appiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.
Steve Maraboli
No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.
J.D. Stroube
She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn’t. Even when she wasn’t on her way to me.
Kami Garcia
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
Steve Jobs
Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.
Steve Maraboli
It’s so nice to know where you’re going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
Samuel Beckett
When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.
Steve Maraboli
She should have been thrilled. But instead, she felt tired. Like all those things belonged to someone else.
Candace Bushnell
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?
Craig D
When you don’t know where you’re going, maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing to have more than you need.
Sarah Dessen
If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life.
Israelmore Ayivor
For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.
Anonymous
I don’t know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
Jodi Picoult
The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
Galt Niederhoffer
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Resistance is a sign that shows you’re going the right way.
Constance Friday
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that’s where the point lies.
Vera Nazarian
Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God’s grace is sufficient.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
Seneca
You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination; doesn’t hurt to be in your Sunday clothes.
Anurag Shourie
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
Zig Zigler
Life without a meaning that’s infinitely bigger than the sum total of my life is certain to calibrate a trajectory to a destination that’s not worth getting to.
Craig D
You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
Guy Finley
You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly.
Icelandic Proverb
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Charles DeLint
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart.
Allen Walker
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Marcel Proust
You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.
Stephen King
The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day.
Tenzin Gyatso
It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
Brian Eno
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton
You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
W. Clement Stone
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day.
Marlon Wayans
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
Bruce Catton
What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Winston Churchill
Certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other’s experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
A. R. Rahman
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
Garrett Hardin
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
Diane Sawyer
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Eudora Welty
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
Sushant Singh Rajput
Winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.
Alex Morgan
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Leguin
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.
Paul Theroux
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams Jr
Sometimes, it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
Drake
Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.
Chris Hadfield
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, we are confident and believe we are going to succeed.
Orison Swett Marden
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe
Death… doesn’t like to be cheated.
William Bludworth
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Lao Tzu
There are seven billion people in the world. So when one of them behaves badly toward you, he’s actually doing you a great favor because he’s saving you time. He’s telling you that he’s not worth your while.
Frank
I’m going to make the most of every moment I have left. So I’m gonna do what I do best … If I’m dying, I’m trying.
Hunt Wynorski
It’s human nature to find pain in any situation however relatively fortunate.
Lindsay
By the grace of God, and the name of the United States of America, I take possession of this planet on behalf of, and for the benefit of, all mankind.
Dr. Charles Cargraves
Equal… in death’s eyes? All of us? How can you say that? Dude, think it through: Charlie Manson, made it to 70. Where’s the equality in that?
Ian McKinley
I can remember a time when every city street would lead me back to you. When the road signs guided me home and I was never lost.
Jon
I consider it a triumph of the will that there aren’t shallow graves dotting my back yard.
Frank
Some people say there’s a balance to everything. For every life there’s a death, for every death, there is a life. But the introduction of life that was not meant to be, that can invalidate the list, force Death to start anew.
William Bludworth
Life is about courage and going into the unknown.
Cheryl
In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes.
Bludworth
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca
I believe that there is nobody for anyone.
Frank
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
Walter Mitty
Even at time of fear and uncertainty, I never went to the darkness. Light was always my destination- the light at the end of the tunnel.
Chaker Khazaal
When things don’t go as planned in the journey to your destination, don’t give up. Defy defeat. Resist submission. Hold onto hope.
Chaker Khazaal
Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination; doesn’t hurt to be in your Sunday clothes.
Anurag Shourie
+I don’t know whether you can look at your past and find … the path that will point to your final destination.
Jodi Picoult
Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.
Steve Maraboli
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination.
Charlotte Eriksson
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination.
Jamal Crawford
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl Rogers
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
Jose Rizal
Always the journey, never the destination.
Simon Rattle
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Life’s all about choices. Everyone’s destination is the same; only the paths are different.
Sushmita Sen
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
Sometimes it just takes a little longer to get to your destination, but if you make sure to enjoy the journey, eventually you will get there.
Rachel Morrison
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
Rudy Giuliani
There’s no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.
Srikumar Rao
If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.
Debbie Ford
Character is a journey, not a destination.
William J. Clinton
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
Life to me is a journey – you never know what may be your next destination.
David Russell
For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.
Jessica Williams
It’s like, if you’re on a ship, and you’re sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn’t mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn’t mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He’ll send you another boat to get you to your destination.
Columbus Short
Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It’s important to remember that you don’t always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.
Debby Ryan
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn’t end with death but with eternal life.
Angelo Scola
Always trust the process. I’m a firm believer in that. You know, you keep your eyes on the destination, and of course there will always be detours, but if you’re moving towards it, you will always get there.
Bazzi
I would definitely tell my younger self not to be in a rush, on anyone else’s timeline, and make sure that, along the way, that you take care of you first so that you can reach your destination.
Mya
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Swami Sivananda
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
Drake
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
Jonny Kim
Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
William H. McRaven
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Mary Harris Jones
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other’s experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
A. R. Rahman
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
Paul Ricoeur
YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.
Chad Hurley
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Garrett Hardin
I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
Brad Pitt
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
Simon Sinek
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.
Richard Le Gallienne
To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one’s journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.
Shimon Peres
Take Google Maps or Waze. On the one hand, they amplify human ability – you are able to reach your destination faster and more easily. But at the same time, you are shifting the authority to the algorithm and losing your ability to find your own way.
Yuval Noah Harari
You don’t want to get too wrapped up in that final destination. You want to enjoy the journey, enjoy the process, and just take it one step at a time.
Carli Lloyd
I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That’s where I go.
Travis Barker
The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there’s ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it’s really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
Carlton Cuse
I am very opinionated and sometimes a very irritating character but, I have learnt that the quest to learn is a journey, not a destination.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
The Muse should be a trusted destination for answers. A hand when you need one. Someone to talk you through tough decisions or situations. A starting point.
Kathryn Minshew
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Jeff Bezos
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I’ve stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product.
Michelle Dockery
I’m in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
Buzz Aldrin
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Final Word
Destination quotes can be a great way to start your daydreaming about your next adventure. Whether you’re a wanderlust-filled traveler or just enjoy reading about far-off places, we hope these destination quotes have inspired you.
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