After I finally mustered up the courage to take my first overseas trip, I was able to instantly see the value of international travel.
That is, at least after I got over the initial culture shock.
Today we’re keeping things very minimalist with this collection of short travel quotes.
The ones that made the list do a great job of capturing this sense of adventure and exploration in just a few words, or impart years of wisdom in a short aphorism.
Whether you need a push of motivation to jump on that plane like I did, or have already hit the open road, some of these words are sure to connect.
Ready to explore?
A List of Short Travel Quotes
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan Sontag
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anaïs Nin
Adventure is worthwhile.
Amelia Earhart
Oh, the places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
Martin Buber
Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
All travel has its advantages.
Samuel Johnson
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Chief Seattle
The journey not the arrival matters.
T.S. Eliot
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
Stephen Covey
Life is short and the world is wide.
Simon Raven
To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen
Jet lag is for amateurs.
Dick Clark
Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
Euripides
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
Louis Armstrong
This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.
Paulo Coelho
We travel to be lost.
Ray Bradbury
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
Albert Einstein
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
Anita Desai
I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca
People don’t take trips, trips take people.
John Steinbeck
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux
You don’t have to be rich to travel well.
Eugene Fodor
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.
Paul Coelho
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less travelled.
Robert Frost
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.
Paul Theroux
Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.
Oscar Wilde
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
Seneca
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.
Paolo Coelho
So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.
Jack Kerouac
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Little by little, one travels far.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.
Sir Richard Burton
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.
Oscar Wilde
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.
Hilaire Belloc
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Neale Donald Walsch
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Roy Goodman
A ship in a harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
William Shedd
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustav Flaubert
Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends.
Pat Conroy
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins
Wherever you go, go with all your heart!
Confucius
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
Everywhere I went, the world was on my side.
Roman Payne
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of who we are is where we have been.
William Langewiesche
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ernest Hemingway
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Ibn Battuta
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.
Gayle Foreman
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
Dalai Lama
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
Parting Words
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed this humble list of short travel quotes. I encourage you to explore new places, go on random adventures, and get lost in the unknown.
Sometimes it’s just what we need.
What are your favorite short travel quotes? Let me know!
P.S. If you enjoyed this, you might also like these related quote collections:
- Quotes About Destinations
- Quotes About Road Trips
- Quotes About Vacation
- Quotes About Travel for Couples
- Quotes About Flâneurs and Flânerie
Originally published October 14, 2022. The date of the last significant edit is reflected at the top of this post.
