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​​65 Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure

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Whether you’re a seasoned traveler or just planning your first escape, these short travel quotes will put you in the right frame of mind to maximize your adventures. They provide insights and impart wisdom to those who are gearing up to change their way of life, test a new way of living, or set off and explore.

Blake Miner

I'm a social scientist and entrepreneur fascinated by the psychology of personal freedom and location-independent business. Since selling a portion of my small language learning startup in 2018, I've spent time across 4 continents consulting with SaaS and web3 companies and exploring different cultures.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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