23 Inspiring Travel Quotes that Will Feed Your Wanderlust
Updated: Oct. 15, 2019Feed your sense of adventure and inspire your inner explorer.
Jack Kerouac, author
“In the end, you won’t remember the time you spend in the office or mowing the lawn. Climb that mountain.” —Jack Kerouac
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David Mitchell, author
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”—David Mitchell
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Robert Louis Stevenson, author
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
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T.S. Eliot, poet
“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
Jawaharlal Nehru, former prime minister of India
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventure that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” —Jawaharlal Nehru
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Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group
“If happiness is the goal—and it should be—then adventure should be a top priority.” —Richard Branson
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The Dalai Lama
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” —The Dalai Lama
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Ursula K. Le Guin, author
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
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Nev Schulman, TV host
“You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.” —Nev Shulman
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Amelia Earhart, aviator
“Adventures is worthwhile in itself.” —Amelia Earhart
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Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
“The traveller was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing’.” —Daniel J. Boorstin
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Danny Kaye, actor
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” —Danny Kaye
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Frank Borman, astronaut
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” —Frank Borman
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Terry Pratchett, author
“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.” —Terry Pratchett
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Andre Gide, author
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.” —Andre Gide
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Wendell Berry, author
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” —Wendell Berry
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T.S. Eliot, poet
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” —T.S. Eliot
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Anais Nin, writer
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” —Anais Nin
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R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor
“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” —R. Buckminster Fuller
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Jack Kerouac, author
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” —Jack Kerouac
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Anthony Bourdain, chef
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.” —Anthony Bourdain
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Aldous Huxley, writer
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” —Aldous Huxley
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Maya Angelou, poet
“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.” —Maya Angelou
Inspire your wanderlust even more with these gorgeous travel photos.
