The 55 Most Motivational Travel Quotes

Perhaps some readers want to go on a long journey, to see the incredible beauty of our vast world with their own eyes, but they lack the strength and motivation. We have collected 55 famous quotes that will awaken you to go on an exciting journey!

1. "Traveling means living" — Hans Christian Andersen

2. "I have now realized that the surest way to find out if you like a person or not is to travel with them" — Mark Twain

3. "Travel is a Reward" — Steve Jobs

4. "Life while traveling is a dream in its purest form" — Agatha Christie

5. "Only two things we will regret on our deathbed — that we loved little and traveled little" — Mark Twain

6. "Knowledge of the countries of the world is the decoration and food of human minds" — Leonardo da Vinci

7. "This is how my mental journeys began. At first, vaguely, and then better, I saw new places, cities, countries. I lived there, met people, made friends. It's hard to believe, but they are as dear to me as my family and as real" — Nikola Tesla

8. "Travel only with those you love" — Ernest Hemingway

9. "Three things make a person happy: love, interesting work and the opportunity to travel" — Ivan Bunin

10. "In 20 years, you'll be more disappointed with the things you didn't do than the ones you did. So get away from the quiet marina. Feel the tailwind in your sail. Move forward. Dream on. Open Up" — Mark Twain

11. "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page" — St. Augustine

12. "Walking together with a loved one in a strange city, among strangers, is somehow especially pleasant: everything seems beautiful and significant, you wish everyone well, peace and the same happiness that you yourself are filled with" — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

13. "Describing people's lives in such a way as to end the description at marriage is like describing a person's journey, ending the description at the place where the traveler fell to the robbers" — Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

14. "The world is a wonderful book, but it is of little use to someone who does not know how to read it" — Carlo Goldoni

15. "Traveling is the best activity in the world. When you wander, you grow rapidly, and everything that you have seen is postponed even on appearance. I recognize people who have traveled a lot from thousands. Wandering cleanses, intertwines meetings, centuries, books and love. They make us related to the sky. If we have received the unproven happiness of being born, then we must at least see the earth" — Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

16. "As soon as you catch traveler's fever, you can no longer cure it and you will be infected with it for the rest of your life" — Michael Palin

17. "There is nothing more useful for nerves than to visit places where you have never been" — Anna Akhmatova

18. "If we don't talk about love, traveling brings us the most joy and comfort" — Theodore Dreiser

19. "The benefit of travel is to regulate imagination with reality and instead of thinking about what things can be, see them as they are" — Samuel Johnson

20. "Travel is wonderful, it has made a huge contribution to my vision of the world as a whole. We have experimented many times, involving cultures of different countries in our work. All these impressions leave their mark" — Jared Leto

21. "To move, breathe, soar, swim, receive what you give, explore, travel – this is what it means to LIVE" — Hans Christian Andersen

22. "A real journey is not about opening horizons, but about meeting new people" — Marcel Proust

23. "Traveling means debunking other people's misconceptions about other countries" — Aldous Huxley

24. "Travel as a marriage. The main misconception is to think that you have them under control" — John Steinbeck

25. "It seems to me that the most beautiful thing during a trip is the feeling of enjoying everyday activities, and you need to enjoy it as if it were all a novelty. And then it will seem to you that everything new is self–evident" — Bill Bryson

26. "Nothing develops the mind like traveling" — Emile Zola

27. "Traveling by plane is a natural way to make you look like a passport photo" - Bill Gates

28. "On weekdays they think about the future, on weekends they think about the past… And only on vacation — about the present!" — Vladimir Borisov

29. "I dream of fantastic worlds! Close friends and my family often try to stop me. They say it's time to give up fantasy. There are no fantastic worlds — it's imagination and fiction! There are no more undiscovered islands, there are no places where a human foot would not set foot. The way you live, only a schoolboy who has read adventure books can live. In my heart, I understand and agree with my opponents. But childhood still remains in the depths of my consciousness, over the years it does not come out of my body shell. And I am glad of it" — Fyodor Konyukhov

30. "There are no trips that don't change you at least in part" — David Mitchell

31. "The traveler sees what he sees: the tourist sees what he came to see. In general, the essence of travel is not to set foot on someone else's land, but to return to your native land as if it were someone else's" — Gilbert Keith Chesterton

32. "Roads are the most powerful drug on earth, and each of them leads to a dozen others" — Stephen King

33. "I have now realized that the surest way to find out if you like a person or not is to travel with them" — Mark Twain

34. "Since childhood, I have dreamed of one day visiting many places and finding out how other people live. When I grew up and started traveling, I got to know other cultures even within America." — Tom Cruise

35. "Because at the end of the day you won't remember the time you spent in the office or mowing the lawn. Go and climb the damn mountain" — Jack Kerouac

36. "Once a year, visit a place where you have never been before" — The Dalai Lama

37. "I travel a lot: just like that and for work. It's a part of my life, but a very romantic part." —Keira Knightley

38. "Don't think about what you're going to tell me when you get back. Time is here and now. Seize the Moment" — Paulo Coelho

39. "Travel would lose half of its charm if it were impossible to talk about it" — Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky

40. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step" — Lao Tzu

41. "Waking up alone in an unfamiliar city the next morning is one of the most wonderful feelings in the world" — Freya Stark

42. "Traveling means being born and dying every second" — Victor Marie Hugo

43. "Why on earth would you visit the same place when there are still so many unexplored corners in the world?!" — Mark Levy

44. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed with what you did not manage to do than with what you did. So drop everything that's dragging you back and sail away from your harbor. Catch the bull by the horns already. Explore. Dream On" — Audrey Hepburn 

45. "Traveling leaves you speechless, and then turns you into a better storyteller" — Ibn Battuta

46. "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photos" — Susan Sontag

47. "The more I travel, the more I realize that fear separates people when they could be friends" — Shirley MacLaine

48. "Look at the world. He is much more amazing than dreams" — Ray Bradberry

49. "Traveling and living are much more interesting if you follow sudden impulses" — Bill Bryson

50. "The pleasure of life is derived from our encounters with the new, and therefore there is no greater happiness than constantly changing our horizons, meeting every day under a different sun" — John Krakauer

51. "Travel makes a person humble. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world" — Gustave Flaubert

52. "To move, breathe, soar, swim, receive what you give, explore, travel – this is what it means to LIVE" — Hans Christian Andersen

53. "I travel not to come somewhere, but to go. The main thing is movement" — Robert Louis Stevenson

54. "Anxiety is a bad companion for a traveler" — Louise May Alcott

55. "People are able to find and know themselves only in adventures" — Andre Hyde