Inspiring Travel Quotes

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. ~ Paul Theroux

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin

I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. ~ Seneca.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~ Tad Williams

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. ~ Sinclair Lewis

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~ Elizabeth Drew

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before. ~ Bill Bryson

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere. ~ Geoff Dyer

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

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. ~ William Least Heat-Moon

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before. ~ Dalai Lama

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. ~ Iain Sinclair

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime. ~ Wally Byam

I love to travel, but hate to arrive ~ Albert Einstein

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish. ~ Robert Brault

Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing. ~ Gayle Forman

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars ... ~ Jack Kerouac

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are. ~ George Eliot

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die! ~ Jim Elliot

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place. ~ Rumi

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas. ~ Max Von Sydow

I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me. ~ Katherine Locke

No-one knows enough to righteously say something is impossible.
"With God ALL things are possible."
Now tell me, what does that leave out? ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

It's always too early to quit. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. ~ Michael Palin

You need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky ... ~ John Geddes

Go to where the silence is and say something. ~ Amy Goodman

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference. ~ Nick Nolte

Man, you should write a book.'
'I know. You couldn't make this stuff up, could you? ~ Stephanie Wood

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion. ~ Anthony Bourdain

The quickest and healthiest way to move on is to own it so you can disown it! Travel lightly! EL ~ Evinda Lepins

And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their ancient homes; and this is like a fragment of their song, if it can be like their song without their music. [...]As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. He looked out of the window. The stars were out in a dark sky above the trees. He thought of the jewels of the dwarves shining in dark caverns. Suddenly in the wood beyond The Water a flame leapt up - probably somebody lighting a wood-fire-and he thought of plundering dragons settling on his quiet Hill and kindling it all to flames. He shuddered; and very quickly he was plain Mr. Baggins of Bag-End, Under-Hill, again. He got up trembling. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue. ~ Werner Herzog

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer. ~ Alison Gopnik

A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen. ~ Matt Shea

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death. ~ Douglas Adams

Don't let schooling interfere with your education. ~ Mark Twain

Do not despise any experience. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked - people didn't get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like oases, like the stops on the great trade routes. The sight of air travellers strolling in ones and twos into midnight airports will draw a small crowd any night up or two. The young people look at the planes, the older ones look at the passengers with a watchful incredulity. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle. ~ Rob Bell

Democracy must be our answer to terrorism ~ Angela Merkel

Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state
Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
Good fortune comes
and this is sterling sense:
Then perseverance, never to decline
The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
And firmness never to be drawn away
By any passion from that noble prey
By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
Or the vain hope that lives upon a name. ~ George Crabbe

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ~ Alan Watts

I don't want to go to Peru."
How do you know? You've never been there."
I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer. ~ Janet Autherine

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction. ~ John Patitucci

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen. ~ Kristin Cavallari

I will never go anywhere with vampires again, I promised myself. I let the lure of the money and the excitement of the travel pull me in. But I won't do that again. As God is my witness . . . Then I had to laugh out loud. Scarlett O'Hara, I wasn't. "I'll never be hungry again, ~ Charlaine Harris

Enjoy the ride while it still lasts. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ripen fruit is for a sacred season. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita