Motivational Travel Quotes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

 “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 colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

 “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

 “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

 “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

 “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

 “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

 “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

 “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

 “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

 “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”― Rumi Jalalud-Din

 “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

 “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

 “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 274.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in travelling, -- a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vii. Chap. v. 1778.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 154.

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an inn.
Shenstone: Written on a Window of an Inn.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!"
In the Street. Calais.

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:
So didst thou travel on life's common way
In cheerful godliness.
London, 1802.

Thus, when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted,
And looks around in fear and doubt.
But soon, the prospect clearing,
By cloudless starlight on he treads,
And thinks no lamp so cheering
As that light which Heaven sheds.
I 'd mourn the Hopes.

TALENTS are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
(Goethe.)

 “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”― G.K. Chesterton

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
― Judith Thurman

THERE is nothing more daring than ignorance.
Menander.

THE shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.
Longfellow.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holmes.

A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only. Plaut.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. As You Like It, ii. 1.

A new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of. Goethe.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. Goethe.

Less Motivational Travel Quotes

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
The Traveller. Line 26.

Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.

INQUIRE about your neighbour before you build, and about your companions before you travel.
(Arabic.)

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

 “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

THIS body is a tent which for a space
Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace;
When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death,
Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.
(Omar Khayyām.)

THIS world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
(Goldoni.)

A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.
(Sanskrit.)

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
Remarkable Speeches.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind.
The Traveller. Line 423.