23 Inspiring Travel Quotes that Will Feed Your Wanderlust
Updated: May 12, 2022Feed your sense of adventure and inspire your inner explorer.
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
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
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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
The Dalai Lama
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” —The Dalai Lama
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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
Amelia Earhart, aviator
“Adventures is worthwhile in itself.” —Amelia Earhart
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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 yees 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
Andre Gide, author
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.” —Andre Gide
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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Anais Nin, writer
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” —Anais Nin
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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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
Aldous Huxley, writer
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” —Aldous Huxley
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
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