101 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust (Photos included)

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of wanderlust. The desire to explore new places, meet new people, and experience different cultures is a passion that many of us share.

And what better way to fuel that passion than with some inspiring quotes?

Whether you’re gearing up for your next trip or just dreaming about distant destinations, these inspirational travel quotes will help to stoke the flames of your Wanderlust!

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Growing up, my father was a very good public speaker. When he spoke, everyone just seemed to listen. One thing he loved to do was use quotes in his speeches because sometimes someone else has just said it better.

These quotes resonate with me in one aspect of traveling. I hope they will resonate with you as well! You’ll find multiple categories for these “wanderful” quotes, including short, unique, and my favorite, funny quotes.

Top 10 Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

1. “I choose to collect memories instead of things.” -Elena Levon

2. “You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” -Miriam Adeney

3. “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” –Bethany Hamilton

4. “Life is like a camera: focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

5. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” -Robin Sharma

6. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” -Lemony Snicket

7. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis

8. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” -Maya Angelou

9. “Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, fine beer, brains, and no fear.” -Steve Maraboli

10. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. -Saint Augustine

Inspirational Wanderlust Travel Quotes

11. “Impossible is just an opinion.” -Paulo Coelho

12. “Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for something that’s meant to come.” -Anonymous

13. “Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe the one reason why it will.” –Ziad K. Abdelnour

14. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb

16. “Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.” –Glenn Turner

17. “At any given moment, you have the power to say this is not how the story is going to end.” –Christine Mason Miller

18. “You can’t do anything about the length of your life. But you can do something about its width and depth.” -Evan Esar

19. “There are seven days in a week and someday isn’t one of them.” -Dorothy Parker

20. “Life itself is a privilege. But to live life to the fullest, well. That is a choice.” -Andy Andrews

21. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” -Anonymous

22. “You are absolutely capable of creating the life you can’t stop thinking about. Stop living in your head. It’s time to make your dreams happen.” -Anonymous

23. “It’s a beautiful day to go after your dreams.” -Alia Bhatt

24. “Tell the story of the mountains you’ve climbed. Your words could become a part of someone else’s survival guide.” -Morgan Harper Nichols

25. “Travel is an investment in yourself.” -Matthew Karsten

Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

26. “If not now, then when?” -John Lewis

27. “The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

28. “Wherever you are, be all there.” -Jim Elliot

29. “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” -Jennifer Dukes Lee

30. “What if I fall? Oh, my darling, what if you fly?” –Erin Hanson

31. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” –Jennifer Lee

32. “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.” –Brad Montague

33. “Insecurity kills more dreams than failure ever will.” –Suzy Kassem

34. “Today I choose joy.” –Kevyn Aucoin

35. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” –Ben Francia

36. “Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” -Jaime Lyn Beatty

37. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius

38. “No reason to stay is a good reason to go.” -Anonymous

39. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” -Susan Sontag

40. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” -Anonymous

41. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” “Louis Armstrong

42. “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” -John Muir

Funny Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

43. “For me, being ‘chill’ is getting to the airport 3 hours before take-off so I can sit in a restaurant directly across from my gate and be anxious about missing my flight from there.” -Alli Brown

44. “Running to the boarding gate is my favorite workout.” –Anonymous

45. “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” –Bob Hope

46. “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” -Bob Hope

47. “I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year!” –Anonymous

48. “The airport is a lawless place. 7 AM? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost $17.” -Alyssa Limperis

49. “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” – Erma Bombeck

50. “Good things come to those who book flights.” -Anonymous

51. “Don’t worry about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” -Charles M. Schulz

52. Travitude (n.) – When you start to get grumpy and sassy because you miss traveling.

53. “Better an oops than a what if.” -Beau Taplin

54. “Stuck somewhere between “I need to save” and “you only live once.” -Anonymous

55. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” -George Carlin

56. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having another tourist recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

57. “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.” -Anonymous

58. “Hiking is my gym workout.” -Anonymous

Adventure Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

59. “A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein

60. “If you are brave enough to say ‘goodbye,’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.'” -Paulo Coehlo

61. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe. Trust. Let go. And see what happens.” –Mandy Hale

62. “Spontaneity is the best kind of adventure.” -Anonymous

63. “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Christopher Columbus

64. “Climb the mountain. Not so the world can see you, but you can see the world.” -Anonymous

65. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” -Lovelle Drachman

66. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.” -Shanti

67. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goshdarn mountain!” -Jack Kerouac

68. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” -Rachel Wolchin

69. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.” -Anonymous

70. “Life without adventures is like pizza without cheese.” -Anonymous

71. “We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.” -Paulo Coelho

72. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” -Neal Donald Walsch

73. “And so, the adventure begins…” -Anonymous

Famous Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

74. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin

75. “Oh the places you’ll go!” -Dr. Seuss

76. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -Harriet Tubman

77. “It’s kinda fun to do the impossible.” -Walt Disney

78. “Actually, the best gift you could give her was a lifetime of adventures.” -Lewis Carroll

79. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” -The Dalai Llama

80. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” -Oscar Wilde

81. “In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did.” -Mark Twain

82. “But when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” -Dr. Seuss

83. “Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Unique Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

84. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein

85. “You get a strange feeling when you leave a place like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you’ll never be this way ever again.” -Azar Nafasi

86. “The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been” -Albert Einstein

87. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” -Albert Einstein

88. “Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” –Edmund Lee

89. “My confession is I fall in love with so many places I’m always half broken-hearted by goodbyes. And I don’t believe in non-attachment. There’s no passion inside of that. I believe in burning and longing. And I believe we leave tiny pieces of ourselves in every place we’ve loved.” Victoria Erickson

Even More Quotes About Traveling

90. “Our reaction to a situation literally has the power to change the situation itself.” -Anonymous

91. “Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.” -Minor Myers Jr.

92. “Don’t think too much. You’ll create a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place.” –Sukhraj S. Dhillon

93. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little.” -Alexander Sattler

94. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert

95. “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” -Chinese Proverb

96. “Choose someone who is home and an adventure all at once.” -Amber DeLauer

97. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” -Hellaire Belloc

98. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

99. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” -Oscar Wilde

100. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.” -Dayana Manrique

101. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” -Tom Stoppard

Rounding out 101 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

I hope these have brightened up your day and given you the inspiration to get out there on the road, or at least start planning for a trip.

Have you found your new favorite travel quote? What are some of your favorites from this list? If so, please share in the comments below!

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