Great Travel Quotes

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

  Ella Maillart

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

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• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Travel, Adventure

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• ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

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• Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Travel, Memories, Next Adventure

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Travel, Home

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• Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

  Mark Jenkins

  Motivational, Travel, Kindness

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• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Travel, Journey

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspirational, Friendship, Travel

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.149, Litres

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• If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Sleep, Two

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Joy

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• Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Nature, Travel, Journey

  "How to Explore Like a Real Victorian Adventurer". www.believermag.com. October 2011.

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• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Travel, Adventure

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Travel, School, Journey

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

  Lin Yutang

  Beautiful, Travel, Home

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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  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

  Friendship, Best Friend, Travel

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