Inspiring Travel Quotes

• 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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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

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

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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

  Ibn Battuta

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventurous

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• Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

  Paulo Coelho

  Travel, Matter, Travel Bug

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• Once a year go someplace you've never been.

  Dalai Lama

  Travel, Vacation, Years

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Travel, Fear

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Nature, Travel

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• 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.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Life, Travel, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

  Martin Buber

  Inspirational, Travel, Freedom

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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