50 Inspiring Travel Quotes for Wanderlust
I love to travel. Whether traveling with my children, on a romantic getaway with my husband or traipsing across the globe solo, I love to explore and learn. Travel is one of my greatest passions. Authors, scholars, and great thinkers alike have waxed poetic for centuries about the wonders of travel. I’ve compiled a list of my favorite travel quotes. I hope you enjoy them and that they’re a source of wanderlust and inspiration for you.
[Updated December 2022]
Here are 50 travel quotes to inspire you to travel with your family.
1. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter
2. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show.” – Unknown
3. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
4. “When you travel with children, you are giving something that can never be taken away. Experience, exposure, and a way of life.” – Pamela Chandler
5. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Seuss
6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
7. “Blessed are the curious where they shall have Adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
8. “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Seuss
9. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go, I travel for travel’s sake. The greatest affair is to move.”– Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
11. “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain
12. “Traveling – It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
13. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
14. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
15. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
16. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel by bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
17. “Some of the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela Blount
18. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharal Nehru
19. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin
20. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go See.” – Chinese Proverb
21. “Little by little, one travels far.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
22. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
23. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
24. “Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly.” – Bear Grylls
25. “If we were meant to stay in one place we would have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
26. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair should be messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
27. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
28. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
29. “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
30. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
31. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
32. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Neale Donald Walsch
33. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
34. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
35. The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world accumulating experiences.”– Mark Paterson
36. “Travel as much as you can, far as you can, as long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” – Anonymous
37. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
38. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa Chopra
39. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown
40. “We were together. I forget the rest.” Walt Whitman
41. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
42. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks for our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
43. “Happiness is planning a trip somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Unknown
44. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it’s not a destination.” – Roy Goodman
45. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – Unknown
46. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
47. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams!” – Oprah Winfrey
48. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
49. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
50. “Kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”
– Kevin Heath
I hope you enjoyed these family travel quotes. Do you have a favorite travel quote that’s not listed? If so, please share it in the comments below.
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