15 Inspiring Travel Quotes To Stimulate Your Wanderlust

I love travel quotes. To some these may be mere words but for me, these quotes are a great inspiration. So I have compiled a list of the 15 most inspiring ones. Some of them are well known; others not so popular but all of them share one thing in common and that is their ability to induce a sense of wanderlust in the reader. I hope these quotes inspire you to travel and seek out adventure. If you like them, please leave a comment and let me know.

Ibn Battuta

Travelling – it leaves you speechless, and then turns you into a storyteller.

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Samuel Johnson

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all those who wander are lost.

William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Saint Augustine

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel makes you modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Dalai Lama

Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.

Stephen Wright

Everything is walking distance if you have the time.

Moorish proverb

He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

Anonymous

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.