Great travel quotes are timeless. They are energizing reminders of why we leave our nests and venture to unfamiliar places. When we need inspiration, or feel tired or homesick, let these quotes remind us of why we travel: to grow and discover ourselves, and to experience how different the world is from home, but yet similar. Here are some of the best travel quotes I have come across. Enjoy!

1. 25 Great Timeless Travel Quotes

2. “I never travel without my
diary. One should always
have something sensational
to read in the train.”
~ Oscar Wilde
Location: Dulce, New Mexico | Credit: Philippe Clairo

3. “I shall be telling this with a sigh
somewhere ages and ages hence: Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took
the one less traveled by, and that has
made all the difference.”
~ Robert Frost
Location: Fernie, British Columbia | Credit: Philippe Clairo

4. “I travel light. I think the most
important thing is to be in a
good mood and enjoy life,
wherever you are.”
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Location: Black Forest, Germany | Credit: Parki

5. “All journeys have secret
destinations of which the
traveler is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber
Location: Cromwell, New Zealand | Credit: Chris Gin

6. “Though we travel the world
over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us or we
find it not.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Location: Jonica , Calabria | Credit: BoloG

7. “Airplane travel is nature’s
way of making you look like
your passport photo.”
~ Al Gore
Location: In the Air | Credit: Airbus 340A

8. “Man cannot discover new
oceans unless he has the
courage to lose sight of the
shore.”
~ Andre Gide
Location: Trogir, Croatia | Credit: Philippe Clairo

9. “If you reject the food, ignore the
customs, fear the religion and avoid the
people, you might better stay at home.”
~ James Michener
Location: Broadway in New York City | Credit: Grinmar

10. “The traveler sees what he
sees, the tourist sees what
he has come to see.”
~ G. K. Chesterton
Location: Old Pier | Credit: MasterChief

11. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of
what you’re going to do, especially in other
people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you
are what you are right there and then. People
don’t have your past to hold against you. No
yesterdays on the road. ”
~ William Least Heat Moon
Location: Dresden, Germany | Credit: Sopex

12. “A person needs at intervals
to separate from family and
companions and go to new
places. One must go without
familiars in order to be open
to influences, to change.”
~ Katharine Butler Hathaway
Location: Brisbane, Queensland | Credit: Destin

13. “The real voyage of
discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes but
in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust
Location: Milos Island , Greece | Credit: s_gito_milos

14. “You lose sight of things…
and when you travel,
everything balances out.”
~ Daranna Gidel
Location: Wallace Park | Credit: Matt Mosher

15. “If you wish to travel far and
fast, travel light. Take off all
your envies, jealousies, un-
forgiveness, selfishness, and
fears.”
~ Glenn Clark
Location: The Netherlands | Credit: Martinique

16. “We may run, walk, stumble,
drive, or fly, but let us never
lost sight of the reason for
the journey, or miss a chance
to see a rainbow on the
way.”
~ Gloria Gaither
Location|: Abruzzo, Italy Credit: Giovanni Di Gregorio

17. “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
Location: iIse Rügen, Germany | Credit: Ematts

18. “The man who goes alone
can start today; but he who
travels with another must
wait till that other is ready.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Location: Reethi Rah, Maldevian| Credit: Dominic Kamp

19. “Travelers, there is no path,
paths are made by walking”
~ Antonio Machado
Location: Kitzbüheler Horn, Tyrol, Austria | Credit: Reinhard76

20. “The great difference
between voyages rests not
with the ships, but with the
people you meet on them.”
~ Amelia E. Barr
Location: Croatia, Baska Voda | Credit: Roebuck

21. “When preparing to travel,
lay out all your clothes and
all your money. Then take
half the clothes and twice
the money. ”
~ Susan Heller
Location: Auckland Sky Tower, New Zealand| Credit: Chris Gin

22. “When you travel, remember
that a foreign country is not
designed to make you
comfortable. It is designed to
make its own people
comfortable.”
~ Clifton Fadiman
Location: Tea Plantations in Kerala - India | Credit: Bharath Wootla

23. “To awaken quite alone in a
strange town is one of the
pleasantest sensations in the
world.”
~ Freya Stark
Location: Grand Canyon | Credit: Travis Lair

24. “I haven’t been everywhere,
but it’s on my list.”
~ Susan Sontag
Location: Lake Obersee , South Germany | Credit: Bass Madan

25. “Own only what you can
carry with you; Let your
memory be your travel bag.”
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Location: Crested Butte, Colorado | Credit: JulieMun

26. “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.”
~ Mark Twain
Location: Mana Island, Japan | Credit: Takashi Nakamichi