Travelling Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old travelling quotes, travelling sayings, and travelling proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Through travel, I began to grow up. Andrew McCarthy
For me, travel has rarely been about escape; it's often not even about a particular destination. The motivation is to go-to meet life, and myself, head-on along the road. Andrew McCarthy
The fastest way to travel is to be there already. Terry Pratchett
Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. Nick Miller
To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever. Steven J. Carroll
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
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 far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. Elizabeth Gilbert
Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling. Roman Payne
Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. Roman Payne
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Augustus Moore
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. Joe Abercrombie
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. Catherynne M. Valente
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. Alain De Botton
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. Thomas Jefferson
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you. Nicolas Bouvier
Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world. Josh Gates
The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. Rolf Potts
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. Haruki Murakami
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind. Michael Bassey Johnson
There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. Robert Benchley
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. Eudora Welty
Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection. Patrick Rothfuss