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The world is a book
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
200 travel quotes
Lines from writers, explorers and proverbs that have been pushing people out of the door for centuries.
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Lines from writers, explorers and proverbs that have been pushing people out of the door for centuries.
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Quote#8
Travel is fatal to prejudice
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Quote#13
Twenty years from now
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Quote#18
I travel for travel's sake
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Quote#24
New eyes
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Quote#28
The traveller sees what he sees
The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
Quote#34
Not all who wander are lost
Not all those who wander are lost.
Quote#38
A single step
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Quote#42
A good traveller has no fixed plans
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Quote#48
Wherever you go
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Quote#52
The journey is the reward
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Quote#58
To move, to breathe
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote.
Quote#62
Travel makes one modest
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Quote#68
No one realises how beautiful
No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old familiar pillow.
Quote#73
Travel far enough
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
Quote#78
The gladdest moment
The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.
Quote#83
Adventure is worthwhile
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Quote#88
Own only what you can carry
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people.
Quote#93
Wandering re-establishes order
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Quote#98
Once a year go somewhere new
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Quote#103
Live your life
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Don't wait, because right now is the oldest you've ever been.
Quote#109
Roads were made for journeys
Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.
Quote#113
Better to see once
It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.
Quote#117
The world is big
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
Quote#123
The mountains are calling
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Quote#127
In every walk with nature
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Quote#133
Climb the mountains
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Quote#137
Going out was going in
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Quote#143
Not knowing where you're going
A good traveller does not know where he is going, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Quote#147
We travel to change
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.
Quote#153
Travel is more than seeing
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Quote#158
Man cannot discover new oceans
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Quote#163
A ship in harbour
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Quote#168
Throw off the bowlines
Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Quote#173
Life is either a daring adventure
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Quote#178
The best view
The best view comes after the hardest climb.
Quote#183
Take only memories
Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.
Quote#188
Leave no trace
Leave it better than you found it.
Quote#194
We are all travellers
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Quote#198
Little by little
Little by little, one travels far.
Quote#202
Travelling is a brutality
Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort.
Quote#208
Two kinds of travel
There are only two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
Quote#212
A journey is best measured in friends
A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.
Quote#218
Investment in yourself
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
Quote#222
Collect moments
Collect moments, not things.
Quote#228
Jobs fill your pocket
Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.
Quote#232
Fill your life with experiences
Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.
Quote#238
Blessed are the curious
Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.
Quote#243
Because in the end
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Quote#248
The road is life
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Quote#253
Nothing behind me
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
Quote#258
People don't take trips
People don't take trips, trips take people.
Quote#263
A journey is a person
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Quote#269
We find after years
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
Quote#273
The world is a country
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Quote#279
Travel and change of place
Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.
Quote#283
Every day is a journey
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Quote#287
Do not seek the footsteps
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.
Quote#293
The moon and sun are travellers
The months and days are the travellers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers.
Quote#297
Travel brings power
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Quote#303
Don't be satisfied with stories
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Quote#307
As you start to walk
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Quote#313
There are no foreign lands
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.
Quote#318
To awaken alone
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Quote#323
The beckoning counts
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking latch behind you.
Quote#328
Solitude of travel
Solitude, I have discovered, is not a lack of company but a different kind of it.
Quote#333
We shall not cease
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Quote#338
Only those who risk
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Quote#343
Ithaka gave you the journey
Ithaka gave you the marvellous journey. Without her you would not have set out.
Quote#348
Keep Ithaka always in your mind
Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you're destined for.
Quote#354
Ask that the way be long
Hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.
Quote#358
The land of literature
A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
Quote#364
Travel is like love
Travel is like love, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness.
Quote#368
Movement and stillness
In an age of speed, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow.
Quote#372
Two tramps
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.
Quote#378
The whole object of travel
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.
Quote#382
An adventure is an inconvenience
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
Quote#388
How you climb a mountain
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
Quote#392
It's not the mountain we conquer
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Quote#398
We knocked the bastard off
Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.
Quote#403
Because it's there
Because it's there.
Quote#408
What we get by reaching
What we get by achieving our goals is not as important as what we become by achieving them.
Quote#413
I went to the woods
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
Quote#418
In wildness is the preservation
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Quote#423
Not till we are lost
Not till we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Quote#428
Live in each season
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
Quote#433
The question is not what you look at
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Quote#439
Travel light
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Quote#443
If you want to build a ship
If you want to build a ship, teach people to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Quote#449
A goal without a plan
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Quote#453
One sees clearly
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Quote#457
The earth teaches us
The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books, because it resists us.
Quote#463
Travelling tends to magnify
Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.
Quote#467
To travel is to discover
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Quote#473
Experience is not what happens
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Quote#477
Tourists don't know where they've been
Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.
Quote#483
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Quote#488
Extraordinary travel writing
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity.
Quote#493
Ever tried, ever failed
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Quote#498
The best journeys answer questions
The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn't even think to ask.
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