My favourite 50 travel quotes that will make you want to want to quit your job and start your adventure of travelling and exploring the world.

Best 50 Travel Quotes of All Times

Adventure & Travel Quotes

1. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” — William Feather

2. “Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now.” — Michael Landon (my 2nd favourite adventure & travel quote)

3. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life and in change there is power.” — Alan Cohen

4. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

5. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin

6. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S Eliot

7. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.” — Steve Pavlina

8. “Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.” — Annie Besant

9. “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 we only seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

10. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.” — John Amatt

11. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

13. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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 (my favourite travel quote!)

15. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

16. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

17. “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – “WOW – What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

18. “If you can’t live longer, live deeper.” – Italian Proverb

19. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

20. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

21. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” — W. M. Lewis

22. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” — Wilfred Peterson

23. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” — Alan Sachs

24. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” — Ambrose Redmoon

25. “Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life & Travel Quotes

26. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag.

27. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

28. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

29. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

31. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

32. “Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” — Henry David Thoreau

33. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

34. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

35. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been. Travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

36. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

37. “A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.” – Sir Martin Conway

38. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” — Kahlil Gibran

39. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

40. “You lose sight of things, and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel

41. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

42. “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

43. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

44. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

46. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” — George Eliot

47. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

48. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

49. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

50. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

Bonus Life / Travel Quote

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs

What’s your favourite travel quote? Let me know in the comments :)

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