Quotes inspire, provide insight, help channel thoughts and add perspective. It’s human nature to listen to respected individuals. The most influential people whom ever lived are constantly quoted every day. The topics vary, but travel is one of the most quoted topics. Here are a few of our favorites:

Every destination has its own beauty!

1. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

2. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

4. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

5. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” — Rumi

6. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G. K. Chesterton

7. “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.” — Samuel Johnson

Be adventurous when you travel!

8. “Travel makes you modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert

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

10. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” — Benjamin Disraeli

11. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

12. “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

13. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber

14. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

16. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” — Mohamed

17. “Bizzare travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” — Kurt Vonnegut

18. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca

19. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” — Carlo Goldoni

Discover the world outside your window!

20. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” — Albert Einstein

21. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

22. “People don’t take trips… Trips take people.” — John Steinbeck

23. “Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell

25. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” — Elizabeth Gilbert