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50 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes


Travel is one of the most inspirational experiences a person can have. It's something which opens our minds, inspires us to do and see more, and changes who we are as people. Travel is something people write about, because it moves their souls. So if you're looking for some travel inspiration, here are some of the world's most inspirational travel quotes.

1) "The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page." St Augustine

2) “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” Wendell Berry

3) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

4) “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” Clint Borgen

5) "We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharial Nehru

6) "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau

7) "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." Tim Cahill

8) “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” Matthew Karsten

9) "People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the people they ignore at home." Dagobert D. Runes

10) “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” Bill Bryson

11) "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Mark Twain

12) “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

13) "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." Henry David Thoreau

14) "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in you sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

15) "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." Benjamin Disraeli

16) "Once you have travelled, 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

17) “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher

18) "Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled." Mohamed