Inspiring Travel Quotes

Many people have had their say about travel over the years. Although travel has developed since many of these quotes were first recorded, the principles behind them remain. The following are my favourite travel quotes and the ones I find most inspiring. What are yours?

• “Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.” – Guy de Maupassant
• “Travel is the only expense that leaves you richer.” – Anonymous
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkein
• “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 harbour, catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.” – Mark Twain
• “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
• “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote. I know I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton
• “We travel initially to lose ourselves and we travel next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
• “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of land remote, to travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Anderson

Do you have a favourite travel inspiration quote? Please share it in the comments below.