35+ Best Short Travel Quotes

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Here are 35 of the best short travel quotes to inspire your next adventure. The power of quotes and words should never be underestimated and here are the best of the best.

These short travel quotes are super relatable and can be used for your own personal wanderlust or for posting online. Travel quotes are the perfect way to get your mind wandering and dreaming about your next getaway. The power of words should never be underestimated.

Enjoy 35 of the best short travel quotes and get ready for your next adventure.

35+ Best Short Travel Quotes

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“To travel is to live” – Hans Christian Andersen

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

“Maybe you’ll get more than you ever could have imagined. Who knows where life will take you – the road is long, and in the end, the journey is the destination.” – Whitey Durham, One Tree Hill

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try” — Seth Godin

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never let your memories be bigger than your dreams

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“The goal is to die with memories not dreams”

Take only memories, leave only footprints. ― Chief Seattle

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

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” —Lao Tzu

“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it, and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere. So just keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”

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

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

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

Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.” – Alex Garland

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

”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”

“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen

 “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you’ve travelled.” – Mohammed

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. – Ray Bradbury

Collect moments, not things. – Aarti Khurana

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

“Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger

“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” –Jaime Lyn

These short travel quotes must have you ready for your next adventure.

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Samantha Karen

Samantha Karen is the owner and author of the travel blog Sam Sees World, a travel blog dedicated to sharing the world's most beautiful and unique travel destinations. As a full time traveler she has visited over 50 countries with more on the way.