Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Travel

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American Author, Journalist, Short Story Writer

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell (1912–90) British Biographer, Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Travel is a fools paradise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before leading wherever I choose.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Satirist

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.
Indian Proverb

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American Sociologist

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.
Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719) French Jansenist Theologian

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) British Scholar, Author

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine Writer, Essayist, Poet

Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
Paul Goodman (1911–72) American Novelist, Essayist

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost—the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Claud Cockburn (1941–2012) Irish American Political Journalist

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) English Novelist, Playwright, Critic

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.
Michael Palin (b.1943) English Comedian, Actor, Writer, Explorer

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South African Novelist, Short-Story Writer

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep.
Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand Novelist, Short-Story Writer

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs.—They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Railway travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

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