Travel Quotes

These 32 quotes on travel come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Sick on my journey — my dreams wander over withered fields. — Matsuo Bashō
Sick on my journey — my dreams wander over withered fields.
Matsuo Bashō
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky. — Mario Benedetti
Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky.
Mario Benedetti
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. — Swami Vivekananda
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
What is life like, wherever we travel? A wild goose, leaving footprints on the snow. — Su Shi
What is life like, wherever we travel? A wild goose, leaving footprints on the snow.
Su Shi
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Dogen
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
Dogen
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. — Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
Lao Tzu
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. — Confucius
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. — Tony Robbins
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Tony Robbins
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. — Oprah Winfrey
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. — Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark Twain
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