Quotes to celebrate travel

Most people love to travel, and these wonderful worlds celebrate what it is completely, curated by the Readsaga review team.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – Mark Jenkins

A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni

A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

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Wonderful quotes on the importance of travel

Take note of these great quotes on the importance of travel in your life, curated by the Readsaga review team.

Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien

Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. They always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – Winnie the Pooh

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. ― Michael Palin

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

Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – Gayland Anderson

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – Unknown

It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. – Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. – Hemingway

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Anon

I’m not lost, I’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – Unknown

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? – Ernesto Che Guevara

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – Euripides

A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins

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