301 Exciting Travel Quotes
Travel Quotes To Inspire You
Everyone is capable of a profound quote and indeed many people make them without even realising it.
One will hear or see quotes that go back years, sometimes centuries, mainly from the rich or famous or those with influence.
How many times have you seen a quote attributed to someone and thought that you have never heard of them? Perhaps wondered what sort of lives they led or what they did?
Below are 301 quotes relating to travel or adventure. Each is attributed to the individual if known.
For some individuals you may see a short description. A few will already be well known to you.
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People And Their Quotes
3 Erica Jong
4 Chief Seattle
5 T. S. Eliot (194)
6 Shakespeare
7 Hans Christian Andersen (143)
8 Lao Tzu (22)
9 Anonymous
10 Asian Proverb
11 Pauline Frommer
12 Sandra Lake
13 Henry David Thoreau (168)
14 Unknown
15 Hilaire Belloc
16 Paulo Coelho (24 55 116 163)
17 J.R.R. Tolkien
18 Buddha
19 Unknown
20 Unknown
21 John Steinbeck (40 250)
22 Lao Tzu
23 Aldous Huxley
24 Paulo Coelho
25 Albert Einstein (111)
26 Susan Sontag (138)
27 Anthony Bourdain (195)
28 Freya Stark (133)
29 Mary Anne Radmacher
30 Hodding Carter
31 Unknown
32 Anonymous
33 Leigh Hunt
34 Mark Twain (103 115 132)
35 Unknown
36 Turkish Proverb
37 Charles M. Schulz
38 Unknown
39 Lewis Carroll
40 John Steinbeck
41 Shirley Maclaine
42 Ibn Battuta (78)
43 Helen Keller (149)
44 Unknown
45 Rachel Wolchin
46 Unknown
47 Martin Buber
48 Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
49 Anita Desai
50 Gustave Flaubert
51 Anonymous
52 St. Augustine
53 Andre Gide
54 Anonymous
55 Paulo Coelho
56 Neale Donald Walsch
57 Mathew Karsten
58 Ralph Waldo Emerson (140)
59 Mohammed
60 Unknown
61 Tiny Buddha
62 Anonymous
63 Erol Ozan
64 Unknown
65 Oscar Wilde (290)
66 Dalai Lama
67 Unknown
68 Unknown
69 Patsy Bendfeldt
70 Anonymous
71 Maarten Schaefer
72 Anonymous
73 Anonymous
74 Anonymous
75 Sudha Murthy
76 Anonymous
77 Jennifer Lee
78 Ibn Battuta
79 Anonymous
80 Thomas Fuller
81 Anais Nin (169)
82 Jawaharial Nehru
83 Tim Cahill
84 Suzanne Collins
85 Confucius
86 Henry Rollins
87 Bill Bryson
88 Herman Melville (281)
89 Eugene Fodor
90 Rick Riordan
91 Matt Smith
92 Jack Kerouac (273)
93 Anonymous
94 Wayne Dyer
95 Anonymous
96 Paul Theroux (291 299)
97 David Mitchell
98 Robert Louis Stevenson
99 Izaak Walton
100 Anonymous
101 Edmund Hillary (173)
102 Spencer Antle
103 Mark Twain
104 Marcel Proust
105 Hemmingway
106 Babs Hoffman
107 Anonymous
108 Anonymous
109 David McCullough
110 Penelope Riley
111 Albert Einstein
112 Anonymous
113 Maya Angelou
114 Aerosmith
115 Mark Twain
116 Paulo Coelho
117 Gandhi
118 Johnathan Winters
119 Rick Watson
120 Anonymous
121 Anonymous
122 John Green
123 Anonymous
124 Gayle Foreman
125 Anonymous
126 Anonymous
127 Aesop
128 Seneca (295)
129 Peter Hoeg (201 247)
130 Irving Wallace
131 Ray Bradbury
132 Mark Twain
133 Freya Stark
134 Anonymous
135 Lovelle Drachman
136 Henry Miller
137 Harun Yahya
138 Susan Sontag
139 Gilbert K Chesterton
140 Ralph Waldo Emerson
141 Lin Yutang
142 Frank Borman
143 Hans Christian Andersen
144 Danny Kaye (282)
145 Anonymous
146 Anonymous
147 Ann Beattie
148 Dagobert D Runes
149 Helen Keller
150 Anonymous
151 N. Raghn
152 K. Bromberg
153 Anonymous
154 Amelia Earhart
155 Anonymous
156 Clo Mailen
157 Anonymous
158 Anonymous
159 Lee Hiller
160 Sachin Ramdas Bharatiya
161 Unknown
162 Unknown
163 Paulo Coelho
164 J. K. Rowling
165 Douglas Adams
166 John Muir (180 193 265)
167 Tony Fahkry
168 Henry David Thoreau
169 Anais Nin
170 Alexandre Dumas
171 Roberto Assagioli
172 Navjot Singh Sidhu
173 Sir Edmund Hillary
174 Carew Papritz (264)
175 Sir Richard Burton
176 Seanan McGuire
177 Ewan McGregor
178 George Eliot
179 W.M. Lewis
180 John Muir
181 Christopher McCandless
182 Guy Laliberte
183 Elizabeth Taylor
184 Pico Iyer
185 Ray T Bennett
186 Unknown
187 Drew Houston
188 Clarissa Pinkola Estes
189 Barry Finlay
190 Robert Frost
191 Sir Richard Branson (202)
192 Gandalf, The Lord Of The Rings (214)
193 John Muir
194 T. S. Eliot
195 Anthony Bourdain
196 Ella Maillart
197 Ella Maillart (240)
198 Jon Miksis (204 206 222)
199 African Proverb
200 Anonymous
201 Peter Hoeg
202 Sir Richard Branson
203 John Amatt (220)
204 Jon Miksis
205 Sal Di Stefano
206 Jon Miksis
207 Kirsten Hubbard
208 Christopher Robin
209 Beverly Sills
210 Abraham Lincoln
211 Oliver Wendell Holmes
212 Steve Jobs
213 Michael Jordan
214 Gandalf, The Lord Of The Rings
215 Angelina Jolie
216 Unknown
217 Casey Neistat
218 Bob Bitchin
219 Anonymous
220 John Amatt
221 Nomadic Matt
222 Jon Miksis
223 Karen Blixen
224 Spanish Proverb
225 Jack Canfield
226 Arthur L Williams Jr.
227 Greg Child
228 John Lubbock
229 Edward Abbey
230 Anatole France (298)
231 Jim Rohn
232 Katrina Mayer
233 W.B. Yeats
234 Anonymous
235 Ralph Waldo Emerson
236 Keval Parikh
237 Seth Godin
238 Trenton Lee Stewart
239 Drew Bundini Brown
240 Ella Maillart
241 Anonymous
242 Douglas Coupland
243 Moslih Eddin Saadi
244 Muriel Rukeyser
245 Anonymous
246 Shaquille O´Neal
247 Peter Hoeg
248 Jeremiah
249 Ronnie Lott
250 John Steinbeck
251 Matt Biondi
252 Holly Holm
253 Steve Pavlina
254 Tim Daly
255 Pico Iyer
256 J. M. Barrie (278)
257 Alexandre Dumas
258 Drew Barrymore
259 Bear Grylls
260 Rosalia De Castro
261 David Attenborough
262 Conrad Anker (263)
263 Conrad Anker
264 Carew Papritz
265 John Muir
266 Unknown
267 David Lama
268 Tenzing Norgay
269 Alfred Wainwright
270 Dag Hammarskjold
271 David McCullough Jr.
272 Harley King
273 Jack Kerouac
274 A. A. Milne
275 Sue Fitzmaurice
276 Andrew Garfield
277 Cheryl Strayed
278 J. M. Barrie
279 C. S. Lewis
280 Karen Gibbs
281 Herman Melville
282 Danny Kaye
283 Reinhold Messner (284)
284 Reinhold Messner
285 Friedrich Nietszche
286 Meriem Webster
287 Lloyd Alexander
288 Aaron Lauritsen
289 Emily Wing Smith
290 Oscar Wilde
291 Paul Theroux
292 Edith Wharton
293 Brenna Smith
294 Rumi
295 Seneca
296 Greg Anderson
297 Agnes Repplier
298 Anatole France
299 Paul Theroux
300 Anonymous
301 Mohsin Hamid
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3. Erica Jong
ERICA JONG
Erica Jong was born Erica Mann in New York City, U.S.A. 26 March 1942
Novelist, satirist, and poet. In 1973 published novel Fear of Flying. This was controversial at the time for its attitudes towards female sexuality. The book greatly helped the advancement of feminism and sold 20 million copies worldwide.
4. Chief Seattle
CHIEF SEATTLE
Chief Seattle was a Suquamish and Duwamish chief.
Born about 1780 at Blake Island he died 7th June 1866 (aged 85–86) at Port Madison, Washington
He pursued a path of friendship to white settlers promoting ecological responsibility and respect of Native Americans’ land rights.
The city of Seattle, Washington, USA was named after him.
In 1908 a bronze statue of Chief Noah Sealth (Chief Seattle) was erected in Tilikum Place, Seattle.
5. T. S. Eliot
Known as T.S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A on 26 September 1888.
He was a poet, playwright, literary critic and editor.
He moved to UK with his family in 1914 later giving up his US Citizenship in 1927 at the age 39.
In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature for his outstanding contribution to poetry.
He died 4th January 1965 in London, England.
6. Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born 23rd April 1564 in and raised in Stratford Upon Avon UK. He died also 23 April 1616. He is reputedly one of the greatest English playwrights, poet and actor. Often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon” (or “the Bard”).
He is attributed to writing 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and other verses. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
7. Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense Denmark 2nd April 1805 and died aged 70 in Copenhagen on 4th August 1875.
He wrote many plays, travelogues, novels, and poems and is mostly remembered for his literary fairy tales.
These fairy tales consist of 156 stories across nine volumes and have been translated into more than 125 languages.
Not only for children many adults may not readily realise the message they also carry for mature readers of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity.
8. Lao Tzu
9. Anonymous
10. Asian Proverb
11. Pauline Frommer
12. Sandra Lake
13. Henry David Thoreau
14. Unknown
300 Exciting Travel Quotes
15. Hilaire Belloc
16. Paulo Coelho
17. J.R.R. Tolkien
18. Buddha
19. Unknown
20. Unknown
21. John Steinbeck
22. Lao Tzu
23. Aldous Huxley
24. Paulo Coelho
25. Albert Einstein
Social Media – Please Tell Your Friends
26. Susan Sontag
27. Anthony Bourdain
28. Freya Stark
29. Mary Anne Radmacher
30. Hodding Carter
31. Unknown
32. Anonymous
33. Leigh Hunt
34. Mark Twain
35. Unknown
36. Turkish Proverb
37. Charles M. Schulz
38. Unknown
39. Lewis Carroll
40. John Steinbeck
41. Shirley Maclaine
42. Ibn Battuta
43. Helen Keller
44. Unknown
45. Rachel Wolchin
46. Unknown
47. Martin Buber
48. Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
49. Anita Desai
50. Gustave Flaubert
51. Anonymous
52. St. Augustine
53. Andre Gide
54. Anonymous
55. Paulo Coehlo
56. Neale Donald Walsch
57. Mathew Karsten
58. Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. Mohammed
60. Unknown
61. Tiny Buddha
62. Anonymous
63. Erol Ozan
64. Unknown
300 Exciting Travel Quotes
65. Oscar Wilde
OSCAR WILDE
Born Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. In the 1880s he wrote in different forms and became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He was born in Dublin, Ireland 16 October 1854 and died 30 November 1900 (aged 46) in Paris, France
66. Dalai Lama
67. Unknown
68. Unknown
69. Patsy Bendfeldt
70. Anonymous
71. Maarten Schaefer
72. Anonymous
73. Anonymous
74. Anonymous
75. Sudha Murthy
76. Anonymous
77. Jennifer Lee
78. Ibn Battuta
79. Anonymous
80. Thomas Fuller
81. Anais Nin
82. Jawaharial Nehru
83. Tim Cahill
84. Suzanne Collins
85. Confucius
86. Henry Rollins
87. Bill Bryson
88. Herman Melville
89. Eugene Fodor
90. Rick Riordan
91. Matt Smith
92. Jack Kerouac
93. Anonymous
94. Wayne Dyer
Funny Quotes About Travel
95. Anonymous
96. Paul Theroux
97. David Mitchell
98. Robert Louis Stevenson
99. Izaak Walton
100. Anonymous
101. Sir Edmund Hillary
102. Spencer Antle
103. Mark Twain
104. Marcel Proust
105. Hemmingway
106. Babs Hoffman
107. Anonymous
108. Anonymous
109. David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough was born 7 July 1933 in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died at 89 years of age on 7 August 2022 in Hingham, Massachusetts.
He was a writer and explorer of America of the past. It resulted in him being a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006, the highest civilian award in the United States.
110. Penelope Riley
Penelope Riley is a writer and author who when not travelling is normally based in Florida USA
111. Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Born Germany. (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 1999 130 leading physicists worldwide voted him the greatest physicist of all time.
112. Anonymous
113. Maya Angelou
114. Aerosmith
Short Quotes About Travel
115. Mark Twain
116. Paulo Coelho
117. Gandhi
118. Johnathan Winters
119. Rick Watson
120. Anonymous
121. Anonymous
122. John Green
123. Anonymous
124. Gayle Foreman
125. Anonymous
126. Anonymous
127. Aesop
128. Seneca
129. Peter Hoeg
Quotes For Travel Lovers
130. Irving Wallace
131. Ray Bradbury
132. Mark Twain
133. Freya Stark
134. Anonymous
135. Lovelle Drachman
136. Henry Miller
137. Harun Yahya
138. Susan Sontag
139. Gilbert K Chesterton
140. Ralph Waldo Emerson
141. Lin Yutang
142. Frank Borman
143. Hans Christian Andersen
144. Danny Kaye
145. Anonymous
146. Anonymous
147. Ann Beattie
148. Dagobert D Runes
149. Helen Keller
150. Anonymous
151. N. Raghn
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152. K. Bromberg
153. Anonymous
300 Exciting Travel Quotes
154. Amelia Earhart
155. Anonymous
156. Clo Mailen
157. Anonymous
158. Anonymous
159. Lee Hiller
Travel Quotes Funny
160. Sachin Ramdas Bharatiya
161. Unknown
162. Unknown
300 Exciting Travel Quotes
163. Paulo Coelho
164. J. K. Rowling
165. Douglas Adams
166. John Muir
167. Tony Fahkry
168. Henry David Thoreau
169. Anais Nin
170. Alexandre Dumas
171. Roberto Assagioli
Travel Quotes Famous
173. Sir Edmund Hillary
174. Carew Papritz
175. Sir Richard Burton
176. Seanan McGuire
177. Ewan McGregor
Best Quotes About Travel
178. George Eliot
179. W.M. Lewis
180. John Muir
181. Christopher McCandless
182. Guy Laliberte
183. Elizabeth Taylor
184. Pico Iyer
Travel Quotes Inspirational
185. Ray T Bennett
186. Unknown
Funny Travel Quotes
187. Drew Houston
188. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
189. Barry Finlay
190. Robert Frost
191. Sir Richard Branson
RICHARD BRANSON
Now Sir Richard Branson was born Richard Charles Nicholas Branson in London England 18 July 1950.
British business magnate, commercial astronaut and founder in the 1970s of the Virgin Group (400 Companies)
192. Gandalf, The Lord Of The Rings
193. John Muir
Travel Quotes Short
194. T. S. Eliot
195. Anthony Bourdain
196. Ella Maillart
197. Ella Maillart
198. Jon Miksis
199. African Proverb
200. Anonymous
201. Peter Hoeg
202. Sir Richard Branson
203. John Amatt
204. Jon Miksis
205. Sal Di Stefano
206. Jon Miksis
207. Kirsten Hubbard
208. Christopher Robin
209. Beverly Sills
Adventure Travel Quotes
210. Abraham Lincoln
211. Oliver Wendell Holmes
212. Steve Jobs
213. Michael Jordan
214. Gandalf, The Lord Of The Rings
215. Angelina Jolie
216. Unknown
217. Casey Neistat
Family Travel Quotes
218. Bob Bitchin
219. Anonymous
220. John Amatt
221. Nomadic Matt
222. Jon Miksis
223. Karen Blixen
224. Spanish Proverb
225. Jack Canfield
226. Arthur L Williams Jr.
227. Greg Child
228. John Lubbock
229. Edward Abbey
230. Anatole France
231. Jim Rohn
JIM ROHN
Jim Rohn was born Emanuel James Rohn. He was an Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker. Born in Yakima, Washington, U.S.A. 17 September, 1930 he died in West Hills, California, U.S. 5 December, 2009 (aged 79).
232. Katrina Mayer
233. W.B. Yeats
234. Anonymous
235. Ralph Waldo Emerson
236. Keval Parikh
237. Seth Godin
238. Trenton Lee Stewart
300 Exciting Travel Quotes
239. Drew Bundini Brown
240. Ella Maillart
241. Anonymous
Inspirational Travel Quotes
242. Douglas Coupland
243. Moslih Eddin Saadi
Inspirational Travel Quotes
244. Muriel Rukeyser
245. Anonymous
246. Shaquille O´Neal
247. Peter Hoeg
248. Jeremiah
249. Ronnie Lott
250. John Steinbeck
251. Matt Biondi
252. Holly Holm
253. Steve Pavlina
254. Tim Daly
Social Media – Please Tell Your Friends
255. Pico Iyer
256. J. M. Barrie
257. Alexandre Dumas
258. Drew Barrymore
259. Bear Grylls
260. Rosalia De Castro
261. Sir David Attenborough
262. Conrad Anker
263. Conrad Anker
264. Carew Papritz
265. John Muir
266. Unknown
Exciting Travel Quotes
267. David Lama
268. Tenzing Norgay
Best Travel Quotes
269. Alfred Wainwright
270. Dag Hammarskjold
271. David McCullough Jr.
272. Harley King
273. Jack Kerouac
274. A. A. Milne
275. Sue Fitzmaurice
276. Andrew Garfield
277. Cheryl Strayed
278. J. M. Barrie
279. C. S. Lewis
280. Karen Gibbs
281. Herman Melville
282. Danny Kaye
283. Reinhold Messner
284. Reinhold Messner
285. Friedrich Nietszche
286. Meriem Webster
287. Lloyd Alexander
288. Aaron Lauritsen
Inspirational Quotes About Travel
289. Emily Wing Smith
290. Oscar Wilde
291. Paul Theroux
292. Edith Wharton
Famous Travel Quotes
293. Brenna Smith
294. Rumi
295. Seneca
Solo Travel Quotes
296. Greg Anderson
297. Agnes Repplier
Travel Quotes For Couples
298. Anatole France
299. Paul Theroux
300. Anonymous
301. Mohsin Hamid
