20 Inspiring Travel Quotes to Make you See More of the World

Here are some quotes from inspiring and famous people that will coax you out of your shell to see more of the world.

1. Lao Tzu: "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

2. Dan Eldon: "The journey is the destination."

3. Rosalia de Castro: "I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it."

4. Sinclair Lewis: "He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."

5. Gilbert K. Chesterton: "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 foreign land."

6. Walt Whitman: "NOT I—NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself."

7. Danny Kaye: "To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

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

9. George Bernard Shaw: "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

10. Mark Jenkins: "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."

11. John Steinbeck: "People don’t take trips… trips take people."

12. Carl Burns: "A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home."

13. Mary Anne Radmacher: "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

14. Pico Iyer: "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."

15. Scott Cameron: "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

16. Lawrence Block: "Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else."

17. Hans Christian Andersen: "To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live."

18. Robert Louis Stevenson: "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."

19. William Least Heat Moon: "The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place mere a man can lose himself."

20. St. Augustine: "The world is a book and he who doesn’t travel only reads one page."