Travel quotes to inspire the traveller in you

Travel quotes are often misread, misheard, and misquoted. But nonetheless, they have the power to guide us to our next stop. When you are in doubt and feeling really uninspired, take a read of these incredible travel quotes by famous people around the world. What we have here is a common thread that says – travelling opens horizons and makes us better people. So, get out from your shell, and explore the great wide world, you will find many lands that are ready to open their doors to you.

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”

"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you."

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”