Great Travel Quotes

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Inspirational, Funny, Success

"Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Ella Maillart

Inspirational, Travel, Journey

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

Life, Travel, Adventure

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...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless

Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

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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

Motivational, Travel, Kindness

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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Anthony Bourdain

Travel, Sleep, Two

Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black

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Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Ray Bradbury

Life, Travel, Adventure

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Travel, Memories, Next Adventure

"Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Life, Wise, Wisdom

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

Art, Travel, Journey

Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Amelia Barr

Inspirational, Friendship, Travel

Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.149, Litres

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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Cesare Pavese

Dream, Travel, Home

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All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

Wise, Travel, Joy

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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

Inspirational, Funny, Country

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Francis Burton

Nature, Travel, Journey

"How to Explore Like a Real Victorian Adventurer". www.believermag.com. October 2011.

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If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Lewis Carroll

Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Lauren Hutton

Travel, Good Life, Ideas

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

Lawrence Block

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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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

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Travel, Journey

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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Bill Bryson

Life, Summer, Travel

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I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Lord Dunsany

Travel, Moon, Thinking

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Struggle, Journey

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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