101 Short Travel Quotes For Your Adventures!

June 2024 Update: I’ve got over 20 new travel quotes for you my friend! Along with a new section One Word Short Travel Quotes.

I’ve been traveling so I felt extra expired to share a few more short travel quotes with you. As you might know, words are very powerful, and most of the time, you’re only one travel quote away from deciding to pack your bags and hit the road.

So, I’ve pulled together inspirational travel quotes (backed with awesome new images) that send your imagination into Adventureland and give you a taste of what’s possible.

I hope these quotes ignite the fire within you that you need to start your journey. There’s nothing people regret more than the things they wish they’d done, but never did. Don’t let that be you!

Whether you’re aching for a vacation, going on a backpacking journey, or a solo trip for self-growth these travel quotes will surely fuel your fire.

Pack that bag my friend!

Short Travel Quotes

• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”

• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

• “The world is a canvas to the imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
• “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I’m not a tourist, I’m a traveler.”
• “Backpacking is money spent on education.”

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• “Never stop doing things for the first time.”
• “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” -Harvey Lloyd
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
• “The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

One Word Short Travel Quotes

• Explore
• Breathtaking
• Bliss

• Stress-Free
• Serene
• Vibrant
• Timeless
• Thrive
• Heal

• Cherish
• Rise
• Wander
• Journey
• Discover
• Escape
• Venture
• Lost
• Home

• Seek
• Roam
• Dream
• Unwind
• Calm
• Quiet
• View
• Voyage
• Navigate
• Breathe

• Excursion
• Discover
• Beauty

Instagram Travel Quotes

• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

• “I Googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.”
• “I’ve got 99 problems. But I’m on vacation, so I’m ignoring them all!”

• “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go. This is my station.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

• “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one, EVER!
• “When you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

Short Funny Travel Quotes

• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”- Mark Twain
• “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope
• “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

• “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
• “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.”
• “You know it’s time for vacation when you start looking like the person on your driver’s license.”

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• “This is my resting beach face.”

• “I followed my heart, and it led me to the airport.”

• “In Travel Mode. Do not disturb.”
• “Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore. They pack and travel the world.”
• “I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport.”

• “Friend 1: I’m getting a house. Friend 2: I’m having a baby. Friend 3: I’m getting married…Me: I’m headed to the airport.”

Solo Travel Quotes

• “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
•  “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein
• “A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell“

• “Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.” — Mae West
• “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.” –  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• “In the solitude of solo travel, the mind expands, and the spirit dances to the rhythm of the open road.” -Jack Kerouac

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

• “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
• “The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
• “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

• “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “This heart of mine was made to travel this world.”

Family Travel Quotes

• “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie the Pooh
• “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

• “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

• “Traveling with kids is like taking a time machine back to when you were a kid and experiencing everything with them.”

• “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

• “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” – Barbara Bush
• “Traveling with kids is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”
• “Traveling with kids is not a vacation. It’s an adventure.”
• “The world is a playground, and traveling with kids is like having a VIP pass.”

• “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv
• “Forget toys. It’s time to travel.”

• “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll
• “Making memories one family trip at a time.”

• “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams
• “Suntans and sandcastles.”

Travel Adventure Quotes

• “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

• “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
• “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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
• “Great things never came from comfort zones.”

• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
• “The travel route to wisdom starts with the first step, even if it is taken in the wrong direction.” – Paulo Coelho
• “The best trips are the ones where you don’t make any plans and just see where the wind takes you.”
• “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”

Time to Travel Quotes

• “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

• “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “Traveling is like an adventure where you don’t know what’s going to happen next, but you’re excited to find out.”
• “The world is a magical place, and it’s full of adventures waiting to be had.”

• “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.”
• “I want to make memories all over the world.”

Inspirational Travel Quotes

• “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
• “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” – Alexander Sattler

• “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
• “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must be awakened.”

• “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”

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• “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” — Rumi

• “Adventures are best served together.”

• “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll
• “Let’s get lost.”

• “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Margaret Mitchell
• “It doesn’t matter where you are going; it’s who you have beside you.”

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• “Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” — Ugo Eze
• “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E. Grin
• “A couple who travel together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

Travel Memory Quotes

• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

• “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
• “Traveling- it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

• “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
• “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.”

• “Traveling is a way to discover new cultures and ways of life, to learn about the world and ourselves, and to create lasting memories.”

• “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

• “Girls just wanna have sun.”

• Culture shock is feeling homesick but not knowing where home is. – Rick Steves
• “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
• “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

I hope these travel quotes inspire you to live fully and experience the world from a more exciting point of view. Maybe you need some time away from the stress of office work or jump into a full-time backpacking adventure. Every experience you bump into will be nothing other than priceless lessons and memories.

Use these travel quotes in your journal, share them on your social media wall to get friends on board, or add them as captions on your next post. Let the travel bug spread like wildfire!