I love quotes. I learn so much from quotes. I love quotes from the famous and the in-famous. I guess you could say I’m a quote junkie. While preparing for my Study Abroad Experience, I came across a number of quotes about travel that inspired me when I got nervous about traveling to Spain alone and wondering about all the things I would experience, the people I would meet, the journey that was ahead. Many of the quotes I’ve gathered eased my mind. They encouraged me. Some inspired me to make the most of my time in Spain.
I hope you enjoy the quotes assembled here in this post. I suggest that you pick your favorite, write it down or print it as a reminder of why you’re going on this incredible journey. Maybe it will also serve to comfort you when you’re homesick, or tired of a roommate or classmate, or just down a little.
What are the Best Travel Quotes for Study Abroad? Only You Can Answer the Question for Yourself. But Here are 90 Travel Quotes for Study Abroad Inspiration
Top 20 Inspiring Travel Quotes
“I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!” George Orwell
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.” Bill Bryson
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” James Baldwin
“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” Jamie Lyn Beatty
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands but a continent that joins to them.” Francis Bacon
“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.” Mark Twain
“Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” Rick Steves
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert
“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” Sandra Lake
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher
“I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy” Ernest Hemingway
“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
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” Lawrence Block
“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.” Hans Christian Andersen
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times” Asian Proverb
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller
10 More Famous Travel Quotes
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” Lao Tzu
“I love to travel, But hate to arrive’ Albert Einstein
“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” Walt Whitman
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” Dr. Seuss
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference’ Robert Frost
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” Tom Stoppard
5 Humorous Travel Quotes
“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
“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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” George Carlin.
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” Susan Heller
9 Philosophical Travel Quotes
“Adventure is worthwhile.” Aesop
“A good traveler leaves no track.” Tao Tse Chung
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” Herman Melville
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” Augustine of Hippo
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” James Michener
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing’.” Daniel J. Boorstin
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” Aldous Huxley
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien
7 People-Focused Travel Quotes
“A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.” J.B. Priestley
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” Shirley MacLaine
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” William Least Heat Moon
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” Edith Wharton
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends” Maya Angelou
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” John Green
“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” Tim Cahill
11 Living Life Travel Quotes
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” Oscar Wilde
“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” Stephen Covey
“Oh the places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss
“Never go too long without watching a sunset’ Atticus
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” Chief Seattle
“The journey not the arrival matters.” T.S. Eliot
“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” Wallace Stevens
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust.
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” John Steinbeck
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself” David Mitchell
28 More Insightful Travel Quotes
“A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.” Carl Burns
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu
“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” Moslih Eddin Saadi
“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” Bill Bryson
“Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined how is it that this safe return brings such regret?” Peter Mathiesson
“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.” Rosalia de Castro
“I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” Benjamin Disraeli
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” Dalai Lama
“Paris is always a good idea” Audrey Hepburn
“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” Eudora Welty
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” Freya Stark
“To Travel is to Live’ Hans Christian Andersen
“Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” Paul Theroux
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta
“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” Gayle Foreman
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Elliot
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” Ray Bradbury
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” Clifton Fadiman
“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
“I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.” Rick Steves
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” John Muir
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” Eugene Fodor
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin
“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” Sir Richard Burton
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” Antoine de St. Exupery
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
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