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100+ Best Travel Quotes & Captions to
                   Inspire You
                                  by OutsideSuburbia
Our favorite collections of Travel Quotes and Travel Captions to inspire you... your next
adventure, post-pandemic family trip, or fuel that wanderlust that you have been nursing (like us)
for the past year and a half.

My all-time favorite & Top Travel Quotes
“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
– Wallace Stevens

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

“Memories made together last a lifetime.”
– Anonymous

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“Travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

Inspiring Travel Quotes
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
– Mark Twain

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– St. Augustine

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things
may be, to see them as they are.”
– Samuel Johnson

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
– John Steinbeck

“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 traveler learns not to
repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”
– Paul Fussell

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet”
– Rachel Wolchin

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no
matter, the road is life.”
– Jack Kerouac

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.”
– Moorish Proverb

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”
– Stephen Covey

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at
home.”
– Dagobert D. Runes

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old,
familiar pillow.”
– Lin Yutang

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“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
– Dalai Lama

“Oh, The Places You’ll Go. ”
– Dr. Seuss

“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so…Get on your way!
”
– Dr. Seuss

“Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his
excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but
almost with pleasure.”
– Aldous Huxley

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve
his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
– Samuel Johnson

“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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
– Robert Frost

“Road trips aren’t measured by miles, but by moments."

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”
– Angela N. Blount

Our list of Road trips around the world will definitely give you some serious road trip goals.

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage
of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things
will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”
– D. H. Lawrence

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“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
– Freya Stark

“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Buber

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the
adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
– Jawaharial Nehru

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
– Paul Theroux

“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

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.”
– Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes About Travel with Friends
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”
– Tim Cahill

“It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

“No road is long with good company.”
– Turkish Proverb

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

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“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb

“A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”

“You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could
bring!”

“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

“As with any journey, who you travel with is more important than the destination.”
– African Proverb

“Friends, sun, sand, and sea – that sounds like a summer to me.

“A daring adventure with your best friends might be just what the doctor ordered”

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.”
– A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

Why we Travel Quotes and Captions
“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

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might
better stay at home.”
– James Michener

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller

“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

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.”
– Sandra Lake

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“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does
it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”
– Wendell Berry

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the
quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
– Pat Conroy

“Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”
– Simon Raven

“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

Family Travel Quotes
A few of my favorite Quotes about travelling with family...

Not all classrooms have four walls.

There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.

A family that travels together, Stays together.

It's never too early to begin exploring the world”

“Travel isn’t a reward for working, it’s education for living.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect
moments along the way.”
– Dave Willis

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
– Dolly Parton

“Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.”
– Kevin Kelly

100+ Travel Quotes & Captions                                                 OutsideSuburbia.com

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the
other, wings.”
– Hodding Carter

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

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have
seen.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
– Paul Theroux

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in
interesting new places.”
– Tom Lichtenheld

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”
– Prophet Mohammad

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”
– Og Mandino

“Make a bucket list and fill it with dreams that have no boundaries.”
– Annette White

See our bucket list of 100 places and experience with kids around the world

Wanderlust
(n.) a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.”
– Elizabeth Drew

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the
universe.”
– Anatole France

“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

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Coddiwomple
(v.) To travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.

Travel Captions for Instagram
Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.

Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket.

Up in the clouds on my way to unknown things.

Travel far enough to meet yourelf.

I've found my happy place.

Keep calm and travel on.

Always say yes to new adventures.

What's on my bucket list? Everywhere.

Take memories, leave footprints.

Work, Travel, Save, Repeat

It feels good to be lost in the right direction.

Life is short and the world is wide. I better get started.

Will travel for food (and a good sunset).

My new routine: Journey. Explore. Discover. Repeat.

Fernweh
(n.) A feeling of homesickness for places you’ve never been to. A craving to travel.

Cheeky Travel Captions
Maybe you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets.

I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.

I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer.

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I decided to skip ahead to the part of my life where I travel the world.

Tans and jetlag fade, but memories last forever.

I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m headed to the airport.

All I need is a 2-month vacation six times a year. That’s really not asking for much, is it?

Famous Travel Quotes
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Andre Gide

“Life’s either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Hellen Keller

“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
– Giuseppe Verdi, composer

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

“Paris is always a good idea.”
– Audrey Hepburn

Quotes About How to Travel
“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”
– Moslih Eddin Saadi

“The journey not the arrival matters.”
– T. S. Eliot

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius

“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali

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“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it
goes an equal distance into the world within.”
– Lillian Smith

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– André Gide

“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

“A mind that’s stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally
divine, opening a thousand windows to show us, God.”
– John Muir

Our list of Summer in the Mountains posts will definitely give you some ideas for fun
Mountain Adventures.

“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 a foreign land.”
– G. K. Chesterton

“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

“People don’t take trips…trips take people.”
– John Steinbeck

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
– Carlo Goldoni

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We love exploring locally when we can't get away to faraway destinations. See some of our
local adventures in and around Dallas.

“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

“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

I leave you with this final quote…

“To travel is to live.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

100+ Travel Quotes & Captions                                              OutsideSuburbia.com