99 Short Travel Quotes to Capture Your Epic Adventure

We are absolutely obsessed with short travel quotes. Whenever we are not able to go somewhere, they are our pick me up. Do you feel the same?

This variety of short travel quotes will make you laugh, think about your purpose in life, indulge in great memories, and just dream away. To give them our own personal touch, we combined the best short travel quotes with our travel pictures from the several road trips we took in the USA.

Get ready to fuel your wanderlust or Instagram feed with these 99 short travel quotes you have never heard before.

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Short Travel Quotes

These short travel quotes are simple and sweet and so easy to remember that you can impress your friends by using them in your conversations about traveling.

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

2. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” -David Mitchell

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

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

5. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

6. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

7. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

8. “Work, travel, save, repeat.” – Anonymous

9. “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” – Aerosmith

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

11. “Add life to your days, not days to your life.” – Unknown

12. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

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

14. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

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

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

17. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage

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

19. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

20. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

21. “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anonymous

22. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb

23. “Collect moments, not things.” – Aarti Khurana

24. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

25. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

26. “Traveling isn’t something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

27. “The journey is my home.” – Muriel Rukeyser

28. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

29. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

30. “Some people are so poor, all they have is money” – Patrick Meagher

31. “Little by little, one travels far.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

32. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

33. “Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – Brenna Smith

34. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

35. “Traveling allows you to become so many versions of yourself.” – Unknown

36. “The most beautiful places in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

37. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Mohammed

38. “Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” – Gayland Anderson

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

40. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

41. “I wish I had never gone traveling. Said no one ever.” – Anonymous

42. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” – Unknown

43. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Unknown

44. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

Explore Quotes to Keep You Traveling

Who doesn’t have a strong desire to explore something new to widen their horizons? These short travel quotes remind you of how exciting it is to go into the unknown.

45. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

46. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Unknown

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

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

49. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord

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

51. “I’m not lost, I’ve temporarily lost sight of my destination.” -Unknown

52. “Explore the unseen” – Unknown

53. “Never stop exploring.” – Unknown

54. “The world is yours to explore.” – Unknown

55. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.” – Unknown

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

57. “A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

58. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.” – Unknown

59. “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” – Bill Bryson

60. “The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.” – Unknown

61. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz

Wanderlust Quotes

When you start thinking about traveling in the morning when you get up to go to work, indulge in daydreams about being at the beach during the day, and fall asleep with the thought of wanting to be in a different continent, then you are feeling the Wanderlust.

62. “There’s a whole world at your feet.” – Mary Poppins

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

64. “Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world.” – Unknown

65. “Wanderlust: n. A strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.”

66. “The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.” – Jorge Luis Borges

67. “If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our life!” – Lemony Snicket

68. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

69. “Never lose your sense of wonder.” – Unknown

70. “Don’t quit your daydream.” – Unknown

71. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester

72. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

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

74. “Travel sparks imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd

75. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” – Ray Bradbury

76. “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler.” – Ira Levin

77. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” – Marty Rubin

78. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” – Unknown

Travel Memories Quotes

There are many different ways of remembering your exciting travel experiences. Try to capture moments with your camera, use a travel journal, or simply talk about the unique trip you went on. One thing is for sure, you will never forget the life-changing adventures you experienced on your journeys.

Enjoy these short travel quotes to never let the memories fade away.

79. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

80. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche

81. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown

82. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown

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

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

85. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw

86. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” – Anonymous

Travel Life Quotes

The world is a big playground and there are so many fascinating places and adventures waiting for you. What are YOU waiting for?

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

88. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

89. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

90. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

91. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

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

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

94. “There’s no way we were born to just pay bills and die” – Unknown

95. “Life is short. The world is wide” – Mama Mia

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

97. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

98. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde

99. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer

Are you also obsessed with short travel quotes? What is your favorite short travel quote?

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