Travel - Quotes and Proverbs

Quotes, proverbs and sayings about travel, for everybody who wants to see the world.

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A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Laozi
Even a big task starts with a small beginning.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

If a person keeps moving around from place to place, they gain neither friends nor possessions.

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

Moslih Eddin Saadi

Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.

(unknown author)

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

Catherine Douzel

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Stephen Hawking

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

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

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

Jeffree Star

Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.

He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I don't know where I am going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sagan

I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing, so get yourself a sexy raincoat and live a little.

Billy Connolly

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

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 a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

Caskie Stinnett

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Dan Rather

If I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Laozi

If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

Lewis Carroll
Source: Alice in Wonderland

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

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

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca

Keep going to places where you've never been before.

Minkukel

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Dagobert D. Runes

Please be a traveler, not a tourist.

Andrew Zimmern

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mason Cooley

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.

(unknown author)

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Chief Seattle

The best things in life are not things.

John Ruskin

The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.

Sir Richard Burton

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always ... they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

John Steinbeck