It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Inspirational quotes with pictures must be worth a thousand words multiplied by a thousand. It’s true! My imagination zooms around the globe when I read these inspiring quotes paired up with photos. In this post I share my favorite inspirational travel quotes about everyday life.

Quotes with a travel theme are something I collect and keep coming back to over the years.

Travel is rewarding, educational, challenging, humbling, exhilarating, frustrating, gratifying, scary, and rejuvenating.

My biggest leap in self-confidence was a direct result my first solo traveling adventure to Southeast Asia in 1993. Growing older brings valuable life lessons but travel seems to accelerate the learning process.

I hope you enjoy these inspirational quotes and gain some flow and positive energy to your day.

 

Inspirational Travel Quotes

Henry Miller speaks the truth here, seeing a new place, or opening our eyes to our current space brings fresh observations. Travel opens our eyes to new sights and our minds to new ideas.

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

From my early travels in Southeast Asia to my current road trips around the USA and Canada I continue to learn with each adventure.

 

 

Mark Twain wrote many words of wisdom on the subjects of travel and everyday life. This quote from Twain in particular speaks to the value of feeling comfortable with yourself.

2.  The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself – Mark Twain

I suppose this could fall under the category of solo travel quotes, we learn to feel comfortable with our own company.

 

 

We can learn much from the Dali Lama. And his comment about going someplace new every year appeals to me. Not only when it comes to travel, but also about trying something new.

3.  Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before –Dalai Lama

Maya Angelou always knew how to put things in perspective. These positive words about success are not about money or fame.

4.  Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it – Maya Angelou

 

 

Quotes about travel and life bring us this gem from Mark Hertsgaard.

5.  Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen – Mark Hertsgaard

He knew the power of experience and how we gain knowledge through our life experiences and the awareness that we have much more to learn.

 

 

Remember to take time to let you imagination soar.

The great outdoors enthusiast John Muir invites us to explore via our imagination. This is one is so succinct, it’s a favorite of all my short travel quotes.

6.  The power of imagination makes us infinite – John Muir

 

 

 

A motivational quote that is so simple and so true! Sometimes we just need the courage to take the first step.

This Dutch proverb could be the starting point of the #getoutside movement.

 

7.  He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him – Dutch proverb

 

The older I get the more I appreciate my time outdoors exploring the hiking trails and spending time with nature.

Sometimes you don’t feel like gathering your gear and getting outside.

But if you can push yourself to just get out the door – you’ve got the hardest part of your journey done.

 

 

A travel quote from Gustav Flaubert noting how small we are in this huge universe.

 

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

 

 

Neale Donald Walsch knows we need to stretch our boundaries in order to grow. Step outside your comfort zone and watch the magic begin! I know this is true for me.

When I started my plans to live a nomadic lifestyle I had many doubts and unanswered questions.

The only way to find out how something will turn out is to actually get off your butt and do it!

 

9.  Life begins at the end of your comfort zone – Neale Donald Walsch

 

Even if you feel uncomfortable or scared to try. Think of it this way – the only failure is to not even try. If we fail to try then we truly fail.

Give yourself permission to get out of your comfort zone and see what it’s like.

You’ll be amazed at the incredible things you succeed in accomplishing once you step out of that zone.

 

 

Virginia Woolf knew of the need to reach out beyond everyday life.

Whatever your passion, reach for it, chase it, always keep chasing your passion.

 

10.  I have a deeply hidden and articulate desire for something beyond the daily life – Virginia Woolf

 

 

I love this last quote from Lewis Carroll. Sometimes we wonder if we’re on the right path in our career, education, relationship, etc.

 

11.  If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there – Lewis Carroll

 

It’s okay to let go and let life unfold before you.

 

 

And a quote about living live to the fullest and choosing how you live your life.

 

12.  You don’t choose the day you enter the world, and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference – Anita Septimus

 

A wonderful quote about courage from French author Andre Gide reminds us that if we want to experience something new, then we need to take a chance.

Before we can make new discoveries about ourselves we have to try new experiences and it takes courage to try something new. It’s also wildly rewarding to improve and grow and become a better version of oneself.

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

 

 

 

14.  The journey, not the arrival matters – T. S. Eliot

 

Remember to enjoy the journey!

 

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

 

How often do we get so wrapped up in our work that we lose track of the important things in life that bring us joy?

 

16.  Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

 

I shall take that advice!

 

17.  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

 

Oh, I do have experience with this one. If you think you someone really well, travel with them, and then find out for sure!

 

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

 

Cheers to friendships old and new.

 

19.  Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman

 

Indeed, never stop being curious.

 

20.  So much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche

 

We are a  collection of experiences from our journey through life.

 

21  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

 

Travel opens our eyes and our minds to these truths and helps us realize we have more in common than we may first realize.

And one last inspirational travel quote, from me! My live changed when I stopped focusing on obtaining more things and stuff.

I don’t find fulfilment from material possessions. A lifetime of great experiences is worth so much more than the things we collect.

22.  I discovered that I prefer to collect experiences rather than things – Susan Moore

 

 

What is your favorite travel quote or inspirational words that help you out?