190+ Travel Quotes for the Perfect Instagram Caption
The right travel quotes inspire and take one’s mind even further to destinations only imagined and seen online.
It’s no wonder that traveling has become an essential part of life; imbibing and personally immersing yourself in a rich culture other than your own leaves a lasting sense of fulfillment and purpose that no amount of travel documentaries, books, or magazines can fulfill.
Whether you’re planning a European or Asian escapade in six months’ time or in a year, now’s as good a time as any to plan and finally pursue what’s on your bucket list.
While you’re making a mental checklist of every destination there is in the world—both tried and true hot spots and burgeoning hidden destinations—let these inspirational travel quotes provide the perfect push and inspiration on your next unforgettable adventure.
I’d love to hear which of these travel quotes is your favorite in the comments at the end. Enjoy!
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190+ Travel Quotes for the Perfect Instagram Caption
1. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather
2. “Not all those who wander are lost.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
3. “There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.” — Orson Welles
4. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
5. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” —Anaïs Nin
6. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca
7. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck
8. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
9. “The wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire.” — Robert W. Service
10. “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” — Anthony Bourdain
11. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.” —G.K. Chesterton
12. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
13. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
14. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux
15. “So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
16. “Spontaneity is what travel is all about.” — Zach Anner
17. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” —Margaret Lee Runbeck
18. “For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
19. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mary Ritter Beard
20. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
21. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
22. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” — Penelope Riley
23. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” — Frank Borman
24. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux
25. “It’s better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
26. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” – Alexander Sattler
27. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw
28. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr Seuss
29. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” – Rick Watson
30. “Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” — Sargent Shriver
31. “When overseas, you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.” — Clint Borgen
32. “Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” – John Steinbeck
33. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
34. “Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.” – Mark Twain
35. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – Brenna Smith
36. “I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.” — Carl Sagan
37. “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” —Henry Miller
38. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Muhammad
39. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
40. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
41. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
42. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —Freya Stark
43. “Call your mom, without her you would not be traveling today.” – Natasha Alden
44. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
45. “Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
46. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd
47. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” — Andre Gide
49. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho
50. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi
51. “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” – Morris Fishbein
52. “This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity to wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.” —Shana Alexander
53. “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar
54. “Robert Frost was right. To take the ‘road less traveled by’ does make all the difference.” — Samantha Brown
55. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
56. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc
57. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
58. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.” — Anthony Bourdain
59. “Life is short and the world is wide. The sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
60. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ― Mark Twain
61. “A couple who travel together, grow together.” — Ahmad Fuadi
62. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
63. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
64. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
65. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
66. “I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.” – Anthony Bourdain
67. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Asian Proverb
68. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
69. “Travel is the only way to run away from home without actually leaving.” – Twyla Tharp
70. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” — Rumi
71. “Traveling leaves you speechless, then it turns you into storyteller.” – IBN Battuta
72. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” — Paula Bendfeldt
73. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
74. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henny Youngman
75. “I love to travel but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
76. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
77. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell
78. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
79. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson
80. “I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Carl Sandburg
81. “The best education I have ever received was through travel.” – Lisa Ling
82. “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
83. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins
84. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
85. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
86. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
87. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Bertrand Russell
88. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George A. Moore
89. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
90. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” – Theo Cowa
91. “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
92. “The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.” – Xun Kuang
93. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
94. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark
95. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” — Rumi
96. “Jobs fill your pockets; adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
97. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
98. “There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton
99. “Traveling is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or time or being away from home. It is a way of looking at things.” – Lin Yutang
100. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
101. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes
102. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
103. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
104. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
105. “Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” – Brian Chesky
106. “Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” – C. JoyBell C.
107. “Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.” – Jan Myrdal
108. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
109. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”- Huran Yahya
110. “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton
111. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” — Henry Rollins
112. “In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.” — Charles M. Schulz
113. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain
114. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
115. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
116. “We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.” —Crestless Wave
117. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
118. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
119. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
120. “The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Albert Einstein
121. “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” – Thomas Jefferson
122. “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
123. “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
124. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”- Tony Robbins
125. “I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” —Anna Louise Strong
126. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
127. “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” – Henry David Thoreau
128. “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, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
129. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
130. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”- Helen Keller
131. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
132. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer
133. “The world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
134. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
135. “Travel is the bridge that connects our dreams to reality.” – Jon Miksis
136. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” ~ Shirley MacLaine
137. “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
138. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
139. “The journey is my home.” – Muriel Rukeyser
140. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
141. “Wherever you go becomes part of you somehow.” – Confucius
142. “Climb the mountain, not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” — David McCullough Jr.
143. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
144. “Wanderlust is the itch to explore, the hunger to experience, and the thirst to learn.” – Jon Miksis
145. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
146. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
147. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
148. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
149. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
150. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” — Jack Kerouac
151. “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.” – Paul Theroux
152. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
153. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
154. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
155. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
156. “It is not down on any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
157. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
158. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
159. “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
160. “You lose sight of things…and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel
161. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
162. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” — Shanti
163. “An investment in travel is an investment into yourself.”- Matthew Karsten
164. “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? ― it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” — Jack Kerouac
165. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” – Ray Goodman
166. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” ― Eugene Fodor
167. “Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.” ― Tracy Johnston
168. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw
169. “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
170. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
171. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
172. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” – J.K. Rowling
173. “Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So, conquer your fears and get out there.” — Tony Clark
174. “No road is long with good company.” —Turkish proverb
175. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
176. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” —Trenton Lee Stewart
177. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
178. “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
179. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
180. “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” — Eckhart Tolle
181. “The best adventures are the ones that make your heart race and your soul sing.” – Jon Miksis
182. “Travel is the antidote to ignorance.” – A.A. Gill
183. “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
184. “A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews
185. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
186. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
187. “It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it.” – J. D. Andrews
188. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho
189. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult
190. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” ― Susan Magsamen
191. “I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb…” ― Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
192. “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” ― G. K. Chesterson
193. “At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.” ― Tasha Alexander
194. “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” ― Vera Nazarian
195. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” —Thelma & Louise
