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• Jan 29, 2025
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25 Best Travel Quotes to Inspire You in 2025

Between trips, it’s easy to get lost in daydreams about your next adventure. One moment, you’re scrolling through your favorite travel photos, and the next moment, you’re back to your daily routine, itching for your next escape. But a few reminders that your next journey is closer than you think can help keep that wanderlust in check.

And I feel the best way to get inspired is to read some beautiful travel quotes. Whether you’re craving change, stuck in a rut, or just need a little nudge, the right words can spark something deep inside and push you toward your next adventure.

As I plan my next trip, here are some of the best travel quotes to motivate you for your next adventures!

25 Best Travel Quotes to Inspire You in 2025

1. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin (Author of ‘What You Missed While Blinking‘)

2. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” – Carew Papritz (American author & filmmaker)

3. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu (Chinese philosopher)

4. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Bill Bryson (American journalist and author)

5. “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 (English actor and comedian)

6. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong

7. “There is a kind of magic in going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin ( American educator, author and composer)

8. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch (American author)

9. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do.” – Gayle Forman (American young adult fiction author)

10. “The best education I have ever received was through travel.” – Lisa Ling (American journalist and TV personality)

11. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley (Writer and philosopher)

12. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert (French novelist)

13. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” – Mark Twain (American writer and humourist)

14. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac (American novelist and poet)

15. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller (American novelist and short story writer)

16. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (American jurist)

17. “The world’s big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir (Scottish-born American naturalist)

18. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Sir Terry Pratchett (English author and humourist)

19. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho (Brazilian lyricist and novelist)

20. “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 (American author)

21. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher (American writer)

22. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux (American novelist and travel writer)

23. “I’m thinking of Cheryl Strayed, who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail solo after the unexpected and heartbreaking death of her mother, and Elizabeth Gilbert, who embarked on a year-long journey around the world after a painful divorce and depression. I admire their grit to pick themselves up and do something extraordinary in the face of tragedy. But what about the tragedy of a mundane, average, unfulfilling life?” – Shivya Nath (Travel blogger and sustainable travel advocate)

24. “He, who must travel happily, must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Writer)

25. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost (American poet)

As they say, exploring new places not only broadens our horizons but also deepens our understanding of different cultures, and helps us to see the world around us in a better light. 

What is your favorite travel quote? Let me know in the comments below.