I know they are a little cheesy, but I love a good inspirational short travel quote. Every day I change out one on my sticky tab while I work from my laptop.
Whether it be a movie, a book, or a real-life quote that I hear in person a short travel quote can stick with me for a long time. Quotes about travel remind me of a great travel memory, and can easily bring back emotions I’ve had while traveling the world. So I wanted to put together my favorite getaway quotes for you to use for your photos and captions.
My Favorite Short Travel Quotes
“Jobs fill your pocket,Adventuresfill your soul”
― Jaime Lyn Beatty
This short travel quotes – more than anything – always inspires me to getaway.
“My favorite thing to do is go where I’venever been”
– Annonymous
One of my favorite weekend getaway quotes there is.
“Freedom.Only those deprived of it know what it really is”
– Timothy Cavendish,Cloud Atlas
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit,hungry to learnand be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook, learn from them – where you go.”
“If itscaresyou, it may be a good thingto try”
—Seth Godin
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
—Mary Anne Radmacher
“Thebiggest riskin life, is not taking one”
– Barfi
“To live is therarest thingin the world. Most people exist, that is all”
– Oscar Wilde
“When was the last time you did something for thefirst time?”
– John C. Maxwell
“I never knew of amorning in Africa,when I woke up and was not happy”
–Ernest Hemingway
“When overseas you learn more about yourown country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”
– Clint Borgen
“If I’d learnt one thing from traveling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them.Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”
― Alex Garland,The Beach
“Life begins at the end of yourcomfort zone”
–Neale Donald Walsch
This is one of those meaningful travel quotes that is short and sweet.
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you doin betweenthat makes all the difference.”
–Anita Septimus
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the oneless traveledby.”
–Robert Frost
“Some people are so poor, all they have ismoney”
–Patrick Meagher
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ”
– Eugene Fodor
“Stop being afraidof what could go wrong, and focus on what could go right”
–Annonymous
“The purpose of life is tolive it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
Yesterday, I believe I never would have done what I did today”
– David Mitchell,Cloud Atlas
“I travel becauseseeing photosin brochures wasn’t good enough for me. It was to be there, that was everything”
–Wiremu Ratcliffe
You can,you should, and if you‘rebrave enoughto start, you will.”
—Stephen King
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk ofspending your lifenot doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
–Randy Komisar
“Life is either adaring adventureor nothing at all.”
–Helen Keller
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people whoshould be friends”
–Shirley MacLaine
“Travel makes one modest, you see what atiny placeyou occupy in the world”
–Gustave Flaubert
“There’s asunrise and a sunsetevery single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
–Jo Walton
This is one of those beautiful cute and short travel quotes I love!
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I wantmy mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
“Please be a traveler,not a tourist.Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”
―Andrew Zimmern
“I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make thisworld a better place.”
–Rick Steves
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself”
–David Mitchell
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you.No yesterdays on the road.”
–William Least Heat Moon
“You’ll miss thebest thingsif you keep your eyes shut.”
–Dr. Seuss
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when westumble uponone thing while in pursuit of something else.”
— Lawrence Block
“Aship in harboris safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
–John A. Shedd
“To Live will be anawfully big adventure”
–Peter Pan
“Once the travel bug bitesthere is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
–Michael Palin
“We travel,some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
―Anaïs Nin
“To travel is todiscoverthat everyone is wrong about other countries.”
—Aldous Huxley
“If you reject the food,ignore the customs,fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
—James Michener
“Every exit is an entrysomewhere else.”
—Tom Stoppard
“I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen orwho I’m gonna meet,where I’m gonna wind up.”
—Jack Dawson, Titanic
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson
“One recognizes one’s course bydiscovering the pathsthat stray from it.”
—Albert Camus
“Parisis always a good idea”
—Audrey Hepburn
“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
“Ahangoversuggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.”
—J.D. Andrews
This is one another one of those short travel quotes to live by…sometimes…
“Life moves pretty fast.If you don’t stop and look around for a while, you could miss it.”
— Ferris Bueller,Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, thehorizonis the greatest.”
—Freya Stark
“The world is big and I want to get agood lookat it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
“The most beautiful thing in theworldis, of course, the world itself”
—Wallace Stevens
“The fear of death follows from thefear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
—Mark Twain
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is thepurpose of life.”
— Walter Mitty,The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“Life offers you athousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”
— Frances Mayes,Under the Tuscan Sun
“Call your mom, without her you would not be traveling today”
— Me (Natasha Alden)
(I couldn’t resist throwing my own short travel quote in!)
