60 Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

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Do you have go-to getaway quotes that bring inspiration and motivation to travel and to be free? Here are short travel quotes to add to your collection.

Short travel quotes look good on a frame at your office, as a bumper sticker on your car, or even as a permanent tattoo on your skin.

These travel getaway quotes efficiently tell a story of a life lived outside oneโ€™s comfort zone.

It speaks of adventures, misadventures, and lessons learned along the way.

Short Travel Quotes

Do you have good travel slogans that you live by?

Are there motivational quotes about travel and learning that have proven to be true in your life?

There are many cute short quotes and sayings about traveling, taking a break, and exploring the world that is truly inspirational.

Here are short travel quotes that will make you want to pack your bags and have an awesome adventure.

1. โ€œLife begins at the end of your comfort zoneโ€

โ€“ Neale Donald Walsch

2. โ€œThe biggest risk in life, is not taking oneโ€

โ€“ Barfi

3. โ€œA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.โ€

โ€“ John A. Shedd

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4. โ€œIf youโ€™re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel โ€“ 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 โ€“ where you go.โ€

โ€“ Anthony Bourdain

5. โ€œJobs fill your pocket, Adventures fill your soulโ€

– Jaime Lyn Beatty

6. โ€œYou donโ€™t have to be rich to travel well. โ€

โ€“ Eugene Fodor

7. โ€œOnce a year, go someplace youโ€™ve never been before.โ€

โ€“ Anonymous

8. โ€œBetter to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.โ€

โ€“ Asian Proverb

9. โ€œMy favorite thing to do is go where Iโ€™ve never beenโ€

โ€“ Annonymous

10. โ€œTravel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.โ€

โ€“ Seneca

11. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travelโ€™s sake. The great affair is to move.โ€

– Robert Louis Stevenson

12. โ€œI am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.โ€

– Mary Anne Radmacher

13. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”

โ€“ Saint Augustine”

โ€œ14. When was the last time you did something for the first time?

โ€“ John C. Maxwell

15. โ€œEvery exit is an entry somewhere else.โ€

– Tom Stoppard

16. โ€œTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.โ€

โ€“ Gustave Flaubert

17. โ€œWork, travel, save, repeat.โ€

โ€“ Anonymous

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18. โ€œA hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.โ€

– J.D. Andrews

19. โ€œTo Live will be an awfully big adventureโ€

โ€“ Peter Pan

20. โ€œMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.โ€

โ€“ Andre Gide

21. “Yesterday, I believe I never would have done what I did todayโ€

โ€“ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

22. โ€œThe most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itselfโ€

– Wallace Stevens

23. โ€œIf it scares you ,it may be a good thing to tryโ€

– Seth Godin

24. โ€œIf you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: Itโ€™s lethal.โ€

โ€“ Paulo Coelho.

25. โ€œNo place is ever as bad as they tell you itโ€™s going to be.โ€

โ€“ Chuck Thompson

26. โ€œTravel far enough, you meet yourselfโ€

โ€“ David Mitchell

27. โ€œTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.โ€

– Aldous Huxley

28. โ€œThe life you have led doesnโ€™t need to be the only life you have.โ€

โ€“ Anna Quindlen

29. โ€œTraveling tends to magnify all human emotions.โ€

– Peter Hoeg

30. โ€œWhen overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place youโ€™re visiting.โ€

โ€“ Clint Borgen

More Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

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Short travel phrases and inspirational vacation quotes perfectly encapsulate every explorerโ€™s zest for a life on the road.

These groups of words add depth to every photograph and drama to every story told.

Canโ€™t get enough of short but sweet quotes about life through the eyes of a traveler?

Here are more inspirational short travel quotes perfect for every wanderer out there.

31. โ€œNot all those who wander are lost.โ€

โ€“ J.R.R. Tolkien.

32. โ€œThe world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.โ€

– John Muir

33. โ€œThe gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.โ€

โ€“ Sir Richard Burton

34. โ€œTo awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.โ€

โ€“ Freya Stark

35. โ€œDonโ€™t listen to what they say. Go see.โ€

โ€“ Chinese Proverb

36. โ€œSome people are so poor, all they have is moneyโ€

โ€“ Patrick Meagher

37. โ€œDoing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.โ€

โ€“ Frank Tyger.

38. โ€œLife offers you a thousand chancesโ€ฆ all you have to do is take one.โ€

– Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun

39. โ€œCollect Moments, Not Things.โ€

โ€“ Aarti Khurana

40. โ€œHe who would travel happily must travel light.โ€

โ€“ Antoine de St. Exupery

41. โ€œLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.โ€

โ€“ Helen Keller

42. โ€œYouโ€™ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.โ€

โ€“ Dr. Seuss

43. โ€œI havenโ€™t been everywhere, but itโ€™s on my list.โ€

โ€“ Susan Sontag.

44. โ€œWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.โ€

โ€“ Anais Nin

45. โ€œA journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.โ€

โ€“ Tim Cahill

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46. โ€œThe journey not the arrival matters.โ€

โ€“ T.S. Eliot

47. โ€œIf you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.โ€

โ€“ James Michener

48. โ€œRemember that happiness is a way of travel โ€“ not a destination.โ€

โ€“ Roy M. Goodman

49. โ€œTravel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.โ€

โ€“ Thomas Fuller

50. โ€œIt is not down in any map; true places never are.โ€

โ€“ Herman Melville

51. โ€œThe more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.โ€

โ€“ Shirley MacLaine

52. โ€œTravel far enough, you meet yourself.โ€

โ€“ David Mitchell

53. โ€œEvery man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.โ€

โ€“ Irving Wallace

54. โ€œLife is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.โ€

โ€“ Simon Raven

55. โ€œLive your life by a compass, not a clock.โ€

โ€“ Stephen Covey

56. โ€œTo travel is to live.โ€

โ€“ Hans Christian Andersen

57. โ€œTake only memories, leave only footprints.โ€

โ€“ Chief Seattle

58. โ€œPeople donโ€™t take trips, trips take people.โ€

โ€“ John Steinbeck

59. โ€œStop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.โ€

โ€“ Babs Hoffman

60. โ€œIโ€™m in love with cities Iโ€™ve never been to and people Iโ€™ve never met.โ€

โ€“ Melody Truong

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