“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“People don’t take trips… trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Ande Gide
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paolo Coelho
“Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.” – John A. Shedd
”People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live in?” – Caroline Myss
“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
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
“I am willing to put myself through anything, temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.” –Diana Nyad
“I’ve not ceased being fearful, I’ve gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you go too far.” – Erica Jong
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.” – Hellen Keller
26 Best Quotes for Women Travelers
(Ladies, these quotes for women travelers will inspire you to get on out here! On your way out the door, be sure to join the Workationing Facebook group so we can cheer you on along the way!)
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity” – Lauren Klarfeld
“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
“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
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc
“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” – Suzanne Collin
“Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” – Barbara De Angelis
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West
“I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
“I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest.” – Junko Tabei
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman
“A trip is what you take when you can’t take any more of what you’ve been taking.” – Adeline Ainsworth
“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein
“Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson
“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” – Libba Bray
“To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.” – Raquel Cepeda
“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton
26 Best Quotes about Wanderlust
(Sometimes, the travel bug infects your blood and you can’t shake the disease. These quotes about wandelust hit close to home for us.)
“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me. Other times I think that my compulsion to settle into communities that are different from the ones I know is related to my passion for experiential learning. I learn best and most happily by doing, touching, sharing, tasting. When I’m somewhere I’ve never been before, learning goes on all day, every day.” – Rita Golden Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.” – Zig Ziglar
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
“I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – Nysssa P. Chopra
“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
“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” – Elizabeth Kübler- Ross
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovell Drachman
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
“A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer
“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
26 Best Quotes to Inspire the Digital Nomad
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“I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” – Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home
“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
“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
“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Once you have travelled, 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 
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Mohamed
“Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – Seneca
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ” – Eugene Fodor
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
“I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.” – Ella Maillart
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.” – Margaret Mead
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lynn Beatty
‘He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.’ – Dutch Proverb
“You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next” – Kirsten Hubbard
5 Best Travel Quotes of All Time
(And now, for the best travel quotes of all time. Jeff, we’ll let you kick things off.)
“No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.” – Jeff Goldblum
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“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
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
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