Why Do We Travel Quotes

By: Vickie

Updated on: April 4, 2022

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Why do we travel? Everyone has a different reason to travel. Some travel for work, some for leisure, and some people do not even need a reason to travel.

Traveling is not for everyone. Some of us don’t even like to take the effort to move out of our homes. But then, there are many who keep traveling for one or the other reason.

Some people love adventure travels and some like just pure comfort and luxury, some like to go with family and friends, and some find their solace in solo trips.

Traveling is pure bliss when it is done as a hobby. There are many people who make their work-travel fun too. But most of the wanderers roam around just to satisfy their travel buds.

Here are some famous Why Do We Travel Quotes that will help you find the answer to the question “why do we really travel?”.

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Why Do We Travel Quotes

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“When You’re Travelling, 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

“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

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Mohammed

“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

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

“To Travel Is To Live” – Hans Christian Anderson

“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them” – Jo Walton

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“To Travel Is To Discover That Everyone Is Wrong About Other Countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“I Never Travel Without My Diary. One Should Always Have Something Sensational To Read On The Train.” – Oscar Wilde

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and 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 – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

“The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Gaby Basora

“The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens.” – Paul, Global Help Swap

“The Journey Is The Reward.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“Live to travel. Travel to live.” – Earth Trekkers

“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

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

“Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – Brenna Smith

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“No One Realizes How Beautiful It Is To Travel Until He Comes Home And Rests His Head On His Old, Familiar Pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

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