Travel Quotes

It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What a sacred journey?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.

~ Jackson Burnett

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

~ Paul Theroux

What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm, whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination, such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.

~ Alexander Von Humboldt

We travel to see beauty of souls in new landscapes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel with your thoughts to great land.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

~ David Brin

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

~ Scott Westerfeld

A selfie has more face and fewer feelings.

~ Amit Kalantri

When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program 'So Weird' was every kid's ideal life - not going to school, living on a tour bus, having rockstar parents, traveling all over North America and never staying in one place for more than a week or so. Of course, eventually the realization hits you that the kids out there who really do live like this, pulling up stakes every week and never staying with their friends or having a permanent residence, aren't really happy.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.

~ Lenore Kandel

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

~ Tahir Shah

A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

~ Ryan Lilly

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

~ Christalyn Brannen

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.

~ Stefan H. Verstappen

When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

~ Tracey Wilen

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilled return!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your dreams are like the market grounds; their locations really matter. If you keep hiding your potentials out of sight, you may be great but unknown! Your influence can travel long distances if only you give them the chances to go where they are needed! Rebrand yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

JOY is in the JOurneY, not the destination.

~ Cindy Arledge

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

~ Maira Kalman

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

~ Laini Taylor

Wherever you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I love to receive a beautiful postcard from your place of voyage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred time defined the sacred-moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

~ Carew Papritz

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

~ Jay Woodman

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

~ Julian Barnes

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

~ Giacomo Leopardi

A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns with renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came.

~ Rebecca Solnit

A mind wanders, thoughts flee and memories fade. But tattoos, tattoos are forever. And if it is true to say that we carry ourselves with when we travel - then the body may very well be a beautiful canvas for the timeless lessons we learn and will learn when we travel.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

Portland was a dream both in the literal sense and the metaphorical sense, both tangible and not - a fleeting affair you want to hold on to but can't, so you try memorizing her every detail only to fail to do so in the consumption, in the savoring, in the absorbing of yourself into her. When she's gone, she comes to you in snippets, replaying in your mind like a fragmented picture show.

~ Jackie Haze

Travel is an evolving experience. It doesn't take place in photographs or your past... Instead it's tucked up there in your memory and when you need a bit of it, or a new perspective on something hidden within it, it will emerge into your conscious mind

~ Dan Kieran

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson