20 inspiring quotes to encourage you to travel more

CAIRO - 8 September 2017: Here are quotes about how inspiring traveling is, well put into words by famous people to encourage you to do more traveling. Read them and book a ticket.

1- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller,” Ibn Battuta

2- “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving,” Lao Tzu

3- “I read; I travel; I become,” Derek Walcott

4- “To travel is to live,” Hans Christian Andersen

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


Beirut, Lebanon. By: Piotr Chrobot. Courtesy: Unsplash.com


6- “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice,” Elizabeth Gilbert

7- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries,” Aldous Huxley

8- “Not all those who wander are lost,” J.R.R. Tolkien

9- “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more," Thomas Jefferson

10- “I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met,” Melody Troung


By Thomas Brault. Courtesy: Unsplash

11- “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see,” G.K. Chesterton

12- “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them,” Mark Twain

13- “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun,” Christopher McCandless

14- “Every hundred feet the world changes,” Roberto Bolaño

15- “The journey itself is my home,” Bashō Matsuo


Abo Simbel temple in Aswan, Egypt. By AussieActive on Unsplash

16- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself,” David Mitchell

17- “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life,” Agnes Repplier

18- “But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations,” Gwyn Thomas

19- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore,” Andre Gide

20- “The best traveler is one without a camera,” Kamand Kojouri