Though people have been traveling for eons, and have described their travels in books, times have changed.
We are often motivated to go on a vacation adventure or a weekend getaway for a number of reasons including the basic need to escape the hustle and bustle of our daily, hectic schedules. Though people have been traveling for eons, and have described their travels in books, times have changed. If you are looking for an inspiration to travel, the following is a list of our top 10 picks for travel quotes that are sure to inspire you and stimulate your need for adventure:
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. All plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion
are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
John Steinbeck
These are some quotes to ponder over. After all traveling is the best way to learn about new cultures, ways of life and an experience that shapes your life.
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change
that goes on, deep and permanent in the ideas of living.”
Mary Ritter Beard
“People who don’t travel cannot have a global view. All they see is what’s in front of them.
Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.”
Martin Yan
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages,
know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“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
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sightseeing.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
If you have ever found yourself needing inspiration, the quotes that we have listed above are sure to motivate even the most reluctant individual.