Travel Quotes

Lets start with a quote from me…
“Show me a traveller who doesn’t appreciate a good travel quote and i’ll show you a tourist.”

The travel related quote collection below, which has a new quote added to it every Monday, is the result of ongoing research on the web. Hopefully i have managed to provide correct credit for the originator of the quote, but if i have made any mistakes, please leave a comment on this post.

Don’t forget…we add a new quote to the bottom of the list every Monday :)

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!”
Bill McKenna, professional motorcycle racer.

“The only trips I regret are the ones I didn’t do.”
Paddy Pallin (1900-1991) :: Famous Australian outdoorsman and bushwalker.

“So many people live unhappy cirumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one piece of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. 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 horizen, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
Chris McCandless (Died in the Alaskan wilderness from starvation)

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”
Sir Ranulph Fiennes – An English adventurer.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”
Chinese Proverb

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain – An American writer.

“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
David Livingstone – A Scottish explorer.

“The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.”
St Augustine – A philosopher and theologian who died in the year 430.

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
John Hope Franklin - An American historian.

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
Sigmund Freud – An Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.

“Never take a cross country trip with a kid who has just learned to whistle.”
Jean Deuel

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson – An American essayist, philosopher and poet.

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard – An award winning British playwriter and screenwriter.

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!”
Fitzhugh Mllan

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
Martin Buber – An Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher

“When you get there, there isn’t any there there.”
Gertrude Stein – An American writer.

“What am I doing here?”
Rimbaud – A French poet

“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”
Charles Dickens – A British author from the 1800′s.

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
Izaak Walton – A British author from the 1600′s.

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Unknown

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
Amelia Earhart – An American aviation pioneer

“I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.”
Steve McQueen – An American movie actor

“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.”
Rabindranath Tagore – A Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer who was also Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.”
Henry David Thoreau – An American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, sage writer and philosopher from the 1800′s.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost An American Poet. (An excerpt from “The Road Not Taken”)

“Let any man lay the map of Australia before him, and regard the blank upon its surface, and then let me ask him if it would not be an honourable achievement to be the first to place foot in its centre.”
Charles Sturt – An Englishman who in the 1800′s was an explorer of Australia, a Colonial Administrator and a grazier.

“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”
Sir Edmund Hillary – A New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, who along with Tenzing Norgay, was the first person to climb Mt Everest.

“Not all those that wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien – An English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor. Best known as the author of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”.

“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 “sight-seeing.”
Daniel J. Boorstin – An American historian, professor, attorney and writer. He also He served as the U.S. Librarian of Congress between 1975 and 1987.

“When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home”
Thornton Wilder – An American playwright and novelist.

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
Stephen Wright – An American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer.

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
Ray Bradbury – An American writer

“I am just going outside and may be some time.”
Captain Lawrence Oates – An English explorers last words as he left the tent housing Scott’s antarctic party and wandered off into a blizzard to die.

“The wild charm and exciting desire that induce an individual to undertake the arduous tasks that lie before an explorer, and the pleasure and delight of visiting new and totally unknown places, are only whetted by his first attempt.”
Ernest Giles – An Australian explorer from the late 1800′s..

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.”
Helen Keller – An American author and activist.

“Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the Slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood….afresh dawns the morn of life…”
Sir Richard Francis Burton – A British explorer from the 1800′s.

“A traveller. I love his title. A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from – toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.”
Henry David Thoreau – An American author.

“All things considered there are only two kinds of men in the world – those that stay at home and those that do not.”
Rudyard Kipling – A British author and poet.