25 Great Timeless Travel Quotes

Location: Dulce, New Mexico | Credit: Philippe Clairo

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Location: Fernie, British Columbia | Credit: Philippe Clairo

“I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost

Location: Black Forest, Germany | Credit: Parki

“I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.” ~ Diane von Furstenberg

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ~ Martin Buber

Location: Cromwell, New Zealand | Credit: Chris Gin

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Location: Jonica , Calabria | Credit: BoloG

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” ~ Al Gore

Location: In the Air | Credit: Airbus 340A

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

Location: Trogir, Croatia | Credit: Philippe Clairo

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs,fear the religion and avoid the people,you might better stay at home.” ~ James Michener

Location: Broadway in New York City | Credit: Grinmar

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

Location: Old Pier | Credit: MasterChief

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do, especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, 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

Location: Dresden, Germany | Credit: Sopex

“A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” ~ Katharine Butler Hathaway

Location: Brisbane, Queensland | Credit: Destin

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

Location: Milos Island , Greece | Credit: s_gito_milos

“You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” ~ Daranna Gidel

Location: Wallace Park | Credit: Matt Mosher

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” ~ Glenn Clark

Location: The Netherlands | Credit: Martinique

“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” ~ Gloria Gaither

Location|: Abruzzo, Italy Credit: Giovanni Di Gregorio

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro

Location: iIse Rügen, Germany | Credit: Ematts

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

Location: Reethi Rah, Maldevian| Credit: Dominic Kamp

“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking” ~ Antonio Machado

Location: Kitzbüheler Horn, Tyrol, Austria | Credit: Reinhard76

“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” ~ Amelia E. Barr

Location: Croatia, Baska Voda | Credit: Roebuck

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” ~ Susan Heller

Location: Auckland Sky Tower, New Zealand| Credit: Chris Gin

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ~ Clifton Fadiman

Location: Tea Plantations in Kerala - India | Credit: Bharath Wootla

Location: Grand Canyon | Credit: Travis Lair

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ~ Freya Stark

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag

Location: Lake Obersee , South Germany | Credit: Bass Madan

“Own only what you can carry with you; Let your memory be your travel bag.” ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Location: Crested Butte, Colorado | Credit: JulieMun

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

Location: Mana Island, Japan | Credit: Takashi Nakamichi