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Travel is like unwrapping a gift with endless surprises, each destination offering a unique blend of sights, sounds, and flavors. If you’re looking for inspiration for your next adventure or copies of your beautiful adventure photos, you’ve stumbled upon the perfect pit stop. 

This collection of short travel quotes includes inspirational short travel quotes for Instagram, best short travel quotes about adventure, short travel quotes to ignite wanderlust, quick and memorable travel quotes, short travel quotes for wanderers, famous short travel quotes for travelers, short travel quotes for photo captions, short travel quotes for solo adventures, short travel quotes for backpackers on Instagram, and short travel quotes for dreamers and explorers. 

These short travel quotes are like snapshots of these unforgettable moments. They serve as reminders of the beauty and wonder we encounter along the way, inspiring us to keep exploring.

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Inspirational short travel quotes for Instagram

Get motivated with these inspirational short travel quotes for Instagram.

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

Inspirational short travel quotes for Instagram

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.” — G.K. Chesterton

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” — Freya Stark

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” — Pico Iyer

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by.” — Robert Frost

“Traveling widens your horizon and teaches you to be happy and positive.” — Dr Prem Jagyasi

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anaïs Nin

“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” — Rumi

“The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.” — William Hazlitt

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Thomas Alva Edison

“Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted.” — Melaina Rayne

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” — Trenton Lee Stewart

“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” — Anna Louise Strong

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

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

Best short travel quotes about adventure

Here are some of our short travel quotes about adventure.

“Adventure is worthwhile.” — Aesop

“Adventure is out there.” — Charles Muntz

“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” — Stephen Covey

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle

“Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly.” — Bear Grylls

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” — Jack Kerouac

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

Best short travel quotes about adventure

“There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.” — Katelyn S. Bolds

“You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

 “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.” — J.D. Andrews

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” — Mohammed

“The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself.” — Wallace Stevens

“Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.” — Francis Shenstone

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” — Lewis Carroll

“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” — Richard Branson

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

Short travel quotes to ignite wanderlust

Check out this category of short travel quotes to ignite wanderlust.

“The less I needed the better I felt.” — Charles Bukowski

Short travel quotes to ignite wanderlust

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” — Ralph Crawshaw

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” — Danny Kaye

“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” — Ricky Skaggs

“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” — Jaime Lyn

“To travel is to breathe sentience into one’s ambitions.” — Saim .A. Cheeda

“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” — Caskie Stinnett

“Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” — Bob Bitchin

“Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.” — Lolly Daskal

“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” — Gael Attal

“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” — Steve Pavlina

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” — Isabelle Eberhardt

“Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles M. Schulz

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” — Francis Bacon

“The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.” — Bruce Chitin

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” — Anatole France

Quick and memorable travel quotes

These quick and memorable travel quotes are worth checking.

“One must travel to learn.” — Mark Twain

“The journey is the reward.” — Tao Expression

Quick and memorable travel quotes

“Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” — Emile Zola

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” — Frantz Fanon

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” — Roy M. Goodman

“I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” — Bill Bryson

“I have seen travel plans happen only when they were made overnight.” — Sanhita Baruah

“It is better to see something once, than to hear about it a thousand times.” — Asian Proverb

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” — Fitzhugh Mullan

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” — John Steinbeck

“Worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!” — Russell Baker

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his own, familiar pillow.” — Lin Yutang

Short travel quotes for wanderers

We love these short travel quotes for wanderers.

“Keep exploring, you will discover new path.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau

Short travel quotes for wanderers

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

“I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.” — Suzy Kassem

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” — Henry Miller

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” — Jack Kerouac

“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” — Amin Maalouf

“I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost – I just wasn’t ready to be found.” — Nikki Rowe

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” — Roman Payne

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go…” — Danielle Steel

Famous short travel quotes for travelers

We love these famous short travel quotes for travelers.

“Oh, the places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

“To Travel is to Live.” — Hans Christian Andersen

“There is a world elsewhere.” — Shakespeare

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux

“All you need to know is that it’s possible.” — Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

Famous short travel quotes for travelers

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck

“Only one who wanders finds new paths.” — Norwegian Proverb

“Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” — Oscar Wilde

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho

“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” — Anthony Bourdain

“Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do.” — Gayle Forman

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” — John Green

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Augustine of Hippo

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

Short travel quotes for photo captions

Here are some of the best short travel quotes for photo captions.

“To travel is to evolve.” — Pierre Bernardo

“Travel teaches tolerance.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” — Amelia Earhart

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell

“The further I go, the closer to me I get.” — Andrew McCarthy

“Travelers never think they are the foreigners.” — Mason Cooley

“Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.” — Arab Proverb

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

Short travel quotes for photo captions

“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” — Steve Martin

“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” — Paul Coelho

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

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

“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” — Penelope Riley

Short travel quotes for solo adventurers

You’ll love these short travel quotes for solo adventurers.

“Explore, experience, then push beyond.” — Aaron Lauritsen

Short travel quotes for solo adventurers

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca

“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

“You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.” — Amit Kalantri

“Gotta’ take that adventure, in order to understand your journey.” — Jennifer Pierre

“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” — Ewan Mcgregor

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” — A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” — Paulo Coelho

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” — Ray Bradbury

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” — Alexander Sattler

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

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

“The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine

Short travel quotes for backpackers on Instagram

These short travel quotes for backpackers are perfect for your Instagram photos!

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

“Every journey has an end.” — Seneca

“I tramp a perpetual journey.” — Walt Whitman

Short travel quotes for backpackers on Instagram

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

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine De St. Exupery

“Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” — Anthony Bourdain

“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

“There ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” — David Mitchell

“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” — Drake

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” — Charles Warner

“Climb mountains not so the world can see you but so you can see the world.” — David McCullough Jr

“On a hard jungle journey, nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.” — Tahir Shah

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” — Henny Youngman

“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” — Shanti

“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” — Charles Kuralt

“Man’s real home is not a house, but the Road and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.” — Bruce Chatwin

Short travel quotes for dreamers and explorers

Make sure to check these short travel quotes for dreamers and explorers.

“Explore your existence.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

Short travel quotes for dreamers and explorers

“Dream like your life depends on it.” — World Wild Hearts

“Exploration is curiosity put into action.” — Don Walsh

“Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” — Robert Orben

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville

“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” — Frank Borman

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” — Lovelle Drachman

Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith

“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.” — Theo Cowan

“Never mourn the loss of a map. There remains a world to discover.” — Vijay Fafat

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

“An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.” — Susanna Clarke

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

“Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

“See the line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me. And no one knows, how far I’ll go.” — Moana

May these short travel quotes continue to ignite your wanderlust and spark the spirit of adventure within you. Remember, no matter where life takes you, these short travel quotes will always serve as companions on your travels or will make your adventure photos perfect. Safe travels ahead!

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