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I just got back from a 5 months trip through Europe with my van and I’m already thinking about my next adventure. I don’t feel sad, but working on my desk with the same view every day isn’t that easy to go over. Therefore, I decided to create travel quotes to keep me motivated day after day.
I focused mainly on shorter quotes that have a big impact on your motivation and your decisions process. Few of them are stuck in my mind forever and I’ve truly embraced them until they became a way of thinking.
I will keep this post updated and regularly add new travel quotes to give you even more inspiration and motivation to follow your dreams.
Furthermore, each travel quote will be accompanied by a picture that you can save as wallpaper for your smartphone or to your Pinterest favorite boards.
Let’s start.
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.“ – Lao Tzu
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.“ – Lao Tzu
“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.“ – Spanish Proverb
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.“ – John G. Shed
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.“ – George Eliot
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.“ – Amelia Earhart
“Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life“ – John Amat
“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.“ – Marcus Purvis
“All good things are wild and free.“ – Henry David Thoreau
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.“ – John Muir
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.“ – Randy Komisar
“Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.“ – Bob Bitchin
“Be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find.“ – William Least Heat-Moon
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.“ – Jack Kerouac
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.“ – Asian Proverb
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.“ – Lovelle Drachman
“Cover the earth before it covers you.“ – Dagobert Runes
“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.“ – Steve Pavlina
“Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.“ – Scott Borchetta
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.“ – Barry Finlay
“Go where you feel most alive.“ – Unkown genius
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.“ – Mary Anne Radmacher
“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.“ – Tim Daly
“I love the places that make you realize how small you and your problems are.“ – Anonymous
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.“ – Douglas Adams
“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.“ – Carew Papritz
“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.“ – Richard Branson
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.“ – Seth Godin
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.“ – Rachel Wolchin
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.“ – Angelina Jolie
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.“ – John Muir
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.“ – Unkown genius
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.“ – George Eliot
“It’s bad manners to keep an adventure waiting.“ – Unkown genius
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.“ – Sir Edmund Hillary
“It’s time to remember what it’s like to feel alive.“ – Anonymous
“Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.“ – Jaime Lyn Beatty
“Kids are curious, and if you don’t lose that, then everything is an adventure.“ – Diane Greene
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.“ – J.K. Rowling
“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.“ – Danny Kaye
“Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.“ – Guy Laliberte
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.“ – Anais Nin
“Life without adventure is like pizza without cheese.“ – The Global Castaway
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.“ – Stephen Covey
“Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.“ – Nita Morgan
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.“ – Andre Gide
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.“ – Trenton Lee Stewart
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.“ – Amelia Earhart
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.“ – Alexandre Dumas
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.“ – Lewis Carroll
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.“ – Navjot Singh Sidhu
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.“ – Unkown genius
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.“ – William Feather
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.“ – T.S Eliot
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.“ – John Steinbeck
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.“ – Jack Kerouac
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.“ – Erol Ozan
“Sometimes getting lost is not a waste of time.“ – Unkown genius
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.“ – Babs Hoffman
“The best view comes after the hardest climb.“ – Anonymous
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.“ – Oprah Winfrey
“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.“ – Paulo Coelho
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.“ – Sir Richard Burton
“The journey matters more than the destination.“ – Tony Fahkry
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.“ – Marcel Proust
“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.“ – Anonymous
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.“ – W.M. Lewis
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.“ – Christopher McCandless
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.“ – John Muir
“The world is not in your books and maps; it’s out there.“ – Gandalf
“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.“ – Ewan Mcgregor
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.“ – Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.“ – Roberto Assagioli
“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.“ – Jawaharlal Nehru
“There’s only one place I want to go, and it’s to all the places I’ve never been to.“ – Nikki Rowe
“To Travel is to Live“ – Hans Christian Andersen
“Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.“ – Marty Rubin
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.“ – David Mitchell
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.“ – Mark Twain
“Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.“ – Pico Iyer
“Travel is the answer, who cares what the question is.“ – Unkown genius
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.“ – Ibn Battuta
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by.“ – Robert Frost
“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.“ – Roy T. Bennett
“You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.“ – John Muir
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.“ – Karen Blixen
“You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong“ – Sue Fitzmaurice
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.“ – Anthony Bourdain
“The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing“ – Walt Disney
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.“ – Winston Churchill
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.“ – Will Rogers
“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.“ – Unkown genius
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.“ – Vince Lombardi
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.“ – Steve Jobs
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.“ – Rob Siltanen
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.“ – Og Mandino
“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.“ – Mohnish Pabrai
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.“ – Maya Angelou
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.“ – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?“ – Brian Tracy
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.“ – Dr. Henry Link
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.“ – Henry Ford
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.“ – Helen Keller
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.“ – Hasidic Proverb
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.“ – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.“ – Albert Einstein
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.“ – Don Zimmer
“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.“ – Theodore Roosevelt
All these travel quotes wallpapers are saved to my Pinterest board “Travel Quotes Collection”. I have many more resources available on Pinterest so don’t hesitate to follow me.
I hope you felt inspired reading them and I’d feel honored if you used any of them as phone wallpaper. Don’t hesitate to share them around you.