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Quotes about travel, journeys and wandering far. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest travel quotes ever written — from Lao Tzu, Confucius, Leonardo da Vinci and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

— Lao Tzu

May the road rise with you and the wind be always at your back — farewell, friend.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

— Confucius

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.

— Leonardo da Vinci

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

A wife is a companion who makes the journey of life worth travelling.

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

A frog in a well does not know the great ocean.

— Japanese Proverb

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart and you will arrive.

— Confucius

He who does not know the road is likely to lose his way.

— African Proverb

Drag me to the moon, to catch a glimpse of the world from a different view.

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

— Robert Frost

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

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

Short cuts make long delays.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

— Nelson Mandela

Wherever you go, go with love in your heart.

— Hawaiian Proverb

The road goes ever on and on.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The journey, not the arrival, matters.

— T. S. Eliot

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.

— Irish Blessing

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

— Lewis Carroll

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields.

— Irish Blessing

In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.

— Charles M. Schulz

Explore. Dream. Discover.

— Mark Twain

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.

— Emily Dickinson

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.

— Danish Proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

— Mark Twain

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

— Samuel Johnson

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.

— Walt Whitman

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