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Inspiring Travel Quotes

Inspiration can come in many forms, but sometimes a little nudge in the right direction is all you need. So if you’re waiting around for something to happen, stop. Go and grab it, do it now. If you need a little more inspiration, read on the 60 best Inspiring Travel Quotes below:

60 Inspiring Travel Quotes:

1. “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
2. “Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” Michael Leboeuf
3. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years”  Abraham Lincoln
4. “Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank”  Ben Irwin
5. “We’ll never be as young as we are tonight.”  Chuck Palahniuk
6. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of”  Benjamin Franklin
7. “…so many people live within unhappy circumstances 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 peace 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 horizon, for each day, to have a new and different sun. ”
 Chris McCandless, ‘Into the Wild’
8. “Every man dies.  Not every man really lives.”   Braveheart
9. “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.  Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.” Indian Saying
10. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one”  Wayne Dyer
11. “We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.” Asfixia
12. “Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” Dion Boucicault
13. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.  I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” Jack London
14. “Life, if well lived, is long enough.”  Ira De Seneca
15. “When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.”  Jim Elliot
16. “Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.  That is what it is for.  Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”  George Bernard Shaw
17. “Dream as if you’ll live forever.  Live as if you’ll die today.”  James Dean
18. “I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.”  Henry James
19. “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”  Stephen Vincent Benét
20. “Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.” Jane Austen
21. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”  Thomas A. Edison
22. “You will never find time for anything.  If you want time you must make it.”  Charles Buxton
23. “As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do..”  Zachary Scott
24. “A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.” Francis Bacon
25. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it.  I want to have lived the width of it as well.”  Diane Ackerman
26. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.”  The Buddha
27. “Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy?  Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic?  Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised?  Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard?  No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived.  And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”  Robert Brault
28. “The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.”  Robert Brault
29. “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”  Stephen Vincent Benét
30. “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”  Fight Club
31. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
32. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”  John Lennon
33. “Not all those who wander are lost.”  J. R. R. Tolkien
34. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it..”  Charles R. Swindoll
35. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”  Maya Angelou
36. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”  Alan Keightley
37. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”  Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
38. “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
 Henry Miller
39. “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”  Frank Herbert
40. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” Anatole France
41. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles”  Tim Cahill
42. “Happiness is only real when shared”  Alexander Supertramp
43. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”  Helen Keller
44. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”  Miriam Beard
45. “We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance” Japanese Proverb
46. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk
47. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”  Jack Kerouac
48. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”  Lao Tzu
49. “Enjoy yourself.  It’s later than you think”  Chinese Proverb
50. “Do not take life too seriously.  You will never get out of it alive.”  Elbert Hubbard
51. “As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”  Zachary Scott
52. “Spend the afternoon.  You can’t take it with you.”  Annie Dillard
53. “To change one’s life:  Start immediately.  Do it flamboyantly.  No exceptions.”  William James
54. “Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”  Margaret Fuller
55. “Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”  John Henry Cardinal Newman
56. “Contemplation often makes life miserable.  We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.:”  Colas de Chamfort
57. “When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.”  Author unknown, from a television commercial
58. “If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?”  Stephen Levine
59. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”  Mark Twain
60. “Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it”. 
 Anonymous

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