The reasons why people travel and the passion they have for it has been conveyed in many noted quotations. After reading some of these quotes, you’ll just want to get up from your computer and hop on a plane!

“No matter where you go… there you are.”

1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
2. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” - Samuel Johnson
3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine
4. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel- not a destination.” - Roy M. Goodman
5. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
6. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
8. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
9. “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” - Margaret Mead
10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu
11. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller
12. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
13. “People don’t take trips- trips take people.” - John Steinbeck
14. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharial Nehru
15. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” - Albert Einstein
16. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
17. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson
18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
19. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” - Herman Melville
20. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
21. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
22. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place..” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
23. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on a foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G. K. Chesterton
24. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” - Anatole France
25. “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