66 Short Inspiring Travel Quotes to Ignite your Wanderlust Genes
The first time I traveled really far from home was when I volunteered to go to Hong Kong. Actually you could call it the second time because I had been to the Caribbean once before. But that time I was with my sister who had lived there for a few years. So it didn’t feel so much like a new experience since my sister was there and knew the area like a book.
But Hongkong was a totally new experience. It was a faraway exotic Asian destination. Not only that, I didn’t know the language. I felt like a stranger in a strange land. Hongkong was pretty far from my home in Southern California. However, in that particular instance, although I traveled alone I did have a business partner who lived there and spoke English.
A Few Hongkong Quotes for a City that Changed My Life
“Give Hong Kong to an Artist. He can use it. It can be poetised.” ~ Baris Gencel
“Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.” ~ Prince Charles
“If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.” ~ Jackie Chan
“People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it’s really more like Vegas.” ~ Tucker Carlson
“Life in Hong Kong transcends cultural and culinary borders, such that nothing is truly foreign and nothing doesn’t belong.” ~ Peter Jon Lindberg
“It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.” ~ Liu Xiaobo
“I believe it’s important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city.” ~ Richard Li
“Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.” Hanya Yanagihara
“My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.” ~ Edward Snowden
It’s a great liberating experience to travel. Something everyone should do if they ever get the chance. While you’re at it, why not visit Hongkong?
If you haven’t traveled maybe you should make it a point to travel. You won’t regret it. Traveling will certainly broaden your outlook on the world. It’s an experience you’ll never forget.
Short Travel Quotes to Inspire your Travel Adventure
1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ~ Mark Twain
2. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
3. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Miller
4. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” ~ Caskie Stinnett
5. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
6. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” ~ Dagobert D. Runes
7. “Travel teaches toleration” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
8. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ St Augustine
9. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” ~ The Prophet Mohamed
10. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” ~ T.S. Eliot
13. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” ~ Herman Melville
14. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley
15. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
16. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
17. “People don’t take trips… trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck
18. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” ~ Ray Bradbury
19. “Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkein
20. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cahill
21. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” ~ Elizabeth Drew
22. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
23. “Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” ~ Seneca
24. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ~ Martin Buber
25. “Life is short and the world is wide.”
26. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” ~ Thomas Fuller
27. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” ~ Paul Theroux
28. “A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu
29. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
30. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ~ John Steinbeck
31. “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” ~ Albert Einstein
32. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
33. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” ~ Freya Stark
34. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
35. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled” ~ Robert Frost
36. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” ~ Dalai Lama
37. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ~ Anita Desai
38. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
39. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”
40. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” ~ Lovelle Drachman
41. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ~ Melody Truong
42. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” ~ Paulo Coelho
43. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” ~ Rachel Wolchin
44. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”
45. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” ~ Ray Bradbury
46. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” ~ Paulo Coelho
47. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” ~ Paulo Coelho
48. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
49. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Miller
50. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
51. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” ~ Antoine de St. Exupery
53. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” ~ Chuck Thompson
54. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” ~ Ano
55. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” ~ Anna Quindlen
56. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”~ David Mitchell
57. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ~ Chief Seattle
58. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ~ Ibn Battuta
59. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction”
60. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustav Flaubert
61 “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” ~ Peter Hoeg
62. “Oh the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr. Seuss
63. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” ~ Eugene Fodor
64. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” ~ Babs Hoffman
65. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel ~ not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
66. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
