Travel quotes are all around us, but finding the best travel quotes to kick off the new year can be tough. We’ve pulled together a few of our favorite quotes along with some of our favorite photos from the past few years. Hopefully these travel quotes, whether you travel with kids or not, will bring a little inspiration.
But first, here is one of our favorite quotes to kick off the year, whether you travel or not, have kids or just a cute pup you like to snuggle with at home. No matter what you do this year, you should do it without fear, and with passion and the belief that you can fly.
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey—Babs Hoffman
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family—unknown
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children- Charles R. Swindoll
Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings—Hodding Carter
“No act of kindness however small is ever wasted.” — AESOP
“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
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” — Mohammed
“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
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” -Francis Bacon, Sr.
“My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.” – Diana Ross
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.” — Albert Einstein
“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
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ~ Matthew Karsten
“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
