Travel And Culture Quotes:

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

- Ken Poirot

topic: Journey, Traveling Alone, Travel And Culture, Journey Alone

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Travel, Falling In Love, Taken, Travel The World, Dispersion

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

- Andrew Zimmern

topic: Travel, Keys, People, Food Culture, Meeting New People

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Country, Travel, People, South America, Inspirational Adventure

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

- Ibn Battuta

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Adventurous, Solo Travel, Nomadic

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

source: "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

topic: Travel, Home, Memorable, Scrutinize, Samoa

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

- Mary Ritter Beard

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel, Journey Inspirational, Life Going On

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

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

topic: Travel, Laughter, Journey, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

- Pat Conroy

source: FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Memorable, Carpe Diem, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Falling In Love, Taken, Eye, Inspiring Travel, Travel Abroad

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

- James A. Michener

source: "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Journey Home, Inspirational Adventure Time

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Years, Reckless Abandon, Inspirational Vacation, Travel The World, Inspiring Travel

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

topic: Country, Travel, Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time, Travel And Tourism

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Beautiful, Travel, Hurt, Kitchen Confidential, Travel Light

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

- Mary Anne Radmacher

topic: Travel, Moon, Shining, Solo Travel, Inspiration To Others

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

topic: Life, Travel, Differences, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Travel, School, Journey, Solo Travel, Goeth

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Travel, Memories, Footprint, Inspirational Adventure, Travel And Tourism

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Soul Life, Journey Inspirational

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Travel, Adventure, Journey, Solo Travel, Journey And Destination

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Memorable, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Adventure

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Hate, Memorable, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Fun, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Witty, Travel, Work, Solo Travel, Inspiration To Others

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

topic: Travel, Memorable, Adventure, Experiencing Things, Journeys And Paths

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice, Journeys And Paths, Travel And Tourism

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Moving, Return, This Life, Kitchen Confidential, Inspirational Vacation

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

- Ivanka Trump

topic: Travel, Inspire, Found, Language Culture, Travel And Culture

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Country, Travel, Long, Culture Shock, Travel And Culture

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

- David Mitchell

source: David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.320, Random House

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring, Travel The World, Inspiring Travel

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

- Rumi

topic: Travel, Optimistic, Vacation, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational