Roads Traveled Quotes:

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Adventure, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

- Elizabeth Drew

topic: Travel, Mind, Conversation, Feet And Travel, Roads And Journeys

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Travel, Europe, People, Inspirational Vacation, Discovery And Travel

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

topic: Travel, Taken, Luxury, Experiencing Things, Solo Travel

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

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Moving, Travel The World, Experience Yourself

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

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

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Travel, Solo Travel, Martian Chronicles

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

- Freya Stark

source: Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

topic: Art, Travel, Journey, Meaning Of Art, Inspiring Travel

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Life, Wisdom, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Most Wise

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

- Ray Bradbury

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

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Healthy, World, Light Hearted, Open Road, Road Trip

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

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

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

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

topic: Inspiring, Travel, Men, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Travel, Solo Travel, Journey Alone, Journey And Destination, Life Journey

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

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Country, Travel, Memories, Eat Your Heart, Inspirational Vacation

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

- Dagobert D. Runes

source: Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

topic: Travel, Home, People, Nomadic, Travel The World

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Dream, Travel, Home, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

- Paul Fussell

topic: Wise, Travel, Trying, Pathos, Great Outdoors

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

- Chief Seattle

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

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Fall, Passion, Squirrels, Travel The World, Weary Traveler

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

topic: Travel, New Beginnings, Journey, Journey And Destination, Journey Begins

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Indian, Solo Travel

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

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Travel, Reality, Imagination, Travel And Tourism, My Journey

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Wise, Country, Travel, Powerful Countries, Roads And Journeys

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

- Mark Jenkins

topic: Travel, Kindness, Real, Way In Life, Travel The World

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

- Paul Fussell

topic: Wise, Travel, Joy, Pathos, Great Outdoors

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

source: Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

topic: Travel, Delight, Moments, Travel And Tourism, Travel Light

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Inspirational, Best Love, Travel, Tripping, Photography And Travel

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

topic: Life, Travel, Adventure, Solo Travel, Martian Chronicles

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

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

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Country, Travel, Hippie, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure Time

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Nomad, Travel And Tourism