“Have a safe travel!” I’m sure you’ve said this plenty of times whenever a friend goes traveling. But if you’re looking for something a little more zesty, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most profound, wise, and beautiful travel and journey quotes out there!
‘Have a Safe Travel’ Proverbs and Quotes from Philosophers
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times” – Chinese Proverb
“Never go too long without watching a sunset” – Atticus
“The best view comes after the hardest climb” – Unknown
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
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
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his own, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
“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
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things” – Henry Miller
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” – Martin Buber
“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust.
‘Have a Safe Travel’ Quotes from Celebrities
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
“Paris is always a good idea” -Audrey Hepburn
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” –Roy M. Goodman
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself” -David Mitchell
. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins
“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz
“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
‘Have a Safe Travel’ Quotes from Writers
“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho
“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
“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.”― Sarah Frances Brown
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde
“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“Travel is only glamorous in retrospect” – Paul Theroux
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
“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
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost
“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
“I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson
‘Have a Safe Travel’ Quotes from Books
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” – Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
“Oh the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to” – Alain de Botton
“Not all who wander are lost” – The Lord of the Rings
What’s YOUR favorite “Have a Safe Travel” Quote? Hit us up on the comments below!