40 Inspiring Travel Quotes That Will Make You Want To Travel And Learn

Sometimes we all need a little encouragement to assure us that our travel dreams are worth it. These great quotes about travel and learning are sure to help inspire you to plan your next family adventure.

Glance in my purse on any given day and you’re likely to find a little scratch of paper that might look to be trash. Look a little closer and you’ll see it’s actually not my kid’s gum wrapper we couldn’t find a place to throw away.

Actually it’s a quote. (Truth be told, there’s usually a gum wrapper or two or something else that needs thrown away too, but you get my point.)

I absolutely love a fantastic quote, especially the kind that allows you to feel the words. The kind of quote that sticks with you long past the time you spent reading it on the page. The kind of quote that makes you want to do things a little different from that very minute on. And I love writing them down and carrying them with me.

Quotes about traveling and learning are, of course, some of my favorite.

Here are 40 quotes that have inspired me and my family to keep striving for great family learning adventures.

Maybe one of them will make it to that coveted spot right beside the gum wrapper in your purse or pocket sometime too.

Great Quotes to remind You travel really is worth it

As moms and dads, our to-do lists sometimes seem never ending so taking the time to plan a family vacation can seem daunting. One of the best pieces of advice I ever received as a new mom though was to get door to enjoy my kids more. These quotes about traveling inspire me to do just that.

“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

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – Euripides

“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
“It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins

“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

“We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.” - Anonymous
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

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Inspiring Quotes to remind You the world is the best classroom

The real experts (a.k.a. moms and dads) don’t need experts to tell us all the benefits from getting out there and learning through travel. But these great travel quotes help us remember what we already know.

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” –Mark Twain
“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” -Cornelius Vanderbilt
“And then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.” - Anonymous
“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.” - Jack Hanna
“Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.” - Dr. Maria Montessori
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -Henry David Thoreau
“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning” – Harvey Lloyd

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Quotes to remind you some of the best travel lessons Are closer than you think

Planning that family vacation to a faraway land sure does sound amazing … but isn’t always possible. The good news? Some of the very best travel and learn experiences don’t have to be hard. They can often be found practically in our own backyards, in places we’ve already been, or in destinations that might seem like they’re not about learning at all.

“I prefer to amuse people in the hope that they will learn, than to teach them in the hope that they will have fun.” - Walt Disney
“I believe you should focus your life on observing the little things, because one day you look back and realize they were the big things.” - Jay Shetty
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” Ronald Dahl
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.” - Sinclair Lewis
“Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” - Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
“A journey is measured in friends rather than miles.” - Tim Cahill

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Motivating Kick-you-in-the-rear Travel Quotes to remind you to go for it

Probably one of my favorite things about an inspiring quote is the way it can become a mantra for following your dreams. Whether your dream is traveling and learning or something completely different, these quotes are sure to provide encouragement.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” - Eleanor Roosevelt.
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” - John C. Maxwell
“So don't be afraid. You hear me, young people? Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. Empower yourself with a good education. Then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.” - Michelle Obama

“There’s the whole world at your feet.” - Mary Poppins
“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” - Jimmy Carter
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

“Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through, the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” – Andy Andrews

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Travel and Learn Quotes to remind you to be a life-long student

Can I just get an “amen” from everyone else out there who has realized through teaching their kids something that they actually probably learned more than they taught? These quotes remind me that might just be one of the best parts of traveling and learning.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

“Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.” – Michael J. Gelb

“Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever.” Ghandi

“There is divine beauty in learning... The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.” - Elie Wiesel

“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” - Anonymous

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.