45 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes For Your Instagram Caption
March 13, 2021
After posting your 100th impeccable travel shot, coming up with an equally as engaging Instagram caption can be hard. From what Iāve heard, itās something many fellow content creators struggle with. Luckily, thereās a simple solution: travel quotes!
I love using inspirational travel quotes for my Instagram caption, because itās fairly low effort, but still more meaningful than your typical sun/wave emoji (letās be honest, weāve all used those one too many timesā¦). For this post, I want to share some of my favourite travel quotes that never fail to inspire a sense of adventure, freedom and wanderlust.
Read next: 11 Life Lessons Iāve Learned From Travelling The World
SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES
Though I usually like to write obnoxiously long captions on Instagram, sometimes I just canāt be bothered (IG can be a lot to keep up with, hence the prolonged hiatus⦠*sorry not sorry*). This is when I will opt for a short saying that is thought-provoking yet NOT time consuming (talk about a win-win). I know lots of people actually prefer short travel quotes for Instagram, so if thatās you, this is your list!
1. āLive your life by a compass, not a clock.ā ā Stephen Covey
2. āTravel is never a matter of money but of courage.ā ā Paulo Coelhoā£
3. āNothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.ā ā Jack Kerouac
4. āTravel far enough, you meet yourself.ā
āĀ David Mitchell
5. āTraveling ā it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storytellerā ā Ibn Battuta
6. āI donāt know where Iām going, but I promise it wonāt be boring.ā ā David Bowie
7. āWherever you go becomes a part of you somehowā ā Anita Desai
8. āA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built forā ā John A. Shedd
9. āInvestment in travel is an investment in yourself.ā
āĀ Matthew Karsten
10. āEvery mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbingā ā Barry Finlay
11. āA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arrivingā ā Lao Tzu
DEEP TRAVEL QUOTES
I feel like a lot of people are afraid to be ātoo deepā on Instagram, but Iāve found that itās a lot easier for people to comment and get involved if you make them reflect on something. I love posting deep quotes and encouraging my followers to share their opinion!
12. āWhat youāve done becomes the judge of what youāre going to do ā especially in other peopleās minds. When youāre traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People donāt have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.ā ā William Least Heat-Moon
13. āA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensionsā ā Oliver Wendell Holmes
14. āTravel 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 oneās lifetime.ā ā Mark Twain
15. āYou know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.ā
ā Nietzsche
16. āOnce you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.ā ā Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
17. āTravel isnāt always pretty. It isnāt always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But thatās 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 behindā ā Anthony Bourdain
18. āOnce in a while it really hits people that they donāt have to experience the world in the way they have been told toā ā Alan Keightley
19. āTraveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky ā all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.ā ā Cesare Pavese
20. āTo 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.ā ā Bill Bryson
21. āThough we travel the world over to find theĀ beautyĀ we must carry it with us or we find it not.ā āĀ Ralph Waldo Emerson
ADVENTURE TRAVEL QUOTES
Travel and adventure obviously go hand in hand, but some types of travel are definitely more adventurous than others. These travel quotes are perfect for hikers, backpackers, solo travellers or anyone whoās a lover of the adventurous travel lifestyle.
22. āIf happiness is the goal āĀ and it should be, then adventure should be top priority.ā āĀ Richard Branson
23. āIf you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, itās lethalā ā Paulo Coelho
24. āSo many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a manās living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.ā
ā Jon Krakauer
25. āIf youāre twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel ā as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them ā wherever you go.ā ā Anthony Bourdain
26. āI am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.ā ā Storm Jameson
27. āAdventure is a path. Real adventure ā self-determined, self-motivated, often risky ā 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 ā and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.ā ā Mark Jenkins
28. āThe traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to seeā ā Gilbert K. Chesterton
29. āItās a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you donāt keep your feet, thereās no knowing where you might be swept off to.ā ā J.R.R. Tolkien
30. āOnce the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my lifeā ā Michael Palin
MOTIVATIONAL TRAVEL QUOTES
My favourite quotes are those that inspire and motivate us to live our best, most authentic lives. Sometimes, the final push to get out of your comfort zone can come in the form of a few simple words of wisdom. Words make you feel things, and feelings can quickly turn into action. Here are some of the best motivational travel quotes:
31. āBecause in the end, you wonāt remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.ā ā Jack Kerouac
32. āIf you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay homeā
ā James Michener
33. āMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shoreā ā Andre Gide
34. āI stopped telling myself that Iām lost. Iām not. Iām on a road with no destination, Iām just driving with hope that Iāll find a place that I like and Iāll stay there. Iām not lost, Iām on my way.ā ā Ahunnaya
35. āI was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.ā ā Jack Kerouac
36. āTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnāt do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.ā ā Mark Twain
37. āAnd theĀ purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.ā āĀ Eleanor Roosevelt
LOVE TRAVEL QUOTES
I wanted to include a list of quotes on travel and love, since many travellers not only want to express their love for travel, but for each other. Iāve found a few romantic travel quotes for all of you travel couples out there, as well as some travel quotes about friendship.
38. āThe more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.ā ā Shirley MacLaine
39. āThe travelĀ impulseĀ is mental and physical curiosity. Itās a passion. And I canāt understandĀ people who donāt want to travel.ā āĀ Paul Theroux
40. āI have found out that there aināt no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with themā ā Mark Twain
41. āActually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventure.ā
āĀ Lewis Carroll
42. āA journey is best measured in friends, rather than milesā ā Tim Cahill
43. āAnd if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because itās 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.ā ā Pico Lyer
44. āIāve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder, if thatās why IāveĀ fallen for you.ā ā E. Grin
45. āIn life, itās not where you go,Ā Itās who you travel with.ā ā Charles Schulz
I hope this list of inspirational travel quotes gave you some ideas on what to write in your Instagram caption. I will be adding more quotes whenever I find one that I like, so feel free to subscribe if you want to stay updated š
Whatās your favourite travel quote of all time? Let me know in the comments!
These are some great inspirational quotes! So many are so true at different times. Thanks for pulling together this list!
Thank you!
All these quotes made me miss travel all the more. Soon the pandemic will be over!
Ikr, letās hope so!
Having a caption dry spell right now ā this definitely came in handy!
Iām glad!
I can totally relate ā it can be hard to come up with a perfect caption for your instagram posts, especially if you post every day! Thank you for this compilation š
Thanks for reading š
Great list of quotes! I love the Nietzsche, #15 ā it has helped me describe something I have felt many times on the road. Most recently I was in the mountains in Turkey and a valley opened up before me, and my mind was indeed numbed by the beauty!
Thanks š Yes exactly, itās a great feeling!
What beautiful quotes š such a great post!
Thank you sm š
So many beautiful quotes! Thanks for sharing. Which one is your personal favourite?
Thanks! Probably the one by Mark Twain where he says that travel is fatal to prejudice and narrow-mindedness! I think thatās one of the most important things travel can do for someone.
Love it, quotes are always my favorite. Thank you!
Agreed, glad you like š
I love these SO much! Thereās just something about quotesā¦theyāre inspiring. Thought-provoking. And what a fabulous list!
Exactly! Thanks for reading Diane š
Oh wow. Can I have Lao Tzuās quote deliver to my doorstep please? š
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. Brilliant in its sheer simplicity. Counts for many things in life, if only we take the time to truly contemplate.
Thank you!
Indeed, can be applied to life in general š itās all about the journey!
i found some gems in here, like this one by L. Carroll, āActually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventure,ā which was my favorite! thanks for the insta inspo⦠youāre right after about 100 posts, you lose your caption mojo!
Oh I love that one too!
Well, this is wildly helpful! Pinned for laterā¦and truly intend to go back to it. Thank you!
Thatās lovely to hear, thank you š
Absolutely loved this post!
Thanks so much š
These are great quotesā¦although I think I would feel a bit daft using them on my instagram. I normally just post whatever is in my head when I take the photo. This is probably why Iāll never be an insta star! š
Completely understand, I only use them when I really donāt know what to say haha!
Love these! Iām going to have to grab a few for my Instagram posts. I completely agree that it can be challenging to constantly come up with great captions, especially thought-provoking ones that encourage comments. You make such a great point about posting deep quotes and encouraging others to share their opinion! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much!