40 Inspiring Quotes to Personalize Your Push Pin Travel Map

A travel map is not only a unique piece of interior decor — it is also your personal travel journal, reminding you of the adventures you took, the places you visited, inspiring your wanderlust, and motivating you to plan your future trips. To make your travel map even more special, take an opportunity to personalize it, by adding a text or some personal details at the corner of the map.

One of the ways to personalize your map is to add an inspiring, motivating, or simply interesting travel quote. The opportunities here are endless: it can be a quote that represents your personal take on life, a maxim, or a saying about traveling, exploring, and discovering, or maybe a quote of a famous person that inspires you.

If you need some ideas, we’ve gathered for you 40 of the best travel quotes to help you personalize your travel map.

1. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
2. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” — Rachel Wolchin
3. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
4. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde
5. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
6. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
7. “Travel is never a matter of money, but courage.” — Paulo Coelho
8. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown author
9. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
10. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
11. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
12. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” — Cherie Gilderbloom
13. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
14. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
15. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
16. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
17. “The journey, not the arrival matters.”  – T. S. Eliot
18. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Anderson
19. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
20. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
21. “Collect moments. Not things.” – Unknown author
22. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
23. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho
24. “All I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” – Louis Armstrong
25. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
26. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage
27. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben
28. “It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.” — Bob Proctor
29. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
31. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Gaby Basora
32. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
33. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
34. “Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints.” – Chief Seattle
35. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
36. “To travel is to take a journey onto yourself.” – Danny Kaye
37. “People forget years and remember moments.” – Ann Beattie
38. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
39. “The world is yours to explore, let the adventures fill your soul.” — Unknown author
40. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away.” – Unknown author

Akvilė

Author and traveler

Born and raised in Lithuania, never did I think that I would find myself living in Israel – this peculiar country that I’m still trying to figure out. When I’m not busy eating falafel, I love to travel and spend time outdoors, go for runs along the beach, daydream, and write, write, write…