Best travel quotes (from our Facebook) :)

Attention! Reading the following post may end up uncontrollably buying a ticket to your dream trip :)

Those who follow us on Facebook know that for the past 52 weeks, we have been adding inspirational, more-or-less famous quotes and proverbs every Monday. There were quotes related to both travel and motivation for action and fulfilling dreams.

We decided to collect them all in one place for you, so that you can always easily return to them. By the way, there was a mini ranking of the most popular travel quotes, as we arranged them according to their popularity on our Facebook.

So this is not our personal ranking, but yours! :)

Most popular travel quotes

Here we go. In parentheses, for the first 20 items, we present you with the number of reactions that were under the given quotes.

And here are all 52 quotes:

1. “Don’t put off dreaming, put off dreaming.” – author unknown (532)
   
2. “He who lives sees much, he who travels sees more.” – Arabic proverb (511)
   
3. “Travel is the only thing we spend money on, and we become richer.” – author unknown (436)
   
4. “Once you swallow the travel bug, there is no cure. I know I will be happily ill for the rest of my days.” – Michael Palin (382)
   
5. “To know a man, one must become his traveling companion.” – Turkish proverb (373)
   
6. “Once a year, go to a place you haven’t been before.” – Dalai Lama (303)
   
7. “Tourists don’t know where they have been, travelers don’t know where they will be.” – Paul Theroux (262)
   
8. “Traveling teaches modesty. You see how little space you take up in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert (245)
   
9. “Traveling is not something you do. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Forman (244)
   
10. “I haven’t been everywhere, but I have it on the list.” – Susan Sontag (215)
    
11. “A man has to fly once in a while.” – from the film “Ascension,” 1973 (181)
12. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor (173)
13. “Dreams don’t come true. Dreams come true.” – author unknown (172)
14. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli (169)
15. “To travel is to live. Or at any rate to live doubly, triply, repeatedly.” – Andrzej Stasiuk (154)
16. “The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that YOU are the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler (151)
    
17. “Far-flung travels have the quality of bringing back something completely different from what you went for.” – Nicolas Bouvier (131)
18. “Twenty years from now you will regret more what you didn’t do than what you did. So untie the ropes, leave the safe harbor. Catch the successful winds in your sails. Travel, dream, explore.” – Mark Twain (119)
19. “I don’t like to feel at home when I’m abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw (103)
20. “If you can dream about something, you can also accomplish it.” – Walt Disney (101)
21. “It is better to travel well than to arrive at your destination.” – Buddha
22. “Travelling makes you faint with emotion and then turns you into a storyteller.” – M. Ibn Battuta
23. “My goal is to create a life that I don’t need a vacation from.” – Rob Hill
24. “For a dream to come true, you must first start dreaming.” – Brian Tracy
    
25. “There is always something final and irreversible in a journey, and when it ends, you never really return to the same place.” – Licja Troisi
26. “Old age begins when memories take the place of dreams.” – Ryszard Podlewski
27. “When you know what you want and want it really badly, you find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn
28. “The basis of happiness is freedom, and the basis of freedom is courage.” – Tukidides
29. “Never give up on a dream just because it takes a long time to realize it. Time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
30. “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Chinese proverb
31. “If you don’t know where you want to go, it doesn’t matter which way you go.” – Lewis Carroll
32. “Choose a job you love, and you won’t overwork a single day in your life.” – Confucius
33. “Follow your dreams. They know the way.” – Kobi Yamada
34. “Believe you can, and you’re already halfway to success.” – Theodore Roosevelt
35. “After all, there is such a thing as travel contagion, and it is a kind of disease that is essentially incurable.” – Ryszard Kapuscinski
    
36. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths, but by the number of moments that take the roof off your chest.” – Maya Angelou
37. “If you want to see a rainbow, you must bravely endure the rain.” – Masashi Kishimoto
38. “If you can’t do big things, do small things in a big way.” – Napoleon Hill
39. “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before.” – Bill Bryson
40. “A goal is a dream with a realization date.” – Napoleon Hill
41. “The destination is not where you are going, but the new perspective with which you look at the world.” – Henry Miller
42. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, it matters that you don’t stop.” – Confucius
43. “The worst days of those who like what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t like what they do.” – E. James Rohn
44. “Even the farthest journey begins with the first step.” – Lao-tzu
45. “To travel is to live.” Hans Christian Andersen
    
46. “Man cannot discover new oceans until he finds the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
47. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
48. “The bunkers aren’t there, but it’s also awesome.” – Chick from “Boys Don’t Cry”
49. “Great things happen when people meet mountains.” – William Blake
50. “A true voyage of discovery does not consist in seeking new lands, but in a new outlook.” – Marcel Proust
    
51. “I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit unusual, exotic shopping malls.” – Homer from “The Simpsons”
52. “A journey is like a marriage. The fundamental mistake is to think you can control it.” – John Steinback

Which one is closest to you? Would you add anything else to this list?