OUR FAVORITE QUOTES FOR TRAVELING FAMILIES
Since becoming a full-time travel family in January 2020, we’ve turned into the corny family that loves travel quotes. We’re amazed by how much our son has grown so much the last year and a half from traveling, so we wanted to share our favorite family travel quotes.
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To show we put our money where our mouth is, we’ve included pictures from our adventure over the last year.
These family travel quotes provoke thought, garner inspiration, and may even make you chuckle. Here are some epic travel quotes to inspire families to travel more with their kids.
SHORT FAMILY TRAVEL QUOTES
These family travel quotes are perfect for scrapbooking. They are short and sweet but get the point across.
Here are some of our favorite short travel quotes for families.
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”
Lovelle Drachman
Dalai Lama
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before”
J. D. Andrews
“It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it”
Muhammad Ali
“Don’t count the days; make the days count.”
Hilaire Belloc
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment”
Unknown
“I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords.”
Ann Beattie
“People forget the years and remember moments.”
“Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
Charles R Swindoll
Paul Coelho
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion”
Henry David Thoreau
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”
Unknown
“The world is your playground.”
Betty Williams
“When all else fails, take a vacation.”
Unknown
“I need a six month vacation, twice a year.”
Unknown
“Let curiousity lead the way.”
Matthew Karsten
“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself”
Paulo Coelho
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
Unknown
“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul”
Sandra Lake
“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding”
Leigh Hunt
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
Unknown
“Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t.”
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT TRAVEL FOR FAMILIES
There is something special about traveling that transforms you. It’s not until you are thrust into an unknown land that you truly discover who you are, what you stand for, and what you believe.
We’re asked a lot why we travel, and we believe these quotes give all the reasons we love to travel as a family.
Although these travel quotes may not be direct family travel quotes, they’ll inspire you to think about how traveling with your family can change your life.
You’ll be amazed by how traveling will shape/mold your kids.
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Dave Willis
“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”
Jack Kerouac
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”
Mark Twain
“Travel 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 one’s lifetime.”
Diane Ackerman
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.“
Rachel Wolchin
“If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet.“
Maya Angelou
“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”
Michael Palin
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“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”
FAMILY TRAVEL QUOTES TO INSPIRE YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE
Have you recently started traveling with your kids and are looking for a little inspiration?
Travel books are a great way to expose your kids to travel. They can start to understand different countries, cultures, and languages around the world.
You’d be surprised how quickly kids adjust to new surroundings. During our crazy gap year, our son started speaking Spanish, so now we’re learning.
Here are our favorite travel quotes to inspire your next family adventure.
Nelson Mandela
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.“
Pamela T. Chandler
“When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away…experience, exposure and a way of life.“
Unknown
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.“
St. Augustine of Hippo
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”
Mary Anne Radmacher
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world“
Clint Borgen
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting”
Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.“
Buddha
“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.”
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
Dolly Parton
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
Dr. Seuss
Unknown
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost”
Zig Ziglar
“Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”