Definition of Global Competence: "Having an open mind while actively seeking to understand cultural norms and expectations of others, and leveraging this gained knowledge to interact, communicate and work effectively in diverse environments."”

…nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes common ground, and a common bond, and we cease to be alone. ”

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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. ”

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ”

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. ”

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.”

People don't take trips -- trips take people. ”

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ”

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ”

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ”

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ”

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ”

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ”

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ”

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ”

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. ”

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ”

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it -- basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. ”

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. ”

...the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. ”

Don't tell me how educated you are; tell me how much you have traveled.”

A map is not the territory.”

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ”

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in having new eyes. ”

Is anything sadder than a train/That leaves when it's supposed to/That has only one voice/Only one route?”

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. ”

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. ”

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. ”

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

Too often… I would hear men boast only of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ”

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ”

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”