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. ”

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. ”

We start going downhill when we stop taking risks.”

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. ”

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. ”

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

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. ”

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ”

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ”

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. ”

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ”

Travel is glamourous only in retrospect.”

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ”

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

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. ”

To 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.”

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. ”

Travel teaches toleration. ”

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

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ”

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

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. ”

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

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.”

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. ”

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

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

Life for two weeks on the mountaintops would show up many things about life during the other fifty weeks down below. ”

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

When you're traveling, you are what you are. No yesterdays on the road.”

He who would travel happily must travel light.”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

People who do not travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. ”

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."”