You’ve taken a bomb photo on a far-away beach sipping a strawberry daiquiri. Of course, you want to post it on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
What caption will capture the moment and make all of your friends wish that they were traveling with you?
You want the caption to match the fire picture.
This post contains the best travel quotes for your instagram – THAT AREN’T CLICHE!
If you’re tired of the cliche travel quotes that every basic bish has been using since Instagram was invented. You know the ones.
“Not all who wander are lost” – J.R.R. Tolkien or “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle or “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page” – Saint Augustine.
Stop using these, please.
I’ve created this extensive list of unique and lesser known travel quotes for you Instagram that go beyond the usual cliche quotes.
Let’s level up your instagram travel flex.
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot 
“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”- Unknown
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
David Mitchell
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ― Ibn Battuta
“Life is short and the world is wide” – Unknown
“Exploration is curiosity put into action.”
– Don Walsh
“I do not explain, I explore.”
Marshal McLuhan
“Not all classrooms have four walls.”
Unknown
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”– Andre Gide
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
“If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet.”
Rachel Wolchin
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.”
Rebecca Solnit
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustav Flaubert
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
Unknown
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
Jack Kerouac
“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
Susan Sontag
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Anthony Bourdain
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai
“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the furthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.” – Richard Halliburton
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
Sandra Lake
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
– William Least Heat-Moon
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.
Bill Bryson
“People forget years and remember moments.” – Ann Beattie
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” – Ansel Adams
Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
Simon Raven
“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.”
― Mark Twain
Using Any of These Quotes?
We want to hear from you! Let me know in the comments if you’d use any of these quotes for your next travel posts. Or, what other travel quotes do you love?