Is there anything better than travelling with friends? We don’t think so, either! Whether you want to cruise along iconic rivers, hike to incredible sites like Machu Picchu, spot the Big Five on a safari, or just relax on a beach, everything’s better together – including travel! To help you get inspired for your next adventure with friends, we’ve put together a list of our 99 favourite quotes about travelling and friendship. Enjoy!
- “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.”– Winnie The Pooh
2. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”– Tim Cahill
3. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown
4. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
5. “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Unknown
6. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown
7. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” – Unknown
8. “Life by the water is always better, especially with a few good friends in tow.” – Unknown
9. “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.” – Mark Twain
10. “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.” – Maya Angelou
11. “Everyone needs a friend that will call and say, ‘Get dressed, we are going on an adventure.’” -Unknown
12. “When traveling life’s journey, it’s good to have a friend’s hand to hold on to.” – Unknown
13. “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
14. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” -Edith Wharton
15. “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
16. “Wanderlust isn’t about running away from it all. It’s about experiencing the outside to discover the inside.” – Unknown
17. “True friends never apart maybe in distance never in heart.” – Helen Keller
18. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
19. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
20. “Friendship isn’t about being inseparable…it’s being separated and knowing nothing will change.” – Unknown
21. ”Having a best friend is like having your own little corner of the world to escape to.” – Unknown
22. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
23. “Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.” – Unknown
24. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Unknown
25. “Good friends follow you anywhere.” – Winnie the Pooh
26. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
27. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make” – Wayne Dye
28. “Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes, and an uncluttered mind.” – Rick Stev
29. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
30. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
31. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain
32. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
33. “The urgent things are not the most important ones.” – Unknown
34. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling”. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
35. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
36. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” –Charles Swindoll
37. “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
38. “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
40. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
41. “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
42. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius
43. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
44. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
45. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb
46. “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we. all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd
47. “Life is like a camera: you focus on what is important, capture the good times, develop from the negative and if things do not work out, take another shot.” – Unknown
48. “Little by little, one travels far.” – J.R.R. Tolkein
49. “You know all those things you always wanted to do? You should go do them.” – Unknown
50. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale
51. “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
52. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”– Shanti
53. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Unknown
54. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes
55. “Add life to your days, not days to your life.” – Unknown
56. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Island Company
57. “We all start as strangers.” – Unknown
58. “If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
59. “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven
60. “I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer.” – Unknown
61. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”– Harun Yahya
62. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or mowing your lawn.”– Jack Kerouac
63. “Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan.” – Unknown
64. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further, go together.”– African proverb
65. “It is not down in any map, true places never are” – Herman Melville
66. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ” – Aldous Huxley
67. “In the end… we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll
68. “Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”– Ibu Battuta
69. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Unknown
70. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
71. “There are seven days in the week, and someday isn’t one of them.” – Unknown
72. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
73. “Find joy in the ordinary.” – Unknown
74. “It’s called the present. Open & use it!” – Unknown
75. “Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. ”– Kevin Kelly
76. “Travel is better with friends.” – Unknown
77. “As with any journey, who you travel with is more important than the destination.” – Unknown
78. “Only the people you don’t know well enough seem normal. Every person you know well enough is odd, weird and different. This is called friendship!” – Unknown
79. “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.” – Unknown
80. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself” – David Mitchell
81. “Having a best friend is like having your own little corner of the world to escape to.” – Unknown
82. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” – Unknown
83. “Of all the books in all the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport” – Unknown
84. “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
85. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
86. “A true traveler’s journey is never complete.” – Unknown
87. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Glenn Clark
88. “If there is no way, create one” – Unknown
89. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”– Benjamin Disraeli
90. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown
91. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
92. “We are all travellers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels in an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
93. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” – Unknown
94. “An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart, and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
95. “True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.” – Seth Brown
96. “Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.” – Chris Bradford
97. “When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than finding your friend whom you trust and can show the way.” – Toba Beta
98. “Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.” – Ogwo David Emenike
99. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” – Anais Nin
Whether you’re a young adult or simply young at heart, a trip with friends is always a good idea! Find the next adventure for you and your friends on TourRadar.
