Explore quotes are some of the foundation for which I get out and just go. Maybe I am browsing the internet or scrolling social media and read something that just encourages me to get out and explore the world. These quotes on exploring have moved me to destinations around the globe.
When people say words have power, they do. Explore quotes are the foundation for which I built a career in travel and sought out the world.
Explore Quotes: For The Dreamer
- “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
- “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
- “Leave the road, take the trails.” – Pythagore
- “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” –
- “Jobs fill your pockets. Adventures fill your soul.”
- “And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake.” –
- “Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” – Dr. Suess
- “All I need is mountain breeze and tall trees.”
- “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
- “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
- “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
- “You are an explorer. Your mission is to document and observe the world as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.” – Keri Smith
- “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”
- “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.”
- “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.” – Jawaharial Nehru
- “What is life, but one grand adventure.”
- “Life is an adventure. Be an explorer.”
- “Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?”
- “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
- “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
- “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”
- “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
Explore Quotes: About Ones Self
- “The only cure to all this madness; is too dream, far and wide, if possibility doesn’t knock, create a damn door. If the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t make it. If the journey your travelling seems to far fetched and wild beyond your imagination; continue on it, great things come to the risk takers. And last but not least, live today; here, right now, you’ll thank your future self for it later.” –
- “Never lose your sense of wonder.”
- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The need to explore is in my DNA.”
- “She loved to run. She could run forever. And she loved exploring every nook and cranny of the city, which was what a messenger got to do.” –
- “Her soul was too deep to explore by those who always swam in the shallow end.”
- “Go where you feel most alive.”
- “I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.” –
- “Explore more, worry less.”
- “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
- “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
- “I don”t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.” – Carl Sandburg
- “The goal is not to be in the same place , this time next year.”
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost
- “This heart of mine was made to travel the world.”
- “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
- “I have a restless spirit. The need to roam and explore this earth is in my soul.”
- “I travel because I need to. Because my wild, adventurous spirit can’t live according to the “norm.” I travel to regroup, to reinvent myself, to be the best me I can be, to find joy in the ordinary and peace in exploring. I travel to be.”
- “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 (this is one of my favorite explore quotes)
Explore Quotes: To Remind Us To Keep On Seeing The World
- “Explore, dream and explore.”
- “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.” –
- “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”
- “The ship is safest when it is in port, but that is not what ships were built for.” – Paulo Coelho
- “The world is yours to explore.”
- “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to” – Alain de Botton
- “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
- “Go forward and explore many great lands.” –
- “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
- “Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.” –
- “Never stop exploring.”
- “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese - “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot
- “Go outside and explore.” Anonymous
- “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
- “Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” – Karen Gibbs
- “Go outside and explore.”
- “Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.” –
- “Escape and breathe the air of new places.”
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust. T
- “Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! – No Excuses!” –
- “To do: see the world.”
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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