These quotes will totally give you the inspiration you need to start checking those countries off your bucket list!

We've all heard how traveling can be fulfilling. You've seen your friends Instagram-perfect pictures of their exotic getaways and life-changing adventures abroad. And still, you keep scrolling through that feed, daydreaming of the day you actually get to touch down in that one place you've wanted to visit since, like, forever.

So what's it gonna take for you to take the big leap of faith and book that flight? Don't let life get in the way. We all have bills and responsibilities to tend to, but that doesn't mean your dreams have to be put on hold.

A little inspiration never hurt anyone. As a matter of fact, it's actually helped me push through all the doubt and make my travel dreams come true. I love reading quotes because they help me put what's important in life back into perspective when I've lost my way.

I hope the following quotes encourage you to live your life to the fullest and turn your travel fantasies to a real-life adventure!

1. "Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take that step."

2. "I am not the same having seen the moon on the other side of the world." —Mary Ann Radmacher

3. "Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey." —Pat Conroy

4. "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." —St. Augustine

5. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." —Helen Keller

7. "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." —Martin Buber

8. "Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way." —Ralph Crawshaw

9. "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

10. "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." —Rosalia de Castro

11. "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, the sea, the sky,--all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." —Cesare Pavese

12. "Travel is not a reward for working. It's education for living." —The Travel Channel

13. "As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it's inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are."

14. "Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures."

15. "It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells, the same. You realize what's changed is you."

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

17. "Traveling--It leaves you speechless. Then turns you into a storyteller."

18. "We find ourselves after airplane doors close and wheels touch the heavens. We discover the ways to our hearts when we lose the maps to this world. Wander, and find home in the people you meet. Wander, you find home inside yourself".

21 Quotes That Will Inspire You to Travel More