100 Inspirational Bucket List and Travel Quotes – To Encourage You to Live Life to the Fullest

The bucket list life is the ideal way to plan and actively pursue personal goals, adventures and meaningful experiences. It isn’t meant to be a pressure to ‘get things done’, but it provides you with a way of living more intentionally. This means that you think about how you spend your time and money, curating incredible experiences you’ve always dreamt of fulfilling. Although the term bucket list is connected to ‘kicking the bucket’ as in death, it doesn’t mean that you should focus on mortality. Instead use it as a reminder to make your life count in whatever way fills you with joy. Everyone will have different goals, because we all have individual passions. They don’t have to be the extreme experiences that many associate with bucket lists, it’s completely up to you.

We have a guide on How to Start Your Bucket List, which should help you create your goals. Then we have created a raft of different types of bucket lists, whether it’s connected to your Birthday, Valentines, New Year’s Resolution and even seasons such as the Summer. Basically, we’re here to make building your bucket list easy, the rest is up to you.

But what happens when you’re ticking off your goals and you start to lose momentum. Again, let us step in and boost your motivation, with our 100 Inspirational Bucket List and Travel Quotes. Sometimes a simple quote can really bolster how we feel, and we have some from the best authors, life coaches and public figures of all time. We’ve added the person credited with the quotation, but some can be disputed or have uncertain origins which we will state below.

Add your favourites to a vision board or somewhere that you look at every day, such as your computer in work or on the fridge.

Related Guide – Vision Board Ideas – What is a Vision Board and How to Make One

Remember that some of your bucket list dreams may take longer than you anticipate. Learning a new skill or saving for the dream vacation can take time, so use our list of quotes to keep you energised. You have the opportunity to make a life full of incredible opportunities, unforgettable experiences and astounding adventures.

Inspirational Bucket List Quotes

• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
• “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
• “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Commonly attributed to Neale Donald Walsch
• “Travelling: it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard
• “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” — William Feather
• “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — Allen Saunders, later popularised by John Lennon
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou
• “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
• “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

• “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain
• “To travel is to live.” — Hans Christian Andersen
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
• “My passport is screaming to be stamped.” – Cherie Oke
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
• “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
• “A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Often attributed to Saint Augustine; attribution disputed
• “Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.” — Often attributed to the Dalai Lama; attribution unverified
• “Life is short, and the world is wide.” — Simon Raven
• “Travel far enough you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “The journey, not the arrival, matters.” — T.S. Eliot

Adventure Quotes to Encourage You to Try Something New

• “Travel is not a reward for working, its education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot
• “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” — Casey Neistat
• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen R. Covey
• “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt; wording disputed
• “Embrace, explore, endure.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
• “Security is mostly a superstition.” — Helen Keller
• “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart
• “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Often attributed to Tony Robbins; attribution uncertain
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” — Often attributed to Paulo Coelho; attribution uncertain
• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
• “The greatest risk is not taking one.” — Attribution uncertain
• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Often attributed to Nelson Mandela; attribution unverified

Dream Big and Achieve Your Bucket List Goals

• “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Commonly attributed to Walt Disney
• “The future depends on what you do today.” — Often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi; attribution uncertain
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — Often attributed to George Eliot; attribution disputed
• “It is never too late to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — Often attributed to C.S. Lewis; attribution disputed
• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Often attributed to Mark Twain; attribution uncertain
• “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
• “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Often attributed to Walt Disney; attribution disputed
• “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Often attributed to Confucius; attribution disputed
• “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Attribution disputed
• “Nothing happens unless first we dream.” — Carl Sandburg
• “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” — Pope John Paul II
• “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “You are never too old to set another goal.” — Often attributed to C.S. Lewis; attribution disputed
• “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” — Often attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; attribution uncertain

Quotes About Making Memories and Enjoying Experiences

• “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese
• “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
• “The best things in life aren’t things.” — Often attributed to Art Buchwald; attribution uncertain
• “Collect moments, not things.” — Author unknown
• “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” — Author unknown
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Author unknown
• “The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin
• “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Often attributed to Dr. Seuss; attribution unverified
• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh
• “The best thing about memories is making them.” — Author unknown
• “Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot
• “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Often attributed to Robert Brault; attribution uncertain
• “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Commonly attributed to the Dalai Lama
• “The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.” — Erik Erikson

Friendship and Shared Adventure Quotes

• “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.” – Unknown
• “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
• “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
• “Life was made for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown
• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Often attributed to Walter Winchell
• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Kahlil Gibran
• “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.” – Unknown
• “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.” — Often attributed to W.B. Yeats; attribution disputed

Happiness, Positivity and Living Life to the Fullest

• “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
• “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates, as recorded by Plato
• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Often attributed to Oscar Wilde; attribution disputed
• “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
• “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Commonly attributed to Socrates; paraphrase
• “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Paraphrase commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi
• “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” — Mary Davis
• “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
• “The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt; attribution uncertain
• “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

Hopefully you find these quotes as encouraging as we did and continue to turn your dreams and goals into a reality. If you’re ticking off your bucket list and adding pictures on socials, then please tag our Instagram. We love to see our followers reach for their goals and lead aspiring lives. Just remember that fulfilling your dreams and passion should be done on your own timeline, but it’s important to make small steps so that it doesn’t stagnate.

You could use our list and choose a different quote each month, as a reminder of why being a bucket lister is so important to you. We know it led us to having insane adventures and experiences, which is something we’re deeply grateful for.

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Remember that bucket lists don’t have to be expensive travels or crazy activities such as sky diving. It’s about the things you want to do with your life, which could be something as simple as writing a poem; all you need is pen and paper. Sometimes the simple experiences mean the most, so embrace opportunities and create a collection of stories you will want to tell over and over again; you have one life so live it well!