If you are searching for some of the most iconic and memorable nomad quotes, youâre in the right place! đâïž
Below, you will find a wide range of quotes about nomads/digital nomads that are great for reflection, showing appreciation, and sharing the word about the nomadic lifestyle.
Being a digital nomad myself, I love to reflect on these quotes as it gives me a deep appreciation for my ability to travel and explore new countries. Letâs begin! đ
67+ Nomad Quotes For Travel Addicts/ Digital Nomads
1. “Home is the here and now.” – Proverb
2. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” – Tom Kelley
3. “Going to the mountains is going home.” – John Muir
4. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
5. “Don’t make me walk when I want to fly.” – Unknown
6. “They told me to grow roots, instead I grew wings.” – Louis de Bernieres
7. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
8. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
9. “Itâs hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
10. “If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.” – Socrates
11. “Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.” – Petryl Hsieh
12. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
13. “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” – Ken Poirot
14. “Itâs not about ideas. Itâs about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
15. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
16. “If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.” – Rolf Potts
17. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
18. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
19. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
20. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
21. “I have not failed. Iâve just found 10,000 ways that wonât work.” – Thomas Edison
22. “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
23. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
24. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, youâll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
25. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them, and start again.” – Richard Branson
26. “Long-term travel is not an act of rebellion against society; itâs an act of common sense within society.” – Rolf Potts
27. “Itâs fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
28. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo
29. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” – Biz Stone
30. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
31. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz
32. “If youâre not embarrassed by the first version of your product, youâve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman
33. “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
34. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
35. “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.” – Meg Whitman
36. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
37. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
38. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
39. “The struggles we endure today will be the âgood old daysâ we laugh about tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
40. “There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
41. “Never work just for money or for power. They wonât save your soul or help you sleep at night.” – Marian Wright Edelman
42. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
43. “The moments you have experienced are the only possession that nobody can take away from you.’ – Unknown
44. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
45. “Iâm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
46. “The things you own end up owning you. Itâs only after you lose everything that youâre free to do anything.” – Chuck Palahniuk
47. “I donât know where Iâm going, but Iâm on my way.” – Carl Sandburg
48. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
49. “Many of lifeâs failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
50. “Traveling solo does not always mean youâre alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
51. “You shouldnât focus on why you canât do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” – Steve Case
52. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
53. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson
54. “Because, In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or moving your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
55. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin
56. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
57. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
58. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
59. “The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.” – Laurens Van
60. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” – Arthur Frommer
61. “If youâve got an idea, start today. Thereâs no better time than now to get going. That doesnât mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but thereâs always small progress that can be made to start the movement.” –Â Kevin Systrom
62. “No matter how much experience you have, how many degrees you have, or how well known you have become â there is always something new to learn. Donât rest on your past experiences. If you do nothing to improve your skills, you wonât stay where you are.” – Laura Spencer
63. “When youâre traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because thereâs no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist
64. “What youâve done becomes the judge of what youâre going to do â especially in other peopleâs minds. When youâre traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People donât have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least
65. “Your time is limited, so donât waste it living someone elseâs life. Donât be trapped by dogma â which is living with the results of other peopleâs thinking. Donât let the noise of othersâ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.â – Steve Jobs
66. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
Final Thoughts
Hopefully, these nomad quotes, sayings, and proverbs have helped you to stay motivated and inspired, whether you want to become a nomad, or are maybe feeling a bit overwhelmed.
If you are yet to start your nomad journey, I would highly recommend checking out this guide, and of course reading the 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris, which is considered âthe bibleâ for digital nomads.