Motivational Quotes

Travel

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

- Arbus, Diane

Best Quotes about Travel

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Johnson, Samuel

Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.

Proverb

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Sinclair, Iain

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Hemingway, Ernest

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

Bennett, Arnold

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

12.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Hynde, Chrissie

13.

If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?

14.

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Miller, Henry

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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Burroughs, John

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Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

Myrdal, Jan

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Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

22.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Cooley, Mason

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Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Dylan, Bob

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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De

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Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.

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Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman

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He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

If you look like your passport picture you're too ill to travel.

Kommen, Will

35.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

Ewing, Sam

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Wilde, Oscar

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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Benchley, Robert

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Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?

Bishop, Elisabeth

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I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

Byron, Lord

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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Calvino, Italo

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My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

Arbus, Diane

45.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Runyon, Damon

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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

Hazlitt, William

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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Goodman, Paul

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis