Motivational Quotes

Travel

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Durrell, Lawrence

The personal appropriation of clich?s is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Daney, Serge

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dylan, Bob

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

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

12.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

George Santayana

13.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

15.

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

Kommen, Will

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Sinclair, Iain

18.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Oliphant, Margaret

19.

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

20.

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Cooley, Mason

23.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Henry J. Tillman

26.

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Kuralt, Charles

27.

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

Hynde, Chrissie

28.

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Gordimer, Nadine

29.

Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.

Lao-Tzu

30.

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

31.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Eliot, George

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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

33.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

Ade, George

34.

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

Arbus, Diane

35.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

Kundera, Milan

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.

The Dhammapada

40.

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

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Bishop, Elisabeth

44.

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

45.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Sontag, Susan

46.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Debord, Guy

47.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

48.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Allen, Fred A.

49.

Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.

Thompson, Alice