Motivational Quotes

Travel

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Travel

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette

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

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Thurber, James

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

Sinclair, Iain

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Arbus, Diane

10.

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

11.

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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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Steinbeck, John

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

Benchley, Robert

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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

Steinbeck, John

16.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Horace

22.

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

The Dhammapada

23.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Cockburn, Alexander

25.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

27.

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

Daney, Serge

28.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

Thompson, Alice

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Burton, Sir Richard

35.

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

George Santayana

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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

40.

Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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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

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

Ewing, Sam

43.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

44.

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

Kommen, Will

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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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The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

48.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

49.

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

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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