Motivational Quotes

Travel

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

- Miriam Beard

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Ewing, Sam

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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

George Moore

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Runcie, Robert

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Daney, Serge

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

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Henry J. Tillman

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

Colette

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Kuralt, Charles

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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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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

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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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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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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

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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

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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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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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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Lerner, Max

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

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

Horace

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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

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

Kommen, Will

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

Sinclair, Iain

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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

The Dhammapada

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

49.

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

Ade, George

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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.