Motivational Quotes

Travel

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Sinclair, Iain

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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

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

Burton, Sir Richard

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Burney, Fanny

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

Gulistan, Sadi

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

George Moore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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

Debord, Guy

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

Kommen, Will

28.

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

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

30.

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

31.

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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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Ade, George

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

Arbus, Diane

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

Byron, Lord

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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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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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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

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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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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

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Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita