Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

Best Quotes about Travel

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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

Daney, Serge

10.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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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

12.

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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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

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

15.

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

George Moore

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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Kommen, Will

19.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Frame, Janet

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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

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 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

28.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

George Santayana

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

Cooley, Mason

33.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

Henry J. Tillman

36.

The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ewing, Sam

45.

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

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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

47.

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

Kuralt, Charles

48.

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

49.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

50.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita