Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- George Santayana

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Kommen, Will

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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

Debord, Guy

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Burney, Fanny

14.

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

Ade, George

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Horace

17.

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

Burton, Sir Richard

18.

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

George Moore

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

24.

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

Thompson, Alice

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

The Dhammapada

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

32.

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

Sinclair, Iain

33.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

34.

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

Henry J. Tillman

35.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Dylan, Bob

38.

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

39.

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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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

41.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

42.

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

43.

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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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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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

46.

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

Ewing, Sam

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Benchley, Robert