Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- The Dhammapada

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Debord, Guy

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

Nadelson, Regina

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Burney, Fanny

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

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

Cockburn, Alexander

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

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

Daney, Serge

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

Proverb

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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?

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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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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

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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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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 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

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Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Hynde, Chrissie

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thompson, Alice

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

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

Burton, Sir Richard

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

Horace

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Steinbeck, John

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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

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

Johnson, Samuel