Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Travel

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Eliot, George

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

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

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

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

Daney, Serge

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

Johnson, Samuel

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?

Bishop, Elisabeth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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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Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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

Dylan, Bob

17.

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

18.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

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

21.

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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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

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

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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

28.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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

Sinclair, Iain

30.

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

31.

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

Henry J. Tillman

32.

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

33.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

34.

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

Kommen, Will

35.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman

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

Twain, Mark

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

39.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

40.

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

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

Burney, Fanny

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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