Motivational Quotes

Travel

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

- Charles Kuralt

Best Quotes about Travel

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Colette

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

Nadelson, Regina

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

13.

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.

14.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

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

George Santayana

16.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

17.

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

18.

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

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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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

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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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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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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event.

Delillo, Don

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

The Dhammapada

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

30.

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

Kommen, Will

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Ade, George

34.

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

Henry J. Tillman

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

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

Debord, Guy

40.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

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

Steinbeck, John

43.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Arbus, Diane

45.

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

Sinclair, Iain

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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

47.

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

48.

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

Twain, Mark

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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.