Motivational Quotes

Travel

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.

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Kuralt, Charles

11.

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

Hynde, Chrissie

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

14.

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

15.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Runyon, Damon

16.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

17.

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

Ade, George

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

22.

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

23.

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

The Dhammapada

24.

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

Cooley, Mason

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Colette

29.

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

30.

Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.

Lao-Tzu

31.

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.

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Cockburn, Alexander

36.

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

Thompson, Alice

37.

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

38.

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

Burton, Sir Richard

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Daney, Serge

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

44.

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

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

47.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Sackville-West, Vita

48.

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

Horace

49.

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

50.

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

Henry J. Tillman