Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

Best Quotes about Travel

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Kuralt, Charles

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Kommen, Will

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

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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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

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

The Dhammapada

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A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De

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The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred

15.

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

16.

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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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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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

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

20.

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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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

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

23.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Fuller, Thomas

24.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

25.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Goldoni, Carlo

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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.

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He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

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

Daney, Serge

32.

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

33.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Ade, George

35.

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

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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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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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.

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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Oliphant, Margaret

40.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Colette

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Sinclair, Iain

49.

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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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