Motivational Quotes

Travel

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Travel

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

Bardot, Brigitte

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Horace

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

Kommen, Will

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

Daney, Serge

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Theroux, Paul

14.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Streeter, Edward

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

Cooley, Mason

17.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

19.

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

Huxley, Aldous

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Sinclair, Iain

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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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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

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A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

Kundera, Milan

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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 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

28.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Loos, Anita

29.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

30.

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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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

32.

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

Nadelson, Regina

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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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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

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

Colette

39.

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

Arbus, Diane

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

42.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

48.

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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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

50.

The map is not the territory.

Korzybski, Alfred