30 Amazing Vacation Quotes
As travel photographers, we’re always looking to be inspired by meaningful, yet fun quotes about travel, vacations, and life in general.
Here are some of our favorite vacation quotes - use them for getting that perfect Instagram quote, captioning your Facebook photos, or just general inspiration for your next trip!
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert
“I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”
“It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
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“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
“Not all those who wander are lost” J.R.R. Tolkien
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“I haven’t been everywhere, but its on my list” - Susan Sontag
“Vacation calories don’t count.”
’If not now, then when?’
”Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”
“A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.” *–Hal Chadwicke*
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - Saint Augustine
“Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller“
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tzu
”A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Travel: It gives you a home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land“ - Ibn Battuta
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ” - Aristophanes
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” -William Shedd
“I am no longer the same after seeing the sunshine on the other side of the world”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams
‘It is better to travel well than to arrive.’ - Buddha
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” - Neale Donald Walsch
“Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can’t always make memories.”
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” - Earl Wilson
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the way in which you yourself have altered.”*–Nelson Mandela*
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet” - Patrick Rothfuss