Top 70 Vacation Quotes

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Everyone spends the year looking forward to vacation, may that be in school or at work. With that in mind and to help pass the time till the next vacation, check out the top 70 vacation quotes.

#70 – 60. Vacation Quotes

70. “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” Leo Tolstoy

69. “Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options.” Anne Wilson Schaef

68. “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!” Lea Mishell

67. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert

66. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” Mehmet Murat ildan

65. “Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!” Mehmet Murat ildan

64. “Extend your vacation whenever possible.” A.D. Posey

63. “Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” Pat Conroy

62. “The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.” Lailah Gifty Akita

61. “After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.” Michael Zadoorian

60. “Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.” Debasish Mridha

#59 – 50. Vacation Quotes

59. “The in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

58. “For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” Aldous Huxley

57. “On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me.”  Will Wright

56. “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!” Mehmet Murat ildan

55. Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. William James

54. “Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.” ― Debasish Mridha

53. “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” Charles Horton Cooley

52. “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” Zig Ziglar

51. “The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.” Augustine of Hippo

50. “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” Charlotte Erikkson

#49 – 40. Vacation Quotes

49. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide

48. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau

47. “Don’t feel guilty about vacationing. What are you truly living and working for anyways? Death is all too real.” Richie Norton

46. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.” Anthony Bourdain

45. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”  Elbert Hubbard

44. “Take those vacations and do not take your laptop or iphone or blackberry  you are on vacation and that means having a real break and not just going to a different location and doing much of the same thing.”  Byron Pulsifer

43. “People should look for accessible vacation destinations the same way they look for any other vacation destination  based on their own personal tastes and preferences.”  Candy B Harrington

42. “One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip.”  Paul Brodie

41. “A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.”  Max von Sydow

40. “The only time that love takes a holiday is when we go on vacation together.” Anthony T.Hincks

#39 – 30. Vacation Quotes

39. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” Christopher McCandless

38. “My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.”  Derek Jeter

37. “All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

36. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca

35. “The journey itself is my home.” Matsuo Basho

34. “When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.” Sarah Mlynowski

33. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” Jaime Kurtz

31. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” Isabelle Eberhardt

30. “The average vacation is one-tenth playing—nine-tenths paying.” Arnold Glasow

#29 – 20. Vacation Quotes

29. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain

28. “No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.”  Jewish Proverb

27. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” Earl Wilson

26. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

25. “No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.” Andrea Goeglein

24. “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” Maya Angelou

23. “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” Nina Arianda

22. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

21. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca

20. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” Robert Orben

#19 – 10. Vacation Quotes

19. “We need to develop a ‘vacation attitude’ every day by being focused on what we need to accomplish by the end of each day.”  Catherine Pulsifer

18. “Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr

17. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” Aimee Friedman

16. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” Rumi

15. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

14. “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” Jaime Kurtz

13. “What shall you do all your vacation?’, asked Amy. “I shall lie abed and do nothing”, replied Meg.” Louisa May Alcott

12. “Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” Joan Rylen

11. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” George A. Moore

10. “A wise man travels to discover himself.” James Russell Lowell

#9 – 1. Vacation Quotes

9. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” Betty Williams

8. “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” Morris Fishbein

7. “Enjoy the vacation without going; enjoy the conversation without talking.” Debasish Mridha

6. “A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives.” E. S. Woods

5. “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” Jack Adam Weber

4. “Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.” Frank Tyger

3. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” Pico Iyer

2. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” Khalil Gibran

1.“Travelling unveils new dimensions of this world not known to the naked eye.” Wayne Chirisa

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