117 Fun and Relaxing Vacation Quotes to Match Your Travel Mood
Vacations are all about rest, adventure, and making memories, so we have put together a list of all the best vacation quotes to match your travel vibes.
And if you’re looking for short and fun vacation sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Vacation Quotes
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Traveling. It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis
“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides
“After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.” – Michael Zadoorian
“The only time that love takes a holiday is when we go on vacation together.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.” – Rosamund Pike
“Good friends follow you anywhere.” – Winnie the Pooh
“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” – Mark Twain
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
“Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Seuss
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” – Bill Bryson
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Enjoy the vacation without going; enjoy the conversation without talking.” – Debasish Mridha
“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley
“Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal.” – Anne Wilson Schaef
“If you live where you want to go on vacation, you will always be on vacation.” – Matt Fox
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” – Sydney J. Harris
“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” – Pam Shaw
“The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho
“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
“As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation.” – John Battelle
“Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.” – Rumi
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben
“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
“To escape and sit quietly on the beach — that’s my idea of paradise.” – Emilia Wickstead
“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma and Louise
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
“A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell
“If I’m going on vacation, I just work ahead.” – Mort Walker
“Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.” – Linda Bloom
“A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” – Morris Fishbein
“My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.” – Derek Jeter
“One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip.” – Paul Brodie
“A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.” – Max von Sydow
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
“Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!” – Lea Mishell
“Laying under the palm trees waiting for the sunset.” – Garvit Singh
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter
“Don’t feel guilty about vacationing. What are you truly living and working for anyways? Death is all too real.” – Richie Norton
“Blue skies, 72 degrees, palm trees and sunshine.” – Chet Gladchuk
“Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.” – Debasish Mridha
“As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh
“It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore
“He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” – Chinese Proverb
“The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.” – Michael Dolan
“If you have lost your clarity and purpose, a vacation is a great way to find it again.” – David Fuller
“An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” – Jaime Kurtz
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” – Aimee Friedman
“My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” – Nina Arianda
“The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” – Jack Adam Weber
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.” – Frank Tyger
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” – Kellie Elmore
“Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” – Joan Rylen
“Do not wait until you are dying to go on vacation.” – Marty Cauley
“Vacation time is something we all accrue, but only the wisest of us recognize its importance.” – Andrea Goeglein
“A vacation is three times more work without the payment.” – Debasish Mridha
“Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar
“The average vacation is one-tenth playing—nine-tenths paying.” – Arnold Glasow
“No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.” – Andrea Goeglein
“It’s when I go down to the beach that the waves come up to greet me.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“Every travel is a blessed adventure.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
“My goal is to build a life I don’t need a vacation from.” – Rob Hill Sr.
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb
“Read a lot when you’re on vacation.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson
