These vacation quotes will inspire you. Vacation, a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation had a restful vacation at the beach or an extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging vacation quotes, vacation sayings, and vacation proverbs.
Best Vacation Quotes
- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” ~ Milton Berle
- “Find what brings you joy and go there.” ~ Jan Phillips
- “It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” ~ David Brenner
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“A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” ~ Evan Esar
- “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” ~ Earl Wilson
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” ~ Morris Fishbein
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“Once a year go someplace you’ve never been.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
- “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” ~ Robert Orben
- “I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.” ~ Ann Patchett , Vacation quotes life
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“The best thing about a vacation is planning it.” ~ Andy Rooney
- “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
- “Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.” ~ Jerry Smith
- “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.” ~ Christian Dior
- “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.” ~ Pope John Paul II
- “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
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“My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.” ~ Derek Jeter
- “The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation.” ~ Clarence Day
- “Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.” ~ Ellsworth Huntington
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Laozi
- “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” ~ Annie Dillard
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“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” ~ Mark Twain
- “A wise man travels to discover himself.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “It’s never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.” ~ Earl Nightingale , Travel vacation quotes
- “Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work’s the curse of the drinking classes.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.” ~ Pat Conroy
- “Isn’t it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They’ve cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.” ~ David Allen
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“With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.” ~ David Lloyd George
- “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.” ~ Diane Ackerman
- “For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!” ~ Scotty McCreery
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“A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic” ~ Max von Sydow
- “Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Adventures are to the adventurous.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “‘Vacation’ means titillating my taste buds.” ~ Brett Ratner
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“Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.” ~ Bill Murray
- “Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.” ~ Shirley MacLaine
- “Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation.” ~ Jeffrey Gitomer
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“I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.” ~ Chynna Phillips
- “Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony – this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
- “Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people’s vacations?” ~ Amor Towles
- “Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.” ~ Margaret Laurence
- “If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.” ~ Kin Hubbard
- “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.” ~ Jon Tester
- “Once you’re finally in a place at Saturday Night Live that you’re really comfortable, that’s when you should probably be leaving, unfortunately. I think most people stay two or three years longer than they should, because it’s very simple, the vacations are great, and you get good at what you do. It’s like any job, you’re like, “Oh, I know how to do this.” You know it’s a temporary thing, but it’s easy not to walk away from. You find yourself going, “I’ll leave next year, or I’ll leave the year after.” But it’s a job you probably shouldn’t be at for longer than five years, to be honest.” ~ Horatio Sanz
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“I’m so busy during my every day, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing.” ~ Georges St-Pierre
- “Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.” ~ Eric Maisel
- “I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it’s a vacation and not a premature retirement.” ~ Mary Crosby
- “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” ~ Aimee Friedman
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“Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands – and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.” ~ Sam Ewing
- “I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.” ~ Dustin Hoffman
- “During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.” ~ Debbie Ford
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“It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “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.” ~ Jan Myrdal
- “I don’t know what to say, except it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.” ~ Beverly D’Angelo
- “Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.” ~ Mason Cooley
