As you read through these inspirational vacation quotes, let them transport you to distant landscapes, and reignite your passion for exploration, as well as relaxation.
My Favorite Vacation Quotes
1. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ― Betty Williams
2. “Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” ― Joan Rylen
3. “Travel, learn. and create.” ― Robin S. Baker
4. “What I needed in the moment was a family vacation.” ― Deena Kastor, Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
5. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” ― Elbert Hubbard
6. “When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.” ― Shellen Lubin
7. “In the first place, you can’t see anything from a car.” ― Ed Abbey
8. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” ― Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
9. “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
10. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
Beautiful Quotes About Vacation
1. “To go out into nature is to explore the mind of the creator.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts
2. “There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.” ― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides
3. “It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
4. “I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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5. “isn’t a vacation when you forget what day it is?” ― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
6. “As they walked home, Feyi let herself imagine the trip with Nasir, a version of it that was easy and perfect. The two of them swimming in the ocean, salt in their hair, sand on their skin as they lay out in the sun. Mangoes falling apart in their hands, the wet color of a sunset, the road up the mountain blanketed in green.” ― Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
7. “God never goes on vacation. He never changes His decision or location. He is still the same God who is great, regardless of human opinion.” ― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
8. “Fiction is for those who like to escape to an all expense paid, priceless journey to a place which may or may not exist for the sake experiencing every ride the attraction has to offer and to take anyone with them in exchange for the small cost of the purchase of the book.” ― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
9. “Anything after we returned from vacation was a hot autumn day, taunting me with promises of February snow piles.” ― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot
10. “Vacation is an opportunity to embrace your true self, whether that means finding rest and relaxation, pursuing personal growth, or simply enjoying life’s pleasures.” ― Shabira Banu Hussain Sumbhaniya
11. “It’s the very fact that it’s finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn’t be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spent there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.” ― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation
12. “Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.” ― Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe
13. “He held it indeed as certain, that no person, […] could be really in a state of secure and permanent Health without spending at least six weeks by the Sea every year.” ― Jane Austen, Sanditon
14. “This is exactly the sort of thing that makes traveling wonderful for me, the reason I defied everyone. The two of us together like we have always been, not saying anything, not doing anything special, just on vacation. I know nothing lasts, but even when you know that things are just about over, sometimes you can run back and take a little bit more and no one will notice.” ― Michael Zadoorian, The Leisure Seeker
15. “The traveler knows the grace of travel.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
16. “The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
17. “You don’t need a vacation. You just need to dig a pond on your land and buy some ducks, and then you can enjoy moments of escapism without ever leaving your property.” ― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
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18. “Eighth grade’s a distant rumor, a tabled issue, and Dylan knows from experience that the summer between might change anything, everything. He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released from the paint-by-numbers page of their schooldays, from their preformatted roles as truant or victim, freed to an unspoiled summer, that inviting medium for doodling in self-transformation. ” ― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
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19. “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!” ― Lea Mishell
20. “A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.” ― Richie Norton
Quotes On Vacation And Holidays
1. “Have a Fiji Christmas in the sun.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
2. “My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach.” ― Lisa Greenwald, Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes
3. “There can’t possibly be anything more beautiful than Seaside Beach at sunset.” ― Bryn McCarren, Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
4. “Being tired is pleasant when you think what has tired you was worth the portion of your life.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
5. “Extend your vacation whenever possible.” ― Adrienne Posey
6. “It was delightful to wake up early and refreshed, and come down to this sunshiny, cheerful breakfast-table, where, though nothing was grand, all was thoroughly comfortable.” ― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall
7. “Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.” ― Laurie Nadel, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
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8. “Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarized only in one word: Vacation!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
9. “Extend your vacation whenever possible.” ― A.D. Posey
10. “If you live where you want to go on vacation, you will always be on vacation.” ― Matt Fox, The Hitchhiker Man
11. “It all started with one of those days–one of those muggy, first-of-the-summer-vacation days when everyone older and everyone younger knew what to do, but everyone in between was lost.” ― Kate Willis, The Treasure Hunt
12. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” — Earl Wilson
13. “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
14. “The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule.” — Kelly Clarkson
15. “My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm, and not a lot of people around.” — Derek Jeter
16. “When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refrigerator, mail done, so that I can better negotiate what will await me.” — Judy Sheindlin
17. “I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.” — Terence Tao
18. “The sun and the sand and a drink in my hand with no bottom. And no shoes, no shirt, and no problems.” — Kenny Chesney, No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
19. “A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.” — Rob Gronkowski
20. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” — Robert Orben
Inspirational Vacation Quotes
1. “There’s a simple rule to a sustainable life: Work hard, then take a good vacation, then work hard again and take a good vacation again… don’t break this order!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
2. “You’re one of those people who plans a lot of activities on vacation, instead of lying on the beach and taking it easy like everyone else, aren’t you?”
“I can lie around and relax at home. A vacation is a chance for doing.” ― Tessa Bailey, My Killer Vacation
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3. “It’s Hawaii time!!!” ― Steven Magee
4. “If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.” ― Elizabeth Taylor, A View of the Harbour
5. “Well, I think every day’s a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you’re working on, it’s like always being on vacation.” ― Andy Warhol
6. “Those who truly love their work have the tendency to get sick and tired of resting, and very quickly.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
7. “Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over.” ― J.S. Wik
8. “A restless mind makes a problem of a resting body.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
9. “If you don’t want to marry a partner while on a relaxing vacation, you shouldn’t be with them. On the other hand, romantic gestures are fine, but one does have to return home to a sink of dirty dishes and day jobs to keep the lights on. One shouldn’t base too much on a beach making one tingly.” ― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot
10. “If you want to travel in this universe for a long time, you should stop and rest on the way from time to time and reward yourself!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
11. “I have not been able to traverse the entire landscape of my creativity. I have traveled far and wide, and I have never got away from myself.” ― Vineet Raj Kapoor
12. “A billionaire’s idea of vacation is in space, whereas a regular person’s idea of a vacation is on some island or in another continent. And if the billionaires are abusing resources for personal enjoyment, so are these regular people. You have no right to demand moral accountability from billionaires, if you yourself don’t mind engaging in your everyday luxuries – for your luxuries may seem dim compared to those of the super-rich, but still the resources you spend on them could feed and clothe at least ten families in developing parts of the world for a year.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
13. “The world is full of travellers.
Once in a year go to someplace you have never been before.
You will meet Confused seekers, Hopeful wanderers, Enthusiastic story-tellers, Happy families.
Look into their eyes and stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead any moment.
Look at the world. It’s more beautiful than any dream you’d have ever seen.
Make the most beautiful travel diary and open it up your third generation because only your grandchildren will understand what your children will fail to.” ― Ranjani Ramachandran
14. “Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of it and just isolate yourself. And when you isolate yourself, you can just begin to convert that time of vacation into any product you want.” ― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
15. “Have you noticed that the world shrinks when you travel?” ― Richie Norton
16. “Don’t feel guilty about vacationing. What are you truly living and working for anyways?” ― Richie Norton
17. “From a mere vacation, one goes home older, but from true travel one returns changed by challenge.” ― William Least Heat-Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
18. “Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.” ― Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe
19. “Great journey, great joy.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
20. “Travelling unveils new dimensions of this world not known to the naked eye.” ― Wayne Chirisa
Vacation Quotes When You Say To Yourself “I Need A Break”
1. “Relaxing brings weakness, when done by a muscle; but brings strength, when done by a person.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
2. “Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. 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, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
3. “Vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing.” ― E.F. Benson, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
4. “As a kid, I was a loner’, I explain, ‘and I always figured that when I grew up, I’d leave my hometown and discover other people like me somewhere else. Which I have, you know? But everyone gets lonely sometimes, and whenever that happens, I buy a plane ticket and go to the airport and – I don’t know. I don’t feel lonely anymore. Because no matter what makes those people different, they’re all just trying to get somewhere, waiting to reach someone.” ― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation
5. “May the week end
But the weekend never end” ― Hrishikesh Agnihotri
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6. “We have to learn to number the days of our life; the hours of the day, days of the week, weeks of the months, and the months of the year. In all the counting we need to factor in the breaks, rests, and vacations.” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
7. “It is only humans who are created to work; then enjoy their work. We have to learn to do both since we have only one life to live.” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
8. “What we want out of a vacation changes as we age. It changes from vacation to vacation. There was a time when it was all about culture for me. My idea of a real break was to stay in museums until my legs ached and then go stand in line to get tickets for an opera or a play. Later I became a disciple of relaxation and looked for words like beach and massage when making my plans. I found those little paper umbrellas that balanced on the side of rum drinks to be deeply charming then. Now I strive for transcendent invisibility and the chance to accomplish the things I can’t get done at home. But as I pack up my room at the Hotel Bel-Air, 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, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
9. “We’re gonna grab a bite at the pizza stand. Write love letters in the sand. We’re on vacation and the world is ours.” — Connie Francis, “Vacation”
10. “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
11. “Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.” — Zig Ziglar
12. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
13. “I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I’m at work.” — Zac Posen
14. “The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.” — Augustine of Hippo
15. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
16. “That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter.” ― Robert Graves, I, Claudius
17. “Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn’t.” ― April Mae Monterrosa
18. “I don’t want to go to Peru.”
How do you know? You’ve never been there.”
I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.” ― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower
19. “Those who think money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has long been heading in the opposite direction. People would be happier if they reduced their commuting time, even if it meant living in smaller houses, yet American trends are toward even larger houses and ever longer commutes. People would be happier and healthier if they took longer vacations even if that meant earning less, yet vacation times are shrinking in the United States, and in Europe as well. People would be happier, and in the long run and wealthier, if they bought basic functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption; yet, Americans and in particular spend almost everything they have – and sometimes more – on goods for present consumption, often paying a large premium for designer names and superfluous features.” ― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
20. “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success, because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Vacation Life Quotes
1. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi
2. “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
3. “No, I didn’t get a thing done, but I sure soaked up every minute of the memory we were making, and I count it all as time well wasted.” ― Brad Paisley, “Time Well Wasted”
4. “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” ― Unknown
5. “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
6. “Laughter is an instant vacation.” ― Milton Berle
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7. “Vacation must be more than a word if it is meant to provide a total change of scenery and mindset. While it is recognized that the ideal vacation varies from person to person, or family to family, a vacation should always provide the absence of stress and regeneration of the spirit.” ― Byron Pulsifer
8. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” ― James Michener
9. “One-week vacations are too short to prevent burnout; by the time you relax enough not to think about the office the week is almost up.” ― Cecilia Mikalac
10. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gaps.” — Sheda Savage
11. “I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food, they make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival.” — Alexander Babinets
12. “Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work.” — Harry Van Demark
13. “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate. It’s linked to a reduction in work- related stress and burnout as well as enhanced feelings of joy and interest. And travel can shape our personalities. When traveling for an extended period of time, desirable changes – increased openness to experience, emotional stability, agreeableness, and creativity – emerge.” — Jaime Kurtz, The Happy Traveler
14. “Never take money in lieu of vacation time. Money will never give you what taking a break will give you.” — Catherine Pulsifer
15. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta
16. “Trips and vacations are so much more. These experiences show you what’s possible and challenge you to examine the paths you’ll take in the future.” ― Blake Mycoskie
17. “Do not wait until you are dying to go on vacation. I think if I had to give you one piece of advice that would be it. We put things off. We do not mean to but we do. We carry around the assumption that there is plenty of time to do whatever needs to be done.” ― Marty Cauley
18. “I’m gonna soak up the sun, I’m gonna tell everyone to lighten up. I’m gonna tell ’em that I’ve got no one to blame for every time I feel lame. I’m looking up.” ― Sheryl Crow, “Soak Up the Sun”
19. “The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.” ― Nhat Hanh
20. “Take vacations, go to as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can’t always make memories.” — Unknown
Final Word
I hope that you have found the right vacation quote you were looking for!
Whether you were trying to recapitulate your travels, or to find inspiration to go for another vacation, these quotes were sure worthy of your time!
And please, another thing to remember after reading this article, is that you need to prioritize your health – and that includes taking some time off.
Make it be a vacation, a holiday, or just a day off – remember to take a rest every now and then!
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