Vacations bring us back to who we are. They offer respite, a change of pace, and give us a chance to unwind and take a break from our normal day-to-day lives. Whether you vacation in the islands or travel to some far away place you’ve never been before, there’s nothing like a vacation to settle the mind and body. Can’t take a vacation just yet? That’s OK—reading up on the best vacation quotes is the next best thing. Check out these 220 vacation quotes and we guarantee you’ll be booking your next flight in no time. 1. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” —Earl Wilson 2. “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 3. “After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.” —Michael Zadoorian 4. “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” 5. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love 6. “Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.” –Debasish Mridha 7. “Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.” –Zig Ziglar 8. “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 9. “I always try to have a vacation.” –Sophia Loren 10. “Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It’s about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.” –Frank Gehry 11. “My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm, and not a lot of people around.” –Derek Jeter 12. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!"–Mehmet Murat Ildan 13. “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 14. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” –Chuck Thompson 15. “I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.” –Terence Tao 16. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” –Robert Orben 17. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –Gustave Flaubert 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. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Andre Gide 20. “New York is like a vacation – no beach required.” –Seann William Scott 21. “Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.” –Shawn Achor 22. “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 23. “I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I’m at work.” –Zac Posen 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 25. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” –Betty Williams 26. “I love my job only when I’m on vacation.” –Unknown 27. “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” –Jaime Kurtz 28. “No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.” ―Andrea Goeglein 29. “The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.” –Augustine of Hippo 30. “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” –Jack Adam Weber 31. “Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.” –Frank Tyger 32. “Got my toes in the water, ass in the sand. Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand. Life is good today.” –Zac Brown Band, “Toes” 33. “Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.” ―Debasish Mridha 34. “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!” ―Mehmet Murat Ildan 35. “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” –Morris Fishbein 36. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ―Betty Williams 37. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” –Aimee Friedman 38. “The average vacation is one-tenth playing — nine-tenths paying.” –Arnold Glasow 39. “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” –Nina Arianda 40. “Don’t feel guilty about vacationing. What are you truly living and working for anyways? Death is all too real.” ―Richie Norton 41. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” –Rumi 42. “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 43. “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!” ―Lea Mishell 44. “Extend your vacation whenever possible.” ―A.D. Posey 45. “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” 46. “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 47. “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 48. “Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr 49. “Not every vacation is equal. And theory – the idea that vacations should increase happiness – doesn’t always translate to reality.” –Shawn Achor 50. “On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.” –Christian Dior 51. “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” –Unknown 52. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” –Benjamin Disraeli 53. “Laughter is an instant vacation.” –Milton Berle 54. “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 55. “A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.” –Hal Chadwicke 56. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” —Peter Hoeg 57. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” –James Michener 58. “Off the Florida Keys, there’s a place called Kokomo. That’s where you want to go to get away from it all.Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We’ll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.” –The Beach Boys, “Kokomo” 59. “The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation.” –Clarence Day 60. “A wise man travels to discover himself.” –James Russell Lowell 61. “Love you to the beach and back.” —Unknown 62. “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 63. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” —Paulo Coelho 64. “People don’t take trips; trips take people.” –John Steinbeck 65. “Be grateful for good friends, hot sun, and clear water.” —Unknown 66. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” –Shirley MacLaine 67. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gaps.” —Sheda Savage 68. “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 69. “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 70. “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 71. “The longing to get away from it all never was so great as in our present time of tension and trouble. We want something to lift us out of the mess into which much of life seems to have fallen."–Glenn Stewart 72. “Never take money in lieu of vacation time. Money will never give you what taking a break will give you.” –Catherine Pulsifer 73. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” –Ibn Battuta 74. “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!” –Mehmet Murat Ildan 75. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind."–Seneca 76. “Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.” –Walter Annenberg 77. “Holiday: A period of activity so intense that it can only be undertaken three or four weeks in the year."–Miles Kington 78. “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 79. “A one day holiday can at times be better than a one-week vacation if you totally unplug for that one day!” ―Catherine Pulsifer 80. “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 81. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” ―Paulo Coelho 82. “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 83. “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” 84. “The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation."―Unknown 85. “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted.” ―Japanese Proverb 86. “When you’re on a holiday, you can’t find the words to say all the things that come to you and I wanna feel it too.” –Weezer, “Island in the Sun” 87. “To travel is to live.” –Hans Christian Anderson 88. “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 89. “Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him."–Phillips Brooks 90. “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 91. “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 92. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” –Asian Proverb 93. “Work, travel, save, repeat.” –Unknown 94. “It is a good thing for everyone who can possibly do so to get away at least once a year for a change of scene. I do not want to get into the position of not being able to see the forest because of the thickness of the trees.” –Franklin Roosevelt 95. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."–Nelson Mandela 96. “Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."–Henry David Thoreau 97. “I’m not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there’s no place like home.” –Jilly Cooper 98. “Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.” –Guns N’ Roses, “Paradise City” 99. “A vacation is necessary.” –Unknown 100. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” –H. Jackson Browne Jr., PS I Love You 101. “We travel, not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” —Unknown 102. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” —Ernest Hemingway 103. “If you have lost your clarity and purpose, a vacation is a great way to find it again.” —David Fuller 104. “A vacation should be just long enough for the boss to miss you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.” —Jacob Morton Braude 105. “A travel adventure has no substitute. It is the ultimate experience, your one big opportunity for flair.” —Rosalind Massow 106. “Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can’t always make memories.” —Unknown 107. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag 108. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” –Caskie Stinnett 109. “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” —Unknown 110. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.” —Unknown 111. “It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” —David Brenner 112. “The word is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” —St. Augustine 113. “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 114. “You can fall in love at first sight with a place as well as a person."–Alec Waugh 115. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” –Wendell Berry 116. “Find what gives you joy and go there.” —Jan Phillips 117. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving."—Lao Tzu 118. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” —Sydney J. Harris 119. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings."—Moslih Eddin Saadi 120. “Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.” —Unknown 121. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” —Helen Keller 122. “Vacation calories don’t count.” —Unknown 123. “Vacations are a good thing. They give you a break from the routine and and let your mind and body get refreshed while you supposedly spend some time doing some activities that you don’t normally get to do. Vacations are also a bad thing. Why? Because they end.” —Jim Clark 124. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” –Roy M. Goodman 125. “It’s not a trip or a vacation. It’s a second life.” —Unknown 126. “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 127. “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” —Jaime Kurtz 128. “There is no way to happiness- happiness is the way.” —Thich Nhat Hanh 129. “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 130. “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” —Zig Ziglar 131. “Take vacations, go as many places as you can, you can always make money, you can’t awakes make memories.” — Unknown 132. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” —Robert Orben 133. “No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.” —Jewish Proverb 134. “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” —Jack Adam Weber 135. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” —Matthew Karsten 136. “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!” —Mehmet Murat ildan 137. “The average vacation is one-tenth playing—nine-tenths paying.”—Arnold Glasow 138. “Make your vocation your vacation.That is the secret to success.” —Mark Twain 139. “Laughter is an instant vacation.” —Milton Berle 140. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” —Elbert Hubbard 141. “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 142. “I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords.” —Unknown 143. “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 144. “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!” —Lea Mishell 145. “The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.” —Augustine of Hippo 146. “Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.” —Debasish Mridha 147. “Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.” —Frank Tyger 148. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” —Mehmet Murat Ildan 149. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 150. “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 151. “A wise man travels to discover himself.” –James Russell Lowell 152. “One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip.” —Paul Brodie 153. “If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work; but when they seldom come, the wished for come.” —Shakespeare 154. “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” —Morris Fishbein 155. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” —Betty Williams 156. “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 157. “The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.” —Lailah Gifty Akita 158. “The gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” —Sir Richard Burton 159. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal” —Paulo Coelho 160. “What shall you do all your vacation?’, asked Amy. “I shall lie abed and do nothing”, replied Meg.” —Louisa May Alcott 161. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” —Leigh Hunt 162. “To travel is to live.” —Hans Christian Anderson 163. “It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” —David Brenner 164. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” —Jawaharial Nehru 165. “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” —Ibn Battuta 166. “People don’t take trips; trips take people.” —John Steinbeck 167. “I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.” —William Hazlitt 168. “I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.” —Rob Gronkowski 169. “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” —Unknown 170. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” —Helen Keller 171. “The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.” —Sam Ewing 172. “Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.” —Sadi Gulistan 173. “Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” —Charles Kuralt 174. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” —Anonymous 175. “No matter where you go, there you are.” —Buckaroo Banzi 176. “Nothing last foever, except the day before you start your vacation.” —Gayland Anderson 177. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventured fill your soul.” —Jamie Lyn Beatty 178. “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 179. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” —Oscar Wilde 180. “There’s’ a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.” —Bill Janklow 181. “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire, and some peace and quiet.” —Brooke Hampton 182. “Blesses are the curious for they shall have adventure.” —Lovelle Drachman 183. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler who is foreign.” —Robert Louis Stevenson 184. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” —Lin Yutang 185. “The breaks you take form work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation.” —Gautam Singhania 186. “Oh the places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seuss 187. “Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of 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 188. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” —Robert Louis Stevenson 189. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” —G.K. Chesterton 190. “Stop dreaming about your bucket list and start living it!” —Annette White 191. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” —Unknown 192. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” —Gustave Flaubert 193. “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” —Anonymous 194. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” —Sydney J. Harris 195. “Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.” —Anonymous 196. “Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.” —Ronald Reagan 197. “I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that is not just email with a view.” —Elon Musk 198. “Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach . . . it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’” —Steven Wright 199. “I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.” —Anthony Bourdain 200. “I always try to have a vacation.” —Sophia Loren 201. “I work to go on vacation. Hopefully, the more money I make, my vacations will get a little longer to the point where they last a year.” —Damon Dash 202. “I work hard to get in the body right, and then I kind of just go off the map when on vacation.” —Rob Gronkowski 203. “It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation basically. It’s nice to step back and see there’s more to life.” —Nate Diaz 204. “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 205. “Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.” —Zig Ziglar 206. “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” —Unknown 207. “A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.” —Unknown 208. “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 209. “Holiday: A period of activity so intense that it can only be undertaken three or four weeks in the year. —Miles Kington 210. “Time is precious, waste it wisely.” —Unknown 211. “I can’t think of anything that excites a great sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.” —Bill Bryson 212. “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 213. “If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation.” —Unknown 214. “I’m not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there’s no place like home.” —Jilly Cooper 215. “With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.” —David Lloyd George 216. “Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.” —Tryon Edwards 217. “The longing to get away from it all never was so great as in our present time of tension and trouble. We want something to lift us out of the mess into which much of life seems to have fallen.” —Glenn Stewart 218. “The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.” —Unknown 219. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —Nelson Mandela 220. “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 Also compiled by Maryn Liles. Want more great quotes? Check out…100 Wedding and Marriage Quotes50 Thinking of You Quotes50 Friday Quotes50 Monday Motivation Quotes
