50 Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Vacation Spirit

"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

"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."

- Anthony Bourdain

"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

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

- Mark Twain

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food."

- Alexander Babinets

"The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation."

- Mark Twain

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

- St. Augustine

"Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Find what brings you joy and go there."

- Jan Phillips

"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."

- Jamie Lyn Beatty

"Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE!"

- Lea Mishell

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you dare to lose sight of the shore."

- André Gide

"Vacations are necessities, not luxuries."

- Linda Bloom

"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

"Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before."

- Dalai Lama

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet."

- Rachel Wolchin

"A wise man travels to discover himself."

- James Russell Lowell

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

- Ernest Hemingway

"In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them."

- Kevin Heath

"The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind."

- Jack Adam Weber

"My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean."

- Nina Arianda

"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

"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

"Think about it; how do you feel when you are planning a vacation? You feel excited and happy. Your stress level is diminished, and this also affects your work in a positive way."

- John Morgan

"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

"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

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

- Milton Berle

"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."

- Robert Orben

"Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation."

- Gautam Singhania

"Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'"

- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

"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

"My favorite place to vacation is any place by the ocean."

- Nina Arianda

"An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate."

- Jaime Kurtz

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier, convinced I’d blocked an artery and possibly shortened my lifespan by a few months. But I was also deliriously contented, which is surely what it’s all about."

- Cash Peters

"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."

- Max von Sydow

"When it comes to the summer months most people start to think about where they will be going on vacation. This is the time of year when most individuals take time off of work because the kids are out of school. It is the perfect time for everyone to spend time together and to regroup from the stress that is often experienced with everyday life."

- Cindy Crawford

"Moderation in exercise, eating and amusement is the best guarantee of a beneficial vacation."

- Ollie Reeves

"Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation."

- Laura Marano

"It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time."

- David Brenner

"A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia."

- Evan Esar

"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"A one day holiday can at times be better than a one week vacation if you totally unplug for that one day!"

- Catherine Pulsifer

"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me."

- Will Wright

"There’s no vacation from being a parent."

- Chevy Chase

"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule."

- Kelly Clarkson

"What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life."

- Joseph Brodsky

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

- Sam Keen

"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

"After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation."

- Michael Zadoorian

"When all else fails, take a vacation."

- Betty Williams

"Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation."

- Zig Ziglar

"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person."

- Aimee Friedman

"In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children."

- Robert Benchley

"No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don’t feel like I’m on vacation unless I’m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen."

- Chelsea Cain

"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking."

- Earl Wilson

"Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return."

- Island Company

"A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work."

- Morris Fishbein

"When I was on a two-week vacation I noticed something. The vacation lasted a good long time then suddenly it was over. Life is like that also."

- Fr. Cedric Pisegna CP

"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

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

- Lao Tzu

"Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need."

- Jerry Smith

"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

"Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"

- Zig Ziglar

"My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."

- Gary Allan

"My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."

- Gary Allan

"Jet lag is for amateurs."

- Dick Clark

"Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."

"Say yes to adventure, especially in the summer."

"Jobs fill your pockets, but vacations fill your soul."

"Take vacations, and go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."

"Don’t worry. Beach happy."

"There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation."

"Vacation mood: on."

"Life is better in flip flops."

"Good vibes happen on the tides."

"I’m all about the palm trees and 80 degrees."

"Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated rest."

"I need a 6-month vacation, twice a year."

"I need a six month vacation, twice a year."

"I googled my symptoms. Turns out, I just need a vacation."

"Time for some Vitamin Sea."

"I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords."

"I love my job only when I’m on vacation."

- Unknown

"The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way."

"Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not."

"Vacation calories don’t count."

"Excuse me while I taunt my Facebook friends with another picture of my beach vacation."

"My first day back at work has inspired me to book my next vacation."