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50+ Vacation and Travel Quotes for Those Who Need a Break

Vacation quotes

A vacation offers you the chance to revitalize and renew your mind and body. Vacations offer us a change of scenery, a thrill, and a means of escaping routine and fatigue.

A healthy and balanced lifestyle requires vacations, just like a decent diet and regular exercise. Although some may view them as luxuries, they are important if you want to live a better and more full life.

While vacations also trigger your productivity as you return with a fresh mind, Chanty does the same for you too. Whether it’s your productivity or replying to important emails and urgent messages while on a holiday – you can do it all with Chanty.

Most of these travel quotes are lighthearted and playful, just like vacations should be.

So whether you’re looking for the ideal Instagram caption for your pictures from your summer trip or you’re counting down the days until your next getaway, hopefully, these travel quotes will give you some inspiration and humorous relief.

Funny vacation quotes

Vacations are meant to be lighthearted, and so are these quotes. Perfect for Instagram captions or just a good laugh.

  1. “I need a 6-month vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown
  2. “Vacation calories don’t count.” – Unknown
  3. “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE!” – Lea Mishell
  4. “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar
  5. “Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.” – Jerry Smith
  6. “My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.” – Gary Allan
  7. “Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not.” – Anonymous

Inspirational travel quotes

For those who believe travel is more than a trip – it’s a way to live and grow.

  1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
  2. “You cannot discover new oceans unless you dare to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide
  3. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
  4. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama
  5. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
  6. “A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell
  7. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
  8. “People don’t take trips; trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
  9. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
  10. “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb
  11. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Benjamin Disraeli

Relaxation & wellness quotes

Sometimes, the best vacation is the one where you do… absolutely nothing.

  1. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” – Sydney J. Harris
  2. “Find what brings you joy and go there.” – Jan Phillips
  3. “Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.” – Linda Bloom
  4. “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
  5. “On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me.” – Will Wright
  6. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben
  7. “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
  8. “The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule.” – Kelly Clarkson
  9. “Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.” – Debasish Mridha

Real talk: Vacations & productivity

Even the biggest workaholics need a break. These quotes prove it.

  1. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” – Elbert Hubbard
  2. “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
  3. “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
  4. “After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.” – Michael Zadoorian
  5. “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated positive energy!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
  6. “Every man who possibly can force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” – William James
  7. “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
  8. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson

A vacation clears your head. Chanty clears your workspace. Both help you come back refreshed and ready.

Nostalgic & romantic vacation quotes

Vacations aren’t only about beaches and flights – they’re about memories that stay with us.

  1. “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” – Evan Esar
  2. “What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life.” – Joseph Brodsky
  3. “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
  4. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person.” – Aimee Friedman
  5. “It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” – David Brenner
  6. “Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier… But I was also deliriously content, which is surely what it’s all about.” – Cash Peters

Short but spot-on vacation quotes

  1. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
  2. “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” – Nina Arianda
  3. “Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.” – Zig Ziglar
  4. “Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.” – Frank Tyger
  5. “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” – Morris Fishbein

Summing up on vacation and travel quotes

No matter where you live we could all use a change of scenery now and then which brings us to enjoy and go on our vacations.

Vacations help us rediscover our identities. They provide us a chance to relax and take a break from our typical day-to-day life and provide relief and a change of pace.

There’s nothing like a vacation to calm your body and mind, whether you go to the islands or somewhere else far away you’ve never visited. With that, we hope you enjoyed our directory of travel quotes and wish you a very happy travel.

And when it’s time to return to work? Let Chanty keep your productivity flowing so you can plan the next getaway stress-free.

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Lisa Hodun

Yelyzaveta Hodun is a Content Writer at Chanty, a tool that makes team collaboration easier. With a love for writing and a background in Cultural Studies, she enjoys creating content that helps teams connect and communicate better. Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn

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