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92 Vacation Quotes
Be inspired by these vacation quotes that include holiday, family and funny quotes about vacations. Plus be motivated by take a break quotations.
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. . . 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, 101 Accessible Vacations
Words of Encouragement
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"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
Inspirational
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"Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to
do with your business."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Books
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"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, Dying to go on Vacation
Time
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"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, 100% Active and Productive
Happy
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"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, The Vacationer's Handbook
Stress Relief
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"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
Relax
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"Cruises are a great way to vacation! The best part is the flexibility.
You can book a one-day cruise, or a 108-day- around-the-world cruise,
and a whole lot of options in between. You unpack
once, and get a taste of a new place every day."
Deb Graham, Tips From The Cruise Addict's Wife
Cool
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"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what
you've been taking."
Earl Wilson
Motivational
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"Take those vacations and do not take your laptop or iphone or blackberry
- you are on vacation and that means having a real break
and not just going to a different location and doing much of the same thing."
Byron Pulsifer, Recognize This
Motivational Quotes for Work
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"A proper vacation does three things. It takes you away from the stresses
and demands of your daily life; it gives your body time to heal and rejuvenate;
and, it invigorates your mind by returning you to your natural rhythm."
Sage Wilcox, The 2-Hour Vacation
Stress
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"My business doesn't even have any employees, and I'm going
on a 90-day vacation so that just proves that you don't need to
manage employees to have a profitable business."
Tom Corson-Knowles, Systemize, Automate, Delegate
Career
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"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound."
Walter Annenberg
Work
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"One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip."
Paul Brodie, San Diego
Challenge
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"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
Life
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"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
Feeling
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"A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work."
Morris Fishbein
Good
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"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me."
Will Wright
Quote of The Day
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"If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation."
Author Unknown
Home
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"Why turn a vacation into a volunteer vacation? . . . First, the opportunities
presented here are amazing . . . Second, your help is desperately needed. . . .
Almost everyone who undertakes these projects returns home proclaiming
that their vacations benefited them at least as much as they did the people
being served. And when this happens to you, we hope that you'll then
take the next step: share the experience."
Doug Cutchins, Volunteer Vacations
Volunteer
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"Laughter is an instant vacation."
Milton Berle
Laughter
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"Cruising is one of the least expensive ways to
yet it offers so much rich experience in exotic locations, great food,
beautiful accommodations and a fun, friendly atmosphere."
Nom de Voyage, Cruise Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Beauty
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"The atmosphere on the ship is different from our experience ... it is all
about being merry and happy. Literally, it is like being in a small city
celebrating a special day everyday of the 7-day vacation."
Roy Lique, Lured by The Allure of the Seas
Experience
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"We need to develop a 'vacation attitude' every day by being focused
on what we need to accomplish by the end of each day."
Catherine Pulsifer, A Vacation Attitude
Attitude
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"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
Purpose
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"There are 365 days and 52 weekends in a year. Even if you are short
on time off, you can still take weekend getaways.
Does that count as a vacation? Of course it does."
Anita Kaltenbaugh, Travel Secrets
Top Ten Quotes on Time
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"In this country, where we learn to work from the time we're born,
our job is to follow the rules, to rein in the imagination.
But on vacation, you need a chance to wonder, to be surprised, to play."
Pam Grout, The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life
Imagination
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"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
Change
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"The point is this: if you do what you love, it doesn't matter in the
least that a vacation has to end. If you love what you do you will not find
yourself wishing for even a few more days of vacation, or wishing that
you could keep enjoying this vacation for much, much longer."
Byron Pulsifer, Happy To Return
Wishes
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"... stress is not about how much the job demands of us,
it's how much we are able to stand up to the demands.
... With the right balance
of vacation and work, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that
the human spirit cannot achieve."
Sage Wilcox, The 2-Hour Vacation
Balance
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"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
Goals
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"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, Death
Death
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"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, Best Vacation EVER!
Happiness
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"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
Mindset
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"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted."
Japanese Proverb
Hope
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Be inspired by taking the time to appreciate the beauty around you while you are
on vacation. Remind yourself to relax and clear your mind from issues in your life. By doing this
you will recharge even when your vacation is over.
Kate Summers
Appreciation
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Holiday Quotes for a Happy Holiday
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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
Veterans Day
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The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence
and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart, when the full tide
of feeling overflows.
Longfellow
Anniversary
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As a die-hard foodie, my ultimate holiday is of course Thanksgiving. I wait for this day for 364 days, and the moment it's over I begin running ideas through the back of my head for the next one.
Jan Charles, Happier Holidays
Thanksgiving
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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
Possibilities
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As we get older, we often change into a blinkered mind-set and
forget what once made us happy. We get stuck in the rat race or
are continuously saving for a holiday that we have booked or we
are too busy working to take a moment and see what once made us joyful.
Danielle Tinning, How to Succeed
Age
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The Christmas tree decorated and bright for all to see when we turn on the lights. May this holiday be one that is filled with cheer for you and for those that you hold so dear.
Catherine Pulsifer
Christmas Greetings
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If you really want to find out the level of commitment and dedication
to the job, ask them if they ever take a holiday where they are not
in touch with their company staff by either phone, email or blackberry.
You will be surprised that many of these top executives and company
owners never leave their business totally - they are involved no matter
where they are.
Byron Pulsifer, Success One Word
Commitment
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How you feel about home after holiday says a lot about home.
Joyce Rachelle
Top Ten Quotes
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From shamrocks and leprechauns to green food and drink,
this is a holiday for all ages.
Hillbilly Housewife, On St. Patrick's Day Everyone Can Be Irish
Irish Quotes and Sayings
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Some people are born happy. No matter what their circumstances are,
they are joyous, content, and satisfied with everything.
They carry a perpetual holiday in their eyes, and see joy and beauty
everywhere.
Orison Swett Marden, Character
Joy
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Christmas is not just an annual holiday. It is not a day to glorify selfishness
and materialism. Christmas is the celebration of the event that set heaven
to singing, an event that gave the stars of the night sky a new brilliance.
Billy Graham
Christmas
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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
Random
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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
Memory
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and
mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time,
is worth them all.
Fanny Fern
Grandmother
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meaningful
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Simone de Beauvoir
Retirement
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One day we will look back and realize some things,
Like how much we've missed out on.
Holidays, parties, vacations and sports,
We will wonder where life has gone.
Julie Hebert, Do Less
Poems about Life
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The event which Christmas commemorates means more to the world
as a whole than any other holiday that we observe.
Lucretia Walker Hardy
Christmas Poems
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Traditionally, the holiday season is a time to highlight the truly human
qualities of peace, of generosity, and of understanding. No matter how
we choose to celebrate this season, regardless of whom we share this time
with, and no matter where we decide to gather, this time of year reminds us
that the beliefs that unite us are far greater than those which divide us.
Shawn Graham and Roxanne Reeves, 2009 Christmas message
Peace
Family Vacation Quotes
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"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, Vacation Deals
Encouraging
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"It's not about balance, it's about designing a work-home-family life
that makes you feel good. A life you don't need a vacation from."
Jacqueline Fisch, Unfussy Mom
Family
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"THANKSGIVING Is a holiday filled with family, friends, and great food.
It's a celebration of abundance and appreciation."
Rodney Miles, Thanksgiving Around the World and in Your Home
Thanksgiving Poems
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"Vacation is the term applied to a trip that involves just the two of us.
Family trips are not really vacations, except in the strict sense that
we have vacated one set of premises and moved the general hullabaloo
right along with us."
Robert Benson, Home by Another Way
Live Life
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"For our family, Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year,
and we look forward to the holiday season all year long.
Not because of the presents we'll receive but because of the memories
and traditions it holds, the opportunities to give and serve as a family,
and the focus we put on enjoying each other and all that it offers!"
Mandi Ehman, 101 More Day of Christmas
Giving
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"…there are those regrets that you never spent enough time with your
children always too busy to give them more than just a few hours of
attention a week or only during a one-week family vacation a year…"
Byron Pulsifer, The View From A Hospital Window
Regret
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"In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children."
Robert Benchley
Children
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"I think it is absolutely vital when you are married with children
to have at least one trip away a year without the kids. No matter
how much we love them, it's really important to remember we are
part of a couple too, otherwise the kids completely take over."
Jason Ayres, Austerity Dad
Marriage
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"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
Wise
Funny Vacation Quotes To Make You Smile
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"Do you spend more time planning a vacation than you do planning your life?"
Catherine Pulsifer
Motivational Quotes about Life
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"Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it
the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money."
Jonathan Clements
Top Ten Quotes on Retirement
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"Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity."
Author Unknown
Quotes to Live By
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"The average vacation is one-tenth playing - nine-tenths paying."
Arnold Glasow
Funny
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"Imagine that -we now live in a world where a manager's approval is needed
not to take vacation. This would have been unthinkable even three or
four years ago."
Arianna Huffington, Thrive
Funny Quotes about Life
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"Being freed of work obligations after 40 or more years of employment
can create the same gleeful anticipation we used to feel on the last day of
school before summer vacation but, then again, it might bore us literally
to death."
Fred Vettese, Bill Morneau, The Real Retirement
Famous Quotes about Life
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"A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices."
Hal Chadwicke
Funny Proverbs
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"No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell."
Jewish Proverb
Proverbs
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"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
Elbert Hubbard
Funny Poems
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"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."
Robert Orben
Inspirational Sayings
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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
Smile Poem
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"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away
on a vacation."
Kin Hubbard
Negative People
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"Vacation - A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the
clothes and half the money you need."
Author Unknown
Wealth
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"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience
and tolerance and your morning coffee."
Helen Hayes
Patience
Take A Break Quotes
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"When you plan to take time-off at work, you schedule it ahead of time,
plan for it, and then take it when the time comes (pretty much no matter
what). The same goes for your breaks from mothering."
Linda Kastiel Kozlowski, Motherhood, Inc
Mother
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"You need to take a break away from your work area so when
you return you are more refreshed and ready to work."
Byron Pulsifer, Don't We All Want To
Best Motivational Quotes
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"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.
But other times it's essential to take time off and to make
sure that your most important decision in the day simply
consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow."
Douglas Pagels
Decision
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"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
Life Changing
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"Sometimes when we take a break we may find that solutions
then present themselves."
Catherine Pulsifer, Cheer An Inspirational Thought
Creativity
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"Richard Branson advised that entrepreneurs should also take some
time off from work and enjoy the company of their family or friends."
Norbert Richards, Richard Branson Unofficial
Friend
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"People who work under constant stress must take time off to
be in complete silence and meditate even if it is for ten minutes
during tea or lunch breaks."
Dianne Kane, Anger Management for Partners
Quotes about Overcoming
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"We have never been taught how to relax, how to take care
of ourselves in a positive, nurturing way (not just going on a vacation
or out for an expensive dinner). Twenty minutes of deep relaxation
a day will aid your mental growth, improve your physical health
and emotional stability, and possibly even increase your spiritual awareness."
L. John Mason, Guide to Stress Reduction
Spiritual
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"The problem is that technology has become an extra limb for some of us.
It's important to utilize this technology, but at the same time it's important
to know when to take a break from it."
Alex Broches, Start Living...Now!
Problem
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"Find what brings you joy and go there."
Jan Phillips
Daily Inspiration
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"Although it is important that we be productive citizens and
put in time at work, maybe we need to respect the importance
of leisure time and relaxation a little more."
Sage Wilcox, The 2-Hour Vacation
Respect
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"In simple terms, it is sometimes better to let your mind go to zero where
you are not consciously trying to arrive at an answer or solution.
In order to take this mini zero vacation, you probably will best be
doing something totally different from whatever it is you are attempting
to overcome or resolve."
Byron Pulsifer, The Zero Vacation
Overcoming Obstacles
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"Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before."
Dalai Lama
Famous
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"I've found that sometimes it is best to take a break by going for a walk,
or take a coffee break. This break can help clear your mind and calm
your anxiety. It is a time to let your mind go to zero by not thinking of
the issue at hand."
Byron Pulsifer, Behavoir A Legacy
Keep Calm
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