A vacation is all that we need to escape from the shackles of our daily urban lives. Vacation serves as a refuge to our minds where we can unwind, relax and forget about our routine problems.

But a vacation is often a result of inspiration. Without the inspiration to explore new places and indulge in new experiences, one simply doesn’t feel like going on a vacation. In this article, you will find 50 inspirational vacation quotes thay will persuade you to pack your bags and set off to a distant location of your preference.

1. “As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation.”

2. “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.”

3. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”

4. “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.”

5. “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.”

6. “I need a six month vacation, twice a year.”

7. “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.”

8. “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.”

9. “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’.”

10. “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.”

11. “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.”

12. “Take vacations, and go to as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories.”

13. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”

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

15. “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.”

16. “Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation.”

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

18. “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.”

19. “Laughter is an instant vacation.”

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

21. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

22. “It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

23. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”

24. “No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”

25. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

26. “I haven’t been everywhere, but its on my list.”

27. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

28. “A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

29. “Travel: It gives you a home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.”

30. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

31. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”

32. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

33. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

34. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”

35. “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”

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

37. “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.”

38. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the way in which you yourself have altered.”

39. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”