75 Vacation Quotes and Sayings
Just like eating well and physical exercise, vacations are of utmost importance for a well-balanced and healthy life. Here are awesome vacation quotes to inspire you to travel and spend your holidays along with loved ones.
Vacation Quotes
- “Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.” – Frank Tyger
- “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” – Nina Arianda
- “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “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
- “Taking out time from your busy schedule and going to vacation improves your overall mental health.” – Invajy
- “Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “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
- “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
- “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson
Quotes about Vacation
- “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
- “Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE.” – Lea Mishell
- “The breaks you take from 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
- “If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation.” – Anonymous
- “I’m a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.” – Victoria Moran
- “Sometimes I think I don’t need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!” – Enric Sala
- “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams
- “Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. 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
- “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
Short Vacation Quotes
- “My whole life is a vacation.” – Leon Bridges
- “My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.” – Nick Cannon
- “Vacation calories don’t count.” – Anonymous
- “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar
- “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben
- “I always try to have a vacation.” – Sophia Loren
- “If I’m going on vacation, I just work ahead.” – Mort Walker
- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
- “Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!” – Tamra Davis
- “A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.” – Max von Sydow
Inspiring Vacation Quotes
- “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” – Aimee Friedman
- “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
- “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
- “Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.” – Debasish Mridha
- “For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.” – Ashley Bell
- “My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.” – Gary Allan
- “On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.” – Christian Dior
- “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
- “I don’t think I’ve ever had a vacation, to be quite honest with you.” – Rob Dyrdek
- “Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.” – Walter Annenberg
Family Vacation Quotes
- “To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn’t really seem worth it.” – Melanie Lynskey
- “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
- “A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.” – Marcelene Cox
- “A good vacation along with family ensures worries vacate from your mind.” – Invajy
- “Not every vacation is equal. And theory – the idea that vacations should increase happiness – doesn’t always translate to reality.” – Shawn Achor
- “My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.” – Ludacris
- “For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!” – Scotty McCreery
- “I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled ‘day off,’ I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don’t relax well.” – Rachael Ray
- “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
- “When we’re on vacation – it doesn’t matter where – I will go and look for a game.” – Neymar
Vacation Quotes
- “One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip.” – Paul Brodie
- “My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.” – Tim Cahill
- “When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.” – Sarah Mlynowski
- “I like to be productive – it’s very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I’m losing time.” – Jim James
- “I’m having a vacation, and it’s so beautiful, and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.” – Lars von Trier
- “In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.” – Jason Calacanis
- “Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.” – Shawn Achor
- “I don’t need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.” – James Franco
- “If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there’s no vacation destination like home.” – Park Chan-wook
- “A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.” – Hal Chadwicke
Inspiring Short Quotes about Vacation
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
- “Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can’t always make memories.” – Anonymous
- “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” – Jaime Kurtz
- “The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.” – Jack Adam Weber
- “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
- “I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords.” – Anonymous
- “On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me.” – Will Wright
- “It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.” – Taylor Hawkins
Best Vacation Quotes
- “I can take a week’s vacation – maybe a week and a half – but after that, I’m itching to go back to work.” – Ashley Tisdale
- “When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.” – Jack Antonoff
- “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
- “Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” – Morris Fishbein
