75 Best Summer Quotes for Long Vacations

Embarking on an extended getaway? Discover the best summer quotes for long vacations to inspire and elevate your journey. Summer vacation is the perfect time to relax, explore new places, and create unforgettable memories. Whether you’re at the beach, hiking in the majestic mountains, or soaking up the beauty of the city, these quotes will evoke the joy and freedom of a long summer getaway. When you hear the summer theme, tap into the wisdom of travelers, writers, and dreamers, and let these tips enhance your fun.

Best Summer Quotes for Long Vacations

• The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation. ― Mark Twain
• I need a 6-month vacation, twice a year. – Unknown
• No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ― Elbert Hubbard
• The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page – St. Augustine
• 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
• What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life. ― Joseph Brodsky
• Find what brings you joy and go there. ― Jan Phillips
• Vacation calories don’t count. ― Unknown
• Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. ― Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
• Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE! ― Lea Mishell

Family Vacation Quotes

• “I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “There’s no vacation from being a parent.” – Chevy Chase
• “In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children. ” – Robert Benchley
• “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 best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “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

Short Summer Quotes

• “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
• “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.” – Earl Wilson
• “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
• “I need a six-month vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown
• “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
• “I love my job only when I’m on vacation.” – Unknown
• “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Island Company  
• “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

Summer Quotes for Instagram

• After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation. ― Michael Zadoorian
• On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me. ― Will Wright
• A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ― Robert Orben
• 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
• Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation? ― Zig Ziglar
•  When all else fails, take a vacation. ― Betty Williams
• Travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. ― Elizabeth Gilbert
•  Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr
•  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
•  My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer. ― Gary Allan

Inspirational Summer Quotes

• Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated positive energy! ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
• 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
• Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation. ― Zig Ziglar
•  A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic. ― Max von Sydow
•  Laughter is an instant vacation. ― Milton Berle
•  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
•  Jet lag is for amateurs. ― Dick Clark
•  After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation. — Michael Zadoorian
•  When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person. ― Aimee Friedman, Sea Change
• The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule. ― Kelly Clarkson

Funny Vacation Quotes

• “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
• “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
• “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar
• “Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not.” – Unknown
• “Vacation calories don’t count.” – unknown
• “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
• “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