Dubai Quotes

“Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.”

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Dubai Life Quotes

Dubai is one of the most populous cities of the UAE. Established in the early 18th century as a small fishing village, it rapidly grew to become a cosmopolitan metropolis in the 21st century. The complex design and its extensive intersecting street network, large shopping malls and complexes, and iconic skyscrapers testify to this passion for futuristic architecture. These inspirational Dubai Quotes will help you explore the beauty of this spectacular city further.

“Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamour rose in the heart of the desert.”

― Soroosh Shahrivar


“I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.”

― Kevin Pietersen

“Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don’t want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I’m building. I am privileged to play golf for a living ― look around St Andrews, that’s my office.”

― Rory McIlroy


“Dubai’s world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.”

― Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair


“People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it’s really more like Vegas.”

― Tucker Carlson


“Dubai’s a pretty powerful place.”

― Solange Knowles


“I like Dubai because of the sheer scale on which the city is built. It is completely futuristic but with a warm, old-world ethos.”

― Prabhas


“Going to Dubai represents a different way of life.”

― Fabio Cannavaro


“I love to get to Dubai. It’s an impressive place, and you can do lots of different things there – beach, shopping, and other fun things.”

― Jordan Henderson

“Dubai is a safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about.”

― Mo Farah


“I always wanted to at least visit Dubai – it was a city that I loved to watch on the Discovery Channel. It had the world’s biggest everything and clearly had a vision to stand out.”

― Alex Hirschi


“Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.”

― Ma Long


“You can do pretty much anything you want in Dubai. In terms of getting around, everywhere’s within half an hour in the car.”

― Andrew Flintoff


“Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings… it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there’s a lot going on. There are some wonderful architectures and some not-so-wonderful.”

― John Rocha


“Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.”

― Tequan Richmond


Inspiring Dubai Quotes

Dubai is the city of dreams. To get the best out of your trip, visiting Dubai’s famous Burj Khalifa is definitely one of the best activities. The tallest building in the world, architectural marvels, impressive works of art, and unparalleled engineering achievements. The Burj Khalifa is distinctive in design and execution.

This is an outstanding example of international cooperation, a symbolic illuminant of progress, and a symbol of a vibrant and prosperous new the Middle East.

Another wonder is Dubai Creek, where you can enjoy the stunning views, fine dining, and luxurious accommodation. Cruise the Dubai Creek, the vibrant side of the city, and make your night special with a spectacular dinner.​​​ Then you have the Dubai Mall, housing the most extensive acrylic panel globally at the Dubai Mall Aquarium and Discovery Center. Get inspired and set on a most memorable journey.

“Dubai was founded on trade, not oil.”

― Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum


“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.”

― Fareed Zakaria

“I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don’t think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that’s it.”

― Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum


“There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn’t understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.”

― Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum


“For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.”

― Jain


“I’ve been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It’s something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It’s absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought.”

― Wladimir Klitschko


“I want to go to – what’s that hot country with a lot of money? – Dubai.”

― Grandmaster Flash


“I know that people in Dubai are particularly well read, educated and intelligent and that the audience in front of me will come looking forward to an evening that is different from watching a film. That is the kind of crowd that goes to a theatre or a play and I am hoping to see many of them in Dubai.”

― Pankaj Kapur

“I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.”

― Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan


“In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it’s like you’re in New York City or Dubai, and you’re looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.”

― Ramez Naam


Dubai Funny Quotes

How about a memorable trip to the city of miracles? Dubai is famous for its beautiful scenery and adventures all over the city. Sightseeing in Dubai will surely make people of all groups feel captivated and fascinated.

Visit popular skyscrapers, shop in the largest shopping mall in the world, take photos of incredible locations, visit Dubai’s famous fountains, participate in adventure sports and explore a city of wonders. Engross in this out-of-this-world experience with few funny sayings, and never forget to be wonderstruck.

“People in Dubai don’t like the Flintstones. But people in Abu Dhabi do!”

― Unknown


“I like to believe that I have a better understanding of ground realities than those who live in airconditioned elite areas in Dubai and Karachi.”

― Reham Khan

“I have a friend who went to Dubai for vacation. I asked him … Dubai anything?”

― Unknown


“I had to return those books on Middle Eastern agricultural products. They were past the Dubai dates.”

― Unknown


“Work until you feel Dubai is cheap.”

― Unknown


“I started working at a grill restaurant on a skyscraper in Dubai. The steaks were high but I pulled it off.”

― Unknown

“Once the sand of Dubai has settled on your shoulders you can never shake it off!”

― Tam Khan


“I need Vitamin D…Dubai.”

― Unknown

“You name it, Dubai has it. But if it doesn’t, trust it is already building it.”

― Unknown


“Money can’t buy happiness? Habibi come to Dubai.”

― Unknown


Desert Safari Dubai Quotes

While on a trip to Dubai, you may want to let loose and get lost in the dunes. A desert safari comes with its own adventures and hassles. But when it comes to a new life experience, nothing except getting stuck in an icy road can compete with sands. Enjoy your Desert Safari more in the hands of expert and professional tour guides. Go on camel rides, or if you are lucky, you may spot few animals running wild on your wildlife drives. Do your own research and take pleasure in savoring your holiday. To add to your fun quotient, we have rounded few quotes to relive your memories or getting the kick to make some new noise.

“Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.”

― Sting


“Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.”

― Marcus Aurelius

“Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.”

― Ella Leya


“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

― Chief Seattle


“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupery


“I didn’t see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?”

― John Baldessari


Dubai Travel Quotes

Famous travel quotes can stimulate you to travel more. Sometimes these quotes are very motivating and enlightening and reignite the travel addiction of readers.  So, if you have not made travel plans or are not a travel addict, you will definitely be bitten by the travel bug after reading all these famous Dubai travel quotes. You may end up packing up and book tickets after reading these wonderful sayings. So read on and enjoy some of the best inspiring Dubai Travel quotes.

“Travel makes on modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

― Gustave Flaubert


“I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other’s company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.”

― Amitabh Bachchan

“I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home.”

― Thaksin Shinawatra


“One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.”

― Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair


“You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark, and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible ― you come in from China, you see these incredible airports, and you land ― we’ve become a third world country.”

― Donald Trump


“Travel … The best way to be lost… And found… At the same time.”

― Brenna Smith


“Traveling, it makes your speechless and then turns you into a storyteller.”

― Erol Ozan


“You meet a lot of people [in Dubai] coming from a lot of different places. Even me, I’m always in transit. I don’t stay anywhere too long. I like the energy that I found when I came here the first time. I start knowing people, and people start knowing me as well.”

― El Seed

“If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date ― when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.”

― Kevin Hart


“No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e―commerce and e―government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.”

― Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.”

― Fareed Zakaria


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

― Saint Augustine


Dubai Desert Quotes

Taking a trip to Dubai, you can expect to see the tallest building globally, The Burj Khalifa, and many stunning architectural geniuses this beautiful city offers. Dubai is full of awestruck malls, shopping plazas, and adventure parks. But your trip is incomplete without camping or a drive through the ever-inviting deserts of UAE during the surreal weather from October to February.

Al-Qudra Desert is one of the closest deserts to the Emirate of Dubai. It is less than an hour’s drive from the downtown area. Amongst the most popular camping sites, it is ideal for relaxing weekends or camping parties. Close enough to feel at home, far enough to see the stars! If you still need more cajoling, then we have these mesmerizing quotes to make your heart skip a beat.

“A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.”

― Matshona Dhilwayo


“Life is like a camel, you can make it do anything but back up.”

― Marcelene Cox

“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.”

― Joe E Lewis


“What did the camel say to the Oasis? I’ll never desert you.”

― Unknown


“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.”

― Joyce Carol Oates


“Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.”

― Edward Counsel


“The desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began.”

― Tom Hanks


“Life is always like a desert. You’ll either find an oasis or will end up in a mirage while finding one.”

― Surimal Kundu


“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

― Antoine de St. Exupery


“The desert is a natural extension of inner silence of the body.”

― Jean Baudrillar


“Life is DRY as a desert lest you find the oasis of Love.”

― Soulful Tanu Vermani

“All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it, all the marvels of creation.”

― Paulo Coelho


“If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.”

― Matshona Dhliwayo

“But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence ― where you can find yourself.”

― Father Dioscuros


“You can’t fight the desert. You have to ride with it.”

― Lous L’Amour


“The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.”

― Paulo Coelho


“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”

― Arab Proverb


“A rose in the desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty.”

― Matchona Dhliwayo

“This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.”

― T. E. Lawrence


“A desert is a place without expectation.”

― Nadine Gordimer

“The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.”

― Paulo Coelho


“The desert tells a different story, every time one ventures into it.”

― Robert Edison Fulton Jr.


“I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.”

― Robyn Davidson


Endnotes

Dubai is famous for its major projects that broke many existing world records. The primary tourist season in Dubai is from November to March. The temperature here during this period remains very pleasant, with an average of 25 degrees. From Burj Khalifa to large-scale live performances by La Perle to desert safari, you will never be out-of-options during your travel. One of the most spectacular attractions is to spend time watching the world’s largest dancing fountain and lighted water columns. It sprays approximately 22,000 gallons of water over 150 feet of beautiful formations. Other attractions include the most luxurious hotel globally, the Burj Al Arab, and the traditional Dubai and Blue Water Islands, with the world’s most giant Ferris wheel-Al Ain Dubai.

In principle, during your trips to mosques, you should not display too much skin in Dubai like in all Arab countries. Since Dubai is very open to Western culture, shorts are allowed, especially in summer, for your outings. Keep few pointers in mind and travel to your heart’s content during a trip to Dubai.

What is Dubai known for?

Dubai is famous for its tourist attractions, such as the Burj Khalifa and shopping malls with huge aquariums and indoor ski slopes. Still, the city also has many cultural attractions and entertainment options to choose from, with all modern and charming add-ons.

Why is Dubai so rich?

Because of the infrastructural growth, Dubai has become a significant tourist attraction in the world. Tourism coupled with the establishment of Jafza, the Jebel Ali Free Zone, in 1985, gave the impetus to rapid growth. 30 free zones in Jafza offer tax breaks, custom duty benefits, and a lack of restrictions for foreign owners, making it a global business hub. Approximately 20% of its foreign investment comes from this free zone.

Why is Dubai so hot?

As Dubai lies on the Tropic of Cancer, the climate is warm and sunny. In winter, the average daily temperature in Dubai is 25°C (77°F).

Can you own a house in Dubai?

In Dubai, foreign ownership in designated freehold areas is allowed. Foreigners (non-residents in the UAE) and expatriates can obtain unrestricted property, right to use or lease for up to 99 years. There is no age limit for owning real estate in Dubai.

Why is Dubai so special?

That’s because of the incredible landscape of palm-shaped islands and some of the tallest buildings in the world. Its sci-fi technologies such as fast loops and flying taxis perfectly illustrate how Dubai reflects the future differently.

Is it expensive to live in Dubai?

Excluding rent, the estimated monthly cost per person is US$931 (AED 3,419) approx. as per the latest reports. Dubai is 35.68% cheaper than New York (not including rent). On average, rents in Dubai are 50.12% lower than in New York.

Does it ever snow in Dubai?

Of course, the artificial ski resort in the Mall of the Emirates has snow machines. The ambient temperature is 2°C and happy penguins. But very unlikely to see or hear about snowing in real life in Dubai because of its proximity to the Tropic of Cancer and its hot weather. But in 2009, it actually snowed in Ras Al Khaimah, lying at the northern part of Emirates.