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Journey Quotes


"A man travels fastest who travels alone."


"No one stands at the beginning of a race and then finds himself at the end having never taken a step forward. And if that were to happen-the sweat and struggle avoided-what stories would he have to tell? The goal includes the journey, it's all part of the dream."


"Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!"



"So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether."


"Remember this-the journey is part of the dream. Whatever it is you're chasing, so long as you are actively moving in the right direction, the dream is coming true."


"The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome."


"Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey."


"The only journey worth taking is the spiritual journey within."


"First thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don't think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn't any plans on sharing our bed."


"Everyone has a different journey in life. Don't judge someone else for theirs."


"God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way."


"Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong."



"The journey is greater than the destination."


"A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean."


"Don't be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!"


"Holding the space for yourself: Embrace the here and now. Embrace the journey. Try not to judge yourself but rather try to accept yourself as you are. Success is measured in staying on the path, not in how many successes or failures you've had along the way. Let gratitude fill your heart, live with love, laugh and enjoy the journey. All of life is a journey."


"A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities."


"Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you're going to say next."


"Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking."


"Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?"


"At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to ourselves - that is, brought back into contact with emotions and ideas of importance to us. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestice setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, but who may not be who we essentially are."


"There is no easy way to the journey of life. Those who follow the easy road cannot fully appreciate life."


"For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours."


"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."


"They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape.Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds."


"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."


"The journey is the REWARD! NOT the destination."


"It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of 'journey' and 'life' are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them and amply fight them to the point that I have accepted the journey, but the journey is now solely defined as my effort to forsake the journey."


"It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is."


"The road to failure is wide. The road to mediocrity is smooth. The road to success is bumpy. The road to genius is narrow. The road to greatness is steep."


"Life has no destination, it is a journey to see the beauty."


"If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I'm not on the journey in the first place."


"If life's journey was intended to be easy, we would have been given directions. However, since we have no road map, we must climb the highest mountain and forge the deepest streams with love in our souls, in the hope that our own journey will give us peace within..."


"What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps."


"I travel, always arriving in the same place."
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