Top 200 Journey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

2. “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Path Quotes

3. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Future Quotes, Freedom Quotes

4. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Path Quotes

5. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”

— Michael Palin

Also featured in: Travel Quotes, Funny Inspirational Quotes, Quotes About the World, Holiday Quotes

6. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Travel Quotes

7. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

— Anthony Bourdain

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Travel Quotes, Quotes About the World

8. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

— Christopher McCandless

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

9. “Enjoy the Journey!”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Friday Quotes

10. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Travel Quotes

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

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Wednesday Inspirational Quotes, Travel Quotes

12. “Step by step, walk the thousand-mile road.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Effort Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

13. “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Witty Quotes, Travel Quotes, Adventure Quotes

14. “I now walk into the wild.”

— Jon Krakauer

Also featured in: Nature Quotes, Adventure Quotes

15. “Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.”

— John Denver

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Travel Quotes, Quotes About Songs

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

— Buddha

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes, Path Quotes

17. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Path Quotes

18. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.”

— George Harrison

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Also featured in: Travel Quotes, Adventure Quotes

20. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes

21. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Deep Quotes, Loss Quotes

22. “The journey, not the destination, matters...”

— T. S. Eliot

Also featured in: Destination Quotes

23. “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.”

— Drake

Also featured in: Destination Quotes

24. “Your direction is more important than your speed.”

— Richard L. Evans

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Positive Motivation Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

25. “Rome was not built in one day.”

— John Heywood

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Short Quotes

26. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

— Omar N. Bradley

Also featured in: Goal Setting Quotes

27. “We’re all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth ’til death. We travel between the eternities.”

— Robert Duvall

28. “Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Moving Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Quotes About Home

29. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

— Neil Armstrong

Also featured in: Space Quotes, Adventure Quotes, History Quotes, Moon Quotes

30. “Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.”

— Eddy Merckx

Also featured in: Fitness Quotes, Sports Quotes

31. “God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Happy Sunday Quotes

32. “Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Quotes for Better Decisions, Vision Quotes

33. “If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Quotes About Reality

34. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

— Anna Quindlen

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Storytelling Quotes, Reading Quotes

35. “These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Life is Hard Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

36. “I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Meaning Quotes, Optimism Quotes

37. “There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Path Quotes

38. “Leap and grow your wings on the way down.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Dream Big Quotes

39. “The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Destiny Quotes

40. “Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes

41. “If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions, Path Quotes

42. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Path Quotes, Taoism Quotes

43. “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Mind Quotes, Moving Quotes

44. “Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Path Quotes, Destiny Quotes

45. “Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Adversity Quotes

46. “Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.”

— Joseph M. Marshall III

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Moving Quotes

47. “Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don’t know. Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Path Quotes, Different Quotes

48. “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Also featured in: Lifelong Learning Quotes

49. “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do.”

— Lewis Carroll

50. “It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes