Top 200 Journey Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

— Lin Yutang

102. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

103. “Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.”

— Mark Jenkins

104. “Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.”

— Joseph Campbell

105. “You’ll never reach perfection because there’s always room for improvement. Yet, along the way to perfection, you’ll learn to get better.”

— Hlovate

106. “I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”

— Carl Sandburg

107. “Direction, not intention determines your destination.”

— Andy Stanley

108. “The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.”

— Richard Branson

109. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”

— Paul Theroux

110. “Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.”

— Rumi

111. “Fit is not a destination. It is a way of life.”

— Unknown

112. “Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.”

— Adyashanti

113. “You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you’re not where you used to be.”

— Joel Osteen

114. “This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.”

— Ram Dass

115. “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

— Jack Kerouac

116. “I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

— Louisa May Alcott

117. “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

— Hunter S. Thompson

118. “If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

119. “There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.”

— Joseph Campbell

120. “Follow your own star!”

— Dante Alighieri

121. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

— Rumi

122. “Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

123. “The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.”

— Nicky Gumbel

124. “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

125. “Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.”

— Georges St-Pierre

126. “One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

127. “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”

— Jim Rohn

128. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

— David Mitchell

129. “I’ll ride the wave, where it takes me!”

— Eddie Vedder

130. “What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.”

— Nick Vujicic

131. “To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

132. “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

— Stephen R. Covey

133. “If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

— Bruce Lee

134. “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

— Ram Dass

135. “A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

136. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

— Joseph Campbell

137. “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

— Maya Angelou

138. “Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.”

— Ingvar Kamprad

139. “It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.”

— Robert D. Hales

140. “There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.”

— Dan Millman

141. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

— Robert Frost

142. “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”

— Johnny Depp

143. “In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.”

— Les Brown

144. “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”

— Maya Angelou

145. “Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man’s lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

146. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

— J.K. Rowling

147. “Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.”

— Tom Petty

148. “Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.”

— Barack Obama

149. “You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

150. “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”

— Dante Alighieri