Top 200 Journey Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.”

— Les Brown

152. “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

— Charles Dickens

153. “Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be – not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

154. “Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.”

— Bryant McGill

155. “By choosing our path, we choose our destination.”

— Thomas S. Monson

156. “Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.”

— C. S. Lewis

157. “Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You cannot grow, learn, or become if you cannot embrace the changes in your life.”

— Steve Rizzo

158. “The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.”

— Joseph Campbell

159. “I wisely started with a map.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

160. “Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.”

— Jack Canfield

161. “Your decision to walk creates the path ahead.”

— Paulo Coelho

162. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

— Izaak Walton

163. “Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!”

— Ruby Bridges

164. “You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That’s the way my life has been.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

165. “Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury

166. “All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.”

— Pema Chödrön

167. “I’m chasing my dreams straight to the top – into a sky that has no limits.”

— Robert M. Hensel

168. “It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

169. “Life’s a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow. Don’t worry about what you don’t know.”

— John Michael Montgomery

170. “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”

— Anthony Bourdain

171. “Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

— Thomas Fuller

172. “Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

173. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”

— Steve Maraboli

174. “Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

— Ashley Smith

175. “The road goes ever on and on.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

176. “I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

— Mary Oliver

177. “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

178. “There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

179. “When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

— Seneca the Younger

180. “Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.”

— James Clear

181. “The greatest journeys all start with a single step.”

— Bear Grylls

182. “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.”

— Jim Butcher

183. “One must travel, to learn.”

— Mark Twain

184. “Having no destination, I am never lost.”

— Ikkyu

185. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

186. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

— Ernest Hemingway

187. “Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.”

— Mark Batterson

188. “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”

— Walt Whitman

189. “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

— Rumi

190. “If you don’t go, you’ll never know.”

— Robert De Niro

191. “The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.”

— Blake Mycoskie

192. “Keep Right on to the End of the Road.”

— Sir Harry Lauder

193. “Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.”

— Khalil Gibran

194. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”

— Andrew Zimmern

195. “On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.”

— Jim Rohn

196. “Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.”

— Jon Krakauer

197. “Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

198. “Life is meant to be lived.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

199. “Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.”

— Gary Zukav

200. “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

— James Joyce