Inspirational Quotes to Illuminate Your Life's Journey

"The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say. The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one."

- Brandon Sanderson

"Your journey is yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."

- Rumi

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish."

- Steve Maraboli

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place."

- Barbara De Angelis

"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

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

- Arthur Ashe

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves."

- Pico Iyer

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Steve Maraboli

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."

- Jack Kerouac

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

- Les Brown

"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is."

- Alan Watts

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

- Fyodor Dosoevsky

"I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line."

- David Goggins

"My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same."

- Jessie Pavelka

"I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet."

- Olivia Thirlby

"All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

- John A. Shedd

"Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy. There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is one step outside your comfort zone."

- Robert G. Allen

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"The journey itself is the reward."

- Steve Jobs

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

- Greg Anderson

"So often we become focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy the journey."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"The struggles along your path are meant to shape you, not break you."

- Robin Sharma

"Every great journey begins with taking a leap of faith."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The joy is in the journey, not just at the finish line."

- Kobe Bryant

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"And suddenly, you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."

- Meister Eckhart

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

- Seneca

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost."

- Erol Ozan

"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take."

- Peter Jackson

"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."

- Santosh Kalwar

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one."

- Zoe Buckman

"I feel proud of my journey. I wouldn't change it."

- Dianne Reeves

"I hope that my journey inspires kids from all around the world to pursue their passions and work hard for their dreams."

- Cody Simpson

"You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey."

- Davante Adams

"The journey is the reward."

- Chinese proverb

"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."

- William Hazlitt

"The journey is best measured in friends rather than in miles."

- Tim Cahill

"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."

- Wendell Berry

"Adventure is worthwhile."

- Aesop

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."

- Miriam Adeney

"You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference."

- Anita Septimus

"You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are full of yesterday’s junk."

- Louise Smith

"Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be."

- Rick Warren

"If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU."

- Mandy Hale

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

- John Steinbeck

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination."

- Drake

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved."

- Pooh

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles."

- Tim Cahill

"Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever."

- Peter Hagerty

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are."

- Joss Whedon

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

- Gandhi

"Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

- Ibn Battuta

"Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible."

- Mindsetofgreatness

"I tramp a perpetual journey."

- Walt Whitman

"Travel far enough you meet yourself."

- David Mitchell

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

"Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing."

- Gayle Forman

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

- Danny Kaye

"My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed."

- Anushka Sharma

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art."

- Suzy Kassem

"I think the three words that describe my journey are gratitude, original and always being focused."

- Harnaaz Sandhu

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

"Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts."

- Elena Avila

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends."

- Enoch Powell

"...there ain't no journey what don't change you some."

- David Mitchell

"The journey towards the heart is always a journey home."

- Jennifer James

"The journey itself is my home."

- Bashō Matsuo

"Sometimes reaching out and taking one’s hand is the beginning of a journey."

- Vera Nazarian

"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours."

- Vera Nazarian

"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."

- Hugh Prather

"The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey."

- Alessandro Michele

"I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may."

- Leonard Nimoy

"You don’t have to understand my journey. You just need to respect it."

- Izey Victoria Odiase

"Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost."

- Gerard Abrams

"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."

- Erica Jong

"The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that."

- Norton Juster

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

- Anna Quindlen

"Sometimes, we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us."

- Mimi Novic

"Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand."

- Banksy

"Sometimes the longest journey we take is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts."

- Elena Avila

"Learn to trust the journey even when you do not understand it."

- Lolly Daskal

"Your journey will be much lighter and easier if you don’t carry your past with you."

- Anonymous

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."

- Anonymous

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Your life happen because you are willing to risk failure, brave rejection and dare to dream. Stop playing it safe. Dream big, love deeply and leap courageously to live the best version of life for you."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time."

"What you learn on your journey is far more valuable than what you achieve at the end."

"Let go of who you were to become who you are meant to be."

"Be fearless in pursuit of what sets your soul on fire."

"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

"Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Be afraid of staying the same."

"Just because you took longer than others doesn’t mean you failed."

"One day or day one. You decide."

"What feels like the end is often the beginning."

"To finally move on and start something new, you must release the unchangeable past and embrace your future."

"The journey of life is a journey of self-discovery."

"The journey is not about the destination, but about the experiences along the way."

"The journey is what matters, not the destination."

"Embrace the journey."

"If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found."

"Somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view."

"Your journey is like no other. Your talents are unique to you. Your gifts can make a difference in ways others’ can’t."

"A new journey begins with a decision to try."

"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe?"

"Direction is so much more important than speed."

"Stay patient and trust your journey."

"The end of a journey means the start of another one."