Inspirational Quotes to Illuminate Your Life Journey

"The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love."

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself."

- Katherine Sharp

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

- Lolly Daskal

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

- Sun Tzu

"It’s your road and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."

- Rumi

"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

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

- Peter Hagerty

"Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip."

- Ann Landers

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

- Helen Keller

"Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Anthony Robbins

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."

- Les Brown

"We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

- Marcel Proust

"To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Les Brown

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Tim Cahill

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls."

- Anaïs Nin

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Greg Anderson

"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."

- Albert Einstein

"Wherever you go…go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"It is better to travel well than to arrive."

- Buddha

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

- Maya Angelou

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

- Henry Miller

"Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"Life is a journey and it’s about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are."

- Kelly McGillis

"Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal."

- Tim Cook

"I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived."

- Anna Louise Strong

"Everyday is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

- Matsuo Basho

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

- Barbara de Angelis

"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me."

- Debi Tolbert Duggar

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

- Don Williams

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure."

- Debasish Mridha

"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

- E.M. Forster

"A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live."

- Lao Tzu

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

- Ashley Smith

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Steve Maraboli

"It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you."

- Tyler Perry

"Life is God’s gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God."

- A. R. Bernard

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

- Jack Kerouac

"Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways."

- Alexander Volkov

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."

- Tim McGraw

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step."

- Naeem Callaway

"There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk."

- Guy Gavriel Kay

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Danny Kaye

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

- David Mitchell

"Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted."

- Melaina Rayne

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living."

- Bob Marley

"Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way."

- Emma Chase

"The world is waiting for you. Good Luck. Travel Safe. Go!"

- Phil Keoghan

"When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home."

- Rumi

"Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son."

- Santosh Kalwar

"He who would travel happily must travel light."

- Antoine de St. Exupery

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."

- John Steinbeck

"It’s all about the journey, not the outcome."

- Carl Lewis

"Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take."

- Angela Blount

"Always remember life is a journey. Keep filling your mind with all that is worthy."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile."

- Ed Sheeran

"In this journey of life, you will meet people who will make you feel alive!"

- Avijeet Das

"Winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome."

- Alex Morgan

"We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way."

- Gloria Gaither

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey."

- Fitzhugh Mullan

"Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete."

- Chanda Kochar

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."

- Charles Warner

"I tramp a perpetual journey."

- Walt Whitman

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

"No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."

- Ella Maillart

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give. To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live."

- Hans Christian Andersen

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Douglas Adams

"Take only memories, leave only footprints."

- Chief Seattle

"The end of your journey is the beginning of your next one."

- LuxuryColumnist

"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

- Dan Rather

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

- Drake

"Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere."

- Orhan Pamuk

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

- Ivy Baker Priest

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."

- Izaak Walton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

- Martin Buber

"Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right."

- Pope Francis

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

- Carl Sandburg

"Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before."

- Dalai Lama

"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."

- Navjot Singh Sidhu

"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

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

- Erol Ozan

"One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey."

- Tove Jansson

"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"Perfection does not exist – only God is perfect."

- Carolina Herrera

"Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest."

- Freya Stark

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides."

- George P. Shultz

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"The journey is the reward."

- Chinese Proverb

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come."

- Zig Ziglar

"No journey is too long with the right company."

"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."

"Life is a journey."

"Embrace the journey."

"Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not theirs to make sense of, it’s yours."

"Life is a beautiful journey, enjoy the ride."

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

- Anonymous

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

"Stay patient and trust your journey."