131 Journey Inspirational Quotes to Transform Your Path Forward

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

- Lolly Daskal

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

- Tim Cook

"The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment."

- Antonio Brown

"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

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

- Ibn Battuta

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Sun Tzu

"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

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

- Anthony Robbins

"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving."

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Kobe Bryant

"The journey itself is the reward."

- Steve Jobs

"The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination."

- Dan Millman

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind."

- Anthony Bourdain

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is."

- Lisa

"I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on."

- Jay Ellis

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

- Peter Hagerty

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be."

- Asha Tyson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Rumi

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If you think adventure is dangerous try routine. It is lethal."

- Paulo Coelho

"Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved."

- Satya Nadella

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

- John Steinbeck

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

- Seneca

"To travel is to live."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Andre Gide

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Martin Buber

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Investment in travel is an investment in yourself."

- Matthew Karsten

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

- Henry Miller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair."

- Rick Warren

"Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end."

- Usher

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Drake

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

- Pooh

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Travel far enough you meet yourself."

- David Mitchell

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

- Danny Kaye

"You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong."

- Sue Fitzmaurice

"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."

- Lao Tzu

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

- Samuel Smiles

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves."

- Andre Gide

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

- Dan Rather

"Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination."

- David Russell

"Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique."

- Kevin Conroy

"Character is a journey, not a destination."

- William J. Clinton

"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

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

"Every journey has an end, but every end is a new beginning."

- Seneca

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"The only way to grow is to embrace the unknown."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow."

- William Arthur Ward

"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

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

- Lao Tzu

"Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do."

- Nadia Comaneci

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

- Matsuo Basho

"Always the journey, never the destination."

- Simon Rattle

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

- Alex Morgan

"Life is just a journey."

- Princess Diana

"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes."

- Ozzy Osbourne

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

- Ed Sheeran

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

- Izaak Walton

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

- Enoch Powell

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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

- Elena Avila

"The path isn't a straight line; it's a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths."

- Barry Gillespie

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Alan Cohen

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

- Pope Francis

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

- Erica Jong

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey."

- Thalia

"Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you."

- David McCullough Jr.

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

- Tim Cahill

"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

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- C.S. Lewis

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Gustave Flaubert

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Susan Sontag

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

- Mark Twain

"If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go."

- Anthony Bourdain

"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Nothing develops intelligence like travel."

- Emile Zola

"One must travel to learn."

- Mark Twain

"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

"Once a year, go someplace you've never been before."

- Dalai Lama

"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."

- James Baldwin

"People don't take trips, trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"Travel teaches tolerance."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Adventure is worthwhile."

- Aesop

"We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life."

- Jenova Chen

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

- Dame Freya Madeline Stark

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home."

- James Michener

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourists sees what he has come to see."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Traveling is not something you're good at. It's something you do."

- Gayle Forman

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

- Aldous Huxley

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

- Paul Theroux

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."

- Moslih Eddin Saadi

"Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

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