Journey Quotes: Inspirational, Short, Best

Good journey quotes remind us of the thrill of traveling to a new destination. A journey may take the form of a trip, but it also refers figuratively to the direction one takes in life.

The journey varies from person to person, and no two people have the same one. For some, the journey is quite straightforward and easy. Others face many different choices, challenges, and a bumpy road.

So, whether you’re interested in learning more about a journey associated with travel or the one associated with your path in life, we’ve got you covered. Both are learning processes, and both involve adventure. Please read on. We’ll start with the Top 10 journey quotes.

Best Journey Quotes.

Best Journey Quotes

Robert Frost quote on two roads diverged

1.) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

Success is a journey Arthur Ashe quotation

2.) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe

Heraclitus quote on a river

3.) No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus

A journey of a thousand miles quote

4.) A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Best stories found between pages of a passport quote

5.) Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
Unknown

Travel is never a matter of money quote

6.) Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.
Paulo Coelho

Journey quotes - Beautiful paths saying

7.) Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.
Erol Ozan

I haven't been everywhere quote

8.) I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Unknown

journey quotes traveler vs tourist

9.) The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K. Chesterton

Journey quotes - travel brings understanding

10.) With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
Unknown

Quotes About Journeys

11.) I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.
Vivian Jokotade

12.) 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

13.) 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

14.) The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey

Trek Quotations

15.) I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.
Dolly Parton

16.) When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche on to an identification with God and ultimately beyond identification.
Ram Dass

17.) The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Steve Maraboli

18.) The advice in old age is foolish, for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

19.) If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And if you can’t walk, then crawl, but, by all means, keep moving.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Good Journey Quotes

20.) One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not care.
Unknown

21.) End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
Peter Jackson

22.) 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

23.) It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Mariska Hargitay

24.) Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains, and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
Wayne Dyer

Explore the World

25.) The truth, of course, is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie

26.) For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
Michelle Obama

27.) You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
Charlotte Eriksson

28.) 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

Motivational Journey Quotes

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

30.) 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

31.) Temporary setbacks create opportunities for fresh commitment and renewal. There are seasons of sunshine as well as rain.
T. D. Jakes

32.) The longer you journey with your eyes on heaven, the more you begin to see.
Joni Eareckson Tada

33.) It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.
John Bingham

34.) As you journey down the path, don’t forget to be present moment-by-moment and absorb the beauty and richness of simply being alive.
Cary David Richards

Sayings about Travels

35.) Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, ‘This is the way, walk ye in it.’
Ravi Zacharias

36.) To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Søren Kierkegaard

37.) In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
Pope Francis

Sayings About Journey

38.) Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.
Peter Hagerty

39.) How would your life be different if you stopped making negative judgemental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.
Steve Maraboli

40.) A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

41.) The journey to a business world where we fully capitalize on our diversity starts with the leader.
Mike Solomita

42.) We are at our very best, and we are the happiest when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

Tours and Trips Quotations

43.) It’s not the destination, it’s not the journey, it’s who you travel with.
Unknown

44.) One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence

45.) Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton

46.) I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthur

Short Journey Quotes

47.) Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

48.) ‘Days Before Rodeo’ is just the journey of me finding out who I am.
Travis Scott

49.) Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. Lovecraft

50.) It is good to have an end to the journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin

51.) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

52.) The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila

53.) You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown

54.) The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

55.) We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anaïs Nin

56.) Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

57.) There ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.
David Mitchell

Trip Quotes

58.) Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.
Bob Marley

59.) Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.
Abraham Lincoln

60.) No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
Banana Yoshimoto

61.) The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
Tony Robbins

62.) For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey, not the destination.
James Wan

63.) Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien

64.) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

65.) Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner

66.) In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint Eastwood

Inspirational Journey Quotes

67.) Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy

68.) Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

69.) I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel

70.) Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James Baldwin

71.) In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom and find the blessing in every curse.
Anthon St. Maarten

72.) A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.
Tim Cahill

Travel Sayings

73.) Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

74.) Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love; make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel

75.) What you learn in tough times can be used in many ways to bless your personal life journey.
Scott Gordon

76.) 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

Journey Quotes – The Band

If you were looking for quotes from the band Journey, we hope you don’t feel left out. Here are some of our favorites.

Don’t stop believin’.

Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world.

He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere.

Strangers waiting up and down the boulevard.

Wheel in the Sky keeps on turnin’.

Only the young can say.

Highway run into the midnight sun.

They say the road ain’t no place to start a family.

Any way you want it, That’s the way you need it.

When the lights go down in the City…

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet. He’s an author and past president of Magnetic Poetry.

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