100 Journey Quotes For Embracing New Horizons

Top 10 Quotes – Short – Famous – Inspirational – Self-Discovery – Deep – Takeaways – Further Readings

Here are 100 of the best journey quotes.

Inspiration is just around the corner.

You’ll discover amazing lines from:

• Osho
• Paulo Coelho
• Lao Tzu
• Confucius
• Jack Kerouac
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Emerson
• Buddha
• And many more!

You’ll also find quotes about self-discovery.

(Which is probably the most important adventure of all.)

I hope you’ll love the quotes as much as I do.

Enjoy!

Top 10 Journey Quotes

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

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

The journey is the only thing there is; even success fades quickly. Naval Ravikant

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

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

There’s only one real journey that matters: Who did you love, and who loved you? Scott Galloway

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu

Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. Fernando Pessoa

Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them. Paulo Coelho

Short Journey Quotes

Love is the goal, life is the journey. Osho

I now walk into the wild. Jon Krakauer

Step by step, walk the thousand-mile road. Miyamoto Musashi

The only journey is the journey within. Rainer Maria Rilke

Roads were made for journeys not destinations. Confucius

The journey is the destination. Dan Eldon

My journey may be messy, but it’s beautifully mine. Unknown

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa

The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser

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

Let go of the finish line. Hold onto the journey. Maxime Lagacé

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. Steve Maraboli

Ego trip: a journey to nowhere. Robert Half

Listening to the truth is the beginning of a new journey. Osho

The journey is the reward. Steve Jobs

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. Joseph Campbell

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. Stephen R. Covey

It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes. Jack Canfield

You are the hero of your own story. Joseph Campbell

Famous Journey Quotes

To journey happily may well be better than to arrive. Jordan Peterson

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

Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

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

No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead. Oprah Winfrey

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 hardest part is starting. Once you get that out the way, you’ll find the rest of journey much easier. Simon Sinek

Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that got us there. Simon Sinek

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

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 (Essays: Second Series)

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 (Microsoft)

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation. Mark Twain

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. Jack Kerouac

It is better to travel well than arrive. Buddha

Inspirational Journey Quotes

The journey is more important than the goal, for while the goal might be worthwhile, the journey is, in fact, the thread of your life. R.A. Salvatore

We were never meant to live life accumulating stuff. We were meant to live simply enjoying the experiences of life, the people of life, and the journey of life – not the things of life. Joshua Becker

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

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. Paulo Coelho

Why rush if you don’t have to? Why not enjoy the journey? Joshua Fields Millburn

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what’s there: all of it. Richard Rohr

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

It is support that sustains us on the journey we’ve started. Marci Shimoff

To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

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

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero. Joseph Campbell

Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey. Michael Josephson

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination. Joseph B. Wirthlin

The joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey. Alan Watts

Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Good should struggle with evil; truth should struggle with falsehood; freedom should struggle with slavery; love should struggle with hatred. Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light. Giuseppe Mazzini

You must see your career or vocational path more as a journey with twists and turns rather than a straight line. Robert Greene

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way? Jon Kabat-Zinn

When you know where you’re headed, the journey becomes as rewarding as the destination. Unknown

Cervantes said, “The journey is better than the end.” John Wooden (Source)

Journey Quotes About Self-Discovery

When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. Alain de Botton

Real satisfaction and happiness is an inside job: Find it on the journey — or you won’t find it at all. Sahil Bloom

The journey through pain leads to self-discovery. Maxime Lagacé

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. Aristotle

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again. Anaïs Nin

The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke

To understand the journey you have to do the walking. Bryant McGill

You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light. Rumi

The journey shapes the traveler more than the destination. Unknown

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present. Marianne Williamson

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself. Joseph Campbell

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived. Chinese proverb

Deep Journey Quotes

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

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home. Rumi

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Christopher McCandless

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

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 fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. Brandon Sanderson

Leadership is lonely. Ambition is lonely. Building is lonely. Even if you have a great company or great spouse, a lot of the journey is internal and you’re on your own. It’s really hard to bear, and people will drop out over time. You have to want it in your core. Julie Gurner

Sometimes your journey is going to be lonely. When you’re growing and changing, you’ll stop fitting into the old but you’ve yet to attract the new. That’s ok. Those periods of loneliness are the cost of entry. They’re a sign you’re on the right path. Sahil Bloom

In meditation, do not try to go anywhere. There is nowhere to go. Nowhere is limitless. This is the journey from the limited to the limitless. Sadhguru

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself. Joseph Campbell

Do not judge others, for you do not know their journey or the battles they are fighting. Sai Baba

The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times. Michael A. Singer

Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine. Bruce Lee

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Joseph Campbell

Life’s less of a problem to be solved and more of journey to be enjoyed. Climb each hill with appreciation for the hill, the climb, and its yield. John Cena

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. Peter Guber

The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius

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

Conclusion

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. Paulo Coelho

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a ride!’ Hunter S. Thompson

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end. […] But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played. Alan Watts

Key Takeaways

• It’s about progress. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” Pro tip: You can’t touch the past. It’s mostly dead weight. The journey is forward.
• It’s about people. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” Pro tip: Achievements are great. But what you’ll truly remember at the end of your life are the people you were with.
• It’s about “now”. “The journey is the only thing there is; even success fades quickly.” Pro tip: Your actual life, your journey, right now, is the only reality. The future doesn’t exist yet.
• It’s about simplicity. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Pro tip: Keep your schedule clean. Complexity kills. Simplicity builds. And motivates.
• It’s about courage. “Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.” Pro tip: Fear will be part of your journey. But remember to use it as a guide. Go toward it, with confidence, and courage.

Further Readings

• Topic: Life
• 77 Life Lessons Quotes (To Learn And Grow)
• 63 Meaning Of Life Quotes
• 100 Short Quotes That Will Inspire You (Fast)
• 87 Deep Quotes That Will Make You Think
• 100 Fate Quotes To Inspire Your Life’s Journey

I hope you enjoyed these inspiring quotes about the journey. If you did, please share them with a friend today!

Did you start the journey within? What’s your favorite quote about journeys? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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