146 Road Life Quotes

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Famous Road Life Quotes

roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere — Orhan Pamuk

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

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

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Prachett

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision. — John C. Maxwell

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. — Jim Steinman

All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. — Tracy Lawrence

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

They say the open road helps you think. About where you've been and where you're going. — Vin Diesel

The road goes on forever and the party never ends. — Robert Earl Keen

Each man's life represents a road toward himself. — Hermann Hesse

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. - Ieyasu Tokugawa

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. - Pope Francis

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. — Pope Francis

Short Road Life Quotes

  • Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. — Marcus Aurelius
  • You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. — Margaret Thatcher
  • Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. — George A. Sheehan
  • The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. — Robert Brault
  • Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. — Terry Goodkind
  • Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. — John Muir
  • I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp. — Fred Shero
  • I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded. — Mia Farrow
  • Life is a journey, not a destination - we determine our destiny by the direction we take. — Anonymous

Top 10 Road Life Quotes

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after. — Adoniram Judson

I have come to accept the bumpy roads of life; they seem to lead to the best places. — Steve Maraboli

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. - Jackson Pollock

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. — Jackson Pollock

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road. — Shahid Khan

Road Life Image Quotes

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. - Jean Beliveau quote

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. — Jean Beliveau

There's still time to change the road you're on... - Robert Plant quote

There's still time to change the road you're on... — Robert Plant

Road life quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Long Road Life Quotes

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. — Guy de Maupassant

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning. — Muhammad Ali

I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless. — Shawne Merriman

Road life quote Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. — Richard Paul Evans

When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way. — Ayumi Hamasaki

I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home. — James Taylor

Road life quote There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your ow
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be. — Edward Snowden

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My life's like a big tour. It's cool, I'm still semi-young. I'm not too old yet where it's like, "I hate the road!" As long as I'm not anywhere for too long. I like to keep moving. — Pauly Shore

Fork In The Road Life Quotes

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. - Samuel Beckett

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life. — Liz Murray

Road life quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. — Watts Humphrey

Road life quote Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life. — Odetta

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth. — Lee Iacocca

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life. — Mike DeWine

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep. — Brad Meltzer

Life Is Like A Road Quotes

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. - Beatrice Wood

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. — Beatrice Wood

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station. — Eddie Vedder

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty. — Amit Ray

Road life quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way. — Gerald Lawson Sittser

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. — Jeanne Tripplehorn

Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs. — Chogyam Trungpa

Road life quote Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.

I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that's not on the test at the end of the year, but it's in the test of life and that's why my classroom is successful. — Rafe Esquith

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they? — Nick Hornby

Positive Life Road Quotes

Why bad things happen to good people — Harold S. Kushner

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother — Barbara Johnson

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. — Bill Bryson

Road life quote Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. — Buddha

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

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done. — Marianne Williamson

Road life quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers. — Paulo Coelho

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road. — Kelly Cutrone

Street Life Quotes

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. — Assata Shakur

Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock ‘n roll. — Ariana Grande

Road life quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that. — Rakim

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life. — Nicholas Sparks

Road life quote Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine. — Grace Paley

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. — Barbara Corcoran

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses. — Oscar Wilde

Road Movie Quotes

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. — Jack Kerouac

The road goes ever on and on — J. R. R. Tolkien

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred. — Sherman Alexie

I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie. — Ja Rule

You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies. — Steve Sabol

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song. — Elvis Presley

I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road. — Lisa Loeb

I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it comes to figuring out where objects are in space. If they're both moving, I can't do the math. If you ever see me driving down a road, go somewhere else quickly. — Tony Kushner

The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic. — Sam Mendes

Road Trip Quotes

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. — Walt Whitman

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand. — Melina Marchetta

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt

I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.' — Todd Phillips

You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things. — Jamie Tworkowski

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. — Paul D. Boyer

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. — Charles Dudley Warner

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made — Bruce Catton

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More Road Life Quotes

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

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice

The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. — Khaled Hosseini

I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn. — Helen Keller

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. — Pythagoras

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. — Paulo Coelho

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

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there. — Dawn Staley

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More. — Melina Marchetta

I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery. — J.A. Redmerski

You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been. — Lee Kuan Yew

All that is gold does not glitter. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. — Sparky Anderson

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. — Robert Kiyosaki

The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says. — Hikaru Nakamura

There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle. — Oscar Micheaux

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself — Stephen Levine

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

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road. — Ed Helms

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