168 Travel Journey Quotes

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Famous Travel Journey Quotes

To travel is to take a journey into yourself. — Danny Kaye

Travel is a fools paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. — Anthony Bourdain

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. — John Steinbeck

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. - Ibn Battuta

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. — John Ruskin

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. — A. B. Yehoshua

Travel brings power and love back into your life. — Rumi

roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end. — Jose Saramago

For my part, 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

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca

Short Travel Journey Quotes

  • Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. — Sophie Swetchine
  • Travelling isn't about the destination, it's about the people you travel with. — Patrick Bet-David
  • All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
  • To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves. — Euripides
  • Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back. — Cat Stevens
  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
  • The journey is the reward. — Chinese Proverbs
  • For me, my life is a journey. — Jay Electronica
  • The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. — Samuel Johnson

Travel Journey Image Quotes

Travel journey quote All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Life Is A Journey Travel 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 a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

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 moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

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

Travel journey quote Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. — Richard Francis Burton

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

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. — Hunter S. Thompson

Journey Travel Adventure Quotes

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. — Ella Maillart

Do not follow where the path may lead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel journey quote A journey of a thousand miles, must begin with a single step
A journey of a thousand miles, must begin with a single step

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. — Edith Wharton

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it… it all depends on who I travel with. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place. — Harun Yahya

Travel journey quote Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected un
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.

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

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett

It is normal to feel alone at the start of any journey. It’s the people who you meet along your travels that make the trip more interesting. — Isaac Mashman

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Journey Time Travel Quotes

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya

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

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

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

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

I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special. — John Paul DeJoria

Travel journey quote Remember to explore.
Remember to explore.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends. — Pat Conroy

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

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson

Journey Travel Book Quotes

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things. — Jonathan Raban

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

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters. — Sharon Creech

Travel journey quote Be where you want to be...
Be where you want to be...

Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life. — Paul Theroux

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey. — Henry David Thoreau

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights. — C. S. Lewis

Travel journey quote I'm in love with cities I've never been to.
I'm in love with cities I've never been to.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey. — H. M. Tomlinson

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes. — Paulo Coelho

Journey Travel Inspiration Quotes

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

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. — Bob Marley

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. — Richard Francis Burton

Travel journey quote A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.
A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step. — Thomas S. Monson

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place. — Elisabeth Elliot

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. — Alton Brown

Travel journey quote I tramp a perpetual journey.
I tramp a perpetual journey.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers. — George Carlin

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days. — Paulo Coelho

Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey. — Paulo Coelho

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. — Freya Stark

Love Journey Quotes

There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love — Sathya Sai Baba

The journey has to be based on passion. Put yourself in something you love to do. If you love what you do you're able to dedicate yourself, overcome obstacles. — Rickson Gracie

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

Travel journey quote I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it.
I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. — Akiane Kramarik

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

Love where you are as much as where you are going so you will never miss a moment of your journey. — Katrina Mayer

There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. — Angeles Arrien

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life Journey Quotes

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. — Pat Conroy

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

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

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

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

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again. — Billy Graham

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. — Kurt Hahn

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

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended. — George Whitefield

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken. — India.Arie

We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following. — Bob Teague

Long Journey Quotes

Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey. — Anthony of Padua

Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? You’re here now, welcome home. — Warsan Shire

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey. — Dante Alighieri

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. — Erich Fromm

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

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home. — Wendell Berry

If you are going a long way, go slowly. — Filipino Proverbs

When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long. — Sanai

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

Love Travel Quotes

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Japanese Proverbs

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. — Japanese Proverbs

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. - Walt Disney

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. — Dorothy Day

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. — M. Scott Peck

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. — Johnny Carson

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin

Travel Experience Quotes

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

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. — Terry Pratchett

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience. — Paracelsus

Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now. — Sylvia Earle

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are. — Prophet Muhammad

The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here. — Meher Baba

A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Much travel is needed before a raw man is ripened. — Arabic Proverbs

You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. — Mary Wells Lawrence

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained. — Ernest Kurtz

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More Travel Journey Quotes

Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world. — Shams Tabrizi

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance. — Ben E. King

What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden. If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me. Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa]. To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada] And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha]. — Ibn Taymiyyah

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling

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

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit. — Roger Waters

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. — Cesare Pavese

I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification. — Brian Greene

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together. — Joan Armatrading

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip. — Jewel

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. — Saadi Shirazi

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? — Louise Bogan

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau

What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments. — Gilles Deleuze

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