journey quotes

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

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

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

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?

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.