Top 100 Journey Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best journey quotes ever written, picked out of the full journey archive on QuoteForever. You will find Albert Einstein, Cat Stevens, Dante Alighieri and Sam Storms among them.

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The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

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Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

3

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.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is ... - Ambrose Bierce 4

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

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A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

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I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

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Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.

8

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

9

Your life can not be all about stuff that you love or even like. Your life is going to be about ups and downs and that is just part of the journey.

10

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

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Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

12

It's the journey, not the destination. I truly believe that.

13

Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.

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Writing the book was a pretty cool thing to go through, it really made me think of how crazy a journey it really was for this kid from Redwood City, Calif. When I was 12 years old, I was practicing my signature, but did I ever think I'd be a two-time Super Bowl champ, playing on arguably one of the best franchises of all time with the best quarterback of all time, for the best coach of all time?

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There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

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I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

17

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.

18

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

19

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

20

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

21

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

22

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

23

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

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I know what I do not know.

25

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

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Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

28

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

29

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

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Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

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Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

32

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

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Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

34

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

35

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

36

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

37

The map is not the territory.

38

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

39

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

40

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

41

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

42

Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.

43

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

44

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

45

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

46

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

47

I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.

48

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

49

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

50

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

51

If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

52

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

53

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

54

The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

55

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

56

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

57

Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

58

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep.

59

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

60

Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

61

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

62

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

63

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

64

We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

65

You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!

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Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?

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She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

68

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

69

Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here... because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End.

70

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

71

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

72

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

73

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

74

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

75

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

76

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

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Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

78

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

79

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

81

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

82

A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one.

83

It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

84

Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.

85

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

86

We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.

87

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

88

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

89

When we have completed all the journeys and adventures through our variety of lives we are supposed to return to the creator with our accumulation of knowledge. It is then absorbed. In this way we are considered cells in the body of God.

90

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

91

My favorite journey is anywhere I haven't been

92

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

93

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

94

That's the most important thing when you're trying to portray a character for the audience to believe, you have to have the ability to journey in uncomfortable areas in your own personal life - to bring them out and make (the characters) true. Michael Landon is incredible at pulling those (emotions) out of you.

95

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

96

Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

97

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

98

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

99

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

100

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

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