Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL TRAVEL QUOTES

*This is a compilation of quotes that I have found to be inspirational, whether that be through motivation, deep thoughs (like Jack Handy), or even just hilarious. I apologize if there are duplicates or inaccuracies, but I am only one person maintaining and updating this website. Also please feel free to bookmark or copy and paste these to share and inspire others.

LINK TO OTHER TRAVEL QUOTES

"Travelers are a different breed of people. They are musicians, artist, semi pro snowboarders and surfers. Writers, archery masters, and sometimes nudists? Getting robbed is nothing but an inconvenience or a reason to just stay put in a city for a while longer and injuries are simply conversation starters into a good story. Cliffs are there to be jumped off of. Your poor physical appearance is nothing a few beers and a dip in the pool can't fix. The sentence, 'I have a private room,' is the sexiest thing a traveler can say to another. They run out of fires to dive into tidal waves. Know more languages then number of countries most have visited. (unless you are me who only communicates through English and dance.) Some people save their money to spend on a nice house, car, or their retirement. Travelers spend everything they have on experience, the now, the present. Sacrificing stability, possessions, relationships and financial security to invest in living, laughing, dancing, sweating, learning, searching, and discovering the world and themselves. A lot of travelers are considered unique in some way at home or others wild. So what a wild experience to get unique people from all over the world into one room where all of the sudden these individuals who are a different breed at home are now in a community of like minded people. The traveling world is a community of its own. A family away from family. Everyone and everything is accepted, and you are friends with everyone in the room by just walking through the door. Which is the hard part of travel. It isn't the cold showers or sleeping on uncomfortable beds in a room with 10 other people. The bug bites, lack of cleanliness, or crowded buses. It is when it comes time to say good bye to these people you meet. People who have loved you for just being yourself, inspired you to make happy decisions, shared an experience with you that no one else can quite understand without being there. I'm having a hard time saying bye to people that I know I may not ever see again... but happy that I was lucky to meet you." – Courtney Runyon

"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate." – Michael Jordan

"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. – David Rockefeller

"Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully." – Sigourney Weaver

"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." – Sam Walton

"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong." – Donald Porter

"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them." – Kevin Stirtz

"Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution." – Rick Tate

"Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them." – W. Edwards Deming

"Customer service is not a department, it’s everyone’s job."  – Author Unknown

"One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you." – Jeff Bezos

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." – Coach John Wooden

"Don’t ever be afraid to reinvent yourself." – Bill Nuti

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." – Author Unknown

"If somebody would have told me a year ago that my week long jaunt to Jamaica for spring break was going to turn in to backpacking around the globe for a year, I never would have believed them. While it has been the best thing I ever could have done, it has definitely been hard at times. I am an incredibly lucky person. But so is everyone. It's easy to see someone's life from the outside and think it is more glamorous, happier or easier than yours, especially with people's constant need to brag about what they are doing via social media. How happy or in love they are, the "luckiest person in the world" statements, or pictures of what they are eating, drinking, what party they are at or trip they went on. Sometimes I feel like I’m conforming to this when putting up pictures of my travels. But it is the easiest way to keep my friends and family informed on where I am and what I'm doing. And for that, I am thankful of the old fb. However, that's not to say that everything has been smooth sailing. The most awesome people you meet will have been through the worst. And anyone who has escaped heartache, loss or grueling obstacles that life seems to catapult at them, they truly are the unlucky ones, because they have probably not experienced much at all. Be kind. Be selfless. Be brave." – Ashley Jones

"We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, that allows us to grow." – Mary Catherine Bateson

"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all." – Michael LeBoeuf

"Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy." – Gary Hamel

"The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works." – Jeff Bezos

"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place." – Orison Swett Marden

"Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away." –Joe Mansueto

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost." – Gustave Flaubert
"For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own." – Polly Victoria Mills

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." – Edgar Allen Poe

"Where the surface of the sea seems the defining between a world that binds and one that frees." – Lana Petelle

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." – Albert Schweitzer

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." – Henry David Thoreau

"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. – Henry Miller

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." – Benajmin Disraeli

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students." – Solomon Ortiz

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." – Steve Jobs

"The day a child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." — Alden Nowlan

"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live." – Martin Yan

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." – Francis of Assisi

"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry." – Ivanka Trump

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." – Mary Kay Ash

"I travel and experience life not so that others can see me, but so that I can see and experience the world." – Author Unknown

"Traveling will change you like little else can. It will put you in places that will force you to care for issues that are bigger than you. You will begin to understand that the world is both very large and very small. You will have a newfound respect for pain and suffering, having seen that two-thirds of humanity struggle to simply get a meal each day." – Tommas Coldrick

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." – T.E. Lawrence

"Good health to you, and wealth to you, and the best that life can give to you. May all respect you, troubles neglect you, the angels protect you, and Heaven accept you. May fortune still be kind to you, and happiness be true to you. May life be long and good to you, is the toast that I give to you. Salut." – Troy Hendershott

"Forever. For Always. No Matter What. Enter as Strangers. Leave as Friends."  – Author Unknown

"Your life is EXACTLY as it should be based on the decisions you've made. If you don't like it, CHANGE what you don't like. It's THAT simple." – Andrea Vlad

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." – Charlie Chaplin

"It's not about being the best, it's about being better than you were yesterday." - Author Unknown

"The best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. Nothing else will make you happier." - George Lucas

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy." – John F. Kennedy

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." – Edmund Burke

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." – Dr. Seuss

"If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today." – Benjamin Franklin

""Free yourself from negative people. Spend time with nice people who are smart, driven and like-minded. Relationships should help you, not hurt you. Surround yourself with people who reflect the person you want to be. Choose friends who you are proud to know, people you admire, who love and respect you – people who make your day a little brighter simply by being in it. Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. When you free yourself from negative people, you free yourself to be YOU – and being YOU is the only way to truly live." – Author Unknown

"If you do not question life's fallacies, you adhere to societies ignorance" – Troy Hendershott

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." – Albert Einstein

"There are no shortcuts in life—only those we imagine." – Frank Leahy

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better." – Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon)

"how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better." – Randy Pausch

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

"Scars are the roadmap to the soul." – Film, The Air I Breathe

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?" – Don Souza

"Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself." – Patrick Grant

"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I attack." 
— Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." – Christian D. Larson

"Look me in the eye...it’s ok if you’re scared. I’m scared too. But…for different reasons. I’m scared of what I won’t become and you’re scared of what I will become." – Anonymous


"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that real power."  – Clint Eastwood

"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." – Author Unknown

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." – Orison Swett Marden

"Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy." – Noam Chomsky

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." – William J. Clinton

"When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is - everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again." – Steve Jobs

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan

“…It’s natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels naturalto accept onlu natural things.” – G.K. Chesterton

"False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others." – Coach Tony Dungy

"And for me, I’ve realized that I used to be afraid of failing at the things that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter. – Bob Goff"

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday." – John Wayne

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." – Voltaire

"Welcome to the life of the chosen few." – Author Unknown

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy." John F. Kennedy

"How people treat you when you have nothing to offer them demonstrates their genuine character, underlying nature, and true intentions. While on the opposite end of the spectrum, I have unfortunately also experienced when people feel as though they are in a truly desperate or dire situation based upon circumstances they have created through misguided direction, this often reveals their ability to be truly innovative and apologetic or absolutely deceptive and selfish." – Troy Hendershott

"Look me in the eye...it’s ok if you’re scared. I’m scared too. But…for
different reasons. I’m scared of what I won’t become and you’re scared
of what I will become." – Author Unknown

“…It’s natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural
to accept only natural things.” – G.K. Chesterton

"False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility
focuses more on build up others" – Coach Tony Dungy

"And for me, I’ve realized that I used to be afraid of failing at the
things that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of
succeeding at things that don’t matter." – Bob Goff


“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at
midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself
in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday." – John Wayne

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome." - Michael Jordan

"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible". – Rita Dove

"At the beach everything is different. Time does not move hour to hour, but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and we'll forever follow the sun." — Author Unknown

"We all know of people who thought they could do it (whatever 'it' is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated in such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn't better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity–to do something great closes." – Tim Tebow

"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination." — William Longgood

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget the ones who don't. And believe that everything happens for a reason... If you get a chance-take it; if it changes your life-let it. Nobody said that it would be easy... They just promised it would be worth it." — Author Unknown

"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." — Jan Glidewell

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry." — Jack Kerouac

"Traveling is like an endless university. You never stop learning." — Henry Lloyd

"Life passes most people by while they're busy making grand plans for it." – Josh Gallo

"Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy out now doesn't mean that you aren't headed for sunshine." – Author Unknown

"When we first begin fighting for our dream, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret to life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. So, why is it important to live our personal calling if we are only going to suffer more than other people? Because, once we have overcome the defeats–and we always do–we are filled by a great sense of euphoria and confidence. In the silence of our hearts, we know that we are proving ourselves worthy of the miracle of life. Each day, each hour, is part of the good fight. We start to live with enthusiasm and pleasure. Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our soul, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives." – Paulo Coelho

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting..." – The Alchemist 

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas A. Edison

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is plan on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." – Unknown

"If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." – The Alchemist 

"For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty." – Doug Tompkins

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid people, you might better stay at home." – James Michener

"...for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises." – Paul Coelho

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

"...there are two, no three things I am especially thankful for. They are the ability to read, memory, and imagination. Because with these three things I can go anywhere in the world, see anything I want to see, experience the good by choice, identify with bad because I have been bad, sorrow for loss because I have lost. I rejoice because I have contentment and I am happy (most of the time). There are things I wish I had done or had not done, but regret gets you nowhere except to beat yourself up for things you cannot change." – Wilma Presler O' Banion

"People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go far away forever, or moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when those things happen, we suffer terribly." 

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky...Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." – Paul Coelho

"I almost wish we were butterflies and live'd but three summer days–three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain." – John Keats

"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." – Chief Aupumut

"... so fight with whatever you've got, whatever you can lay your hands on...never stop. The minute you do, that's the minute the world rolls right over you." – Film Red

"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man." – Thomas Wolfe

"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you." – Thomas Wolfe

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." – Aldous Huxley

"Adventure is a path. Real adventure–self-determined, self-motivated, often risky–forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind–and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you." – Mark Jenkins

"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

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." – Samuel Johnson

"They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time." – Brian Fantana

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." – Hilaire Belloc

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!" – Dr. Seuss

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." – Henry David Thoreau

"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." – Benjamin May

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

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste the experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty–his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure." – Aldous Huxley

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

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." – Moslih Eddin Saadi

"I have learned this, at least, by my experiments; that if one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." – Henry David Thoreau

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." – Jawaharial Nehru

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." – Steve Jobs 

"One person can make a difference and everyone must try." – John F. Kennedy

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself, 'I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." – Groucho Marx

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." – Paul Theroux

"Travel is more than seeing of the sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." – Miriam Beard

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity." – C. S. Lewis   

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but it played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." – Pat Conroy

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." – Martin Buber

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." – Rudy Kipling

"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies-The heroism we recite would be a daily thing, did not ourselves the cubits warp for fear to be a King." — Emily Dickinson

"It’s important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear." — Randy Pausch

"People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live." – Martin Yan

"The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have." – Anna Quindlen

"Vision: The Ability to see. The courage to do. The hope to endure." – James Ryle

"I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it." – Rosalia de Castro

"I'd like to be pimps from Oakland or cowboys from Arizona but it's not Halloween. Grow up Peter Pan, Count Chocula." — John Beckwith film Wedding Crashers

"Hi, I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. Why don’t you have a seat?" – Chris Hansen  

"Come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Wangdoodles, and Hornswogglers, and Snozzwangers, and rotten, Vermicious Knids." — Willy Wonka

"One of the gladdest moments of 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 home, man feels once more happy." – Richard Burton

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

"You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there." – Yogi Berra

"Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections." – Augustus Hare

"The journey not the arrival matters." – T.S. Elliot

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do– especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road." – William Least Heat-Moon

"Listen to me. The human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they've got up there!" – Sebastian, The Crab

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer." — Randy Pausch

"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

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." – Freya Stark

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." – Nelson Mandela

"Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves." — Euripides

"You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference." – Anita Septimus

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

"The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have."
 — Randy Pausch

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing." – Daniel J. Boorstin

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." – Orison Swett Marden

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." — Helen Keller

"Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way." – Ralph Crawshaw

"After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do." – Jim Harrison

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply." – Denis Waitley

"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist." – W. H. Auden

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

"Your level of achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose." – Ralph Marston

"Our whole lives we search for ourselves and who we are meant to be. When we find out who we are, our life doesn't end, it begins a new journey. A journey to find the puzzle that completes our life puzzle. One that not only completes our puzzle but makes it that much better." – Lukas Kelly

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"  – Bob Marley

"You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out." – Daranna Gidel

"No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it." – Ralph Marston

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." – C.S. Lewis

"I believe that the road to success is not straight. There is a curve called failure. A loop called confusion. Speed bumps called friends. Red lights called enemies. Caution lights called family. you will always have flat tires called jobs. But if you have a spare called determination, an engine called perseverance and a driver called God you will make it to a place called Success." – Judith Morales-Kim

"I tried to live the normal life but it's empty and unfulfilling. I'm not really living and need to get back to who I truly am and what makes me happy like nothing else could...we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." – Natalie Vigil

"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it." 
– Rosalia de Castro

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." — Randy Pausch

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." – Hilaire Belloc

"Giving up is letting go of all your notions and premeditated resentments, all of your hopes of not failing others; giving up is realizing you can’t do it." – Timbrel Jacknitsky

"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions." — Peter Hoeg

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people." — Randy Pausch

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." – Author Unknown

"I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yearsteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance." — Beryl Markham

"I think we all wish we could erase dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake." — Leah Grotjohn

"I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yearsteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance." — Beryl Markham

"I think we all wish we could erase dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake." — Leah Grotjohn

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

"Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate." – Rick Warren

"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse." — Randy Pausch

"True growth occurs as civilizations transfer an increasing portion of energy and attention from the material side of life to the nonmaterial side and thereby develop their culture, capacity for compassion, sense of community, and strength for democracy." — Arnold Toynbee

"Energy we spend arguing about things that don't matter could be spent working towards our goals." — Mary Glass

"The good ones go if you wait too long, so you should go before you stay too long." — Dustin Moya

"My friends, may we never take for granted the many blessings we have in this life. Be grateful for what you have and remember, this life we live is best lived when not lived for us." — Jeremy Vlad

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." — James Beard

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." — Bruce Lee

"Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without." — James C. Dobson

"Sometimes you have to go to go to know you should have gone." — JD Andrews

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." — Author Unknown

"In the end, people will judge you anyway. Don't live your life impressing others." — Author Unknown

"Don't you just love when life  seems perfect!! Especially when it's all thanks to your personal choices, actions, and committments...even more so when the future holds only improvements to the now!!" — Matty Beavis

"Winners don't wait for chances, they take them." — Dustin Moya

"There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away." — Sarah Kay

"Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all." — Melynda Czysz

"If life would be easy, where would all the lessons and adventures be?" — Judith Morales-Kim

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why." — Mark Twain

"I choose... to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipulated; to be useful, not used; to excel, not compete. I choose self-esteem, not self-pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinions of others." — Author Unknown

"Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn." — Chris Seiler

"The most dangerous risk of all–the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later." – Author Unknown

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." — George Bernard Shaw

"Life is short, live bold! Be heard, be you, dream big, take risks, don't wait." – Misty Gibbs

"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." – Rebecca Williams

"Hope reflects belief. Hope believes in the better, in the higher, in the possibilities. Hope rejects cynicism. People with a higher level of hope believe that though events may not work out they will not be defeated. Hope is the dream of a soul awake." – Author Unknown

"Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It's basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating." — Simon Pegg

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T.S. Elliot

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory...will yet swell...when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angles of our nature." – Abraham Lincoln

"We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware–beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one." – Author Unknown

"There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is to short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of life, getting back up is living." – Author Unknown

"It's only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything." – Tyler Durden film Fight Club

"Success is to be measured, not so much by the position that one has reached in life, but by the obstacles which he has overcome." — Author Unknown

"I understand that my standards, values, and expectations are probably too high for most–but that's no reason for me to change." – Andrea Vlad

"Travel makes you modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." – Scott Cameron

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." – Socrates

"Traveling on a road can sometimes get bumpy or present obstacles, but one must travel , for his destination is very rewarding." — Bryant Johnson

"In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life.. it goes on." – Robert Frost

"I travel and experience life not so that others can see me, but so that I can see and experience the world." – Anonymous

"Our original shimmering self gets buried so deep we hardly live out of it at all...rather, we learn to live out of all the other selves which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather." – Frederick Buechner

"I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now." — Willie Nelson

"...He hoped his daughter, when delivering his eulogy years from now, would speak not of the yards he gained, but of the man he became." — Curtis Martin (NFL Hall of Fame Player)    

"Where the surface of the sea seems the defining between a world that binds and one that frees." – Lana Petelle

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." - Vince Lombardi

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." — James Dean

"...The breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time." – Cormac McCarthy 

"It makes me sad that, time and time again, people seem to choose dishonesty for personal gain rather than risk any kind of genuine communication." – Jill Myers

"Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always diffifulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome." - Michael Jordan

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care of what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." — Swami Vivekananda

"How does the saying go? No man on his death bed looks back and wishes he had spent more time working." — James Davermann

"I'd rather live my whole life knowing that I'm not perfect, than spending my life pretending to be." — Marilyn Monroe

"I've come to notice that people wait all week for Friday, months for a birthday, a year for Summer and a life for happiness..... Live in the now, eliminate the bad and surround yourself with the good! Wake up and be awesome!!" – Kace Bates

"Some of the most beautiful words in the entire world have already been used thousands of times. But that doesn't make them any less beautiful. So too with people." – Author Unknown

"You can't build your future if you're living in the past. Fool." – Andrea Vlad

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith." — Coach John Wooden 

"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself." – Edmund Lee

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe." — Melynda Czysz

"Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what." – Author Unknown

"I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do." – Winston Churchill

"Our lives begin to end the day we decide to become silent about things that matter." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The day a child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." — Alden Nowlan

"May mischief find you and misfortune avoid. May you sink into unkempt and vivacious foreign fascinations and emerge with stories varied, wild, and timeless." – Jonathan Roseland

"I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future." – Julie Murphy

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose." – Dr. Seuss

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon that closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." – Alexander Graham Bell

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." – Dr. Seuss

"Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don't stop. Change the world." – Robin Sharma

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." – Author Unknown

"Challenges are what make life itneresting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine

"Happy Sunday! Make a memory today and take a moment to enjoy those people in your life who make this journey all the sweeter..." – Tiffany Rodriguez

"Today is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again." – Author Unknown

"People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world." – Kim Culbertson

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