Trust Your Journey Quotes
Not every step shows results right away, and the strongest men keep walking anyway. Faith, patience, and presence turn the long road into an advantage most men never gain. This Purpose path holds history's deepest quotes on trusting your journey and its timing. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control.”
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have.”
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“Forever is composed of nows.”
“Forget yesterday; it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow; you haven’t even met. Open your eyes and heart to a truly precious gift: today.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.”
“Confine yourself to the present.”
“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“The journey is the reward.”
“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.”
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
“Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.”
“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now.”
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.”
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
“It’s not about the score you shoot, it’s about the person you become.”
“True success should be measured by how happy you are.”
“Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.”
“Be still to allow the divine to express itself and let wisdom flow outward.”
“We live by faith, not by sight.”
“Each time I thought I had achieved my life’s purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey.”
“Life is dreamed in big leaps and revealed in small steps.”
“You’ve done all you can do. All that is within your power, your control. Now, give up the results. The right thing will happen.”
“You have chosen the wrong path if it’s not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it’s not hard and rocky sometimes.”
“I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
“Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.”
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
“The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.”
“You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.”
