Do you long to see the world and move from place to place to place in slow traveler fashion? Or do you simply enjoy the occasional walk around town to take in all the sights and sounds? Or perhaps you’re more the type for a deep exploration of the inner mind?
If any of these descriptions fit you, then this blog post is for you. Today, we’ll be sharing some voyage quotes that will inspire and motivate you to go on an adventure, learn more about yourself and reach your goals. So if you’re feeling adventurous, keep reading!
Voyage Quotes
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Gene Roddenberry
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart….To go alone…into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth–it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.
Thomas Wolfe
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth – all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.
Lee De Forest
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Life’s uncertain voyage.
William Shakespeare
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Herman Melville
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
Phillips Brooks
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire – the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
Ellen Ochoa
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
The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.
Paul Theroux
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.
Thomas Wolfe
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
John Masefield
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan Sontag
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
Frederick Sanger
Voyages are accomplished inwardly.
Henry Miller
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
William Shakespeare
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.
Seneca
My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.
Bill Toomey
To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
Carl Sagan
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.
Charles Darwin
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
Charles Simic
Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.
Charles Wright
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
Christopher Columbus
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
D. H. Lawrence
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
David Doubilet
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
Albert Schweitzer
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
Ella Maillart
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I’m never certain of precisely what I will find.
Gabriel Fielding
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
Giotto di Bondone
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
Gustave Flaubert
There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
H. M. Tomlinson
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
Ivan Doig
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
Jack Kornfield
It means that we should celebrate today’s failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.
Jacqueline Kelly
Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
Charles Baudelaire
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
Joachim du Bellay
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
The only true voyage of discovery…would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
Marcel Proust
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
Joshua Slocum
Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.
Ken Dryden
I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
Lee De Forest
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Mark Twain
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
Pat Conroy
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Herman Melville
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
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
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
We can’t care for something we don’t understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
Nainoa Thompson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
John Masefield
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan Sontag
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
Marcel Proust
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.
Seneca
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
William Shakespeare
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
David Doubilet
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
Being on a boat that’s moving through the water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.
James Taylor
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Stephen Hawking
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.
Peter Marshall
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
Fred Hoyle
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus
A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Thomas Merton
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
Giotto di Bondone
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
Charles Simic
Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us – the voyage we must make alone.
William Makepeace Thackeray
That’s why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.
Nainoa Thompson
Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.
Hart Crane
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship’s horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale’s back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.
Yukio Mishima
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that’s something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
Michael Tilson Thomas
A Final Word
And with that, we come to the end of our voyage quotes. We hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as we have! Voyaging is all about setting sail for the unknown, embracing new experiences and learning along the way. Quotes from famous voyagers capture this spirit perfectly, and we’ve collected some of our favorites for you to enjoy.
What’s your favorite of the voyage quotes? Leave a comment and let us know! We’d love to hear your thoughts on sailing off into the great beyond.
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