120 Unforgettable Roads of Life Quotes [Best Road Quotes]

Life is like a road.

Not like German autobahns, or the ones made by the Ancient Romans, though.

Those are much too straight and smooth.

Nope, the road of life is more like a rickety old wagon trail making its way up a mountain.

It can be tumultuous. But it’s always taking you somewhere.

Have you arrived at a crossroads in your life? Or you’re going through a rough patch?

Well, the internet’s most beautiful quotes about roads and life might help! Without further ado, then, here are 120 unforgettable road quotes and roads of life quotes.

[Last Updated: April 2023]

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120 Roads of Life Quotes

I’ve broken down this long list of 120 road quotes into more manageable subsections.

I hope you find (at least) one or two amongst them all that speak to you! Enjoy.

My Favourite Quotes on Roads of Life

1. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela Blount

2. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

4. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

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“You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

6. “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

7. “Grasshopper was tired. He lay down in a soft place. He knew that in the morning the road would still be there, taking him on and on to wherever he wanted to go.” ― Arnold Lobel, Grasshopper on the Road

8. “HODOPHILE (noun) a lover of roads; one who loves to travel.” – N/A

9. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

10. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb

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Inspiring Quotes about Roads of Life

11. “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe

12. “Any road not informed by the past will certainly be an uncertain one.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

13. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown

14. “I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.” – Daya

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“Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.”

16. “Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” – Debi Tolbert Duggar

17. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac

18. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown

19. “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.” – Anna Spetimus

20. “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman

Insightful Quotes about Roads in Life

21. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

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

23. “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

24. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

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“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.”

26. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber

27. “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

28. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase

29. “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller

30. “The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible.” ― Pete Wentz

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Life is a Bumpy Road Quotes (Difficult Roads Quotes)

31. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

32. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

33. “Now there was a sense of liberation, a feeling of finality. It’s in the spinning of the wheels beneath him, the miles of road he has traveled, and the miles of road he has yet to travel. When had leaving ever seemed so difficult?” ― R.D. Pires

34. “Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that’s where the point lies.” ― Vera Nazarian

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“If you don’t go to very difficult roads, you will only reach places where everyone reaches!”

36. “The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.” ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

37. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

38. “Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.” – Grandmother Willow, Pocahontas

39. “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” – Charles de Lint

40. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” -T. S. Eliot

Fun Quotes about the Road of Life

41. “Some roads steal your time; some roads steal your comfort and some roads steal your heart!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

42. “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen

43. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

44. “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen

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

46. “Mountain in the distance. Move toward it. Now you’re climbing it. Now you’re over it. Now it’s gone.” ― Eleanor Davis

47. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Unknown

48. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

49. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

50. “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

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Beautiful Road Quotes About Life

51. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.” ― Chinese Proverb

52. “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

53. “Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.” – Elizabeth Berg

54. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen

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“What do you do when you get there? You don’t get there. You’re on the Road, and the Road goes ever on and on.”

56. “Never travel on the road of no return.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

57. “The road listens. It believes in you.” – Foster Kinn

58. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Carl Sagan

59. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

60. “I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments.” – Charlotte Eriksson

Epic Road to Success Quotes

61. “Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream.” – Marlon Wayans

62. “Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.” ― Jeffrey Fry

63. “The road to success is rough and tough, you boil and toil but you finally smile in style.” ― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

64. “The road may be long, tortuous and wearied. But the resulting success is enduring, sure and sweet. The fool abandons hope in the wearied journey of life.” – Abiodun Fijabi

65. “There’s a road to my heart. It does not go by your words. It does not want your body. It’s waiting for the tug at my soul.” ― Nitya Prakash

66. “If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.” ― Thomas Ligotti

67. “It’s the journey, not the destination, but that doesn’t make sense until you get there.” ― J.R. Rim

68.

“The road to success is always under construction.”

69. “At the end of the day, I understand that life has roadblocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.” – DJ Khaled

70. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

71. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

72. “The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way. Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

73. “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” ― Amit Ray

74. “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” ― Jodi Hills

75. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

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Quotes About Taking the Right Road Less Travelled

76. “When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.” – Dejan Stojanovic

77. “Sometimes the road of life takes an unexpected turn and you have no choice but to follow it to end up in the place you are supposed to be.” – Siddhartha Maddy

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

79. “In front of me there were two roads. I chose the less traveled road. And it made all the difference.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

80. “They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.” ― Jess “Chief” Brynjulson

81. “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho

82. “Direction is more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.” – Unknown

83.

“I’d rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.”

84. “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

85. “Sometimes you can’t see the road ahead but as you keep going, it gets clearer. Stay the course as the fog of life dissipates.” ― Sanjo Jendayi

86. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley

87. “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Bon Jovi

88. “The road to peace is full of many man made obstacles.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

89. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

90. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

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Lonely Road Quotes

91. “There’s more to getting to where you’re going then just knowing there’s a road.” – Joan Lowery Nixon

92. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” – Susan Magsamen

93. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

94. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” – Rick Warren

95. “Don’t expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.” ― Kiara Maharaj

96. “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney

97. “A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

98.

“Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”

99. “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

100. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous, and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

101. “Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.” – Yvon Chouinard

102. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

103. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

104. “I don’t know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.” ― Alfred de Musset

105. “Straight roads do not make skilful drivers.” – Unknown

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Miscellaneous Roads Quotes

To finish, here are 15 road quotes that don’t necessarily fit anywhere else on this list, but that deserve a spot on it nonetheless!

106. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.” ― Lana Del Rey

107. “Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.” ― Anne Carson

108. “I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.” ― Hyeonseo Lee

109. “If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.” ― Freya Stark, East Is West

110. “In order to believe in your future, you just need to be able to see the road that you must travel.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

111. “If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.” ― David Livingstone

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“Not a road long enough to outrun the dawn. Let the sun rise. I am ready.”

113. “This is a roadside attraction,” said Wednesday. “One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.” ― Neil Gaiman

114. “Good roads coupled with good transportations are essential for good trading.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

115. “The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.” ― Wendell Berry

116. “Of all the roads she traveled, the journey back to her sensuality was the most magnificent.” ― Lebo Grand

117. “The road that leads to nowhere for others might just be the road that leads to somewhere for you!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

118. “A lot of people spend all of their lives sorting through maps. And while that might make them an expert regarding the route, they never set foot on the road.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

119. “Every road is different, just like every human being; every road has a different voice, different character, different spirit and different dreams! Every time you take a step on a new road, it’s like you meet a new person!” ― Mehmet Murat iIldan

120. “No one loves to run through curves. But a curve on your road connects you to another chapter to make your journey complete.” ― Isaac A. Yowetu

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Remember These Road Quotes

The road of life can be tricky to traverse and gnarly to navigate.

It’s a paradox: simultaneously beautiful and tragic; life-giving and heart-breaking.

Indeed, the road’s often marked and marred by difficulty. But it’s also immersed in wonder when we open our eyes to the world!

Fates and fortunes turn on a dime.

If we can keep our chins up, shake off our struggles, and wait patiently for the ebbs and flows of life to start working in our favour, then things can and will look up. Sometimes, all it takes to see the light is an inspirational quote!

If you’re in a tricky spot right now, then I hope the 120 road quotes and roads of life quotes in this post will help you do exactly that.

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