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26 Moving Travel Quotes

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1. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

2.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Barr

3. “Only he that travels the road knows where the holes are deep” 
- Chinese Proverb

4. “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

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

6. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” 
- Maya Angelou

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

8. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” 
- Daranna GIidel

9. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensation to read on the train.” 
- Oscar Wilde


10.”We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” 
- Unknown

11. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” 
- St. Augustine

12. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns to find it.” 
- George Moore

13.”I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.”
 – William Hazlitt

14. “The Traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he as come to see.” 
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

15. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
 – Nikos Kazantzakis

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

17. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” 
- Robert Louis Stevenson

18.”My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
 – Diane Arbus

19. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” 
- Benjamin Disraeli

20.”A true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.” 
- Colette

21. “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
- Francis Bacon, Sr.

22. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends”
 – Shirley Maclaine

23.”Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” 
- Miriam Beard

24. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.”Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” 
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

26.”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
 – G.K. Chesterton

Respect Quotes

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– “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” – Marilyn Monroe

– “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou

– “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” – Maya Angelou

– “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” – Albert Einstein

– “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” – Winston Churchill

– “The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” – Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” – Winston Churchill

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” – Mark Twain

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” – C. S. Lewis

– “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

– “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

– “The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

– “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” – John Lennon

Courage Quotes

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– “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
– “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
– “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
– “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou

– “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

– “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein

– “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan

– “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan

– “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

– “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

– “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

– “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

– “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

– “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

– “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare

– “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

– “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy