Below are some inspirational quotes that have kept me going on the journey. I'd like to add to the list. What are some of your favorites? Submit your QUOTES to andrew@iamontheroad.com and I'll post them.
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined." - Thoreau
"Not all those who wander are lost." - Tolkien
"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler
"I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in-between is mine." - Pearl Jam
"A person should so live that their happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." - Epictetus
Submitted Quotes
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow T. Wilson
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
"There are two conditions in life: accept things as they are, or accept responsibility for changing them." - Dr. Denis Waitley
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"The adventure of life is to learn. The goal of life is to grow." - William Arthur
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
"Follow your dreams, transform your life." - Coelho
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - Eliot
"What is the meaning of life? Whatever you want it to be." - James Frey
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"Be the change you wish to see in the world..." - Ghandi
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
"The wisdoms in the trees, not the glass windows." - Jack Johnson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine
"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy, than a success at something I hate." - George Burns
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley
"Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life." - Kobi Yamada
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"By even contemplating a Plan B, you almost create the necessity for a Plan B." - Will Smith, TIME
"Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be." - Brett Favre, Sports Illustrated
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
“I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career—it’s a life!” – Steve Jobs
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” – Coach John Wooden