Jeannette Rankin Quotes

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

Being on the road is very inspiring.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

The greatest journeys all start with a single step.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

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.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

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.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.