QuoteProject
The journey is better than the inn".
Miguel De Cervantes
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

The process of pursuing a goal is often more valuable than the goal itself.

Cervantes' quote suggests that the experiences and lessons learned during the journey of life or any endeavor are more meaningful than the end result. It emphasizes the importance of growth, discovery, and the appreciation of each moment we face along the way, implying that the richness of our experiences contributes significantly to our overall happiness and fulfillment.

Themes

JourneyExperienceGrowthLifeValue

In practice

Example use cases

During a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of the college experience over just receiving a degree.

More from Miguel De Cervantes

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Miguel De CervantesRead
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Miguel De CervantesRead
It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
Miguel De CervantesRead
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Miguel De CervantesRead
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Miguel De CervantesRead
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
Miguel De CervantesRead

Similar quotes

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
Aldous HuxleyRead
At the end of the day, it's not about starting a game in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl, or getting to the Hall of Fame. It's about representing yourself in a way that represents your faith.
Kurt WarnerRead
I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.
Ralph LaurenRead
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel MarceauRead
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
George EliotRead
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.
Jacques DerridaRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.