The Best 100 Horizons Quotes To Inspire You To Explore New Ones

Georgia Stone
Dec 12, 2023 By Georgia Stone
Originally Published on Feb 09, 2021
Edited by Monisha Kochhar
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Horizons are a beautiful and inspirational phenomenon of nature and horizon quotes give us a glimpse into that.

Horizon is the line that defines infinity and also a word that defines the limit to your knowledge. But knowledge doesn't have to be limited.

Explore new horizons with these inspirational expanding horizons quotes. Horizon quotes are beautiful, spiritual and inspirational. Feast your eyes on our list of horizon quotes!

For more nature topics like quotes about horizons, read lotus quotes and hiking quotes.

Expanding Your Horizons Quotes

Get yourself inspired to work and increase your knowledge with these inspirational horizon quotes. These horizon quotes will encourage you to get out there and seek more.

1. "A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."

-William Lyon Phelps.

2. “Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon.”

― Erik Pevernagie.

3. "We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us."

- Michio Kaku.

4. "Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore."

- Barbara Sher.

5. “To expand the horizons of your utmost destiny you have to venture beyond the confines of fear, doubt and negativity.”

― Anthon St. Maarten

6. "Artur Nebe: What do you want, Globus?

Odilo 'Globus' Globocnik: I want to... broaden your horizons.”

-'Fatherland'.

7. "The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances."    

-Ella Maillart

8. "Your greatness is measured by your horizons."

-Michelangelo.

Broaden Your Horizons Quotes

Move and push your boundaries with the help of these encouraging horizon quotes.

9. “A horizon on the road of hope is nothing more than a starting point for the next horizon.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough, 'The Eighth Page: AChristmas Journey'.

10. "But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. "

-Bram Stoker.

11."I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for."

-Val Kilmer.

12."The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going."

-J. Michael Straczynski.

13. “When hope has eluded me and I can see nothing but the pain within which I sit, I remember that a horizon cannot exist without two sides; the one I can see and the one that I cannot.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough.

14."Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizonsand we all benefit from being horizon hunters."

-  Buzz Aldrin.

Explore New Horizons Quotes

Forrest Gump point in Mountain Valley in Utah shown in Forrest Gump movie.

Get motivated and search for a new light to guide your path to knowledge with these inspirational horizon quotes.

15."A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."

- Howard Thurman.

16. “Every morning is a new opportunity to enrich our lives and to understand and expand the best in our life.”

― Amit Ray, 'Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity'.

17. "In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance."

- Henry Miller.

18. "With creative people, truly new horizons open up."

-Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

19. “Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.”

― Jennifer Crusie, 'Anyone But You'.

20. "There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."

-Gordon Parks.

21."You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

-William Faulkner

22. "A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

-Richard Bach.

Bright Horizons Quotes

Read these horizon quotes that help you find newer and brighter horizons to reach and aspire for.

23. “She is a trail blazer capable of achieving new horizons. Just give her some time and see her bedazzle the world.”

― Avijeet Das.

24. "Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also. "

- Carl Sagan.

25. "You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear."

- Chris Murray.

26. "The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it."

- Elizabeth Gaskell.

27."You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon."

- Ethel Barrymore.

28. "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

-Konrad Adenauer.

29. "But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"

-Anna Neagle.

30. “There is ever need for the widening of our horizons, the correction of our perspective and many a fresh start, lest we find ourselves among the pitfalls of the plain, swallowed up of trifles.”

― Grant Will.

31. "Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place."

-Werner Herzog.

32. "Every historian discloses a new horizon."

-George Sand.

33. "Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. "  

-Adrienne Clarkson.

Open Our Eyes To New Horizons Quotes

Encourage yourself to open up to new opportunities in life with these inspirational horizon quotes by famous people who have made it in their lives.

34. "Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind."

-Clint Eastwood.

35. “What’s a dream but a vision that refuses to let life be defined solely by what’s on this side of the horizon.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough.

36. "The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."

-Warren Bennis.

37."Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon."

-Kent Nerburn

38. "Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if  possible."

-Robert M. Hutchins.

39. "Lost men will always look

For someone to guide them,

While a confident warrior,

Who has already found his way,

Will only look towards the horizon.”

― Suzy Kassem, 'Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem'.

40. "When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons;"

-Milan Kundera.

41."The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."

-Maya Angelou.

42. "Make each day a new horizon."

― Christopher McCandless.

43. “No one should ever be deprived of a horizon.”

― Maude Julien.

Spiritual New Horizons Quotes

Take a step towards spirituality and find peace with these horizon quotes.

44.“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

― Christopher McCandless.

45. "Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

-William Makepeace Thackeray.

46. "Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises."

-Arianna Huffington.

47. “On the horizon ... holding time, quantity and price of shares become quite irrelevant.”

― Sandeep Sahajpal, 'The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!'.

48.  "To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

- Hans Ulrich Obrist.

49.  "A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon."

-Dalai Lama.

50. “Dear Superwoman,

When some doors close, it is not time to lose hope. It is time to look beyond the horizon, and think of better doors on the other side.”

― Gift Gugu Mona, 'Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman'.

51."When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

- Thomas Paine.

52. "I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."

-James Broughton.

53.  “I can choose to see a horizon as yet another indistinct place that I can barely make out from where I’m standing, or I can see it as the backside of a glorious tomorrow. And the attitude that I choose to embrace will dictate every horizon that I get to pursue.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough.

54. "Fight gravity and fly away. Reach new horizons and expand yourself."

- Bangambiki Habyarimana.

55. "Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon."

-John Hench.

56. “The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

― Edwin Powell Hubble, 'The Realm of the Nebulae'.

57."I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it."

-M. F. Husain.

58. "My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever."

-Wole Soyinka.

59.  “Beyond the horizon I may not stand still but all I want is to feel the infinity and I know that the best way to feel something is to become so.”

― Nicko Shoid.

Aspire To Greater Horizons Quotes

Read these inspirational horizon quotes to aim for bigger and better things in life.

60. "Let our hearts touch far horizons,

         let our love know no borders,

         draw the circles wide until,

         no one stands alone."

-Gordon Lightfoot.

61. "When good things are on the horizon you keep walking towards the sun."

- Curtis Tyrone Jones.

62.  "See, if you can't spatially expand my horizon. Then that leaves you in a class with scrubs never rising."

-Lisa Left Eye.

63. "No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."

-Zora Neale Hurston.

64. "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time."

-Henry Beston.

65.  “My fear has brazenly taken pen in hand and redefined a horizon as the termination of everything instead of the beginning of many things. And the first thing I need to do is get my pen back.”

― Craig D Lounsbrough.

66.  "For me, writing isn't about money and fame. It's about passion, an art form that I want to share with the world, expand the horizons to new worlds, new experiences, and new adventures.

-Jason W. Blair.

67."To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

-James Russell Lowell.

68.“Let us not remain anchored in the quicksand of a waning past, and lose the war on obliviousness, but let us listen to the bracing sounds of new horizons, grasp the enchantment of the fleeting instants and seize the cleverness of the moment.”

― Erik Pevernagie.

69."Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon."

- Brian Greene.

70. "Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands."

-Pico Iyer.

71. “Infinity is my spiritual horizon.”

― Talismanist Giebra, 'Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series'.

72. "One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation."

- Pope Benedict XVI.

73.“There was something to be said for the forward motion of the sea, for a destination on the horizon.”

― Micheline Ryckman.

74."A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."

-Howard Thurman.

75.“A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.”

― T.F. Hodge, 'From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"'.

76.  "Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded."

-Victor Hugo.

77. "Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."

-Lord Byron.

78.“The sun itself was hidden, but there was a glitter on the horizon, almost like the dazzle of the crystal walls of the Undertomb, a kind of joyous shimmering off on the edge of the world.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, 'The Tombs of Atuan'.

Eyes On The Horizon Quotes

Give these horizon quotes a quick read to stay focused on your goal and keep up with the hard work required for success.

79.“When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries.”

― Julia Gregson, 'East of the Sun'.

80. "We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt.

81.  "The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."

-Henry Miller.

82. "Some jump down off the bridges, some sail towards the horizon… Meaning is always under construction.”

― Talismanist Giebra, 'Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series'.

83. "Don't be afraid to love again and again ... there are better horizons waiting. Climb until you find your perfect sky."

-Palle Oswald.

84."Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."

-Dag Hammarskjold.

85. “Traveling widens your horizon and teaches you to be happy and positive.”

― Dr Prem Jagyasi.

86. "The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky."

-Alexandre Dumas.

87.  "Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders."

-Yuri Kochiyama.

88. "She had an air about her, a new air of knowledge, of things seen, places she had been. My sister finally had new horizons. "

-Jojo Moyes.

89.  "Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith."

-Amos Bronson Alcott.

90. "In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave."

-Pablo Neruda.

Inspirational Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Mehmet Murad Ildan has imparted an enormous amount of wisdom for us through these horizon quotes so give these horizon quotes a read to understand life better.

91. “Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

92. “You may look into the horizon of time and see nothing, and it only means that you have very little eyesight! You must know that an infinite number of things always come from the horizon of time; they are just on the way!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

93.“Watching endless horizons is a refuge for bored souls. Just like a small piece of salt that has fallen into a large glass melts and becomes a part of the water, bored souls too melt in the endless horizons and transfer their sorrow to the eternity!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

94.“Infinite horizons belong to those who have infinite imagination!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

95. “Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

96.“Some people close their eyes to the horizons; some people sit and watch the horizons; some visit the horizons and some incredible people go beyond the horizons!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

97.“An infinite horizon is like a strong current in the sea; it drags you to unknown places before you even notice it!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

98.“When looking at an infinite horizon, you should know that you are also the horizon of that infinite horizon!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

99.“A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

100.“If you want to be the horizon itself, walk to the horizon without stopping!”

- Mehmet Murat Ildan.

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Written by Georgia Stone

Bachelor of Arts specializing in French with Film Studies, Bachelor of Arts (Year Abroad) specializing in Literature, History, Language, Media, and Art

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Georgia StoneBachelor of Arts specializing in French with Film Studies, Bachelor of Arts (Year Abroad) specializing in Literature, History, Language, Media, and Art

Georgia is an experienced Content Manager with a degree in French and Film Studies from King's College London and Bachelors degree from Université Paris-Sorbonne. Her passion for exploring the world and experiencing different cultures was sparked during her childhood in Switzerland and her year abroad in Paris. In her spare time, Georgia enjoys using London's excellent travel connections to explore further afield.

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