Buddha said "Its better to travel well than to arrive", what does it mean? I am not sure if Buddha said it or not, I was flipping around some Buddha quotes pictures and found an image saying "Its better to travel well than to arrive".
can anyone explain What does it mean ?
Thanks
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” is a fake Buddhist Quote.

Meaning
Hope and anticipation are often better than reality.
Origin
This phrase is a Robert Louis Stevenson quotation, from Virginibus Puerisque, 1881:
&quot;Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.&quot;
Stevenson was expressing the same idea as the earlier Taoist saying - &quot;The journey is the reward.&quot;

Source: The meaning and origin of the expression: To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
&quot;The journey is the reward.&quot; seems to be a Chinese Proverb

If you look at this in the context of Noble Eightfold Path and Nirvana it is better to arrive than how or how well you travel. It seems to me like the opposite of this statement is true.

Although the eightfold path is conditioned [1.1.3.1], its goal, nirvana (nibbāna), is free
from conditions (visaṅkhāra,gata) (Dh 154):
nirvana is unconditioned (asaṅkhata).
Only nirvana is
free from all conditions: it is “the stilling of all formations” (sabba,saṅkhāra,samatha).
This stilling
of all conditions is true happiness (Dh 368, 381). In the Māluṅkya,putta Sutta (S 35.95), the
Buddha defines this stilling of all formations as “the ending of suffering.”

Source: The Path of Awakening The way, the life and the liberation of the noble eightfold path by Piya Tan

Now, ayya, is the noble eightfold path conditioned or is it unconditioned?
&quot;The noble eightfold path, avuso Visākha, is conditioned.&quot;

Cūla Vedalla Sutta
What this entails is that traveling the path itself is suffering / misery with a view to end suffering / misery. So ending of misery is better than the journey to end misery which is also miserable. Having said this as you progress if the path the misery in general will become less and less and states like Piti and Passaddhi arise. [(Dasaka) Cetanā’karaṇīya Sutta, (Ekā,dasaka) Cetanā’karaṇīya Sutta]