Profoundly inspirational road trip quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Road Trip Quotes
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. — Isak Dinesen
To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown. — Freya Stark
That’s why I love road trips. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. — John Green
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. — Jon Bon Jovi
I’m not lost. I’m exploring. — Jana Stanfield
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save fuel, take your next trip in Kilometers. — George Carlin
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. — Jawaharlal Nehru
You may not find a path, but you will find a way. — Tom Wolfe
That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. — John Green
Buy or Marry anything that makes you giggle, smile and laugh – Unknown
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell
No road is long with good company. — Turkish Proverb
I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. — Miriam Toews
If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you. — Brad Paisley
Don’t expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you. ― Kiara Maharaj
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. — Elizabeth Berg
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. — Bob Marley
I would rather own a little and see the world, than own the world and see a little. — Alexander Sattler
We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a road-trip or posting quotes about road trips. — Crestless Wave
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. — Yvon Chouinard
So there you have it- 56 inspiring, funny and thought-provoking Road Trip quotes. I hope you enjoyed them. Which was your favourite- let me know in the comments below.
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. — Anthony Bourdain
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams
Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason! – Jerry Seinfeld
If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority. — Richard Branson
The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them. — J.K. Rowling
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. — Jack Kerouac
She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way. ― Jodi Hills
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. — Emile Ganest
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. — T.S. Elliot
Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere. — Orhan Pamuk
Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. Unknown
Driving at night is about communicating with lights. — Lukhman Pambra
When you’re travelling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. — William Least Heat-Moon
I hope these quotes will inspire you to live life adventurously! Do you have a favorite road trip quote that’s not on this list? Share it in the comments!
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. — Isak Dinesen
If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer. — John Perry Barlow
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin
Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music. — Unknown
The greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff which happens along the way. — Emma Chase
Sometimes, the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. — Angela N. Blount
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Bear
Life is meant for spectacular adventures. Let your feet wander, your eyes marvel and your soul ignite. — SLVCwriter
Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. — Unknown
The wise man travels to discover himself. — James Russell Lowell
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. — Alain de Botton
The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. — Wallace Stevens
Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller
The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. — Chris Humphrey
Happiness is planning a trip somewhere new with someone you love. — Saadiyat Rotana
We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip. — Crestless Wave
Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt, and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions. — Jenn McKinlay
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. — Susan Magsamen
Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. — Emma Chase
Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life. — Robin Sharma
A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places – Tom Lichtenheld
Take the long way home. — Unknown
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — Jack Kerouac
To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveller, it’s an end in itself. — Marty Rubin
Still, around the corner there may wait; a new road or a secret gate – J.R.R. Tolkien
Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things. — Victoria Erickson
If you never go, you will never know. — Anon
Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experience is not. — Dave Levant
I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can. — Charles Finch
Road trips require a couple of things; a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes. Oh- and directions! – Jenn McKinlay
When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. — Charles de Lint
Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey, but it leads to freedom. — Corinne Hofmann
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. — Eugene Linden
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. — Babs Hoffman
I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. ― Angela N. Blount
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Just DO It! … and say a little prayer. — Lugene Hessler Hammond
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by. — Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood- and I took the one less travelled. — Robert Frost
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. — Henry Miller
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn around. — Turkish Proverb
What if I fall? Oh but my darling- what if you fly? Erin Hanson
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling. — Shanti
If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music. — Edgar Wright
I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air – the air you can kiss – and palms. — Jack Kerouac
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous, and absolutely liberating. — Aaron Lauritsen
Sometimes, the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to- it’s not for them. — Joubert Botha
The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot. — Bruce Chitin
Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard
If you don’t know where you’re going- any road will get you there. — Lewis Carroll
Because, in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. — Jack Kerouac
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan
It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Buddha
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. ― Erol Oza
Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote and I know that I will be happily infected for the rest of my life. — Michael Palin
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory. — Daniel Gilbert
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney
We need the tonic of wildness — to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. — Henry David Thoreau
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something – a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly, finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. — Paul Theroux
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. — Lewis Carroll
Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living your dream. — Marlon Wayans
I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular. — Daya
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator. — Romesh Gunesekera
Sometimes, the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. — Jerry Seinfeld
Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement. — Anthony Joshua