Are you looking for some cool and uplifting road trip quotes? You’ve come to the right place! Whether you’re looking for a fun road trip quote, a solo road trip quote, or a road trip quote from a movie, I’m sure you will find a suitable one in the list below! Here we go!
Road trip quotes: road trips in Iceland with a 4WD car
A road trip is a form of slow travel mostly undertaken by car, caravan or converted minivan. From a multi-week drive across different countries to a short getaway close to home, a road trip is all about the journey instead of the destination.
While in general, a road trip means having your own vehicle to support you, essentially a road trip can be anything that encompasses some form of overland journey from one place to another, wether it’s a pilgrimage on foot, a backpacking trip in Asia taking long-distance busses, or hitchhiking across Europe.
There are so many inspiring road trip quotes and the list below is providing you with the best ones to spark your motivation to hit the road no matter what means of transport or purpose you got going on!
Enjoy the journey!
Road trip quotes: staying close to home on a road trip through France with our van
"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."
Stephen Covey
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
David Mitchell
Short road trip quotes
My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”.
Diane Arbus
“All good things are wild and free.”
Henry David Thoreau
Short road trip quotes
If you have never heard of Henry David Thoreau then you should definitely read his book “Walden“.
While he did not exactly embark on a road trip, this book focuses on withdrawing in nature and living a simple life in natural surroundings. Be sure to take this book with you on your next road trip taken with a van or a tent to explore what nature has to offer! It will surely inspire you and change your view of the world.
"And so the adventure begins."
Unknown
“It’s not the destination, it's the journey.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes road trip
“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.”
Confucius
"Follow the yellow brick road."
Yip Harburg
"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
John Steinbeck
Short road trip quotes
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
Robert M. Pirsig
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”
Tony Robbins
Short road trip quotes
"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
Jack Kerouac
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Confucius
An unplanned road trip through the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia in a jeep
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”
Angela N. Blount
Unplanned road trip quotes
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
Lao Tzu
“And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.”
Emery Lord
Unplanned road trip quotes
“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.”
Rosalia De Castro
“The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, ‘anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!”
Alain De Botton
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands”
Sir Richard Burton
Unplanned road trip quotes
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost”
David Henry Thoreau
Road trip quotes: beautiful scenery on a road trip through Flores, Indonesia.
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Neale Donald Walsch
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”
Daphne du Maurier
“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.”
Anthony Bourdain
“Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
Solo road trip quotes
“I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
Douglas Adams
“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”
Alain De Botton
“Solitary people make the best travellers”
Paul Theroux
Solo road trip quotes
“Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.”
Debi Tolbert Duggar
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”
Stacey Westfall
"All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road."
Jack Kerouac
Solo road trip quotes
“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”
Alain De Botton
Road trip stop in Cahuita in Costa Rica: Hitchhiking is still one of the most adventurous ways to do a road trip
“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. 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.”
John Krakauer
"The ship is safest when it is in port, but that is not what ships were built for."
PAULO COELHO
Adventure road trip quotes
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
William Least Heat-Moon
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”
Hans Christian Andersen
Adventure road trip quotes
“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
“Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adventure road trip quotes
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
Erol Ozan
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Adventure road trip quotes
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."
PAULO COELHO
“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling."
Shanti
Adventure road trip quotes
“I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.”
David Bowie
“There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.”
Bill Bryson
“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
Sir Richard Burton
“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.”
Jaime Lyn
Adventure road trip quotes
"Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.”
Susan Magsamen
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
Robert Frost
Adventure road trip quotes
"I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work."
Jack Kerouac
...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.
Sylvain Tesson
From Munduk to the south, Bali is an excellent destination to do a road trip on a motorbike.
“The journey is my home.”
Muriel Rukeyser
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
Jack Kerouac
Quotes about road trips
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”
Martin Buber
“Journeys are the midwives of thought."
Alain De Botton
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry DAvid Thoreau
Quotes about road trips
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
William Least Heat-Moon
"It feels good to be lost in the right direction."
Unknown
Quotes about road trips
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”
Cheryl Strayed
"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
Jack Kerouac
Quotes about road trips
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
Ernesto Guevara
“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Paul Theroux
Quotes about road trips: traveling consciously on a road trip in Greece.
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. "
Robert M. Pirsig
"When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story."
Steve Rushin
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.”
Aliyyah Eniath
Conscious road trip quotes
"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."
Unknown
“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
“That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything."
John Green
"Travel is the only thing we buy, that makes us richer."
Unknown
Conscious quotes about road trips
I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
William Least Heat-Moon
“Not all who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Conscious road trip quotes
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Chinese Proverb
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Anaïs Nin
Conscious quotes about road trips
“A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
Henry David Thoreau
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
Roman Payne
“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
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.”
Homer
Conscious quotes about road trips
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, 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
“For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.”
Robert Macfarlane
"Better to travel than to arrive."
"Drifting on the road is my favorite mood."
"My real home is on the road."
"Going where the streets have no name."
"Putting a little gravel in my travel."
"Happiness is a road trip and good music."
"There are no wrong turns on a road trip."
“The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.”
"Making memories one road trip at a time."
Good music is essential on a road trip.
"You used to say the highway was your home, but we both know that ain't true, it's just the only place a man can go, when he don't know where he's travelin' to."
Steve Earle
Riding with the van through the wide land, where the sunflowers are making their stand, there’s nothing I miss, it won’t get any better than this.
Steve Earle
"They call me the breeze, I keep blowing down the road, I ain't got me nobody, I ain't carrying me no load."
J.J. Cale
Road trip quotes from song lyrics
"Well, I'm so tired of crying, but I'm out on the road again, I'm on the road again, I ain't got no woman, just to call my special friend."
Canned Heat
"Living a different kind of life on a different kind of street, having a different kind of drive with a different kind of speed, and it looks like a big mess, but it’s a work in progress, fighting the big fight, trying to hold on tight, I got a long road ahead, no way I make it home tonight."
Humberstone
"I drove all night to get to you."
Cyndi Lauper
Road trip quotes from song lyrics
"I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man, he said he's been down this road more than twice, he was high on intellectualism, I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice. Jump in, let's go, lay back, enjoy the show, everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes, everyday is a winding road."
Sheryl Crow
"On the road again. Goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again. And I can't wait to get on the road again."
Willie Nelson
Road trip quotes from song lyrics
"Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse, we're gonna have a real good time.
The Doors
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
George Harrison
Road trip quotes from song lyrics
“Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies, fully loaded we got snacks and supplies. It’s time to leave this town it’s time to steal away. Let’s go get lost anywhere in the U.S.A.”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
road trips in Greece: Passing by Damouchari where scenes for the movie “Mamma Mia” were shot.
"When I get home, I shall write a book about this place...If I ever do get home."
Alice in Wonderland
“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.”
Thelma and Louise
road trip movie quotes
“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”
Ernesto Che Guevara
“Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.”
The Chronicles of Narnia
“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”
Wild
road trip movie quotes
"Maybe we could be friends, and buddies, and bro dogs, and hang, and chill."
Zak in THe Peanut butter falcon
"The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there."
Gandalf in The Hobbit
road trip movie quotes
“You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same.”
Eddie in Stranger than paradise
Road trip with friends quotes: taking a road trip through Montenegro with friends is an amazing experience
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
Mark Twain
“Happiness [is] only real when shared.”
Christopher McCandless
Road trips quotes with friends
“Good friends follow you anywhere."
Winnie the Pooh
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Ernest Hemingway
Road trip quotes with friends
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”
Tim Cahill
Road trip quotes with friends
“No road is long with good company.”
Turkish Proverb
Road trip quotes: bonding with family on a road trip through Croatia.
“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.”
Deborah Lloyd
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
Leigh Hunt
Family road trip quotes
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.”
Tom Lichtenheld
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
George Burns
Family road trip quotes
“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”
Dave Willis
“We must take care of our families, wherever we find them.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Best road trip quotes: America is a great road trip destination.
“The road goes on forever and the party never ends.”
Robert Earl Keen
“A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind.”
Meggan Roxanne
Car travel quotes
“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
"Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music."
Unknown
“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
Long drive quotes
“There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Jack Kerouac
Drifting on the road is my favorite mood.
Unknown
Long road quotes
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.”
Aaron Lauritsen
"Road trip hair, don’t care."
Unknown
A short road trip through Belgium with my love and our old van.
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
Rumi
“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.”
Robert Brault
Love road trips quotes
“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”
Lewis Carroll
“No road is long with good company.”
Turkish proverb
Road trip quotes: when your car breaks down in the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia.
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck
“We all have that one friend who is either on a roadtrip or planning a roadtrip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a roadtrip or posting quotes about a roadtrip.”
Crestless Wave
“Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirty.”
John Muir
Road trip nature quotes
"according to the map, we've only gone four inches."
Dumb and dumber
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
Susan Sontag
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.”
Paulo Coelho
“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.”
Byrd Baggett
Funny quotes about road trips
“Hodophile (noun): a lover of roads; one who loves travel.”
“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”
Jerry Seinfeld
Quotes about road trips: A road trip in Crete, Greece is pure bliss.
There you go! I hope you enjoyed this extensive list of road trip quotes. Road trips aren’t only about withdrawing in nature or taking a vehicle and starting driving but can change your view of the world. All people should take at least one road trip during their life.
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Happy road tripping!
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