There are few experiences quite like taking a long road trip and venturing somewhere you’ve never been before! It’s one of the few forms of travel where it’s all about the journey: the people, the stories, those moments which are hard to describe to someone who wasn’t there.
We’ve put together over 90 of the best road trip quotes to help really convey what is it that makes this form of slow travel so special. We’ve also included a few funny ones and some that encapsulate what it’s like to take a road trip with a group of friends.
So here are our favourite road trip quotes. Feel free to let us know your favourite ones in the comments below!
The 90 Best Road Trip Quotes
These are the 90 best road trip quotes for you and the variations you’ll want:
Short Road Trip Quotes
1 - “It’s not the destination, it's the journey.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 - “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”
Jack Kerouac
3 - “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.”
Confucius
4 - “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.”
Tom Wolfe
5 - “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
John Steinbeck
6 - “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”
Amit Kalantri
7 - “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
Rebecca Solnit
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8 - “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
Izaak Walton
9 - “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
10 - “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
11 - “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
12 - “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”
William Least Heat Moon
13. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.”
Lukhman Pambra
14 - “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll
15 - “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard
16 - “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.”
-Edgar Wright
17 - “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
William Hazlitt
Inspirational Road Trip Quotes
18 - “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”
Tony Robbins
19 - “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.”
Anthony Joshua
20 - “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.”
Brad Paisley
21 - “I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.”
Walt Whitman
22 - “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.”
Byrd Baggett
23 - “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.”
Helen Keller
24 - “Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 - “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.”
Chris Humphrey
26 - “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make.”
Angela N Blount
27 - “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
Erol Ozan
28 - “You Can’t Find The Right Roads When The Streets Are Paved.”
Bob Marley
29 - “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
Sir Richard Burton
30 - “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
31 - “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Scott Myers
32 - “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
T.S Eliot
33 - “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
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34 - “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating”
Aaron Lauritsen
35 - “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.”
John Steinbeck
36 - “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
37 - “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.”
Jodi Hills
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38 - “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”
Stacy Westfall
39 - “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
40 - “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.”
Grace Jones
41 - “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
Isak Dinesen
42 - “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
43 - “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
44 - “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
45 - “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.”
Susan Magsamen
46 - “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”
Bon Jovi
47 - “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
48 - “I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.”
Caleb Johnson
Road Trip Captions
49 - “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
50 - “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”
Babs Hoffman
51 - “Road trips require a couple of things: a well balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes - oh, and directions.”
Jenn McKinlay
52 - “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”
Robert Louis Stevenson
53 - “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
54 - “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
Robert Frost
55 - “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.”
Henry Miller
56 - “My favourite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”.
Diane Arbus
57 - “Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirty.”
John Muir
58 - “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
Beautiful Road Trip Quotes
59 - “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, any one. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the 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
60 - “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
61 - “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”
Miriam Toews
62 - “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
63 - “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
64 - “When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.”
Steve Rushin
65 - “Nothing Behind Me, Everything Ahead Of Me, As Is Ever So On The Road.”
Jack Kerouac
66 - “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.”
Paulo Coelho
67 - “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
68 - “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
Funny Road Trip Quotes
69 - “Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres.”
George Carlin
70 - “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck
71 - “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.”
John Perry Barlow
72 - “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.”
Bill Engvall
73 - “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
74 - “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”
Emile Ganest
75 - “Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.”
Jerry Seinfeld
76 - “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”
John Green
Road Trip With Friends Quotes
77 - “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
Izaak Walton
78 - “A journey is measured in friends, rather than miles.”
Tim Chaill
79 - “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”
Edith Wharton
80 - “No road is long with good company.”
Turkish proverb
81 - “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
82 - “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.”
Charles M. Schulz
83 - “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
84 - “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Ernest Hemingway
85 - “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
86 - “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.”
Thelma and Louise
87 - “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.”
Kristen Sarah
88 - “The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.”
Kari Martindale
89 - “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.”
Robert Earl Keen
90 - “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”
Wilfred Peterson
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