Load up the car and grab some friends or family because I’ve got the best road trip quotes to share. These sweet quotes are sure to inspire your next family trip!
The Best Road Trip Quotes
If you aren’t already a road trip lover, you will be after reading these inspiring road trip quotes!
I love a good road trip. Even as a kid I used to get so excited about our upcoming trips because it meant hours on the road finding new adventures with the people I loved most! We use to play road trip games like would you rather or truth or dare, and of course, we always sang along to our favorite road trip songs.
Now as a mom I get to share that love with my own kids and it’s the best feeling! I’m so grateful for these little adventures we can take together, and these quotes really have me reminiscing about my favorite trips!
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Why I Love Road Trip Quotes
Have you ever read a quote and just felt like the writer hit the nail on the head? These road trip quotes really spoke to me so I decided to gather them all together and come up with a few ideas of how to use them in my life!
Here are a few ideas I thought of:
- Use one as a caption for your next road trip social media post
- Paste them in a travel scrapbook
- Put them in your calendar when you have a trip planned
- Use them as a journal prompt with your kids
- Make a DIY bumper sticker with one
How would you use these fun messages? Whether you use them on a project or activity or just read through them, I know you’ll enjoy these 50 road trip quotes!
The 50 Best Road Trip Quotes
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.
– Erol Ozan
It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.
– Angela N. Blount
A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.
– Tom Lichtenheld
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
Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.
– Confucius
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
You may not find a path, but you will find a way.
– Tom Wolfe
Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.
– Deborah Lloyd
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
– Paulo Coelho
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
People don’t take trips, trips take people.
– John Steinbeck
You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.
– Bob Marley
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
– Jack Kerouac
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
– Babs Hoffman
Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.
– Amit Kalantri
The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.
– Chris Humphrey
If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.
– Brad Paisley
Driving at night is about communicating with lights.
– Lukhman Pambra
“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
– Rebecca Solnit
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.
– Lewis Carroll
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
Just DO It! … and say a little prayer.
– Lugene Hessler Hammond
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
–Izaak Walton
If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.
– Edgar Wright
Always take the scenic route, you never know what adventures you will find.
– Unknown
A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.
– Tom Lichtenheld
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
One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.
– Henry Miller
I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me.
– Walt Whitman
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
– William Least Heat Moon
At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.
– Shanti
Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are dirty.
– John Muir
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
–Jerry Seinfeld
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
Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.
– Tom Stoppard
Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.
– J. R. R. Tolkien
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.
— Susan Magsamen
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
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin
– Tony Robbins
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
– David Mitchell
I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.
– Miriam Toews
Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.
– Byrd Baggett
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
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
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
It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised 9-year-old was given $100.
– Unknown
The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.
– Wallace Stevens
A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.
– Helen Keller
Michele Tripple is a renowned author and expert in the fields of parenting, relationships, and personal development. With her degree in marriage and family studies, her experience as a Family Life Educator, and over a decade of experience as a professional writer, Michele has authored books that provide practical advice and insights into improving family dynamics and personal growth. Her work is celebrated for its blend of research-driven information and relatable, real-world applications. Michele has been a keynote speaker at conferences and has contributed to numerous publications and media outlets, solidifying her reputation as an authoritative voice in her field and helping families build relationships.