Are you looking for some inspiration to hit the road? I’ve gone on a web road trip to gather a list of the most uplifting quotes about road trips that are built to fuel your wanderlust and get you one step closer to the open road. If you’re looking for inspiration or for road trip quotes that will make you laugh, you’re in the right place.
1. “Always take the scenic route, you never know what adventures you will find.”– Unknown
2. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
3. “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
4. “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
5. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” — Susan Magsamen
6. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” –Jerry Seinfeld
7. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
8. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” ― Rebecca Solnit
9. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
10. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Unknown
11. “Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.” – Unknown
12. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha
13. “Making memories one road trip at a time.”– Unknown
14. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
15. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac
16. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.” ― Chinese Proverb
17. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb
18. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius
19. “Hard roads require a will of steel” – Mehmet Murat ildan
20. “My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.” – Unknown
21. “The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.” – Unknown
22. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” – Unknown
23. “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown
24. “Take the long way home.” – Unknown
25. “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
26. “People having babies and getting married…and I’m like: where am I road tripping to next?” – Unknown
27. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld
28. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”- George Carlin
29. “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way…” – Unknown
30. “I get emotionally attached to the cars ahead of me on long road trips.” – Unknown
31. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green
32. “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
33. “Sometimes all you need is a good friend and a full tank of gas – Unknown
34. “You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise.” — Florida Georgia Line, Cruise
35. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown
36. “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
37. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, Together upon the open road” – A Goofy Movie
38. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
39. “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green
40. “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” ― Paulo Coelho
41. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
42. “I want to go on a road trip. Just you, and me. The highway, the radio, the blue sky, the back roads, and windows down. We’ll talk about everything and nothing. We’ll sing our hearts out, and we’ll make memories we’ll never forget. Just you and me.” – Unknown
43. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. “My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.”– Unknown
45. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley
46. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett
47. “Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.” — Orhan Pamuk
48. “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
49. “Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.” – Unknown
50. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
51. “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman
52. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon
53. “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
54. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra
55. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
56. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
57. “Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
58. “Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.” – Unknown
59. “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews
60. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
61. “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
62. “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
63. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
64. “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey
65. “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
66. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
67. “What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip.” – Crestless Wave
68. “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
69. “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
70. “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
71. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua
72. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” – Walt Whitman
73. “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
74. “You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” ― Steve Rushin
75. “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” – Bob Marley
76. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt
77. “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
78. “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri
79. “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
80. “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
81. “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
82. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
83. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” — Jack Kerouac
84. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
85. . “Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
86. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
87. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
88. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. “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
90. “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
91. “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
92. “I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman
93. “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen
94. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra
95. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
96. “Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.” — Unknown
97. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
98. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
99. “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
100. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
101. “What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip.” – Crestless Wave
101. “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
102. “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
103. “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
104. “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
105. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld
106. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld
107. “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
108. “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
109. “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
110. “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
111. “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
112. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
113. “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews
114. “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
115. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua
116. “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
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