There’s no better feeling than hitting the open road, right? Well, our collection of favorite road trip quotes will inspire your next adventure and help you find that perfect Instagram caption.
Amazing Quotes
1. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
2. “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
3. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt
4. “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey
5. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make.” – Angela N Blount
6. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
7. “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
8. “I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman
9. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley
10. “When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” – Steve Rushin
11. “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
12. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua
13. “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” – Bill Bryson
14. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett
15. “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
16. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” – Susan Magsamen
17. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
18. “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen
19. “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
20. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
21. “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
22. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
Funny Quotes About Road Trips
23. “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri
24. “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Ganest
25. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green
26. “Have you noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin
27. “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall
28. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres.” – George Carlin
29. “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
30. “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews
31. “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.” – Anonymous
32. “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
33. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television but always remember their best day on the road.”
34. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
35. “We all have that one friend who is either on a roadtrip or planning a roadtrip or thinking about a roadtrip or talking to people who are on a roadtrip or posting quotes about a roadtrip.” – Crestless Wave
36. “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
37. “Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.”
38. “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 Companionship
39. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
40. “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
41. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb
42. “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
43. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
44. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
45. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton
46. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.”
47. “Sometimes, all you need is a good friend and a full tank of gas.”
48. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
49. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
50. “I love when people say “just quit your job and travel.” Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford.”
51. “When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away … experience, exposure and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler
52. “Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.” – Amit Kalantri
53. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah
54. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma and Louise
55. “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” – Jodi Hills
56. “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
57. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown
58. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
59. “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
Road Trip Movie Quotes
60. “According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb & Dumber
61. “Adventure is out there.” – Up
62. “Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.” – Thelma & Louise
63. “Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
64. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” – The Goofy Movie
65. “We’re almost there, but nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going.” – Gilmore Girls
66. “Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?” – Transformers
67. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie The Pooh
68. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – The Lord of the Rings
69. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Alice In Wonderland
Short Quotes
70. “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra
72. “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe
73. “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
74. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – Rebecca Solnit
75. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Scott Myers
76. “Always take the scenic route.” – Anonymous
77. ““If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
78. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord
79. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
80. “Nothing adventured, nothing attained.” – Peter McWilliams
81. “Adventure, without it, why live?” – Hortense Odlum
82. “You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.” – Bob Marley
83. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
84. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
85. “Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.” – Anonymous
86. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin
87. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar
88. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius
89. “There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.” – Gregory David Roberts
90. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
91. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
92. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
93. “Making memories, one road trip at a time.” – Anonymous
94. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
95. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
Long Quotes
96. “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
97. “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
98. “I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.” – John Steinbeck
99. “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
100. “No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.” – Bruce Springsteen
Resources For Your Trip
After years of traveling, road trips are still our favorite way to travel because we can explore at our own pace and go where we want on our own terms. If you’re planning a road trip, consider some of our popular resources below:
- Best road trips in the US – A detailed list of 30 amazing scenic drives in America
- Plan a road trip – Use our easy 10 step process to plan your next trip
- Road trip essentials – A tried and tested list of what to pack with downloadable list
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Happy Road Tripping,
Mark and Kristen
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Since the arrival of baby Maya in late 2024, Mark and Kristen’s extensive travels have slowed down but they still take plenty of trips. Where Are Those Morgans now helps millions of travelers each year to visit new places and hike new trails through information-packed blog posts and expert travel guidebooks. Read more about Mark and Kristen.