Whether you are looking for inspirational messages to awaken your inner travel spirit or simply some nice travel quotes to spice up your next Instagram captions, I promise you to make a find with my ultimate list of 50 inspiring solo trip quotes!

As for me, I am a huge fan of reading and sharing quotes and I’m in constant search of new ones. Some of my favorite travel quotes make me want to jump on a plane immediately!

Over the past years, I collected a bunch of inspiring and positive travel quotes for solo travelers and I’m happy to share my 50 all-time favorites with you. Make sure to follow my Pinterest Travel Quotes Pinboard for continuous updates and your ultimate dose of travel quotes.  

50 Inspiring Solo Trip Quotes

Short and to the point Travel Quotes

  • Travel is not really about leaving our homes but leaving our habits (Pico Iyer)
  • We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment (Hilaire Belloc)
  • Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination (Unknown)
  • Travel does not reward for working. It’s education for a living (Unknown)
  • Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time (Unknown)
  • I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable (Carew Papritz)
  • To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist (Oscar Wilde)
  • All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware (Martin Buber)
  • Travel expands the mind and fills the gap (Sheda Savage)
  • Traveling is about finding those things you never knew you were looking for (Unknown)

More short Travel Quotes

  • Wherever you are, be all there (Jim Elliot)
  • Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow (Anita Desai)
  • Life itself is a privilege. But to life live to the fullest – that is a choice (Andy Andrews)
  • Travel is still the most intense mode of learning (Kevin Kelly)
  • When you choose to collect experiences rather than things, you never, ever run out of storage space (Unknown)
  • Traveling makes one modest – you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world (Unknown)
  • So much of who we are is where we have been (William Langewiesche)
  • I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world (Mary Anne Radmacher)
  • Adopt a traveler’s mindset for life. Carry only what you need for the journey (Unknown)
  • Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen (Unknown)

Deep Solo Trip Quotes

  • Travel broadens our perspectives. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors (Rick Steves)
  • Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. Air, sleep, dream, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it (Cesare Pavese)
  • We travel because distance and difference are the secret tonics of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something inside our minds has changed, and that changes everything (Jonah Lehrer)
  • I’ll never be content to stay forever in one place. I’m too madly in love with all the places I haven’t been, the people I haven’t met, the food I haven’t tried, and the streets I haven’t danced on (Brooke Hampton)
  • Travel is rebellion in its purest form. We follow our hearts, free ourselves of labels, and lose control willingly. We trade a role in reality, love the unfamiliar, and trust strangers. So, we own only what we can carry and we search for better questions, not answers. We truly graduate. And sometimes, we choose never to come back (Unknown)

More Meaningful Travel Quotes

  • The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown (Paul Theroux)
  • And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later (Randy Komisar)
  • The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want (Fitzgerald Scott)
  • To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted (Bill Bryson)
  • The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper (W.B. Yeats)
  • 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)
  • Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common (Deborah Lloyd)

Adventure Travel Quotes

  • 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)
  • Sometimes you just need the adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul (Unknown)
  • There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this (Unknown)
  • We have nothing to lose and a world to see (Unknown)
  • Life is short and the world is wide (Unknown)
  • To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live (Hans Christian Anderson)
  • If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be a priority (Richard Branson)
  • Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it (Andy Rooney)
  • Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go (Unknown)
  • Live life with no excuses and travel with no regret (Oscar Wilde)

Female Solo Trip Quotes

  • To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world (Freya Stark)
  • The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before (Albert Einstein)
  • Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it (John Mayer)
  • An investment in travel is an investment in yourself (Unknown)
  • Travel is the best way to be lost and found at the same time (Unknown)
  • I travel to learn – about the world, about others, about myself (Unknown)
  • Travel is never a matter of money but of courage (Unknown)
  • A mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions (Unknown)

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