50 Road Trip Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure + Downloadable Social Media Images

Quotes are a great way to make a statement by using someone else’s words. In a world filled with quotes about life, religion, celebrities, comic book characters, and cats, I decided to make a list of quotes about road trips. And then I added downloadable social media images you can use for free.

For me, road trips are not just a career or a passion. They are a way of life. I live one mile at a time on the open road, traveling from one destination to the next in search of the next great story to tell.

I hope you enjoy this list of road trip quotes and find the images useful!

No. 01

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No. 02

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

No. 03

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

No. 04

“Look on every exit being an entrance to somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

No. 05

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” – Tony Robbins 

No. 06

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

No. 07

“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

No. 08

“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

No. 09

“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

No. 10

“If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.” – John Perry Barlow

No. 11

“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Ganest

No. 12

“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma and Louise

No. 13

“The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

No. 14

“According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” – Dumb & Dumber

No. 15

“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

No. 16

“Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra

No. 17

“The journey is the destination.” – Dan Eldon

No. 18

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

No. 19

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

No. 20

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.” – Dave Barry

No. 21

“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri

No. 22

“I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman

No. 23

“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – Rebecca Solnit

No. 24

“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

No. 25

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

No. 26

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

No. 27

“A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

No. 28

“The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

No. 29

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating” – Aaron Lauritsen

No. 30

“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

No. 31

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

No. 32

“Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

No. 33

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

No. 34

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – George Harrison

No. 35

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No. 36

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

No. 37

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

No. 38

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

No. 39

“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

No. 40

“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 

No. 41

“If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright

No. 42

“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

No. 43

“In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.” – Bill Engvall

No. 44

“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 a road-trip or posting quotes about a road-trip.” – Crestless Wave

No. 45

“It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green

No. 46

“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green