The Road Tripper's Guide

25 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Road Trip

With summer just around the corner, we thought it time to reignite your free spirit with some travel inspiration. That’s why we’ve compiled our 25 favourite travel quotes and paired them with some of the most breathtaking Instagram photos we could find. Feel free to use your favourites!

1. Live life by a compass, not a clock (Stephen Covey)

Live life by a compass, not a clock -Stephen Covey

2. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Anonymous)

3. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step (Lao Tzu)

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

4. Not all those who wander are lost (JRR Tolkien)

5. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware (Martin Buber)

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6. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and start enjoying the journey (Babs Hoffman)

7. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference (Robert Frost)

8. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page (Augustine of Hippo)

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9. Life isn’t about finding yourself — it’s about creating yourself (Anonymous)

10. A ship in the harbor is safe — but that’s not what ships are built for (John A. Shedd)

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A ship in the harbor is safe, but it’s not what ships are built for

11. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us (Anonymous)

12. It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times (Anonymous)

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us
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13. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you (Anonymous)

14. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries (Aldous Huxley)

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries

15. Collect moments, not things (Anonymous)

16. Because, in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain (Jack Kerouac)

17. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes (Marcel Proust)

18. Oh, the places you’ll go (Dr. Seuss)

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19. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore (Andre Gide)

20. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine — it’s lethal (Paolo Coelho)

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21. It is not the destination you end up at, but the mishaps and the memories you create along the way (Anonymous)

22. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West)

It is not the destination you end up but the mishaps and the memories you create along the way

23. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind (Marty Rubin)

24. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts (Mark Twain)

25. Travelling — it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller (Ibn Battuta)

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