The Best Road Trip Quotes – Funny And Inspiring

I love road trips, and a good funny or inspirational quote, so I thought why not combine these and share my favourite road trip quotes with you.

After a lot of research, these are the best road trip quotes that I found. 

Even though plenty claim to be funny, it’s not as easy as it sounds – maybe it’s my sense of humour?

I also wanted to find some that were inspirational, but not the most common ones, so I hope you enjoy them. You know those ones “It’s all about the journey, not the destination” and so on. These are great of course, but I was looking for something a bit different, and I think I found them.

These road trip quotes have been sourced from authors, celebrities, movies and songs that have a focus on road trips – National Lampoon anyone?

So, without any further rambling, let’s get to them:

Road Trip Quotes – Funny

Roadtripophobia (n). The fear of not having any road trips planned ~ Unknown

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Road trips require a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes – oh, and directions ~ Jenn McKinlay

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 road trips ~ Crestless Wave

It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised nine year old was given $100 ~ Unknown

I wish road trips could pay my bills ~ Unknown

Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here ~ Thelma and Louise

I just said we’d make it across. I didn’t say anything about the wheels staying on ~ Road Trip (the movie)

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Road Trips: because they’re cheaper than therapy ~ Unknown

Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason ~ Jerry Seinfeld.

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

Yeah, working is great … but have you tried taking a road trip ~ Unknown

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

Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres ~ George Carlin

 This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for fun. You’re gonna have fun, and I’m gonna have fun … we’re all gonna have so much f***ing fun we’re gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles ~ National Lampoon’s Vacation

According to the map, we’ve only gone four inches ~ Dumb and Dumber

A bend in the road, is not the end of the road … unless you fail to make the turn ~ Helen Keller

 If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer ~ John Perry Barlow

 Road trip hair, don’t care ~ Unknown

On a road trip, be back never ~ Unknown

The destination isn’t actually the best part of a road trip – it’s the snacks ~ Unknown

Road trips would be a lot better if they paid my bills ~ Unknown

If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet ~ Rachel Wolchin

People having babies and getting married … and I’m like: where am I road tripping next ~ Unknown

Road Trip Quotes – Inspiring

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

The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it ~ Chris Humphrey

I was never going to go if I waited for someone to come with me ~ Unknown

Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music ~ Unknown

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

 All you’ve got to do is decide to go, and the hardest part is over ~ Tony Wheeler

 It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure … It’s not like we have somewhere to go ~ John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure ~ Bob Bitchin

People don’t take trips, trips take people ~ John Steinbeck

Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist ~ Unknown

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement ~ Anthony Joshua

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths ~ Walt Disney

The road less travelled is the road to adventure ~ Unknown

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Roads were made for journeys, not destinations ~ Unknown

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey ~ Babs Hoffman

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere ~ Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

It feels good to be lost in the right direction – Unknown

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road ~ Jack Kerouac

Making memories, one road trip at a time ~ Unknown

 I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list ~ Susan Sontag

My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been ~ Diane Arbus

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story ~ Steve Rushin

Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror ~ Byrd Baggett

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? ~ Transformer 3 Movie

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step ~ Lao Tzu

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret ~ Oscar Wilde

Look for chances to take the less-travelled roads. There are no wrong turns ~ Susan Magsamen

When all is 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

If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our life ~ Lemony Snicket

Road trips give you a sense of freedom that’s hard to find anywhere else. It’s a chance to forget your worries and just enjoy the open road ~ Unknown

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

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take ~ Angela N Blount

Oh the places you’ll go ~ Dr Seuss

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost ~ Erol Ozan

If you come to a fork in the road, take it ~ Yogi Berra

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations ~ Zig Ziglar

One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things ~ Henry Miller

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you ~ Brad Paisley

Road Trip Quotes – Heading Into The Unknown

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there ~ Lewis Carroll

Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself ~ Stacy Westfall

I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring ~ David Bowie

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

We’re almost there but nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going ~ Gilmore Girls

Really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination ~ Unknown

A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind ~ Meggan Roxanne

Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway, lookin’ for adventure ~ Born To Be Wild

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore ~ Gregory David Roberts

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it ~ Rosalia De Castro

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

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

Not all those who wander are lost ~ JRR Tolkien

Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip ~ Bon Jovi

Travel … the best way to be lost and found at the same time ~ Brenna Smith

Life is too short not to go on that spontaneous road trip ~ Unknown

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes ~ Marcel Proust

Travelling is about finding those things you never knew you were looking for ~ Unknown

Extraordinary things happen when you don’t know where you’re going ~ Unknown

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware ~ Martin Buber

There are no foreign lands. It is only the traveller who is foreign ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Follow your dreams, they know the way ~ Unknown

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but, well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Getting lost is just another way of saying “going exploring” ~ Justina Chen

Road Trip Quotes – Travelling With Others

A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places ~ Tom Litchenheld

Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas ~ Thelma and Louise

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them is to travel with them ~ Mark Twain

The success of your journey and you destination all depend on who’s driving ~ Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen

No road is long with good company ~ Turkish proverb

We are all travellers in the wilderness of the world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles ~ Tim Cahill

Endless playlists, coffee and best friends make the best road trip ever ~ Unknown

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter ~ Izaak Walton

Happiness is … a car, the open road, and a best friend ~ Unknown

Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone ~ Chinese proverb

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Road trips are a great opportunity to bond with friends or family. There’s nothing like spending hours in the car together talking, laughing and making memories ~ Unknown

Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road ~ the Goofy Movie

Life is meant for good friends and great adventures ~ Unknown

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented aeroplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family ~ Bill Engvall

You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring ~ Unknown

It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you ~ Unknown

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring ~ Paul Coelho

Road Trip Quotes – Just Because

She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way ~ Jodi Hills

I love being on the road. I love the lifestyle, travelling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place ~ Caleb Johnson

The road goes on forever and the party never ends ~ Robert Earl Keen

I love road trips. You get into this zen rhythm, throw that sense of time out the window ~ Miriam Toews

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

Take the long way home ~ Unknown

When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story ~ Steve Rushin

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road ~ Jack Kerouac

Hit the road, Jack! ~ Ray Charles

Take the long way home ~ Unknown

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating ~ Aaron Lauritsen

And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere ~ Emery Lord

I feel like most of my problems could be solved with a road trip to … anywhere ~ Unknown

Once a year, go someplace you have never been before ~ Dalai Lama

Live your life by a compass, not a clock ~ Unknown

There’s nowhere to go but everywhere ~ Jack Kerouac

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling ~ Unknown

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s ok. The journey changes you; it should change you ~ Anthony Bourdain

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road ~ Jack Kerouac

Strangely, I’m on the road, yet I feel at home ~ Unknown

I’m really in the mood for a long drive with no real destination ~ Unknown

I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I intended to be ~ Douglas Adams

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you go 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

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road ~ William Least Heat-Moon

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 ~ JRR Tolkien

Conclusion

I will leave you with one final one, because, you know, Willie Nelson is a legend!

And to finish it up “On the road again, goin’ places that I’ve never been, seein’ things that I may never see again, and I can’t wait to get on the road again ~ Willie Nelson

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I truly hope you have enjoyed these road trip quotes, please let me know in the comments if you have any favourites that I need to add to the list.

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