Quotes for Traveling Alone:
Before sharing the quotes for traveling alone, I’ll share a story. I was 17 when I traveled to Europe for the first time. My grandma took my cousin and me on a coach tour that went to Rome, Florence, Venice, Lucerne, Paris and London. I was hooked. I had done some traveling with my family before this, but this was my first time visiting a whole new continent. I DREAMED of going back and seeing more.
I got it into my head that if I could just make it back to Europe and do a three month backpacking trip across the continent, my travel desire would be filled and my heart would be content. (Or so I thought.) So I needed to save all my pennies to make my dream trip happen. I decided that one way to help inspire me to save as much as possible was to tape a bunch of pictures to my wallet of all the places I wanted to go. I also threw a few inspirational travel quotes on there as well for good measure. I kept these pictures taped to my wallet for YEARS. When they would start to fade or wear out I’d print a new batch along with some more inspirational quotes and tape them on all over again.
Becoming a flight attendant allowed my travel dreams to come true. I’m grateful for that every day! It’s been more than a decade since I’ve had a wallet covered in travel photos. But if I DID still have travel pictures or inspirational quotes taped to my wallet, here’s a few of the quotes I’d be choosing from.
Solo Travel Quotes:
Honorable Mentions:
“Solo travel will push you out of your comfort zone and give you a confidence boost like nothing else can.” – Anonymous
“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” – Unknown
“Solo travel… it forces you to trust yourself, question yourself, and in turn, trust yourself even more.” – Brooke Saward
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Solo travel is the perfect way to reconnect with nature, with yourself, and with the world around you.” – Unknown
“The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of solo travel – to explore, to dream, to discover.” – Anonymous
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.” – Alan Ashley-Pitt
“The beauty of solo travel is that you have the freedom to follow your heart and let your spirit soar.” – Unknown
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
“In solo travel, you are forced to face your fears, discover your strengths, and learn to trust yourself.” – Unknown
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt
“The solo traveler is not looking for an escape from life, but rather a way to experience it more fully.” – Shane Dallas
My Personal Favorites:
“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
“There’s no right way or wrong way to travel solo… everyone should give solo travel a try at least once in their life.” – Susan Moore
“Solo travel is an opportunity to discover parts of yourself that you never knew existed.” – Stephanie Lee
“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown
“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner
“You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.” – Unknown
General Travel Quotes:
While these aren’t specifically quotes for traveling alone, they’re some travel quotes that really speak to me.
Honorable Mentions:
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
My Personal Favorites:
“It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” – Anthony Bourdain
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“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. 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
Final Thoughts:
I hope you found one or two quotes for traveling alone that you found inspiring. Moral of the story: Travel. And if at all possible, challenge yourself to take a solo trip at some point. It truly is a *life changing* experience.
Safe travels friends.
CE
