100 Inspirational Travel Quotes For Solo Travelers - Instagram Quotes When You Travel Solo

I was a solo traveler before meeting my husband. It is exciting and empowering. It will make you learn so much about yourself that you never knew existed. However, as empowering as it is, there are just times that you’ll feel lonely and at the back of your mind, you’d wish someone was with you or you’d wish you were home. There are times that you’ll miss your comfortable bed that albeit being old and a little dusty, you think that the beds from 5-star hotels doesn’t compare to it. You’d miss your mom’s home-cooked meals, your noisy neighbors, you’d miss having a friend you can call at 4 AM just because, and that’s completely normal! I have moments like that too and every time I feel that way, I just read some inspirational quotes and it instantly lifts up my mood!

Here are 100 Inspirational Travel Quotes For Solo Travelers that you can read when you’re scared to start your solo adventures, when you’re already there but you feel lonely, or when you’re back home and itching to start a new trip. Also perfect for your instagram worthy photos from your solo adventures :)

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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” -Unknown
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” – Marie Beyon Ray
“Travel is an investment on yourself” -Anonymous
“Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson
“Boldness, be my friend!” -Shakespeare
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver
"If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!" -Unknown
“Dare to live the life you always wanted” -Unknown
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you never go, you will never know” -Anonymous
“If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, then you might wait a lifetime” -Anonymous
“I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.” – Ella Maillart
“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
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question” – Harun Yahya
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live in?” – Caroline Myss
“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
“Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.” – Helen Thayer
“Travel far enough to meet yourself” -Unknown
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”- Anais Nin
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -Tim Cahill
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Watching Sunsets around the world is boring – no one ever said” -Unknown
“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” — Storm Jameson
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling
“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
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”- Helen Keller
“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” – Holly Morris
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark
“Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”- Mae Jemison
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” — Daphne du Maurier
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”- Mary Ritter Beard
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”- Ella Maillart
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins
“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”- Libba bray
“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth gilbert
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries – Aldous Huxley
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” – Mary Oliver
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
“To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.” – Raquel Cepeda
“Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan” -Unknown
“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
“You might be poor on money, but rich on life” – Kasper Raunholst
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley
“You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination and a great hostel!” -Unknown
“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman
“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
“I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“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
“The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know” – Socrates
“I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.” — Roman Payne
"As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it's inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!" -Unknown
“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
"Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!" -Unknown
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”- Isabelle Eberhardt
"Just because my path is different, doesn't mean I am lost!" -Unknown
"Traveling solo made me a stronger person!" -Unknown
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Agustine of Hippo
“My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” — Warsan Shire
“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.” – Jawaharial Nehru
"If you never go, you will never know!" -Unknown
“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty
"You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!" -Unknown
“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson
"Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!" -Unknown
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” -Lawrence Block
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
"Some journeys can be only traveled alone!" - Ken Poirot
“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
“I am willing to put myself through anything, temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.” – Diana Nyad
"Traveling the world on my own made me more conﬁdent. I am me now!" -Unknown
“All you need to know is that it’s possible.” -Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
“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
“Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan Mcgregor
“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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” – Caroline Myss
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
“I’ve not ceased being fearful, I’ve gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you go too far.” – Erica Jong
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” -Stephen Covey
“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are built for.” - Gael Attal