I found 100 really great quotes that would be perfect for your road trip countdown at home or in your RV.
I am currently remodeling our new RV home and I see all the beautiful letterboards, and printed signs and I went to hunt for some beautiful words for our walls!
There is something so compelling about a great sentence, right on time. Tell me if you find yours here!
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Letterboard Quotes
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The traveler knows the grace of travel.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
“Exuberance is beauty.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“In every voyage, be fully present.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“When all else fails, take a vacation.”
― Betty Williams
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!”
― Joan Rylen
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“Extend your vacation whenever possible.”
― Adrienne Posey
“Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!”
― Lea Mishell
“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
Adventure Quotes
“Have you noticed that the world shrinks when you travel?”
― Richie Norton
“Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
― Jason Mraz
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
— Fred Hoyle
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.”
― Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry”
― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“Travelling unveils new dimensions of this world not known to the naked eye.”
― Wayne Chirisa
“Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.”
― Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe
Follow Your Dreams Quotes
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”
― Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― John Anster, The First Part of Goethe’s Faust
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“If you live where you want to go on vacation, you will always be on vacation.”
― Matt Fox, The Hitchhiker Man
“From a mere vacation, one goes home older, but from true travel one returns changed by challenge.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
Vacation Quotes
“Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn’t.”
― April Mae Monterrosa
“Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are.”
― Debasish Mridha
“What shall you do all your vacation?’, asked Amy. “I shall lie abed and do nothing”, replied Meg.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend”
― Doug Larson
“Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.”
― Andrea Goeglein
“When you plan a vacation, actually take it.”
― Andrea Goeglein
I hope you found just what you needed, if you are planning a grand adventure, and I hope that you are, check out these planning articles, or just snag the vacation budgeting worksheet!
If you are feeling inspired and traveling with young kids, you can find my thoughts on adventuring with a large family here.
Thank you so much for stopping by. You got this.
I will leave you with my favorite quote for inspiring family travel:
