20 Quotes To Inspire You To Travel The World Alone

Before I set out to travel the world alone back in 2015, I’d spend hours browsing and saving quotes about traveling solo on Pinterest.

They became my mantras, and somehow I always forget to realize how much these quotes helped me to gather the courage and strength to hop on that one-way flight to Europe. I decided, then, to share a few of my favorites with you guys! Hope they inspire you and much as they did to me!

My favorite solo female travel quotes:

1. “The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, “Why, it is life.” — Emily Hahn

2. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere” — Mae West

3. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou

4. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

5. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” — Helen Keller

6. “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

7. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

8. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

9. “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” — Dilma Rousseff

10. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

11. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel

12. “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

13. “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

14. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

15. ‘When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” — Shauna Niequist

16. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey. — Mandy Hale