40 traveling solo quotes from powerful women that will make you think

Are your paws itching for a solo adventure? Whether you are an experienced traveling cat or just getting started, we all need a little motivation to pounce on our next opportunity. No matter your situation, these 40 traveling solo quotes from powerful women will ease your brain by putting words to a truly indescribable experience.

Traveling solo quotes for finding yourself

1. You carry the passport to your own happiness. – Diane Von Furstenberg
2. Figure out who are you separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self. With that, you can do anything else. – Angelina Jolie
3. The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself. – Angela Vallely
4. 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

Being alone

1. I restore myself when I’m alone. – Marilyn Monroe 
2. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. – Ellen Burstyn 
3. Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. – Mandy Hale
4. 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
5. A person needs at intervals to separate themselves from family and companions and go to new places. You must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. – Katharine Butler Hathaway

Traveling solo as a woman

1. As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf
2. When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. – Diane Von Furstenberg
3. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. – Barbara De Angelis
4. If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. – Jane Austen

The adventurer’s soul

1. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
2. 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
3. Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient. – Grace Lichtenstein
4. If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. – Gloria Steinem
5. Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

Traveling solo quotes on the important topic of bravery

1. Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin
2. Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one thing that is going to require the most from you. – Caroline Myss
3. What good are wings without the courage to fly? – Harper Lee
4. To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. – Elizabeth Gilbert
5. Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Keeping it quippy

1. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. – Mae West
2. I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. – Calamity Jane
3. Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. – Margaret Shepard
4. I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone. – Audrey Hepburn

It’s not about the destination

1. Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest. – Freya Stark
2. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – Melody Truong
3. I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. –Susan Sontag
4. 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
5. If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Rachel Wolchin

Becoming a citizen of the world

1. You must go on adventures to find out where you belong. – Sue Fitzmaurice
2. 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
3. It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home. – Jewel E. Ann
4. 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

Quotes on travel changing who you are

1. Growth and comfort do not coexist. – Virginia Rometty
2. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
3. 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
4. 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

Conclusion on traveling solo quotes

There you have it! 40 little pieces of motivation from women, for women. Just remember that the amazing experiences that you’ll have while solo traveling will not always be easy to put into words. This is why traveling solo quotes can have such a meaningful impact on our psyche. As you begin your journey, make sure to come back here and see how your perspective has changed.

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