(2026) 50 Empowering Solo Female Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Next Trip
The best solo female travel quotes to get you inspired and empowered for your next trip. Enjoy!
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There’s something about solo travel that makes you feel limitless. Navigating a new country, discovering the local culture, and living life on your own accord. If you follow me on Instagram you know I love quotes. So when it comes to solo female travel, I’ve got plenty of quotes to share!
Without further ado here are 50 solo female travel quotes every woman should live by. I hope these empower you to live your best life and conquer the world on your terms.
1. “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
2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
3. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf
4. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.”
Maya Angelou
5. “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go cross the country, I’ll race to the Moon….I’ll never look back.”
Edna Gardener Whyte
6. “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 Rooselvelt
7. “The most effective way to do it….is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart
8. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world”
Freya Stark
9. “Travel will make you appreciate the familiarity of home. It will restore your sense of childlike wonder for what was already there. And when you return, you will remember what it is to truly be alive again”
Jessica Yurasek
10. “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
11. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
Arianna Huffington
12. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.”
Marissa Mayer
13. “If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.”
Reese Witherspoon
14. “I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen.”
Emma Watson
15. “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.”
Gabrielle Union
16. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
Maya Angelou
17. “I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.”
Rihanna
18. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
Miriam Beard
19. “Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.”
L.E. Landon
20. “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
21. “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
22. The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.”
Frances Mayes
23. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
24. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
Albert Einstein
25. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
Diane Von Furstenberg
26. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”
Isabelle Eberhardt
27. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
Mae West
28. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
29. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”
Cheryl Strayed
30. “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
31. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
32. “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”
Ella Maillart
33. “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
34. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me”
Ayn Rand
35. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing”
Holly Morris
36. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage”
Anaïs Nin
37. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”
Daphne Du Maurier
38. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
Agnes Repplier
39. “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
40. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination”
Mae Jemison
41. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
42. “If you can’t imagine it, you can’t have it.”
Toni Morrison
43. “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf
44. “Travel also reminds us of what we share and what we have become – the ability for us to recognize ourselves in each other.”
Barack Obama
45. “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.”
Jacquiline Boone
46. “I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That’s me.”
Maya Angelou
47. “The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.”
Beyonce
48. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others expectations.”
Suzy Strutner
49. “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.”
Michelle Obama
50. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”
Oprah Winfrey
Whether it’s empowering your solo female travel bug or your #girlboss goals I hope these quotes left your inspired and ready to take action. And if you loved these solo female travel quotes be sure to find me on Instagram @candaceabroad where I share my favorite quotes daily!
All the love,
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