200 Inspirational Walking Quotes To Get You Out And Exploring

Why Walking quotes?

Walking from one place to another was the only mode of transportation known to human beings until sometime around the late Neolithic period or the New Stone Age.

The activity was a major part of the lifestyle of all primitive humans before the beginning of the domestication of animals like horses, or the invention and utilization of the wheel. Today, it has transformed into a rare recreation or an inconvenient necessity for modern humans living in an industrialized world.

Although walking is still a part of the everyday life of any abled person, they have forgotten that they are amazing benefits to going on a regular walk.

It is a low-impact exercise that is free, needs no equipment, and can be done at your own pace and timing. It is a perfect physical activity for people who are overweight, elderly, and those who haven't exercised in a long time.

If you thought walking was a mundane activity, these quotes might just change your mind.

What parents should know?

People can develop a healthy attitude towards life by including walking as an iterative activity in their daily routine.

Regular walking can help control blood circulation and pressure, increase bone and muscle strength, stabilize breathing, and improve your mood and general quality of life.

Riding vehicles can also create changes in the hormone levels of a person, primarily increasing adrenaline, which is rather balanced during walking.

A 30-minute walk a day can improve cardiac health, reduce excess body fat, and risk of common ailments.

What to discuss with kids?

Walking is the best way for your child to enjoy their surroundings, feel relaxed and induce creative thinking.

Walking can also help your child be more energetic and maintain an active immune system.

Rather than being generic, walking can also be planned as an activity to explore new areas with your child. It can also improve their sleep.

Want to discover more quotes that can inspire you to get on your feet and go to new places? Our articles on Road Trip Quotes or Adventure With Friends Quotes can help you out.

Great Quotes About Walking

Walking not only keeps you fit and in good health, but it also helps you appreciate the beauty around you. Add spark to your walking routine with these best walking quotes.

1. "There was nowhere to go but everywhere." - Jack Kerouac

2. "The longest journey begins with a single step." - Pantanjali

3. "Our walk counts far more than our talk." - George Mueller

4. "Walk your own path and be yourself." - Joanna Nussbaum

5. "Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up." - Dean Karnazes

6. "An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau

7. "Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility." - Gary Snyder

8. "To lead people, walk behind them." - Lao Tzu

9. "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 'Twilight Of The Idols'

10. "I love walking because it clears your mind, enriches the soul, takes away stress, and opens up your eyes to a whole new world ." - Claudette Dudley

11. "Walking for health and fitness, the easiest way to get in shape and stay in shape." - Frank Ring

12. "We were not placed on this earth to walk alone." - Thomas Spencer Monson

13. "Do not walk on the road of no return. Repent!" - Lailah Gifty Akita

14. "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Mahatma Gandhi

15. "I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject." - Jeanette Winterson

16. "After a day's walk, everything has twice its usual value." - George Macaulay Trevelyan

17.  "We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down." - Robert Sweetgall

18. "But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations." - Gwyn Thomas

19. "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." - Steven Wright

20. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

21. "I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension." - Steven Wright

22. "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching." - Saint Francis of Assisi

23. "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself." - Confucius

Walking Away Quotes

Walking long distances in nature has a profound effect on both the mind and the body. A motivational quote may be just what you need to get out of the door and take the first step.

24. "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright

25. "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." - John Muir

26. "Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail." - Robert Motherwell

27. "I just can't walk away from something I've done all my life. it's part of me." - Chuck Jordan

28. "I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again." - David Guterson

29. "Most of us need something not to walk away from." - Josh Stern

30. "It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven." - Matthew Henry

31. "I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away." - Heath Ledger

32. "Some people make your life better by walking into it while others make your life better by simply walking out of it." - Wiz Khalifa

33. "Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God." - George Washington Carver

34. "When trust is broken how can you repair it? Sometimes you just have to walk away." - Hattie Lou

35. "Walk on, yes, but don't walk away from people who need you." - Rachel Hartman

Adventure Quotes

An adventure is a trip that is usually daring and can be dangerous. Walking over a mountain, in a deep forest, or anything a little more risky than usual is adventure walking. Check out these best walking quotes to motivate you to go on an adventure.

36. "You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to." - J.R.R. Tolkien

37. "I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." - Henry David Thoreau

38. "Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace." - Dr. Janice Anderson and Kiersten Anderson

39. "Man's real home in not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot." - Bruce Chatwin

40. "The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort." - Paulo Coelho

41. "The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before." - Albert Einstein

42. "When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen." - A.A. Milne

43. "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

44. "Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." - Jack Kerouac

45. "Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. " - William Blake

46. "The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human." - Victor Hugo

47. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

48. "Wildness is the preservation of the World." - Henry David Thoreau

49. "Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure." - Henry David Thoreau

50. "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." - John Muir

51. "Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul." - Jaime Lyn Beatty

Hiking Quotes

Hiking connects us to nature and helps our souls to look deep into the heart. Below are the best hiking and walking quotes.

52. "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity." - John Muir

53. "Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself." - Jamie Luner

54. "The mountains are calling and I must go." - John Muir

55. "I'd rather be hiking in the rain than sitting inside at a desk on a sunny day." - Unknown*

56. "Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot." - Diane Spicer

57. "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." - John Muir

58. "Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

59. "We don't stop hiking because we grow old, we grow old because we stop hiking." - Finis Mitchell

60. "In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous." - Aristotle

61. "Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street." - William Blake

62. "I love walking in the woods, along the trails, by the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries." - Grace Kelly

63. "When we walk into a grove of trees or under an open sky the magic of nature takes over and the heaviness of life lifts a little." - Natassia Cassinero

64. "I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm." - John Mackey

Inspirational Walking Quotes

Sometimes all it takes is a well-phrased quote to motivate and remind yourself that you have what it takes to accomplish your goals. Below are the best inspirational quotes on walking that you needed to boost to energize your mindset.

65. "Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you." - John Ruskin

66. "If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk." - Hippocrates

67. "There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

68. "There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." - Ralph Marston

69. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

70. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

71. "A walk in nature, walks the soul back home." - Mary Davis

72. "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." - Ernest Hemingway

73. "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread." - Edward Abbey

74. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau

75. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

76. "Just pick up your courage and walk away. Don't waste time. The longer one drags on, the amount of pain accumulates." - Dick Hirayama

77. "Trust yourself and walk away from situations and people that don't have your best interest at heart." - Ben Ruston

78. "Anyone or anything that is negative, you should walk away from. Make room for all the positives." - Wendy John

79. "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama

80. “When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.” - Jay Woodman

81. “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” - Wallace Stevens

82. “To solve a problem, walk around.” - Gregory McNamee

83. “Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet.” - Roger Miller

84. “Thoughts come clearly while one walks.” - Thomas Mann

85. “A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.” - Rachel Carson

86. “This early piece of the morning is mine.” - Wallace Stegner

87. “Morning is an important time of day because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” - Lemony Snicket

88. “It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.” - Mary Ellen Chase

89. "Walking is man’s best medicine." - Hippocrates

90. “Make your feet your friend.” - J.M. Barrie

91. “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” - Soren Kierkegaard

92. “Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors.” - Prajakta Mhadnak

93. “But the beauty is in the walking, we are betrayed by destinations.” - Gwyn Thomas

94. “There comes… a longing never to travel again except on foot.” - Wendell Berry

95. “Walking in shoes is physical walking, but walking barefoot is spiritual walking!” - Mehmet Murat Ildan

96. “Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.” - Edward Abbey

97. “Walking is the desire for life.” - Jeffrey C. Robinson

98. “I am extremely happy walking on the downs…I like to have space to spread my mind out in.” - Virginia Woolf

99. “Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

100. “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” - Noel Coward

101. “There is this to be said for walking: it’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.”- Edward Abbey

102. “A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.” - Rebecca Solnit

103. “Walking is pretty easy. You just have to be confident, like not caring. And honestly, people think about their walk too much, so they try to do something really interesting, but the designers hate it.” - Lucky Blue Smith

104. “Walk like you have three men walking behind you.”- Unknown*

105. “Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.” - Gary Snyder

106. “The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

107. “After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” - George Macauley Trevelyan

108. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” - Richard Branson

109. “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” - Mark Twain

110. “If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should explode and perish.” - Charles Dickens

111. “Walking is the natural recreation for a person who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.” - Leslie Stephen

112. “When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.” - Michael Patrick King

113. “If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.” - Iman

114. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

115. “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” -Aldous Huxley

116. “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” - Henry David Thoreau

117. “There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right temp. Even a bicycle goes too fast.” - Paul Scott Mowrer

118. “Good walking leaves no track behind it.” - Laozi

119. “The destiny of every walking man is to immerse himself in the panorama surrounding him, to the point of becoming one with it and, ultimately, to vanish.” - Federico Castigliano

120. “Walking shares with making and working that crucial.” - Unknown*

121. “I love walking because it clears your mind, enriches the soul, takes away stress and opens up your eyes to a whole new world.” - Claudette Dudley

122. “If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” - Hippocrates

123. “When I’m in turmoil, when I can’t think, when I’m exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It’s just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, sometimes to make me feel less like jumping off a building.” -Jim Butcher

124. “I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.” - Rosamund Pike

125. “Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.” - A.L. Rowse

126. “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” - Henry David Thoreau

127. “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” - Steven Wright

128. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” - Abraham Lincoln

129. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

130. "But the beauty is in the walking; we are betrayed by destinations." - Gwyn Thomas

131. "It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." - Rumi

132. "Diversity is about all of us and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together." - Jacqueline Woodson

133. "Change your thoughts, and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

134. "Shed your thoughts of being in a rut, and get out for an afternoon walk." - Andy Atticus

135. "The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose." - Charles Dickens

136. "I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit." - Henry David Thoreau

137. "If you seek creative ideas go walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk." - Raymond Inmon

138. "If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish." - Charles Dickens

139. "The destiny of every walking man is to immerse himself in the panorama surrounding him, to the point of becoming one with it, and ultimately, to vanish." - Federico Castigliano

Funny Walking Quotes

Introducing walking as a part of your daily activities requires a good sense of humor in a person as well. Check out these funny walking quotes and see if you can find walking, fun.

140. "Let’s wander where the wifi is weak." - Unknown*

141. "I have two doctors, my left leg and my right." - G.M. Trevelyan

142. "There is no wifi in the morning forest, but you will find a better connection." - Unknown*

143. "I chose the road less traveled, and now, I have no idea where I am." - Unknown*

144. "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright

145. "The hill looked hard at first. But, I got over it." - Unknown*

146. "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninty-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." - Ellen DeGeneres

147. "Put down that remote and go for a walk." - Unknown*

148. "I don’t get it. The trail looked so flat on the map." - Unknown*

149. "My biggest fear about becoming a zombie is all the walking I’d have to do." - Unknown*

150. "Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasin, you can’t imagine the smell." - Robert Byrne

151. "Mr. Right's coming.. but he's in Africa and he's walking!" - Oprah

152. "When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad." - Helen Rowland

153. "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller

154. "I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip." - Vin Diesel

Walking Quotes About Exercise

Looking for an easy and enjoyable exercise to get back in shape? Explore these quotes and find out how walking can help you get healthier.

155. "The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best." - Thomas Jefferson

156. “Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.” - Lailah Gifty Akita

157. We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of the physical activity essential for healthy living." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

158. Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal." - Ellen Gould White

159. Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself." Norman Vincent Peale

160. I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space." - Paul Dudley White

161. "The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once." - Jean Paul

162. “Walking is cheap, fun, safe and acceptable exercise.” - Annie Taylor

163. “Walking is the best possible exercise.” - Thomas Jefferson

164. "Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands." - Daphne Oz

165. “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” - Paul Dudley White

166. "Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against cold winds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases." - Ellen Gould White

167. "If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthy body, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercise the soul; fasting cleanses both." - Francis Quaries

168. "Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood." - Andrew Weil

169. "Walking is great to be used as an exercise program." - Lee Haney

Walking Quotes About Nature

The experiences of nature are best felt in the slow pace of walking. Take a look at these quotes and see how people express their love for walking as an activity to explore and enjoy the beauty of nature.

170. "In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir

171. "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." - Gary Snyder

172. "I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my sense put in order." - John Burroughs

173. "The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony." - Ruth Bernhard

174. "As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." - Ben Hogan

175. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost

176. "Happiness walks on busy feet." - Kitte Turmell

177. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

178. “Take a quiet walk with Mother Nature. It will nurture your mind, body and soul.” - Antony Douglas Williams

179. "I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love talking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky." - Audrey Hepburn

180. "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can, and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Gautama Buddha

181. "Lovely days don't come to you; you should walk to them." - Rumi

182. "Home in everything you can walk to." -Jerry Spinelli, 'Stargirl'

183. "Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow, you must come out and walk many steps on your own." - Amit Ray

184. "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

185. "To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and guidance of virtue." - Gautama Buddha

186. "Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." - Vincent Van Gogh

187. "We all walk in the dark, and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light." - Earl Nightingale

188. "Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world's a lot more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a great deal more mysterious." - Cornelia Funke

189. "I take brisk walks in the sunshine to invigorate my body and soul." - Louise Hay

190. "I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy." - Jamie Lee Curtis

191. "Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." - Walt Whitman

Walking Quotes About Body

Read through this list of quotes to find out how walking has helped so many people from around the work, to better understand and take care of their bodies.

192. "A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes." - Christian Louboutin

193. "Walking is how the body measures itself against the earth." - Rebecca Solnit, 'Wanderlust: A History Of Walking'

194. "Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

195. "There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue." - Thomas Jefferson

196. "If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha." - Thích Nhất Hạnh

197. “Walking brings me back to myself.” - Laurette Mortimer

198. "Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird." - Jules Renard

199. “When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

200. "I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs." - Jean-Jaques Rousseau

201. “In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

202. "Happy is the person who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake." - Willian Jacob Holland

203. "The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk." - Joseph Joubert

204. "Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints." - Frederic Gros

205. "There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs." - Jose Saramago

206. "I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with." - Vladimir Nabokov

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