Walking Quotes – No Better Time To Take a Walk

For the nomads and adventure souls in me, my itchy feet needs some work to make me feel like I am living my life to the fullest. After all, I would have spent most of my valuable time out in the woods hiking through Patagonia, walking around the mountains in Nepal, if home bound, weekend hiking through Pohono trail, to name a few.

As I am penning this, we are as a society going through unprecedented times of being forced to stay in place and walk only our neighborhoods, instead of taking a flight to take us far away from home, only to take a walk in the remote land…

That got me thinking about walking in general. What a powerful transportation ?! We can live a really meaningful life, just with walking through the parks near home, walking through tough situations in life, walking off the stress by breathing in fresh air…the list is never ending.

Here are my favorite list of walking quotes as I researched the idea of walking. If walking among the woods your thing, check out my tree quotes & tree planting quotes.

Walking Quotes

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth. – Rebecca Solnit

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” – Sir Martin Conway

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” – Mary Davis

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care.”  – Earl Shaffer

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” – Cindy Ross

“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.” – G.M. Trevelyan

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

“A walk in nature walks the soul back home.” – Mary Davis

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” -Dr. Seuss
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
 “For hiking is one of those things that you can only do when you have the determination in you.”

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.” -Greg Child

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” -John Burroughs

“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” -John Muir

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than trees.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

“You need special shoes for hiking—and a bit of a special soul as well.” – Terri Guillemets

“If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain. – Unknown

“The best view comes after the hardest climb.”

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

Also read my collection of cute life quotes.

After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.   – George Macauley Trevelyan

A morning walk gives the body a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of yesterday, to shed its rubbish and mental clutter.  – Terri Guillemets

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

Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life. – Terri Guillemets

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. – Thomas Jefferson

But the beauty is in the walking – we are betrayed by destinations.  – Gwyn Thomas

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.   – Hippocrates

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.  – Steven Wright

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.  – Matthew Henry

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. – Francis of Assisi

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise. – A. L. Rowse

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

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

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

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

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. – John Muir

Good walking leaves no track behind it. – Laozi

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

Our first steps are among the most celebrated milestones of our youth. But for some reason, as we age, walking gets taken for granted. That’s puzzling, since walking is one of the most comprehensive, and safest, fitness routines available. All you need is a good pair of walking shoes and socks, and you are good to go. – BRION O’CONNOR

Walking is easy… but it requires faith to find the right path. – John Twelve Hawks

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. – Raymond Inmon

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. – Leslie Stephen

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world  – Rebecca Solnit

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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

From the child’s first faltering step across the homely carpet, to the astronaut’s “one giant stride for mankind” over the alien moon dust, walking is the simplest but most glorious declaration of human independence.- DUNCAN MINSHULL

Also read my collection of inspiring Traveling with kids quotes and family travel quotes.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you. – Anonymous

Walking is a technique of solitude, a way into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer. – DEIRDRE HEDDON

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

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect – like a man – on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that. ― Edward Abbey

The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose. – CHARLES DICKENS

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. – Jacqueline Schiff

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. – Thomas Jefferson

A morning walk gives the body a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of yesterday, to shed its rubbish and mental clutter. – Terri Guillemets

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. – Carrie Latet

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright

A morning walk sets us out on the right foot for the day. – Terri Guillemets

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.  – Richard Branson

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly

Walking is man’s best medicine. – Hippocrates

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. – John Muir

It’s the not exactly knowing of the way, the map thrown away that makes the setting sun the guide, and makes the setting come alive. – Art Garfunkel

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.  – Carrie Latet

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

But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.  – John Muir

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.- Rebecca Solnit

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.- Gretel Ehrlich

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

Walking is a year-round activity, and need not be confined to the dry summer months, for there is as much beauty to be found in the countryside in the leafless months of winter as in vibrant spring and the golden days of autumn. – KEV REYNOLDS

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

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

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

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. – Barack Obama

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

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. – Elizabeth von Arnim

Walking is good for solving problems, it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.- Terri Guillemets

Walking is good for the soul.  – Andy Rooney

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole. – Hal Borland

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. – Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton

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. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.”― Lynette Mather

Also, read my collection of journey quotes.

“The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!”― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Although there are many ways to achieve a healthier lifestyle, walking is proven to have the highest success rate because people are less likely to quit doing it than with other physical activities. – SAMANTHA MORGAN

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

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Walking through this life really is walking through fire. – Chaka Khan

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realize it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. – Paulo Coelho

We make the path by walking.  – Robert Bly

Walking is a valued milestone, an important functional skill, and an indicator of increased independence that is based on motor control. – JUDITH C. BIERMAN

“The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn’t it?”― Jeff Lindsay

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. – John Locke

Walking makes us take problems in our stride. – Andy Hargreaves

Walking brings me back to myself. – Laurette Mortimer

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation. – Rebecca Solnit

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature — a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. – ROBERT MACFARLANE

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. – Michel de Certeau

But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations. ― Gwyn Thomas

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

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. ― Wendell Berry

Go back to what’s good, what’s certain, what’s always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. – JESSE L. MARTIN

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. – JACQUELINE SCHIFF

If you seek creative ideas go walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. – RAYMOND INMON

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”― Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha

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

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are. – Maya Angelou

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk – and she did show me. That’s why I think it’s funny when people say, ‘Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?’ And I always say, ‘You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.’ – Naomi Campbell

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? – Wassily Kandinsky

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.- Kenny Rogers

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.- Henry David Thoreau

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. – Henry David Thoreau

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. – Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. – Henry David Thoreau

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. – Buddha

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment. – John Muir

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since. – Marilyn Monroe

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.- Nelson Mandela