100+ Walking Quotes To Inspire You To Go Out And Walk

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Walking is an underrated exercise that we should all engage in. For one thing, no special training is required. It also does not necessitate any special equipment.

All you need is a good pair of walking shoes and comfy clothes, and voila! You’re good to go.

Although some people may consider walking as not challenging enough or does not provide immediate results when compared to other more intense exercises, it should be noted that any form of physical activity is preferable to none at all.

Walking makes up for what it lacks in terms of fun, relative safety from physical injury, bonding with nature, and the ability to process thoughts efficiently.

That being said, here is a list of the top 100 walking quotes to inspire you to get outside and walk.

100+ Walking quotes

Inspirational walking quotes

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.
– Henry David Thoreau

To solve a problem, walk around.
– Gregory McNamee

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

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

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 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

Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving.
– Terri Guillemets

Walking is cheap, fun, safe and acceptable exercise.
– Annie Taylor

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
– Ernest Hemingway

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.
– Ralph Marston

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

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

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

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

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

Walking is man’s best medicine.
– Hippocrates

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

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
– Thomas Mann

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

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

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

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

Now shall I walk or shall I ride? ‘Ride,’ Pleasure said; ‘Walk,’ Joy replied.
– W.H. Davies

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

I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another.
– Edie Littlefield Sundby

Walking quotes life

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

Walking brings me back to myself.
– Laurette Mortimer

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
– Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

Walking in shoes is physical walking, but walking barefoot is spiritual walking!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

Walking is the desire for life.
– Jeffrey C. Robinson

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

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

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

Not all those who wander are lost.
– J.R.R Tolkien

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

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

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

I have so many things to work on and so many ways that I fail. But that’s what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
– Tim Tebow

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
– Vernon Howard

[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

Keep walking quotes

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

I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.
– Rosamund Pike

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

Good walking leaves no track behind it.
– Laozi

Lovely days don’t come to you; you should walk to them.
– Rumi

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

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

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

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

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

Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.
– Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
– G.M. Trevelyan

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

Happiness walks on busy feet.
– Kitte Turmell

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

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

Walking causes a repetitive, spontaneous poetry to rise naturally to the lips, words as simple as the sound of footsteps on the road.
– Frédéric Gros

Morning walking quotes

Walking is the best possible exercise.
– Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

This early piece of the morning is mine.
– Wallace Stegner

There is no wifi in the morning forest, but you will find a better connection.
– Unknown

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

Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.
– Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Walking in nature quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.
– Jay Woodman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.
– Laura Adams Armer

Benefits of walking

Walking is a great exercise perfect for people of all ages, regardless of fitness level. Walking is one exercise that can be done anytime, anywhere, because there’s no need for fancy equipment or gadget. As long as you have feet, walking shoes, and can walk upright, you should be all set.

As an exercise, walking has quite numerous health benefits to boast of, including the prevention of certain diseases and the promise of longevity.

See the list below for some of the beneﬁts of walking.

Walking helps you burn calories. Calories burned = weight maintained or lost.
It can help keep your heart strong. Walking can lower your likelihood of developing coronary heart disease by about 19%. And increasing the duration or distance you walk per day may reduce your risk even further.
Going for a short walk after eating may help lower your blood sugar levels.
Walking can protect the joints by increasing lubrication. This benefit also applies to your knees and hips.
Improves the immune system. Walking at a moderate pace for 30 to 45 minutes a day reduces sick days by 43% and overall lowers the risk of upper respiratory tract infections.
Boosts energy levels. Walking increases your energy levels because it increases oxygen flow through your body. Which can increase levels of cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine.
Improves mental health. According to research, walking can help reduce anxiety, depression, and a bad mood. It can also increase self-esteem and alleviate feelings of isolation.
Promotes longevity. Walking at a faster pace may help you live longer. Researchers discovered that walking at an average pace, as opposed to a slow pace, resulted in a 20% lower risk of overall death.
Helps tone your legs. Walking can help to strengthen your leg muscles. You can do this by including inclines in your walks, such as stairs, walking in a hilly area, or by walking on an incline treadmill indoors.
Enhances creativity. In a four-experiment study, researchers compared people trying to come up with new ideas while walking or sitting. The researchers discovered that participants who chose to walk performed better, especially when they walked outside. Walking therefore allows for a free flow of ideas and is a simple way to boost creativity while also getting some exercise.

Conclusion

To conclude, walking is an excellent form of exercise. Aside from being an activity that anyone can participate in, especially beginners or those who are not particularly inclined to exercise. Walking is also a great way to focus on thinking and get creative or develop deeper insights.

Furthermore, walking is an activity that can be done alone or with a friend. So, whether you’re in a good mood and want to get some exercise, stressed out and tired, or overwhelmed, a good walk could be just what you need in your day.

If you need some inspiration for your walks, return to this collection of 100+ walking quotes to encourage you to put on your walking shoes, get away from it all, and connect with yourself by going for a walk.

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