Walking Quotes

Solvitur ambulando – it is solved by walking.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Rebecca Solnit

Walking serves for pleasure, for business, and for diversion. He who walks for pleasure walks nowhere, he who walks for business walks somewhere. He who walks for diversion walks anywhere.

Alain de Botton

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

But the beauty is in the walking - we are betrayed by destinations.

Gwyn Thomas

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

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

Victoria Moran

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

For once you have begun to walk with God, you need only keep on walking with God and all your life becomes one long stroll – a marvellous feeling.

Etty Hillesum

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed for this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Rebecca Solnit

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Henry David Thoreau

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

Walking, especially among rural scenery, is highly salubrious.

Mrs Sigourney

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

A good walk each day will prolong life, and multiply the pleasures of living.

J R Bowdler

The more ladies practice walking, the more graceful they become in their movements.

J W Howe

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

H T Tuckerman

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Hippocrates

After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.

George Macauley Trevelyan

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Jacqueline Schiff

Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet.

Roger Miller

Just keep walking.

After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.

George Macauley Trevelyan

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Ben Hogan

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Home is everything you can walk to.

Jerry Spinelli

Walking is a technique of solitude, away into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer.

Deirdre Heddon

But the beauty is in the walking; we are betrayed by destinations.

Gwyn Thomas

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

Helen Keller

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

Rumi

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

Jacqueline Woodson

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

Charles Dickens

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

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

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 soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Goethe

Walking is the favourite sport of the good and wise.

A L Rowse

Whoever walks in the dark has not yet seen the dawn of light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Walking brings me back to myself.

Laurette Mortimer

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

Charles Dickens

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Hippocrates

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

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.

Carrie Latet

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

Walk more, worry less.