Need a little more motivation to put on your sneakers and count your steps for the day?
These walking quotes will remind you why walking is such an amazing workout – not only for burning calories, but also for the mental health boost it provides.
Even on low motivation days when running is fair not is going to happen, you can usually muster the energy for a brisk walk – and these walking quotes can give you the boost you need to get moving.
Pin them, print them out, or doodle them on a sticky note for instant inspiration when you’re tempted to stay on the couch, then get out!
1. “If you’re in a bad mood, go for a walk.” If you’re still in a bad mood, take another walk. –Hippocrates
2. “It is your road and yours alone. Others can walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. –Rumi
3. “Beauty is in the walk – we are betrayed by destinations.” –Gwyn Thomas
4. “If you go anywhere other than your own feet, you are taken there too quickly and miss a thousand delicate joys that await you by the wayside.” –Elizabeth von Arnim
5. “I myself have entered into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so heavy that one cannot walk away from it.” –Soren Kierkegaard
6. “Don’t look back – you’re not going that way.” -Unknown
7. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” –Lao Tzu
8. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “Everything is within walking distance if you have time.” –Steven Wright
10. “Distance changes completely when you travel the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles enormous, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is huge in a way that only you and a small backpacking community know.The planetary scale is your little secret.–Bill Bryson
11. “Now should I walk or should I ride? ‘Ride,’ said Pleasure; ‘Walk,’ Joy replied.” – WH Davies
12. “After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.” –George Macauley Trevelyan
13. “Home is all you can walk to.” –Jerry Spinelli
14. “Walking is man’s best medicine.” –Hippocrates
15. “When everything looks like a tough fight, just think of the view from above.” -Unknown
16. “As you start walking down the path, the path appears.” –Rumi
17. “In every walk with nature, you receive much more than you seek.” –John Muir
18. “Walk towards the good in life and one day you will arrive.” -Unknown
19. “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” -Henry David Thoreau
20. “Not all who wander are lost.” –JRR Tolkien
21. “Walking brings me back to myself.” –Laurette Mortimer
22. “Walking is a technique of solitude, a path to daydreaming. The walker is not a somnambulist but a dreamer. –Deirdre Heddon
23. “A walk is just one step away from a story, and every path tells.” –Robert MacFarlane
24. “If you’ve found a path worth walking, never complain about walking!” –Mehmet Murat Ildan
25. “If I couldn’t walk far and fast, I think I would just explode and perish.” -Charles Dickens
