Need a little extra motivation to lace up your sneakers and hit your steps count for the day?
These walking quotes will remind you why walking is such an amazing workout — not just for the calorie burn, but also for the mental health boost it provides.
Even on low-motivation days when running is just not going to happen, you can usually muster up the energy for a quick walk — and these walking quotes can give you the nudge you need to get moving.
Pin them, print them, or scribble them on a sticky note for instant inspiration when you’re tempted to stay on the couch, then head out the door!
1. “If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” –Hippocrates
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2. “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” –Rumi
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3. “The beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” –Gwyn Thomas
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4. “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
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5. “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
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6. “Don’t look back — you’re not going that way.” –Unknown
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7. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu
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8. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
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9. “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” –Steven Wright
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10. “Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.” –Bill Bryson
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11. “Now shall I walk or shall I ride? ‘Ride,’ Pleasure said; ‘Walk,’ Joy replied.”–W.H. Davies
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12. “After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.” –George Macauley Trevelyan
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13. “Home is everything you can walk to.” –Jerry Spinelli
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14. “Walking is man’s best medicine.” –Hippocrates
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15. “When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” –Unknown
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16. “As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.” –Rumi
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17. “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” –John Muir
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18. “Walk towards the good in life and one day you will arrive.” –Unknown
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19. “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” –Henry David Thoreau
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20. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkein
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21. “Walking brings me back to myself.” –Laurette Mortimer
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22. “Walking is a technique of solitude, a way into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer.” –Deirdre Heddon
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23. “A walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.” –Robert MacFarlane
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24. “If you have found a path worth to walk, never complain about walking!” –Mehmet Murat ildan
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25. “If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.” –Charles Dickens
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