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Walking Quotes and Sayings

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

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking

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

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

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

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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

Mr. Right’s coming, but he’s in Africa, and he’s walking

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

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

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens

Anywhere is walking distance, if you’ve got the time.

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

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

I dream of hiking into my old age.
Marlyn Doan

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

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

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.
Gregory McNamee

I love walking in the rain, ’cause then no-one knows I’m crying.

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
Thomas Mann

If I am walking with two other men, each of them I 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.

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

One step at a time is good walking

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

You need special shoes for hiking – and a bit of a special soul as well.
Emme Woodhull

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J.K. Rowling

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem.
Chris Adams

Make your feet your friend.
J.M. Barrie

I’m the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it – really get my heart pounding.
Amy Yasbeck

He who limps is still walking.
Stanislaw J. Lec

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

Walking isn’t a lost art – one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
John Muir

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking

Your body is built for walking.
Gary Yanker

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

I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other god.
Bruce Chatwin

If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
Sommeil Liberosensa

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

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

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

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

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
O.A. Battista

If you pick ‘em up, O Lord, I’ll put ‘em down.

Walking is good for solving problems – it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.
Pepper Giardino

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 tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian…. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they’ll get me someday. ~Will Rogers

After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
English Proverb

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

Walking takes longer… than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
Edward Abbey

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
Bill Vaughan

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it’s time to go, you can’t disappoint those little faces.
Wendie Malick

Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.
Carrie Latet

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.
J.B. Yeats

Hiking is the best workout!… You can hike for three hours and not even realize you’re working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
Jamie Luner

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
Frederick L. Knowles

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

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