Walking Quotes - Page 5

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fitness, Exercise, Walks

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.18, University of Virginia Press

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• Meandering leads to perfection.

  Laozi

  Journey, Hiking, Perfection

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• He who limps is still walking.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Action

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• 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

  Eye, Race, Hiking

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• The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Boys, Night

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• Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

  Leslie Stephen

  Journey, Men, Walking Meditation

  Sir Leslie Stephen (2016). “Studies of a Biographer”, p.462, Library of Alexandria

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• We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

  William Barnes

  Pride, Journey, Feet

  William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

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• Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

  Beatrix Potter

  Lying, Flower, Eye

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Beautiful, Fun, Journey

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• 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

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Ernest Hemingway (2009). “A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Hiking, Shade

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

  John Dryden

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.48

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• When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

  Aleister Crowley

  Country, Character, Journey

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• I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Journey, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Work, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Dust, Pie

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• 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.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Journey, Men

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.135

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• We must walk before we run.

  George Henry Borrow

  Running, Journey, Hiking

  George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest”, p.15

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• It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

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• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

  Liam Gallagher

  Good Night, Goodnight, Past

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• I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Children

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