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Last updated on October 24, 2020 By Dave Briggs Leave a Comment

50 Best Hiking Quotes To Inspire You To Get Outdoors!

50 of the best inspirational hiking quotes for lovers of the Great Outdoors. Our collection of the best hiking quotes combines insights into life as well as trail wisdom.

The 50 Best Hiking Quotes

Inspiring Quotes About Hiking

Whether you're setting a New Year resolution to go out hiking more, or simply want an inspirational top up, these hiking quotes are for you.

We've chosen these hiking sayings and captions for their depth of meaning and combined them with beautiful images. They'll provide insights into hiking as well as life, and each one deserves some thought and contemplation.

Using well known hiking sayings and a few outside the box suggestions, you'll be able to soak up some trail wisdom before even stepping outside your front door!

Top 50 hiking quotes

Here's out selection of the best hiking and trekking quotes guaranteed to enhance your love for the Great Outdoors. If you have a Pinterest board for quotes, feel free to add these to your hiking sayings collections!


The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain he is inspired by it.

– William Artur Ward


You Can’t Climb Up A Mountain, With Downhill Thoughts.


The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He’ll shoulder his gear, be hittin’ the trail;
Long gone, long ‘fore he’ll be back.


There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

– Sir Rannulph Fiennes


I like being near the top of a mountain, One can’t get lost here.

– Wislawa Szymborska


You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

– Amit Kalantri


May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

– Edward Abbey


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

– John Muir


The best view comes after the hardest climb.


DEET is nature's cologne.

– Every Hiker


Inspiring Hiking Quotes

Here's another 10 hiking quotes to give you inspiration and motivation. Are you ready to hit the hills soon, and cover some miles trekking through nature?

Check out my blog post about hiking the Poon Hill – Ghorepani trail in Nepal!

 

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.


I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

– Henry David Thoreau


Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

– Walt Whitman


The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

– Lao Tzu


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

– Frank A. Clark


Hike Your Own Hike.

– Thru-Hiker


Walking is a man's best medicine.

– Hippocrates


Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.

– William Blake


Anywhere is ‘within walking distance'.

– Anonymous Hiker


Motivational Trekking Quotes

Here's the next 10 hiking quotes that will inspire you to conquer mountains and marvel at nature!

You won, this time. But you are as big as you are ever going to get. And I’m still growing.

– Sir Edmund Hillary


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

– Aristotle


Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

– Jack Kerouac


If the winter is too cold and the summer is too hot, you are not a hiker.

– A Bitter Hiker


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

– Robert Sweetgall


The mountains are calling and I must go.

– John Muir


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

– John Muir


Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.

– Hermann Buhl


When everything feels like an uphill struggle, Just think of the view from the top.

– Anonymous


Fall down seven times and stand up eight.

– Japanese Proverb


Great Walking Quotes

More classic hiking quotes from famous outdoors legends such as John Muir. We'll have to put a collection of the best walking quotes and John Muir quotes together at some point!

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

– Edward Abbey


To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

– Tenzing Norgay


They are able who think they are able.

– Virgil


If you’re going through hell, keep going.

– Winston Churchill


Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

– John Muir


Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

– John Muir


It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

– Sir Edmund Hillary


Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

– Frank Herbert


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

– Carrie Latet


Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

– Cindy Ross


Inspiring Outdoor Quotes

Our final section of the best hiking quotes. Are you ready to get outdoors, find a trail, and start hiking? These wilderness quotes should give you that final push!

Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.

– Albert Einstein


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

– G.M. Trevelyan


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

– Henry David Thoreau


I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

– G.M. Trevelyan


A vagrant is everywhere at home.


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

– Beverly Sills


The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

– Edward Abbey


Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care.

– Earl Shaffer


Sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world.

– Bears


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