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.

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?

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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!