60 Hiking Quotes: Motivational And Funny Words To Inspire Your Next Adventure

1. "The best view comes after the hardest climb."

2. "Hike more, worry less."

3. "Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."

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

5. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

6. "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle

7. "The mountains are calling and I must go." - John Muir

8. "Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care." - Earl Shaffer

9. "Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles." - Sam Heughan

10. “Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot).” - Diane Spicer

11. “Where the heart loves, there the legs walk.” - Maltese Proverb

12. "It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary

13. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

14. "After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value." - G.M. Trevelyan

15. “A walk in nature walks the soul back home.” - Mary Davis

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

17. “Leave the road, take the trails.” – Pythagoras

18. "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." - Friedrich Nietzsche

19. "Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun." - Karolina Kurkova

20. "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit." - Edward Abbey

1. “The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.” - Lori Lansens

2. “Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.” - John Muir

3. "It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert W. Service

4. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

5. "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." - Dag Hammarskjold

6. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.” - Andy Rooney

7. "Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." - John Muir

8. "Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you." - David McCullough

9. “It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.” - Henry Ward Beecher

10. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost

11. “We don’t stop hiking because we grow old, we grow old because we stop hiking.”

12. “Hiking is a bit like life: The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other…again and again and again. And if you allow yourself the opportunity to be present throughout the entirety of the trek, you will witness beauty every step of the way, not just at the summit.”

13. “May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” - Harley King

14. “You have to hike up the mountain path to reach the summit. Thinking won’t get you there.” - Marty Rubin

15. "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." - Gary Snyder

16. "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." - Edward Abbey

17. "Walking is a man's best medicine." - Hippocrates

18. "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

19. "A walk in nature walks the soul back home." - Mary Davis

20. "Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb it."

1. 1. "I go hiking because I need to get my steps in to justify eating a big meal later."

2. "I don't need therapy, I just need to go hiking."

3. "The best view comes after the hardest climb. Or at least that's what I tell myself while huffing and puffing up the trail."

4. "Hiking: where getting lost is not a problem, it's an adventure."

5. “An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.”

6. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” - Nemann Buhl

7. “I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.” - G.M. Trevelyan

8. “Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” - Ed Viesturs

9. “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

10. “I told the mountain my problems, but it just peaked away!”

11. “Hiking was the answer – can’t remember what the question was.”

12. “Bring a compass. It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.“

13. “Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.” - Lindy Hughes

14. “Always hike with someone in worse shape than you. The bears out there will know.“

15. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” - Henry David Thoreau

16. “Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.” - Demetri Martin

17. “I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.” - Wislawa Szymborska

18. “Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost, and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.” - Ellen DeGeneres

19. “Why is it that it is only after reaching the top that I realize I have to hike back down?”

20. “Following my heart got me lost. Next time, I’m following the trail markers.”