Great Walking Quotations

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"Of all exercises walking is the best."

Thomas Jefferson (1786 letter)


"The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose."

Charles Dickens


"If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel you legs."

Bruce Barton


"I have two doctors--my left leg and my right leg."

George Trevelyan


"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."

John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education


"The first wealth is health."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life


"Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well."

MARTIAL, Epigrams


"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Harry Truman (advice on how to live to be 80 on his 80th birthday)


"Before supper walk a little; after supper do the same."

Erasmus


"We must walk before we run."

George Borrow, Lavengro


"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Abraham Lincoln


"It is health which is real wealth and not pieces of gold and sliver."

Mahatma Gandhi


"Walking would teach people the quality that youngsters find so hard to learn-- patience."

Edward Payson Weston


"Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us."

Henry David Thoreau, Walking


"Two roads diverged in a wood and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken


"The [English] literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking."

Leslie Stephen, The Art of Walking


"Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us."

Henry David Thoreau, Walking


"For you, as well as I, can open fence doors and walk across America in your own special way. Then we can all discover who our neighbors are."

Rob Sweetgall, Fitness Walking

"It is solved by walking."

Latin Proverb


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