Best Hiking Quotes
To Keep You Going
And Make You Laugh

By Diane Spicer

The best hiking quotes bring a smile, or a tear, or possibly both, as you read them and ponder their wisdom.

It feels great to know that someone else understands exactly how you feel about hiking, right?

Allow me to share a gallery of the 14 best trekking quotes that I've found over the years, illustrated with some photographs of places I've hiked.

Enjoy these quotes about hiking!

Motivational quotes
for hikers

Sometimes it's tough to keep going when you're tired, hungry, sore and whatever else describes a long day of hiking.

These short hiking quotes are meant to motivate you when the going gets tough!

"A determined woman can conquer anything.

One foot in front of the other!"

~Hiking For Her

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

~R. Tagore

"Whatever you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving them."

~Zig Ziglar

"Whatever's headed your way, you can handle it.

You're a hiker!"

~Hiking For Her

(based on personal experience)

Inspirational hiking quotes
to keep you coming
back for more trail time

Searching for some inspiration as a hiker? Mother Nature is there for you, with gentle and sometimes not so gentle lessons.

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue."
~John Muir

"Happiness walks on busy feet."

~Kitte Turmell

"The head does not hear anything until the heart has listened. The heart knows today what the head will understand tomorrow."

~James Stevens

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books."

~John Lubbock

"Wild country calls out to a hiker

without saying a word."

~Hiking For Her

One more inspiring quote!

"Failing to finish a hike is not the problem.

It's failing to start a hike that holds you back."

~Hiking For Her

Hiking humor

Happy hiking quotes?

Come on! You know how good it feels to crack a smile!

Here's some hiking humor to enjoy in these hiking quotes, some of it a little dark but that's just life on the trail, right?

"Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get."

~Mark Twain

And now, for the rest of the story:

"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."

~Merle Shain

"Dirty, sweaty... and loving life!"

~Hiking For Her

Isn't that how all hikers should feel??

"Old hikers don't die ... they just trail away."

~Hiking For Her

Best hiking quotes
for you!

It's my hope that you've found something to pin to your Pinterest board or save on your computer, to remind you of why you love this thing called hiking.

Here's a bonus quote from Hiking For Her.

"Hiking and happiness go hand in hand

or foot in boot."

~Diane Spicer

Happy trails!

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