85 Hiking Quotes That Will Inspire You To Get Outside
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85 Hiking Quotes That Will Inspire You To Get Outside
Love Hiking? Love Nature? Do you dream of taking off on your next adventure?
For those who love getting out of the house to enjoy our beautiful world, we have put together 85 Hiking Quotes That Will Inspire You To Get Outside.
- Unplug from the hustle and bustle
- Enjoy the scenery
- Get motivated to take action
- Explore new territory
1. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
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2. Life is an adventure take risks.
3. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
-T.S. Eliot
4. “If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains."
-Jimmy Chin
5. "I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life." - Mark Obmascik
6. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
7. "Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." -Frank Herbert
8. Real adventure begins with a yes!
9. Playing it safe is a gamble too.
10. "It's time to remember what it's like to feel alive."
11. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try." - Seth Godin
12. “If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man" -Wilfrid Noyce
13. “Happiness Comes in Peaks & Valleys."
14. “Mountains are the soul's fuel."
15. Hike More Worry Less
16. “You lose sight of things... and when you travel, everything balances out."
- Daranna Gidel
17. “The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far."
- Paulo Coelho
18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints." - Chief Seattle
19. "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity."
- John Muir
20. “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
21. "Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be."
- Steve Pavlina
22. You weren't born to just pay bills and die.
23. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure."
-William Feather
24. “The journey not the arrival matters." -T.S. Eliot
25. "Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."
-Barry Finlay
26. " I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.
27. "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
28. “We are all explores trying to find ourselves."
29. Watching Sunsets around the world is boring. - no one ever said
30. "If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien
31. "Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing." - Dr. Seuss
32. "Travel far enough, to meet yourself." - David Mitchell
33. "Life Is Simple Eat. Sleep. Camp."
34. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
- Les Brown
35. "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places other lives, other souls."
- Anais Nin
36. "A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles."
- Tim Cahill
37."The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands." - Sir Richard Burton
38. "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
- Gustave Flaubert
39. "Life is an adventure, not a package tour." - Eckhart Tolle
40. "Remember to turn everything off at least once a week, including your brain, then just sit somewhere quiet and chill out."
41. "If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine" It's lethal." -Paul Coelho
42. "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
43. "we're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventures, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive."
- Alexander Elio
44. Go Where You Feel Most Alive
45. We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking.
-Finis Mitchel
46. "Never Stop Exploring."
47. "Sometimes you just need an adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul."
48. "Live your life by a compass not a clock." - Stephen R. Covey
49. "The journey not the arrival matters." - T.S. Eliot
50. "To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live."
- Tenzing Norgay
51. "Real freedom lies in the wilderness, not in civilization."
52. "A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles." - Tim Cahill
53. "Do more than just exist."
54. "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
55. "Live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry."
- Jack Kerouac
56. "Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek."
- John Muir
57. "There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others."
- Lizzy Caplan
58. "Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
-Richard M. Nixon
59. "The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure." - Joseph Campbell
60. "The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask." - Rich Ridgeway
61. "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
- Henry David Thoreau
62. "When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top."
63. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
64. "Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. "Only one who wanders finds new paths." - Norwegian proverb
66. "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
- Steven Wright
67. "Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you."
-David Mccullough JR.
68. "Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."
- Barry Finlay
69. "Unplug and go on a new adventure."
70. "Life should have more mountains and less stress."
71. "Nature. It's cheaper than therapy."
72. "Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." -Frank Herbert
73. "I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life." -Mark Obmascik
74. "Let's run away into the mountains."
75. "The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain he is inspired by it." - William Arthur Ward
76. "The long distance hiker, a breed set apart, from the likes of the usual pack. He'll shoulder his gear, be hitting' the trail, long gone, long 'fore he'll be back."
- M.J. Eberhart
77. "You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves."
- Lito Tejada-Flores
78. "You must go on adventures to find out where you belong."
- Sue Fitzmaurice
79. "Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot."
- Diane Spice
80. Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it
81. "If you don’t do wild things while you’re young, you’ll have nothing to smile about when you’re old." ― Unknown
82. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” —Edmund Hillary
83. "The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.”- Paulo Coelho
84. Adventure Awaits, Go Find It!
85. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
— Martin Buber
I hope that you enjoyed these hiking and adventure quotes. If you enjoyed this blog post 85 Hiking Quotes That Will Inspire You To Get Outside you may also enjoy 25 JOHN MUIR QUOTES TO INSPIRE WANDERLUST or 25 Hiking Quotes To Inspire Your Next Daring Adventure.
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