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170 Walking Captions and Short Quotes for Instagram

When you’re on the move, either for exercise or because you’ve got places to be, we have gathered all the best walking captions for you to share. And if you’re looking for short walking quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Walking captions and short quotes for Instagram

Walking Captions and Quotes

May your best miles be covered on foot

Walk through life with your mind wide open

The Walking Wounded

“Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.” – John Ruskin

“You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“I love walking because it clears your mind, enriches the soul, takes away stress, and opens up your eyes to a whole new world.” – Claudette Dudley

“I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.” – Heath Ledger

Halfway to somewhere

Trust yourself and walk away from situations and people that don’t have your best interest at heart.” -Ben Ruston

“Walking brings me back to myself.” – Laurette Mortimer

“Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.” – Gary Snyder

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.” – G.M. Trevelyan

“We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.” – Robert Sweetgall

“It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.” – Matthew Henry

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

“Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.” – Jamie Luner

“A walk in nature, walks the soul back home.” – Mary Davis

Walking captions and short quotes for Instagram

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace Stevens

“To solve a problem, walk around.” – Gregory McNamee

“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff

“Walking is good for solving problems — it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.” – Terri Guillemets

“If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” —Hippocrates

“Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“He who limps is still walking.” – Stanislaw J. Lec

“Walking takes longer… than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.” – Edward Abbey

“You can never walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.”- Zach Anner

“Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street.”- DMX

“But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” – Gwyn Thomas

“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” – A.A. Milne

“I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don’t accidentally walk through into another dimension.” -Steven Wright

“I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet.” – Roger Miller

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?… He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” — Billy Connolly

“If you could walk a mile in my shoes you’d be crazy too.”- Tupac Shakur

“Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.”

“Walk a day in my shoes….” – Mark Steber

“We all walk in different shoes.”- Kenneth Cole

“Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasin, you can’t imagine the smell.” – Robert Byrne

“We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views.”- Drake

“If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.” — Pocahontas

“You’d have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!”- Eminem

“Yours are the only shoes made to walk your journey.” – Charles F. Glassman

“Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.”- Elvis Presley

“Forget the shoes, forget the mile long walk … just stop judging each other.”- Stuart Duncan

“When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.”- John Lewis

“Walk in my shoes for a day…you’ll see what I see. Walk in my shoes for a day…you’ll hear what I hear. Walk in my shoes for a day…you’ll feel what I feel. Walk in my shoes for a day…you’ll understand me. Walk in my shoes for a day…just to know who I am. Never judge me until, you walk in my shoes for a day…”- Leann Writes

“Walking together. Creating memories.” – Surabhi Rai

“Now we walk together, forever.” – Ruben & Braceli

“Walking together, matching our footfalls.” – Sally Thorn

“If you want to walk fast, walk alone, but if you want to walk far, walk together.” – Ratan Tata

“I could walk a mile in your shoes, but I already know they’re just as uncomfortable as mine. Let’s walk next to each other instead….”- Lynda Meyers

“Walking together and exchanging kisses. Holding hands like we’re Mr. and Mrs.” – Vineeza Shakeeb

“Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.” – Juliet Marillier

“Just walk with me on this path and let the light that is inside us lead the way.” – JmStorm

“We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.” — Michelle Obama

“I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?”- Richelle E. Goodrich

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus

“Walk with me for a while, my friend – you in my shoes, I in yours – and then let us talk.”- Richelle E. Goodrich

“What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?” – O. Henry

“Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words.” – Amit Ray

“Once the thought of walking together is now thinking about walking ahead or walking behind.” – Mahendra Beera

“We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that.” – Bette Lee Crosby

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi

“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” – Jack Kerouac

“The longest journey begins with a single step. – Pantanjali

Strolling into the weekend

“Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.” – Rebecca Solnit

Life is a journey. And I’m walking every step of the way.

“A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.” – Christian Louboutin

Walk more, live longer.

“Just pick up your courage and walk away. Don’t waste time. The longer one drags on, the amount of pain accumulates.” – Dick Hirayama

Walking makes it easy to forget to check your phone

“Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints.” – Frédéric Gros

“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.” – Charles Dickens

“Make your feet your friend.” – J.M. Barrie

“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” – Raymond Inmon

Walk more; worry less

“Walk on, yes, but don’t walk away from people who need you.” – Rachel Hartman

“There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.” – Thomas Jefferson

Walking tall

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

Barefoot. Mindful. Open. Connecting with the earth.

“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee

“Do not walk on the road of no return. Repent!” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.” – Terri Guillemets

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.” – Thomas Jefferson

Walking, the best way to get inspired

“There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.” -Ralph Marston

Be a solitary walker: walk alone, talk to yourself, sometimes sing

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.” – Robert Motherwell

A walk in the woods sometimes means getting lost

“Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.” – Carrie Latet

Walking in sunshine

“Walking is man’s best medicine.” – Hippocrates

Walk often. Walk always.

Move the body, still the mind

Life is full of ups and downs. Walk on the right path.

“Walking for health and fitness, the easiest way to get in shape and stay in shape.” – Frank Ring

Time to walk your walk, not just talk your talk

“Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot. – Diane Spicer

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

“A morning walk gives the body a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of yesterday, to shed its rubbish and mental clutter. ” – Terri Guillemets

“It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.” – Mary Ellen Chase

“This early piece of the morning is mine.” – Wallace Stegner

“Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” – Lemony Snicket

“A person who goes for the morning walk in sleepers is likely to grasp the insightful things better on a sensitive matter than one who goes for the walk with the shoes put on.” – Anuj Somany

“I like to walk in the morning.” – Francis Ford Coppola

“I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other god.” – Bruce Chatwin

“Toward seven o’clock every morning, I leave my study and step out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse granite warm to the touch. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I go out for my morning walk.” – Hermann Hesse

“I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you.” – Mark Z. Danielewski

“To be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” – John Burroughs

“Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds.” – Wes Adamson

“As much as I’d like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don’t really believe it can happen.”— Chris Van Allsburg

“Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening or practicing meditation relaxation exercises.” – Andrew Weil

“If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you” – E. E. Cummings

“One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.” – Mikhail Gorbachev

“It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.” — Herman Siu

“Thoughts come clearly while one walks.” – Thomas Mann

“A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.” — Rebecca Solnit

“[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

“When I am in turmoil, when I can’t think, when I am exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It’s just one of those things I do. I walk and sooner or later, something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.” — Jim Butcher

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” – George Washington Carver

“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

“A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.” – Rachel Carson

“I love walking in the woods, along the trails, by the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one’s batteries.” – Grace Kelly

“I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.” – Ruth Bernhard

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my sense put in order.” – John Burroughs

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” – Aristotle

“When we walk into a grove of trees or under an open sky the magic of nature takes over and the heaviness of life lifts a little.” – Natassia Cassinero

“I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.” – John Mackey

“When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.” – Jay Woodman

“Take a quiet walk with Mother Nature. It will nurture your mind, body and soul.” – Antony Douglas Williams

“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.” – Jeanette Winterson

“I just can’t walk away from something I’ve done all my life. it’s part of me.” – Chuck Jordan

“I know you’ll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you’ll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.” – David Guterson

“Most of us need something not to walk away from.” – Josh Stern

Anyone or anything that is negative, you should walk away from. Make room for all the positives.” -Wendy John

It’s just a hill. Walk over it.

Walking fast enough to make my own breeze

I find walks cheaper than therapy

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White

Starting with baby steps

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” – Soren Kierkegaard

The Young and the Breathless

“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.” – Henry David Thoreau

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” – Aldous Huxley

“Walking is how the body measures itself against the earth.” – Rebecca Solnit

“Letting go is hard, but there comes a time when you accept the fact, that you can’t go back to how it was and it’s time to wish them best and walk away.” – Punkinhead Abhishek

“Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.” – Jules Renard

“When trust is broken how can you repair it? Sometimes you just have to walk away.” – Hattie Lou

“Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.” – Gary Snyder

I’d rather walk than run, but I’ll jog if there are cupcakes at the end

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” –  Eleanor Roosevelt

So that is it for our list of Walking Captions and Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

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Walking captions and short quotes for Instagram

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