Inspirational feet quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Famous Feet Quotes
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. Mahatma Gandhi
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there and still on your feet. Stephen King
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln
She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you’re swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water’s deeper than you think and there’s nothing there. Julia Gregson
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt
Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be! Kamand Kojouri
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. Martha Graham
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, Got any shoes you’re not using? Steven Wright
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. Oprah Winfrey
We may well value our minds and esteem our brainpower. But let us respect our feet as well. They might be down to earth for sure, but do allow us to go forward and steam ahead in life. On top, they can kick out anyone disrespectful and mind numbing. Erik Pevernagie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim
Just take my hand, lead, dance with me and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again in long and priceless moments of shared solitude. Oksana Rus
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing. Amit Kalantri
Where we love is home home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet. J.R. Rim
The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. Kazuo Ishiguro
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. Jefferson Smith
When you’re at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That’s all there is to it. Samuel Fuller
Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn out relationship. Anthony Liccione
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot? Gloria Steinem
We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live. Kate McGahan
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. Gautama Buddha
I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they’d just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn’t translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. Steve Rasnic Tem
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. Peace Pilgrim
In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on and on as far as her eyes could take her. Ann Brashares
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu
It’s only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor. Lana M.H. Wilder
Just put one foot in front of the other. Austin Peck
How many times you stop on your pathway through life depends on the footwear that you wear. Anthony T. Hincks
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana
Engaging in dangerous activities above 10,000 feet is known to increase the risks of injury and death. Steven Magee
I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. Nadia Comaneci
The pair of them were both sans socks so beneath their footwear they were matching and going toe to toe. J.S. Mason
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Joseph Joubert
I have always regarded the feet as the most intimate and personal part of our bodies, and not the genitals, not the heart, or even the brain, organs of no great significance that are too highly valued. It is in the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth. It’s in the touch of the earth, at its point of contact with the body that the whole mystery is located the fact that we’re built of elements of matter, while also being alien to it, separated from it. The feet those are our plugs into the socket. Olga Tokarczuk
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? Frida Kahlo
Our feet tell our stories. They carry us through this life, moving us from one sorrow and season to the next. Our gait can reveal us to be buoyant or bullish, dispirited or steadfast. Cicely Tyson
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes
Every year my feet touch its murky water, my soul feels cleaner. Thomm Quackenbush
You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too. Lee Remick
To walk barefoot is sacred. Michael Bassey Johnson
Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Language is ice that breaks beneath our feet. Laura Gentile
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Why do you fear touching the earth? Does not the concrete separate you from it enough? Chester Brown
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away. Norah Jones
Regarding electrical rooms, I advise people to stay at least 30 feet away from them in all directions. Steven Magee
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. Joseph Barber Lightfoot
It takes a sterner stuff for a person in love to think straight. Most people fall head over heel in love leaving their minds behind. Love sweeps them off their feet and they stand lopsided, and so is their thinking. They accept the unacceptable in the guise that love is blind. When the reality of matrimony opens their eyes, they are pregnant with regrets. Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. Spike Milligan
To all the people that approach me in the shops, please stay back at least 6 feet. Steven Magee
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven. Spike Milligan
I can get on my knees and pray all day, but until my attitude is on its knees nothing will be different once I’m back on my feet. Craig D. Lounsbrough
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered ok for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse. Kary Mullis
It’s when the loser falls that they are trampled by the feet of those who wish to congratulate the winner. Anthony T. Hincks
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head. Wilfred Owen
It’s not the size of my feet. Rather, it’s my determination to make them walk. Craig D. Lounsbrough
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband. Little Richard
Plantar fasciitis was one of the most painful experiences I have had in life. Steven Magee
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet it is a cunning wrestler. Plautus
The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room. Curtis Tyrone Jones
We just bought this house. It’s too big. It’s like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It’s just too big. Adam Sandler
Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can’t take me. H. Midorikawa
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately, we didn’t get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed. Alan Shepard
Speaking with her always felt like sitting on a seashore. Hearing the waves and feeling them crashing into my feet, While gazing the setting sun and the way he colours the whole sky. I never got tired of it. Akshay Vasu
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. John Steinbeck
Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears. John Kramer
My little dog a heartbeat at my feet. Edith Wharton
In dietary terms, being shod is rather similar to cooking one’s feet, as opposed to barefoot being raw. Mango Wodzak
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. Horace Walpole
Here I can become the blessing, a little life that multiplies joy, making the larger world a better place. God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace. Ann Voskamp
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. Oprah Winfrey
Your voice could go to where your feet could not go. Sunday Adelaja
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats
Most shoes are shaped as if feet were made for shoes. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats
One of the powers that love has, is to grow wings in the mind of a pedestrian, though sometimes you just need to walk and stay on your feet. Alain Bremond Torrent
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. William Shakespeare
You should still wear good shoes even if your feet were made of gold. Paul Bamikole
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. Robert F. Goheen
Just because you kill people doesn’t mean your feet should. Rick Riordan
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. Saadi
Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function! Mehmet Murat ildan
My mother’s five foot two and, I’ll be honest with you, she’s the only person I’m scared of. Kiefer Sutherland
A beautiful woman’s ugliness is often hidden in her heart or by her shoes. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No person is ever good for much, that hasn’t been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. James Anthony Froude
Marsh’k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman’s whining and rose to his feet, stretching to his full height of just under six standard Terran feet. Christina Engela
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. Charles Perrault
If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don’t forget to grasp your sleeve. Rich Little
I would be satisfied with my life if I could just get people to wash their feet every morning and buy decent shoes. Dr. Blake F. Donaldson
What’s the point of having shimmery feet? Chantelle Houghton
The most comfortable shoes from the point of view of our feet are the most fashionable shoes! Mehmet Murat ildan
I was a full foot taller than any child my age. Kristen Johnston
Swish, I swing from tree to tree. My feet are like hands I’m a chimpanzee! Julie Murphy
You’re suspended sixty feet up in the air, you’ve been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head. Alfred Molina
As a child, I would sit at the top of the old towering pine and watch the world gloriously spread itself out at my feet. And it wasn’t until I climbed that tree many decades later that it dawned on me how much I have trampled that world under my feet. And so, maybe I need to do a lot more climbing and a lot less walking. Craig D. Lounsbrough
