150 Quotes About Water
Our “water quotes” and “quotes about water” collection will inspire and keep you moving forward to your goals, no matter the obstacle.
Water is essential for all walks of life on earth. Water plays a vital role as it hydrates our bodies and allows us to live life.
Covering two-thirds of our planet earth water brings life to our planet and teaches us about life, being strong yet calm.
The sound of water balances us, takes our discomfort, and energizes our lives, allowing us to feel peace and tranquility.
Water is inspiring, while soft and humble, cutting through tough rock, not because it is powerful, but because of patience and perseverance.
Quotes About Water
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius
There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.
Autumn Morning Star
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
Mike May
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.
Charles Mackay
In practice, the ocean is the world’s wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.
Rose George
Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
Margaret Atwood
I have seen the sea when it is storm and wild; when it is quiet and serene when it is dark and moody. And in all these moods, I see myself.
Martin Buxbaum
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
Sun Tzu
Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.
Vanessa Hunt
You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.
Mitch Albom
I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur.
Rick Yancey
Be like water, which is fluid & soft & yielding, as in time, water will overcome rock which is rigid & hard. Therefor, what is soft is strong.
Anonymous
Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
Joan Didion
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall.
Bob Ross
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water, many souls join their highest intent to form the river of evolved consciousness.
Lockwood Huie
Whoever thirst for the living Water shall be quench.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be like water. Flow, crash, fly!
Md. Ziaul Haque
Inspirational Quotes For Water
“I have left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which owing to its changefulness of form and mood and colour and to the vast range of its effects is ever the principal source of landscape beauty, and has like music a mysterious influence over the mind.
Sir George Sitwell
Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of waterfall.
Anthony Hincks
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus
A man of wisdom delights in water.
Confucius
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Wallace Stevens
Run wild and free like a waterfall
Anamika Mishra
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
Barten Holyday
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence.
Kahlil Gibran
Water is the soul of the Earth
Lucy Larcom
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro
I believe that water is the closest thing to a god we have here on Earth. We are in awe of its power and majestic beauty. We are drawn to it as if it’s a magical, healing force. We gestate in water, are made of water, and need to drink water to live. We are living in water.
Alex Z. Moores
Water is the reason of our birth; it is the healer, the destroyer and the final consumer.
Neeraj Singhvi
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. Milne
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
A calm water is like a still soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The water caresses in the glass, like love in the body.
Charles de Leusse
Water flows from high in the mountains / Water runs deep in the Earth / Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Ocean And Water Quotes
How one raindrop marries the other and forms an ocean of love.
Suyasha Subedi
Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
LaToya Jackson
Water sustains all.
Thales of Miletus
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
Jane Austen
All water is holy water.
Rajiv Joseph
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.
Debasish Mridha
The water tells none of its secrets.
Nikos Engonopoulos
Water! You may not like it, but you have to drink it.
Anthony T. Hincks
I am like water so to say, I will find my way!
Md. Ziaul Haque
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Benjamin Franklin
A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Gloria Stuart
My therapist set half a glass of water in front of me. He asked if I was an optimist or a pessimist. So, I drank the water and told him I was a problem solver.
Unknown
Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.
Debasish Mridha
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend – my best friend.
Robert Ballard
Why was it that the sight of water made everything in the world seem okay? She wanted to look at water every day.
E.C. Diskin
Water links us to our neighbor in a way more profound and complex than any other.
John Thorson
Water is always working, reorganizing the land.
Tim Palmer
When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that’s faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that’s science.
Anton Chekhov
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
Pat Conroy
Quotes About Rivers And Water
Surrender to the flow of the River of Life, yet do not float down the river like a leaf or a log. While neither attempting to resist life nor to hurry it, become the rudder and use your energy to correct your course to avoid the whirlpools and undertow.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.
Raymond Carve
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley
Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls
Munia Khan
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
Hermann Hesse
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Mikhail Lermontov
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
Marcus Samuelsson
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
Vanessa Paradis
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Jacques Cousteau
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
Nicholas Sparks
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children’s lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.
Luna Leopold
When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is the driving force in nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Drew Barrymore
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter
To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.
Masaru Emoto
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
Michael Simpson
The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.
Annie Proulx
Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
Mark Nepo
Quotes About Water
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya
I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.
Jill Scott
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist proverb
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water is sufficient…the spirit moves over water.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Percy Ross
Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.
Crystal Middlemas
Don’t be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
Kim Young-ha
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live.
Munia Khan
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
Water liked to be free. . . Water hated being trapped, just like Percy.
Rick Riordan
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman
When water falls, it flies.
Anthony T. Hincks
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.
Edmund Burke
A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.
Jim Watkins
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Lucy Larcom
You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together.
Yoko Ono
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
Anna Freud
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
C. S. Lewis
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine.
Slovakian Proverb
Water, in all its forms, is what carries the knowledge of life throughout the universe.
Anthony T. Hincks
Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomalous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If the earth is a mother then rivers are her veins.
Amit Kalantri
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.
H. P. Lovecraft
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
Sylvia Earle
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
Water Quotes
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
Vanessa Paradis
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
Jalaluddin Rumi
In order to reflect, think and plan, you must quiet yourself. You can’t see your reflection in churning waters. Water must be still to see your reflection.
Karen Susman
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
William Wordsworth
Water is the lifeblood of our bodies, our economy, our nation and our well-being.
Stephen Johnson
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
Clean water is inestimably precious to waste!
Mohith Agadi
Water wants to join water. Youth wants to join youth.
Hermann Hesse
Jellyfish are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It’s more useful.
Karl Pilkington
My desk faces the water, and I’m perfectly happy sitting there. I’m never lonely.
Tom Stoppard
Water is colourless like life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.
David Wroblewski
A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.
Autumn Morning Star
Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing.
Aspen Matis
You can not hide on an island and expect that water will not find you.
Chuck Bridges
If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, but that’s life, no?
Jarod Kintz
Water is my drink.
Stephen Curry
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
Life in us is like the water in a river.
Henry David Thoreau
There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.
Patrick Ness
Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
Santosh Kalwar
I was still water, held by my surroundings. I am now a river, carving my own path.
Scott Stabile
The person who despises a drop of water is an utter ignorant who doesn’t know that billions of tiny creatures in this world can live with one water drop for days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
More Quotes About Water
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
Criss Jami
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
The sea is captive in a drop of water.
Marty Rubin
Make hope just like water in your life.
Khaled Ibrahim
Without water, life would just be rock.
Anthony T. Hincks
In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
Sue Ellen Campbell
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words.
Octavio Paz
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
Nicholas Sparks
Do you ever feel like you’re getting sick, and then you have a glass of water and you’re like, ‘oh, that’s why people drink that.
Dina Hashem
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
John O’Donohue
Water is the lifeblood of our bodies, our economy, our nation and our well-being.
Stephen Johnson
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It’s always ourselves we find in the sea.
E.E. Cummings
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Adela Florence Nicolson
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Korean Proverb
Water Sayings and Quotations
There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.
Virginia Alison
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee