Lakes have always been a haven for serenity, peace, calm, reflection, and relaxation. 💧
Because of this, I have uncovered some of the best quotes about lakes which are great for inspiration and showing appreciation to mother nature. 🌎
Side note: If I have missed any quotes that you think are must-haves for this list, please share them in the comments as I would be more than happy to include them in future updates! 😃
79+ Calming Quotes About Lakes!
1. “At the lake, every hour is happy hour.” – Proverb
2. “The lake is our happy place.” – Unknown
3.”A day at the lake… priceless.” – Proverb
4. “Life is better at the lake.” – Unknown
5. “Relax You’re on lake time.” – Proverb
6. “The lake is calling and I must go.” – Unknown
7. “I’m lost at the Lake don’t bother me.” – Proverb
8. “Time wasted at the lake is time well spent.” – Unknown
9. “All you need is love and the lake.”- Proverb
10. “May her lakes and rivers bless you.” – Unknown
11. “All I need is sunshine lake water.” – Proverb
12. “Lake a place of relaxation rest and tranquility.” – Unknown
13. “Love life and life will love you back.” -Proverb
14. “Oh the lake district lovely, Let’s go there.” – Unknown
15. “The day at the lake restores the soul.” – Proverb
16. “Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.” – Unknown
17. “Live, Laugh, Lake.” – Proverb
18. “Life is like a mirror it will smile at you if you smile at it.” – Unknown
19. “Not every lake dreams to be an ocean.” – Mehmet Murat Idan
20. “So lovely was the loneliness of a winding lake.” – Edgar Allan Poe
21. “Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.” – Yiddish Proverb
22. “So you keep your ocean, I’ll take the lake.” – Colleen Hoover
23. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.” – Unknown
24. “The lake’s deep and dark and dangerous.” – Mary Downing Hahn
25. “Man is a complex being; he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.” – Gil Stern.
26. “If you live in the mountains you long for the trees and the lakes.” – Mitt Romney
27. “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace Stevens
28. “Stay close to the serenity of a lake to meet your own peace of mind.” – Munia Khan
29. “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night.” – Unknown
30. “Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.” – Munia Khan
31. “This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
32.”I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.” – Steven Tyler
33. “Put your feet up take a break sit back, relax you’re at the lake.” – Unknown
34. “Make your heart like a lake, with a calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.” – Lao Tzu
35. “It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.” – Proverb
36. “If you are lucky enough to have a place at the lake. You’re lucky enough.” – Proverb
37. “Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me.” – Heather Christle
38. “Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me.” – Heather Christle
39. “Talk not of the river or lake, To those who have looked on the sea.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
40. “The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.” – Georges Simenon
41. “We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.” – Richard Black
42. “I love Salt Lake City well, It’s beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.” -Peter Sagal
43. “The way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.” – Proverb
44. “A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world.” – Munia Khan
45. “A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.” – William Wordsworth
46. “And the sleeping lake lies still as death, Waveless, mute, by the frozen land.” – Ellen Palmer Allerton
47. “Never give up, When you heat becomes tired, just walk with your legs but move on.” – Paulo Coelho
48. “A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.” – Dan Egan
49. “This couldn’t be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. ” – Dorothy Maywood
50. “The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into oily somnolence.” – Virginia Woolf
51. “I have loved badly, Loved the great too soon, withdrawn my words too late.” – Edna St, Vincent Millay
52. “The lake still sleeps, still dreams its dream, Under its bright, cold counterane.” – Ellen Palmer Allerton
53. “The world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes in mystery.” -Fennel Hudson
54. “What issues if my dreams are fake so is the reflection on the lake. Yet so beautiful.” – Payal Dutta
55. “Some people look like frozen lakes; break the ice, there you will see a lively world.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
56. “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.” – Thomas Love Peacock
57. “Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
58. “Into a gradual calm the breezes sink, A blue rim borders all the lake’s still brink.” – William Wordsworth
59. “Last night lost in space between star-bays and lakes of clouds. I tossed and turned looking for you.” – John Geddes
60. “I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.” – Neil Diamond
61. “I can’t swim. I can’t drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake.” -Dylan Moran
62. “Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.” – Percy Ross
63. “Lake be clear make positive ripples look beneath the surface stay calm, shore up friendships take time to reflect be full of life.” – Ilan Shamin
64. “Freshness trembles beneath the surface of every day, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.” – Freya Stark
65. “A small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The circle moved a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and another spreads.” – Alexander Pope
66. “There’s nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have changed.” – Nelson Mandela
67, “I’m terrified to go in lakes because you can’t see the bottom. and not knowing what’s there watching you is really scary to me.” – Sara Paxton
68. “I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.” – Mindy Kaling
69. “When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.” – Doris Lessing
70. “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
71. “A lake and a fairy boat, To sail in the moonlight clear, Where merrily you might float from the dragons that watch you here.” – Thomas Hood
72. “Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.” – Candace Bushnell
73. “Her mighty lakes, Like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys teaming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts.” – Washington Irving
74. “The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people.” – Babatunde Osotimehin
75. “I remember a hundred lovely lakes and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns, and saffron sunsets.” – Hamlin Garland
76. “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
77. “The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers, and so on.” – William L Foster
78. “Forest, 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
Final Thoughts
Hopefully, these quotes about lakes have helped you to show your appreciation, love, and admiration for these beautiful bodies of water that scatter that globe.
If you are after some of the best lakes to visit and relax, this is a fantastic guide to check out!