90+ Water Quotes to Remind You How Important Water for Humankind

Quotes About The Importance of Water

Find your favorite water quotes below about how important water is to our life.

• “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci

• “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin

• “Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.” – Percy Ross

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.” – William Wordsworth

• “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

• “There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” – Patrick Ness

• “Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of waterfall.” – Anthony Hincks

• “When I sit here by the sea and listen to the sound of waves, I feel free from all obligations and people of this world.” – Henry David Thoreau

• “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

• “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

• “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

Water Is Life Quotes

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Find your favorite water quotes below that are related to your life.

• “In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.” ― Sue Ellen Campbell

• “Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe, but without taking it into us we cannot live.” ― Munia Khan

• “Life in us is like the water in a river.” ― 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

• “Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.” ― Vanessa Paradis

• “All water is holy water.” ― Rajiv Joseph

• “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

• “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” ― W. H. Auden

• “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ― Nicholas Sparks

• “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” – Dennis Rodman

• “Water is the soul of the Earth.” – W. H. Auden

• “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” – Loren Eiseley

• “Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.” ― Jane Austen

• “There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.” – Sylvia A. Earle

• “The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.” – Georges Simenon

• “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

• “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

Be Like Water Quotes

Find your favorite water quotes below that can influence you to be like water spiritually.

• “Be like water, which is fluid & soft & yielding, as, in time, water will overcome rock which is rigid & hard. Therefore, what is soft is strong.” – Anonymous

• “Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.” – Debasish Mridha

• “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves." - Bruce Lee

• "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

• “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” – Wallace Stevens

• “Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall.” – Bob Ross

• “There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

• “The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.” – Korean Proverb

• “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

• “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” – John O’Donohue

• “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 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

Clean Water Quotes

Find your favorite water quotes below about how lucky we are to have clean water.

• “Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine.” – Slovakian Proverb

• “Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity — a sacred thing.” ― Aspen Matis

• “Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone must become available to all people now.” – Jean-Michel Cousteau

• “Clean water is inestimably precious to waste!” ― Mohith Agadi

• “Water is life, and clean water means health.” — Audrey Hepburn

• “Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.” – Charles Mackay

Water Inspirational Quotes

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Find your favorite water quotes below that can inspire you in life.

• “Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.” – Mikhail Lermontov

• “Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.” – Vanessa Hunt

• “The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.” – Lucretius

• “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

• “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

• “You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.” – David Wroblewski

• “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi

• “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

• “I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.” – Mike May

• “Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

• “Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls.” ― Munia Khan

• “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” – Crystal Middlemas

• “Run wild and free like a waterfall.” ― Anamika Mishra

• “Always be like water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.” ― Santosh Kalwar

• “When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

• “A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins

• “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 most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

• “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

• “The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.” ― Raymond Carver

• “Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare, there are no constant conditions.” ― Sun Tzu

• “The sea is captive in a drop of water.” ― Marty Rubin

• “The water tells none of its secrets.” ― Nikos Engonopoulos

• “Water, in all its forms, is what carries the knowledge of life throughout the universe.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

• "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