56 result(s) for Henry David Thoreau Quotes.
"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable."
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
"Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have."
"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
"Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."
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"The finest qualities of our nature... spring from the same source as our basest passions."
"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life."
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
"Be not simply good; be good for something."
"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
"Our life is frittered away by detail."
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life."
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
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"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
"It's not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are."
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard."
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
"In the long run, men only hit what they aim at."
"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
"All good things are wild and free."
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
"Simplify, simplify."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Things do not change; we change."
"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."
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor."
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."
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