Henry David Thoreau Quotes

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau in Success quotes.

"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy."
-Henry David Thoreau in Truth quotes.

"All good things are wild, and free."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
-Henry David Thoreau in Mind quotes.

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."
-Henry David Thoreau in Dreams quotes.

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
-Henry David Thoreau in Time quotes.

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-Henry David Thoreau in Success quotes.

"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"The universe is wider than our views of it."
-Henry David Thoreau in Universe quotes.

"What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
-Henry David Thoreau in Resignation quotes.

"In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high."
-Henry David Thoreau

"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."
-Henry David Thoreau in Music quotes.

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
-Henry David Thoreau

"In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think."
-Henry David Thoreau in Living quotes.

"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
-Henry David Thoreau in Work quotes.

"There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion."
-Henry David Thoreau in Religion quotes.

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him."
-Henry David Thoreau in Dogs quotes.

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
-Henry David Thoreau in Ability quotes.

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion."
-Henry David Thoreau

"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."
-Henry David Thoreau in Facts quotes.