Aim Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

12 Aim quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau’s 12 reflections on aiming provide a contemplative, nature‑infused perspective that invites you to align goals with inner truth.

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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

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That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

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In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

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People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

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You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.

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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

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It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company…

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be…

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Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in…

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The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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