Destiny Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“You conquer fate by thought.”

— Henry David Thoreau

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

— Henry David Thoreau

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

— Henry David Thoreau

“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful…

— Henry David Thoreau

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

— Henry David Thoreau

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off…

— Henry David Thoreau

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly…

— Henry David Thoreau

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as…

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its…

— Henry David Thoreau