All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When you right or extricate a ducking businessman (take him out of chancery) and set him before the wind again, it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
