Success Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

— Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

— Henry David Thoreau

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

— Henry David Thoreau

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

— Henry David Thoreau

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

— Henry David Thoreau

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

— Henry David Thoreau

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be…

— Henry David Thoreau

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and…

— Henry David Thoreau

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

— Henry David Thoreau

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

— Henry David Thoreau

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

— Henry David Thoreau

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

— Henry David Thoreau

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

— Henry David Thoreau