Career Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if…

— Albert Schweitzer

... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's…

— Seraphim of Sarov

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

— Napoleon Hill

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at…

— Henry David Thoreau

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in…

— 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…

— Henry David Thoreau

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

— Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau