Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau Quote: “All good things are wild and free.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “We are constantly invited to be who we are.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “There is no remedy for love, but to love more.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The heart is forever inexperienced.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The rule is to carry as little as possible.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “That government is best which governs least.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Of what significance are the things you can forget.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “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 Quote: “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “The sun is but a morning star.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Every child begins the world again.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “There is no history of how bad became better.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.”

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