Henry David Thoreau Quotes

American author and philosopher
1817-1862

• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
• Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable
• I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
• If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
• Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
• It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
• It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
• Live the life you've dreamed.
• Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
• There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
• 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.
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic

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