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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

234 quotes to enjoy any day, but especially today.

Some of my favs are:

• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

• 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 we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

• Things do not change; we change.

What are some of your favorite quotes of his?

 

[Miss Critter]

Love him!

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

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.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Love him!

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

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.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

My fave