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| Quote: | The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | priorities |
| Quote: | In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | goals vision courage risk success planning |
| Quote: | The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | kindness character self-acceptance judgementalism relationships friendships love |
| Quote: | As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | time priorities laziness life vision |
| Quote: | Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | perspective love friendship relationship understanding acceptance |
| Quote: | No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | clothes materialism judgementalism acceptance appearances values |
| Quote: | To be a philosopher is...so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | wisdom simplicity independence generosity trust life values balance |
| Quote: | Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | success perfectionism self-esteem |
| Quote: | All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | change growth transition |
| Quote: | Men were born to succeed, not to fail. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
| Keywords: | success failure |
| Quote: | Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
| Keywords: | success work effort vision goal failure self-improvement growth mission |
| Quote: | Every man is the builder of a temple called his body...We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's feature, any meaness or sensuality to imbrute them. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
| Keywords: | wellness diet character habit |
| Quote: | Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life...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. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | life hurry stress balance wisdom patience serenity calm value fear |
| Quote: | A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | values materialism simplicity |
| Quote: | Be not simply good; be good for something. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | usefulness character work balance |
| Quote: | I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | education learning wisdom growth self-improvement |
| 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 had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | dreams vision goal values character success achievement |
| Quote: | When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker |
| Keywords: | courage character integrity honesty strength leadership |
| Quote: | A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker |
| Keywords: | wisdom leadership integrity character action |
| Quote: | It is never too late to give up our prejudices. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | bias prejudice hate relationships character integrity |
| Quote: | No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | thought independence self-esteem opinions think control self-determination standards peer pressure |
| Quote: | I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | truth speech integrity honesty leadership |
| Quote: | How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | life living education learning knowledge wisdom experience |
| 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, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at... |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
| Keywords: | focus attention leadership ideas creativity |
| Quote: | Man is the artificer of his own happiness. |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: | The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Keywords: | happiness choice attitude responsibility depression sadness joy priorities |