Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Determination

• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Determination, Sleep, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

• Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Determination

  "Thoreau's Book of Quotations".

• The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Determination, Character, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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