Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Failing

• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, BookBaby

• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

• Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Kindness, Failing

• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

• Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Children, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

• Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Genius, Failing, Hours

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.70, 谷月社

• Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Procrastination, Men, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

• As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

• Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Logic, Failing, Impulse

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

• You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Failing

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.286, North Point Press

• Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Miracle, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

• As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Criticism, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

• You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.180

• They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Debt, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

• Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.90, Xist Publishing

• Tough times don't last but tough people do.
  No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.
  Men are born to succeed, not fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, People, Tough Times

• Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Years, Perfect

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.29, Xist Publishing

• In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Numbers, Office, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

• No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

• Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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