Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Goals

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Law Of Attraction, Goal

• Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Feet, Goal, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Bradford Torrey (1906). “Journal”

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Running, Long

• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Fall, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.198, Courier Corporation

• That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Goal, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

• A goal is a dream taken seriously.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Taken, Goal

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