Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Greatness

• When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Greatness

• Things do not change; we change.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Law Of Attraction, Goal

• Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Important, Ordinary

• The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Essence, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.715, Simon and Schuster

• We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Greatness, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.25

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