Henry David Thoreau Motivational Quotes

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Greatness

• 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)

• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Courage, Regret

• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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

• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

• Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

• The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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)

• Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

• He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Respect, Law

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

• 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

• Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Doe, Bless

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.40, BookBaby

• All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Men, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.39

• If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Men, Desire

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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