Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Patience

• The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Patience, Wisdom

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.63

• Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patience, Fall, Action

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Patience, Hero

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

• You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patience, Regret, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

• Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Patience, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.106, Jazzybee Verlag

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