Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Perseverance

• 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 we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Self Esteem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.10, Yale University Press

• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

• Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Nature, Winning

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Fate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.179, Yale University Press

• The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Dream, Perseverance

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