Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Strength

• I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Fashion, Individuality

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Shields

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Nature, Gardening

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

• It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Men, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.130, Xist Publishing

• There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Drinking, Differences

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.97, Jazzybee Verlag

• The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Real, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Strong, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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