Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Success

• 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)

• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, BookBaby

• 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

• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

• It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

• The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Achievement

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Friendship, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

• 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

• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Fall, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.198, Courier Corporation

• In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Sports, Running

• As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Agreement

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

• The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

• For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Forever

  "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

• The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Men, Kind

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.22, Graphic Arts Books

• 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

• Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, War, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

• Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Trying, Harder

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.154, Trajectory Inc

• You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.180

• I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Familiar letters”

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