Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Henry David Thoreau

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Henry David Thoreau

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Henry Ford

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

Henry Ford

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.