Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Dreams, Live

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Live, Die

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

Wisdom, Matters

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

Music, Him, Different

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

Mind, Deep, Single

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams, Life, Success

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

Motivational, Important, Become

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

Lives, Lies, Within

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Work, True

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

Life, Price, Exchange

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Solitude, Found, Companion

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

Life, Men, Rather

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

Sports, Men, After

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Words, Language

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Love, Money

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Government, Law

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

Work, Lost, Put

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Friend, Simply

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Dreams, Friends

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Poverty, Universe

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau

May, Before, Sick

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Knowledge, Ignorance

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

Evil, Thousand, Hacking

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

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