A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
John Burroughs

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

If you think you can do it, you can.
John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
John Burroughs