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

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte