Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

— Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

— Henry David Thoreau

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

— Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

— 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

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

— Henry David Thoreau
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