Top 25 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau of 2776 - Page 5

If I am not I, who will be?

Henry David Thoreau

Self Esteem, Self Respect, Esteem

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Henry David Thoreau

Majority, Minorities, Catchy

Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Business, Integrity, Bad Day

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Rivers, Path

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

Henry David Thoreau

Hope, Children, Eye

Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.93, Princeton University Press

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Thinking, Clouds

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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

Thinking, Hiking, Mind

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

Respect, Reality, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Henry David Thoreau

Volunteer, Community, Brave

"A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

My profession is to always find God in nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Profession, Nature Beauty

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Money, Wealth And Happiness

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Stars, Moon

Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness, Wisdom, Money

He who owns little is little owned.

Henry David Thoreau

Littles

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Rivers, Despair

Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.334, Princeton University Press

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Henry David Thoreau

Animal, Destiny, Race

1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Henry David Thoreau

Each Day, Thyself

Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Education, Running, Dream

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.167, Penguin

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Henry David Thoreau

Who We Are, Authenticity, Invited

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Sweet, Congratulations

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books