Saturday, February 24, 2024

Celebrity : 18 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Famous Authors : 18 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau


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

- Henry David Thoreau -


Henry David Thoreau's quotes emphasize the belief in the relationship between nature and humans, the importance of personal growth and self-discovery, and the belief that individual thoughts and actions can bring about social change.


  • Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • I stand in awe of my body. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Men are born to succeed, not fail. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • What a man thinks of himself is what determines, or rather indicates his fate. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • It is never too late to give up our prejudices. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. - Henry David Thoreau -





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