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  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press
  • We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

    Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

  • I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin
  • We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

    Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.198, Courier Corporation
  • You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

  • For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

    "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".
  • Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, BookBaby
  • The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

  • Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.106, Jazzybee Verlag
  • What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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

    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press
  • I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

    Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Familiar letters”
  • Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.

    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.312, e-artnow
  • Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics
  • Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

    Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin
  • The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

    Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation
  • Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."
  • There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

    Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.138, Rowman & Littlefield
  • 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.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854)
  • Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

    Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.12, David M Gross
  • As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

    'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'
  • The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1651, Delphi Classics
  • The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.22, Graphic Arts Books
  • Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.154, Trajectory Inc
  • All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.56, Xist Publishing
  • You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

    Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.180
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