Inspiration Quote by Henry David Thoreau — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”

“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”