Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Motivation

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  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

• It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

• Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivation, Eye, May

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